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6768485 Color image display device  
An image display device is provided, which can secure a predetermined display quality regardless of a type of an input image. The color image display device comprises a display device having a...
6760466 Automatic image replacement and rebuilding system and method thereof  
An automatic image replacement and rebuilding system and method thereof which can replace and rebuild the image automatically. The system includes an input module; a processing module; a storage...
6760037 Systems and methods for providing improved two pass resampling  
Systems and methods are provided for improved two pass resampling in a computing system. The systems and methods address both bottleneck problem(s) and aliasing problem(s) to improve upon prior art...
6756994 Method and apparatus for handling secondary dependencies  
A method and apparatus for creating a series of images is disclosed. The method manages secondary dependencies of regions in a more efficient manner than the prior art. The present invention...
6757888 Method and apparatus for manipulating data during automated data processing  
A number of items of data from a data source ( 12 ) can be processed and then deposited in at least one data destination ( 16, 17 ). The data can be image data, text data, numeric data or some...
6753878 Parallel pipelined merge engines  
An image generator is organized into a plurality of rendering engines, each of which renders an image of a part scene and provides the part image to a merge engine associated with that rendering...
6754375 Method and system for interactively developing at least one grid pattern and computer-readable storage medium having a program for executing the method  
Method and system are disclosed for interactively developing at least one grid pattern, such as a microarray pattern, as well as an array set of such patterns, and a computer-readable storage...
6753888 DISPLAY INTERFACE METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND A COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE STORING A PROGRAM, FOR CONTROLLING A COMPUTER TO PERFORM DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF OBJECTS AND PERFORMING AN OPERATION FOR DUPLICATING OR MOVING AT LEAST ONE OF THE OBJECTS  
A display interface method and apparatus that utilize a zoom interface are provided, in which the screen changes continuously and moving or duplicating operation of an object can be performed...
6750876 Programmable display controller  
A programmable display controller for use in a digital imaging system has a video control register, a data access controller and a programmable modulator. The programmable display control is...
6750859 Size conditioned visibility search system and method  
A system for performing visible object determination. Visualization software running on a host processor represents space with a hierarchy of cones, and generates a hierarchy of bounding hulls from...
6741243 Method and system for reducing overflows in a computer graphics system  
A method and system for providing a graphical image on a display of a system is disclosed. The graphical image is provided from data describing a plurality of primitives. The display includes a...
6741255 Method, apparatus and computer program product for using deferred execution for a tiling pull model in a tiled image processing architecture  
Apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed that optimize the application of deferred image operations on a tiled source image. The invention dynamically creates a data...
6734871 Flexible schemes for applying properties to information in a medium  
A scheme data structure is used for applying a set of coordinated attributes to any number of components within a composition such as a document, Internet web page, computer screen etc. A scheme...
6734874 Graphics processing unit with transform module capable of handling scalars and vectors  
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture are provided for handling both scalar and vector components during graphics processing. To accomplish this, vertex data is received in the form of...
6731302 Method and apparatus for creating facial images  
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for creating facial images, more particularly to a composite picture system and method utilising a library of basic facial components. In typical...
6731303 Hardware perspective correction of pixel coordinates and texture coordinates  
A method and apparatus in a graphics system. The graphics system includes an input, wherein the input receives graphics data, wherein the graphics data includes position coordinates and a depth...
6714690 Image processing device having matrix computing units  
A geometry processor 10 has an image processing device having a matrix computing unit 14 that is connected to a vector bus VB through which coordinate conversion target data is supplied and a...
6710781 Image display apparatus having different display mode and method thereof  
When an image having an aspect ratio of 16:9 is compressed in a vertical direction to be displayed on a display screen having an aspect ratio of 4:3, a gray scale signal is inserted into a top and...
6707463 Data normalization technique  
A graphics processor performs graphical operations on graphical objects represented in an external data format. The graphics processor includes a setup unit, first and second mapping units, and a...
6707462 Method and system for implementing graphics control constructs  
One aspect of the invention is a method for implementing a graphics control construct. The method includes the step of assigning by a graphics system interface ( 15 ) a value to at least one bit in...
6704797 Method and system for distributing image-based content on the internet  
The present invention protects images via a server-based policy that results in the selective distribution of one of multiple versions of an original image. The policy includes a set of one or more...
6704467 Image editing with block selection  
Composing image data representing an original image in an image processing device, the image processing device having an input device and a display device, including performing a block selection...
6699127 Real-time replay system for video game  
A system and method for enabling real-time replay for videogames, wherein the player can selectively rewind the videogame to previously played points in the game in order to replay portions of the...
6697081 Image processing method and device, and storage medium storing a program therefor  
An image processing method is capable of generating an image containing graphics that are transformed without carrying out multiplying/dividing operations. Image data of a transformed graphic is...
6697080 Scalable smoothing of generalized polygons  
A method and apparatus of smoothing a generalized polygon is disclosed. The method and apparatus identifies a vertex of the generalized polygon with a sharp corner and replaces the sharp corner...
