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7623697 Linking of images to enable simultaneous viewing of multiple objects  
Computerized techniques are provided for linking digitized images of serial sections of a biological tissue sample. Linked, digitized images of the serial section are displayed on a display and...
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...
7602403 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...
7599088 Method for designing two-dimensional graphics for use on three-dimensional cartons bearing such graphics  
Planar substrates are printed, cut, and folded to form three-dimensional cartons. Given graphics intended to appear on a carton surface or panel, printed graphics are laid-out and automatically...
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...
7567260 Grouping layers in composited image manipulation  
A method of compositing a plurality of ordered image layers which include a group of consecutive layers. The group has a shape effect and a composition effect. Any image layers under the group are...
7562822 Methods and devices for creating and processing content  
A mark on a surface in sensed by a pen as the mark is made on the surface using the pen. The surface has printed thereon a pattern of markings that define a two-dimensional coordinate system....
7557806 Method to protect display text from eavesdropping  
A system and method for displaying a glyph on a graphical user interface to protect the displayed glyph against eavesdropping. The method comprises providing multiple frames of the glyph, each...
7528848 Embedded interaction code decoding for a liquid crystal display  
A method and system for decoding data on a medium that is captured by an input device is described. The method decodes a symbol design, such as an embedded interaction code (EIC), on a display...
7523189 Methods and computer readable media for generating displays of user-defined blocks of networking addresses  
Methods and computer readable media for generating displays of user-defined blocks of networking addresses on a map of an associated address space are provided. Each block of networking addresses...
7412112 Image generation apparatus, image generation system and image synthesis method  
A surveillance system includes an image deformation unit for deforming the image captured or picked up by a surveillance camera so that the appearance of a specified region within this image has...
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...
7382378 Apparatus and methods for stenciling an image  
The invention provides methods of protecting selected regions of an image from subsequent modification during the operation of a graphics application. The methods allow a user to select a region of...
7370170 Data mask as write-training feedback flag  
Methods and apparatuses that enable memory devices to inform graphical processing systems about the results of WRITE de-skew training. A WRITE-TRAINING mode is added to a memory device. When the...
7308127 Method for determining and evaluating defects in a sample surface  
In this method, the surface to be investigated is first of all exposed to collimated light and the radiation rejected therefrom supplied to a position-resolving image processing means. Then, a mask...
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...
7280120 Compositing with a sub-pixel mask in graphic object rendering  
Disclosed is an imaging engine system ( 699 ) generally intended for the reproduction of graphical object images using apparatus having limited computing resources, such as so-called “thin...
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...
7239326 Method and system for providing edge antialiasing  
A system and method for generating a graphical image on a display is disclosed. The graphical image is generated from data describing at least one object. The display includes a plurality of...
7215827 Object detection method using an image-pickup device with easy detection masking region setting and object detection apparatus using the method  
In object detection method and apparatus, a detection image related to a binary image obtained by subtracting a background image from an input image delivered from an image-pickup device is...
7202872 Apparatus for compressing data in a bit stream or bit pattern  
One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a graphics system comprising logic for generating a mask that identifies bits within a plurality of bits that are not to be impacted by a...
7197711 Transfer of images to a mobile computing tool  
When a document generated from an application is printed, each page of the document is treated as a separate image Then, one or more templates are generated for a document, with each template...
7148903 Image reconstruction method and computer program product  
In a method for reconstructing a three-dimensional subject a number of projections of a three-dimensional subject is acquired by an acquisition arrangement. Each projection is a dataset of...
7143495 Backlight etching process  
A backlight etching process, and more particularly the etching of a solid, semi-translucent base material, to form an exact image within the material. The base material is preferably translucent...
7136081 System and method of line sampling object scene information  
This invention relates generally to the art of computer graphics, and more specifically to the field of line sampling object scene information for the purpose of reconstructing an image of the...
7110000 Synthesis of progressively-variant textures and application to arbitrary surfaces  
Methods for synthesizing progressively-variant textures based on texton masks are provided. A first method creates a synthesized texture image guided by a sample texture, first texton mask...
