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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...
7388582 System and method for graphics culling  
A method is disclosed for culling an object database in a graphics processing system. In one embodiment, the method comprises encoding per-object parameters and culling parameters. The per-object...
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...
7304650 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...
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...
7295218 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...
7295217 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...
7295216 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...
7292254 Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives with reduced sensitivity to vertex ordering  
Apparatus, system, and method for clipping graphics primitives are described. In one embodiment, a graphics processing apparatus includes a mapping unit and a clipping engine that is connected to...
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...
7187391 Projection display apparatus, display method for same and image display apparatus  
The present invention provides a technology that enables related portions of multiple pages of images to be displayed simultaneously. A projection display apparatus comprises: an image extraction...
7187390 Method and program for determing intersection point of triangle with line segment  
A coordinate system R is set in which P 0 is a coordinate origin, P 0 P 1 conforms to a first U axis to have a unit length, P 0 P 2 conforms to a second V axis to have a unit length, and P 0 P 1...
7180528 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...
7170530 Image-based clipping  
Disclosed is a tangible computer-readable medium encoded with an image-based clipping computer program. This image-based clipping computer program when executed by one or more processors should...
7167184 Method and apparatus to calculate any porter-duff compositing equation using pre-defined logical operations and pre-computed constants  
A method of performing a blending operation between a first pixel having a first pixel alpha value and a first pixel color data value and a second pixel having a second pixel alpha value and a...
7158132 Method and apparatus for processing primitive data for potential display on a display device  
A method and apparatus for processing a primitive (for potential display as a part of a graphical image on a display device) cause attribute data to be received by a graphics processor as a...
7133050 Automated image resizing and cropping  
Automated electronic document design systems and methods for combining identified images and layouts into electronic product templates for displaying to a user. A plurality of images and a...
7129961 System and method for dynamic autocropping of images  
A system and method for automatically reading all images from all sequences of images from a specified location, automatically cropping each of the images to produce active region data for the...
7126600 Method and apparatus for high speed block mode triangle rendering  
A system for traversing and rendering a graphic primitive, comprising a setup engine that outputs representative values of a graphic primitive; and a raster engine that receives the representative...
7126578 Combining raster and vector data in the presence of transparency  
Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for preparing one or more vector data objects for rendering. In general, in one aspect, the technique includes receiving an object that is a vector...
7091974 Method for selecting and displaying a subject or interest in a still digital image  
The present invention is in the field of digital imaging. It relates to a method for determining the coordinates of a subject of interest in a digital image, so as to be able to then display this...
7084886 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...
7064752 Multi-function unit of a graphics system for updating a hierarchical Z buffer  
A multi-function unit for occlusion testing primitives being processed in a graphics system and for updating a Z pyramid data structure used for occlusion testing. The Z pyramid data structure is...
7053914 Graphic editing device, graphic editing method and storage medium for storing a program  
A flowchart containing objects A–C is displayed on a computer screen. Object B is subordinate to object A and object C is subordinate to object B. If a user selects object B, object B is deleted,...
7050070 Image editing method and image editing apparatus  
An image editing method comprises storing original images, storing alpha masks corresponding to the original images, respectively, superposing in turn object images that are extracted from the...
7050069 Fast clear technique for display regions having subregions  
A technique for performing clear operations in a region having a subregion. Responsive to a first clear command: perform an initialization in which stale information is eliminated from pixels...
7042466 Efficient clip-testing in graphics acceleration  
A method and apparatus for performing fast clip-testing operations in a general purpose processor are provided. This is accomplished by executing a single instruction for comparing a first value x...
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