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7616219 Drawing style domains  
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide the ability to modify an appearance style of a computer generated rendering. A computer generated rendering consisting of vector geometry is...
7616218 Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives  
Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a clipping module includes a clipping engine and a clipping controller connected to the clipping...
7616202 Compaction of z-only samples  
Methods and systems for processing fragment groups are described. Fragment groups that include z-only pixels are accessed. A z-only pixel has associated therewith two or more z-values instead of a...
7593854 Method and system for collecting user-interest information regarding a picture  
A user is presented with a picture image either in hard-copy or electronic form. Particular picture features in the image each have associated information that is presented to the user upon the...
7580035 Real-time collision detection using clipping  
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first polygon, receiving a second polygon, calculating a vector joining a centroid of the first polygon and a centroid of the second polygon,...
7567255 Color adjustment for clipped pixels  
A control module for use in an image display system includes a gain module operable to amplify a signal received by the control module and to communicate an amplified signal having at least one...
7557824 Method and apparatus for generating a stereoscopic image  
A method of generating a stereoscopic image is disclosed. The method includes defining at least two, three or more regions in a scene representing a region of interest, a near regions and/or a far...
7551183 Clipping and scissoring technique  
A method is described that involves redefining a primitive surface to create a redefined primitive surface. The redefining involves clipping a first edge of the primitive surface to a second edge...
7551180 Graphical end conditions for roadway design  
A system and method for graphically designing and testing end conditions is provided. The method and system allow for easy visualization and reuse of end condition components. A simple drag and...
7542046 Programmable clipping engine for clipping graphics primitives  
An apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a clipping unit, a read-only memory that is connected to...
7525555 Facilitating image-editing operations across multiple perspective planes  
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing an image-editing operation across multiple perspective planes. During operation, the system receives a...
7511719 Method, system, and computer product for performing trapezoidal reduction of polygons and interrupted polygons  
A method, system, and computer program product for rendering an image to available display area based on parameters of one or more unusable display areas. The method includes determining one or...
7505047 Vehicle periphery viewing apparatus  
A vehicle periphery viewing apparatus for capturing a vehicle-peripheral image includes: an image capturing device disposed on predetermined position; a display device disposed within the vehicle;...
7489324 Automated image processing  
Automated electronic document design systems and methods for appropriately sizing and positioning uploaded user images into predefined image areas in a product design being created in a Web...
7489321 Using detail-in-context lenses for accurate digital image cropping and measurement  
A method for cropping a computer generated original image on a display, comprising the steps of: adjusting a user-selected movable boundary on the original image to define a cropped image within...
7487462 Methods and systems for indicating invisible contents of workspace  
Techniques for displaying contextual information in clipped views of two-dimensional workspaces are provided. A method for indicating an object includes: providing a workspace having a viewed space...
7466322 Clipping graphics primitives to the w=0 plane  
Vertices defining a graphics primitive are converted into homogeneous space and clipped against a single clipping plane, the w=0 plane, to produce a clipped graphics primitive having vertices...
7463271 Optimized access for drawing operations  
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention improve drawing operations for drawing an object that has object information onto a background image, which has...
7439988 Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with respect to a clipping plane  
Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a clipping module includes a mapping unit and a clipping engine that is connected to the mapping...
7438426 Projection display apparatus and digital zooming method thereof  
A projection display apparatus and digital zooming method thereof is disclosed. The projection display apparatus receives a first image and includes a control unit, an image processor, an image...
7437687 Cellular telephone set, operation control method thereof and program therefor  
A cellular telephone set can simplify operation when a picture (picture memorandum) picked-up as memorandum is registered in a memory and reproduced. Upon initial registration of an image to a...
7436414 Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons  
The invention describes a method and system for use in occlusion culling of polygons in an interactive environment, such as a game. The invention employs a boundary box to simplify the testing of...
7432983 Moving-picture processing method and moving-picture processing apparatus with metadata processing  
A moving-picture processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire metadata including information about each temporal region in an input moving picture with a plurality of...
7420572 Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with accelerated context switching  
An apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a clipping unit that is configured to issue an initial...
7418131 Image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image  
An image-capturing device and method for removing strangers from an image are described. First, a first image is input. Then, a control module determines if an unwanted object processing step is...
7414635 Optimized primitive filler  
The optimized primitive filler is used in a computer system, such as a computer system that displays graphic images. A first step of the method it is determined if a primitive is totally outside a...