6693645 Optimized BIFS encoder  
An apparatus and method of processing a data file, by determining a range of values assumed by parameters in a hierarchy of nodes. The processing includes calculating a quantization parameter,...
6693646 Method and system for iterative morphing  
The present invention provides a system and method for generating new images corresponding to iteratively morphed appearances of a plurality of objects. Data corresponding to appearances of the...
6690380 Graphics geometry cache  
A graphics geometry cache. The basic idea of one embodiment in accordance with the present invention is to utilize a graphics geometry cache together with a graphics pipeline. The graphics geometry...
6686930 Technique for accomplishing copy and paste and scan to fit using a standard TWAIN data source  
A method for copying and pasting a selected portion of an image from a TWAIN compliant image source includes scanning the selected image portion to fit in a target area of a destination image....
6687614 Navigation device, information display device, object creation method, and recording medium  
A navigation device, an information display device, an object creating method, and a storage medium, in which a display unit, which is integrally formed with a touch panel, displays a map together...
6683618 Method and apparatus for creating and performing graphics operations on device-independent bitmaps  
Operating system enhancements that enable an application program to create and perform graphics operations on device-independent bitmaps (DIBs) efficiently. The enhancements are in the form of...
6683624 System and method for managing programming object visual representations participating in alternative execution paths  
A method and apparatus for depicting programming state of programming objects through a combination of associating semantic stat space with programming objects, updating semantic state through...
6683619 System and method for increasing performance when compositing images  
A system and method for increasing the performance of a compositing system when compositing images represented as a directed acyclic graph. The method comprises identifying at least one critical...
6683620 Relational modeling of trimmed nurbs surfaces  
A method and apparatus are provided relationally modeling a trimmed NURBS surface. The relational model may be formed of a NURBS surface object, a trimming curve object that depends on the NURBS...
6680741 Image processor and image processing method  
A computer graphic system wherein image element data can be processed efficiently at a high speed, and images of higher quality are produced at a lower cost than conventional. An image processor...
6677944 Three-dimensional image generating apparatus that creates a three-dimensional model from a two-dimensional image by image processing  
A three-dimensional model is created without carrying out complicated modeling by incorporating elements of a two-dimensional image into the three-dimensional model. A two-dimensional image...
6674445 Generalized, differentially encoded, indexed raster vector data and schema for maps on a personal digital assistant  
A schema provides for the storage of geographic information on a personal digital assistant (PDA). Embodiments provide differential encoding and indexing of raster and vector based data. A schema...
6670961 Method and apparatus for enhanced connectors and connection manager  
A connector object supports bi-directional connections such that an instance of the connector object may behave as both a socket connector and as a plug connector. A first shape object and a second...
6670962 Surface following interaction method for adaptively sampled distance fields  
A method edits a surface of a graphics object with a computer implemented tool by first generating an adaptively sampled distance field from the graphics object, and defining a tool path. A...
6667750 Multiple pass layout of graphical objects with elastics  
To process the layout of graphical objects, elastics data structures are established for the graphical objects to define minimum and preferred sizes, stretch properties and compression properties....
6665840 System and method for run time generation of potential label positions  
A system and method for generating multiple potential label positions for a polygon at run time, rather than selecting from pre-configured label positions. The present invention analyzes the...
6664974 Method for using multipurpose internet mail extension types for automatically detecting scalable vector graphics support in client browsers  
A method for automatically determining whether a browser supports scalable vector graphics (“SVG”). The method uses a two prong process to make a proper detection for various types of browsers....
6654027 Tool for three-dimensional analysis of a drawing  
A method and system for assisting a user in identifying an element of an object in various displayed views in a drawing of the object. A method is employed that will allow automatic highlighting of...
6650339 Three dimensional modeling and animation system  
A three dimensional (3D) modeling system for generating a 3D representation of a modeled object on a display device of a computer system. The modeled object is represented by an initial definition...
6650324 Defining surface normals in a 3D surface mesh  
In rendering an image of a 3D surface, a computer system obtains a digital model that includes data points defining vertices for triangles that represent 2D faces of the 3D surface. The computer...
6650338 Haptic interaction with video and image data  
The methods and systems of the present invention receive video or image data, for example via television broadcast, cable, or satellite television signal, or directly from a video player, and...
6647119 Spacialization of audio with visual cues  
A method of providing information to a computer user includes displaying separate visual cues of the information on a computer monitor. A simulated sound source is generated for each separate...
6636160 Transit information display system  
A time division multiple access (TDMA) based transit information display communications system having an information display is disclosed. The information display includes an electronic display...
6630937 Workstation interface for use in digital mammography and associated methods  
A workstation-user interface for evaluating computer assisted diagnosis (CAD) methods for digital mammography is disclosed. Implementation of such an interface enables multiple, large-size images...
6628286 Method and apparatus for inserting external transformations into computer animations  
Transformation matrices describing the motion of an articulated reference object specify translations of the reference object and/or its articulated parts, and are relative to the origin of the...