7062088 Variable lossy compression  
Methods and apparatus for generating a compressed image from a source image by compressing the source image using a dictionary based lossy compression algorithm that regionally varies the amount of...
7053893 Position conflict detection and avoidance in a programmable graphics processor using tile coverage data  
Prior to executing a program on a fragment, a conflict detection unit, within a fragment processor checks if there is a position conflict indicating a RAW (read after write) hazard may exist. A RAW...
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...
7012616 Display of images with transparent pixels  
Displaying images having pixels thereof that are meant to be transparent is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is performed once, to...
7009624 Shape processor  
The shape processor is a rendering module that may be used to stream graphical objects having a predefined format into a frame buffer or a physical display. Documents to be rendered by the shape...
7006110 Determining a coverage mask for a pixel  
The invention relates to a method, a device, a system and a software program product for determining for a pixel a coverage mask reflecting an orientation and possibly a distance from the pixel...
7006093 Method and system for processing a three-dimensional shape data  
The steps of obtaining three-dimensional shape data representing a three-dimensional shape model, designating a portion required to be corrected of the three-dimensional shape model, displaying a...
6995763 Interactive sculpting for volumetric exploration and feature extraction  
The present invention provides a system of extracting a visual feature from a dataset, comprising a storage means for storing said dataset; retrieval means for retrieving said dataset from said...
6950114 Apparatus for compensating for luminance level of video signal  
A luminance level compensating apparatus passes only the luminance signal of a pixel in a first detection range in the vertical direction of an image indicated by an input luminance signal, detects...
6947056 Low power, variable precision DDA for 3D graphics applications  
An apparatus generally having a register, an adder circuit and a mask circuit is disclosed. The register may be configured to replace a current value with a new value in response to a clock value....
6931661 Dynamic image provisioning  
A method of transmitting an image from a remote server to a portable device and dynamically viewing, by a human observer, the transmitted image on a display of the portable device. On a remote...
6917884 Automated assay for identification of individual cells during kinetic assays  
The present invention provides methods and software for tracking individual cells during a kinetic cell screening assay.
6914612 Image drawing method, image drawing apparatus, recording medium, and program  
An image drawing technique includes a method of drawing a randomly changing image of an object and a method of drawing a revised image including a shimmering image in a background image. The method...
6894700 Multisampling dithering with shuffle tables  
A system and method for generating random coverage masks for rendering images with transparent objects. The system uses shuffle tables for addresses of a pixel to index into a transparency table...
6879329 Image processing apparatus having processing operation by coordinate calculation  
An image processing apparatus draws an image, stores the drawn image in a memory, reads image data from the memory along a raster direction, and executes a processing operation required for a...
6823203 System and method for removing sensitive data from diagnostic images  
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for modifying medical diagnostic images. A method for removing sensitive data from one or more diagnostic images generally includes retrieving...
6819332 Antialias mask generation  
An antialiased mask generation technique where a patch of pixels is tested in parallel for fragment membership, and this test is looped with successive subpixel vector offsets from a programmed...
6791512 Image display device  
This invention is an image display device comprising an LCD in which plural pixels are two-dimensionally arranged; a digital image processing circuit for controlling in the LCD for each pixel to...
6784887 Image processing device  
Image data are obtained from a recording medium, and dummy image data are generated based on the obtained image data. It is possible to switch between image displayed based on the generated dummy...
6768491 Barycentric centroid sampling method and apparatus  
A method and corresponding apparatus for calculating the centroid of a fragment to be rendered is disclosed. The method calls for moving the sampling point of a pixel from its initial center point...
6710777 Method and apparatus in a data processing system for installing appropriate WID values for a transparent region  
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for updating a buffer containing display information used to display pixels from a first layer and a second layer on a display in the data...
6661425 Overlapped image display type information input/output apparatus  
An information input/output device having an intuitive operating feeling and improved information viewing and discriminating properties. The device comprises an superposing image extraction unit ...
6603485 Computer cursor spotlight  
The present invention provides a program code implemented computer screen security system. A virtual, real-time generated, screen mask leaves only a localized cursor area visible while hiding the...
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