7400325 Culling before setup in viewport and culling unit  
The VPC unit and setup unit of a graphics processing subsystem perform culling operations. The VPC unit performs culling operations on geometric primitives falling within a specific criteria, such...
7386862 Process for allowing Applets to be resized independently from the WEB/HTML page they were created  
The present invention provides for a method for allowing Applets to be resized independently from the WEB/HTML page they were created. The Applet is made “detachable”, from a user's point of...
7382377 Render to texture cull  
Method and apparatus for processing one or more fragment data. In one embodiment, the method includes processing one or more fragment data to generate one or more texture map addresses for one or...
7330194 Video object clipping method and apparatus  
A video object clipping method includes storing, in a storage unit, original images each including a video object to be clipped and reference alpha images representing objects prepared, determining...
7327363 Image processing apparatus, and computer program  
When volume data of a three-dimensional object to be processed is read and stored into a predetermined storage, first, a plurality of reference planes are set and a plurality of reference distance...
7319784 Magnetic resonance spectroscopy using a conformal voxel  
The goal was to automate and optimize the shaping and positioning of a shape-specific/conformal voxel that conforms to any volume of interest, such as a cranial lesion, to allow conformal voxel...
7315310 Clipping device  
A clipping device for reducing the number of processing cycles, and simplifying the circuit, while increasing the speed of the processing. The clipping device has a clip code generation circuit for...
7312806 Dynamic width adjustment for detail-in-context lenses  
A method for reducing occlusion in a presentation of a region-of-interest of an original image, the presentation generated by distorting the original image to produce a lens having a focal region...
7310103 Pipelined 2D viewport clip circuit  
A system and method for performing viewport clipping for multiple viewports using a pipeline. The pixel address coordinates are compared against boundaries of a first viewport window. The results...
7301544 Printing tree-described documents  
In various embodiments, methods and systems for brush composition are described. In one particular application of brush composition, opacity issues are addressed by focusing on the composition of...
7299420 Graphical user interface for in-vivo imaging  
A graphical user interface is provided which allows the user to perform numerous operations suitable for analysis of in-vivo images within a single display screen or a single window. Using the...
7292242 Clipping with addition of vertices to existing primitives  
Clipping techniques introduce additional vertices into existing primitives without requiring creation of new primitives. For an input triangle with one vertex on the invisible side of a clipping...
7286183 Device for generating a video image sharpness improvement signal  
A device for producing a video image sharpness improvement signal (DOC 21 -DOC 22 ), with black level clipping of an associated video signal, comprises a differential transconductance stage...
7286140 Hardware acceleration of display data clipping  
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for hardware acceleration of display data clipping. In one embodiment, all display data is presented to the display...
7277102 Rendering graphic object based images  
Disclosed are methods, apparatus ( 1 ) and computer readable media for rendering at least one graphic object ( 80, 90 ) described by at least one edge ( 82 - 86, 92 - 98 ) into a raster pixel image...
7265763 Method and system for image templates  
A method and system for enabling a user to import a user-defined graphics edit into at least one template, the method including the steps of selecting, by the user, at least one first editable...
7262781 Document creation system and related methods  
A method of creating a document having an allocated area in which information is placed, the method comprising: i. providing a set of one or more content-items 300 which contain...
7259770 Method and apparatus for processing information  
A printer driver generates output data adapted to the processing power of a printer. When the printer driver receives a draw command from an operating system, a complexity value of the draw command...
7236168 Method for removing blends in B-rep models  
A computer-based feature suppression method is used in removing a blend chain formed by a set of blend faces, and creating a new model without the blend faces. Blend recognition is used to...
7218330 Method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface  
A computer-implemented method and system for selecting elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) is presented. The method and system improves upon existing approaches by simplifying an element...
7215345 Method and apparatus for clipping video information before scaling  
A method and apparatus for clipping video information before scaling. In an embodiment of the invention, a transmitter obtains video information in the form of image data, as well as clipping...
7215344 Triangle clipping for 3D graphics  
A geometry and lighting graphics accelerator with an improved clipping process. Clipping is performed prior to any calculation or evaluation of primitives for lighting, texture, fog, or color....
7209149 Image cropping and synthesizing method, and imaging apparatus  
By selecting a template, a crop boundary ( 98 a ) is displayed on an image on a screen. The crop boundary has a corresponding shape to that of a frame of the selected template, and is variable in...
7206463 Image processing method, device and system  
An image processing device method and system that enables overprint reproduction even for a composite output, despite its simple configuration. In a print server, when a construction command of a...
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