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6545687 |
Thumbnail manipulation using fast and aspect ratio zooming, compressing and scaling
A method and apparatus manipulates thumbnail images as used in image-based browsing file management systems. Zooming in and out of thumbnail images can be performed without a continued need to...
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6538660 |
Method, system, and program for superimposing data from different application programs
Disclosed is a system, method, and program for displaying data. A program receives first input graphics commands from a first application program to display first output on a display monitor and...
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6535223 |
Method and system for determining pupiltary distant and element height
A method and system is presented for determining pupillary distance and multi-focal element height for prescription eyeglasses via images received through a computer network. The received image has...
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6532021 |
Opaque screen visualizer
Rendered wire frame models of objects offered for sale can be downloaded and displayed as virtual objects in the context of an environment in which a real object would be actually used. The...
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6532022 |
Method and apparatus for model-based compositing
An object is composited digitally from an input image onto a destination image. A background model is created and a frame of an input image containing the object is obtained. An alpha image is...
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6529208 |
Method and apparatus for updating a window identification buffer in a data processing system
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for updating a buffer used to display pixels from a first layer and a second layer in the data processing system, wherein identification display...
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6529209 |
Method for providing privately viewable data in a publically viewable display
A method for providing privately viewable data in a publically viewable display comprises the steps of: generating a sequencing pattern; generating a data signal having interspersed frames of...
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6529191 |
Data processing apparatus and data processing method
A data processing apparatus generates original waveform data based upon which musical tone data are to be generated, and sounding control data containing kind information indicative of kinds of the...
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6526182 |
Image merging and displaying apparatus and method
An image merging and displaying apparatus for forming an image to be displayed on a display. A document editing device edits document image by generating document image data. A document data...
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6525725 |
Morphing decompression in a graphics system
A method and graphics system configured to perform real-time morphing of three-dimensional (3D) objects that have been compressed into one or more streams of 3D graphics data using geometry...
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6515676 |
Analog interface display apparatus with color display control
In a liquid crystal display apparatus having a liquid crystal display panel, an input analog display data is converted to a digital display data, a data portion is selected from the digital display...
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6515675 |
Processing opaque pieces of illustration artwork
A computer-based method of processing a computer graphics illustration having overlapping pieces of artwork includes mapping one or more pieces of artwork having a degree of transparency onto a...
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6502107 |
Visual database system
The visual database system comprises at least one visual data input device for inputting visual data, a visual database system device for storing the visual data, and at least one visual data...
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6496198 |
Color editing system
A system to render a color image using a binarized image representing the color image and a hierarchical tree structure representing the color image, the hierarchical tree structure including nodes...
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6496196 |
Information recording and replaying apparatus and method of controlling same
An information recording and replaying apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided for manipulating information provided in real time and the other kind of information in a unified...
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6489967 |
Image formation apparatus and image formation method
When displaying a scene on a display screen in which a translucent object and a background object of the translucent object overlap in a virtual space, data of a background object stored in a...
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6486879 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and information providing medium
The invention provides an image processing apparatus and method and an information providing medium by which a three-dimensional model can be plotted accurately. A model data production section...
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6486886 |
Bump map compositing for simulated digital painting effects
A method of compositing multiple images together so as to produce realistic effects is disclosed. The method comprises defining an image canvas bump map approximating a surface to be painted on;...
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6486861 |
Method and apparatus for a display producing a fixed set of images
A method to greatly simplify and reduce the cost of displays when all of the images that need to be displayed are known beforehand. By precomputing the intersections of the images and addressing...
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6483514 |
Motion blurring implicit surfaces
The present invention allows for rendering, with a micropolygon renderer, motion blurred images of objects modeled and animated with the most commonly used class of implicit surfaces. The invention...
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6483503 |
Pixel data merging apparatus and method therefor
A pixel merge apparatus and method has been implemented. Included is a configurable graphics device, which may serve as a standalone graphics engine, or as a master or slave in a master/slave...
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6480204 |
Transparent sunpad for home shopping
Rendered wireframe models of objects offered for sale can be downloaded and displayed as virtual objects in the context of the actual environment in which they will be actually used. The rendered...
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6476831 |
Visual scrolling feedback and method of achieving the same
A new technique is described which provides realtime visual feedback to the user while scrolling in standard windowing environments. This visual scrolling technique makes use of a transient overlay...
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6477265 |
System to position defect location on production wafers
A system and method for detecting defects in integrated circuit wafers related to photolithographic processing of the wafers. The system has an image processor, or image computer, and an image...
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6477315 |
Edit list creating apparatus
An edit list creating apparatus that can substantially improve the work efficiency in creating an edit list is disclosed. An edit list creating apparatus that can create an edit list and that is...
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6473094 |
Method and system for editing digital information using a comparison buffer
A method and system for comparing a comparison source image to an active project in a viewer, particularly for editing the active project. The comparison source is stored or routed to a comparison...
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6470100 |
Image composition processing apparatus and method thereof
The present invention allows the positional relationship among a plurality of image layers constituting a composed image to be precisely recognized. More specifically, the present invention is...
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6469710 |
Inverse texture mapping using weighted pyramid blending
A system and method for inverse texture mapping in which given a 3D model and several images from different viewpoints, a texture map is extracted for each planar surface in the 3D model. The...
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6466210 |
Blending image data using layers
Methods and apparatus for blending graphics data that includes a plurality of objects. In one aspect, objects are grouped into two layers; objects associated with a first layer are drawn; objects...
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RE37879 |
Image control device for use in a video multiplexing system for superimposition of scalable video data streams upon a background video data stream
An image control device for use in a computer system which includes a microprocessor, a bus coupled to the microprocessor, a video memory coupled to the bus and a display device. A write controller...
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6466231 |
Appliance and method of using same for capturing images
A hand-held image capture and communication appliance and method of using same are provided wherein images may be acquired via scanning means and saved in an internal memory. The scanning appliance...
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6466694 |
Document image processing device and method thereof
A processing device performs region identification of an input image, and then performs an intra-region recognition process. The type code of each region and the individual code of a recognition...
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6466205 |
System and method for creating 3D models from 2D sequential image data
A system and method providing for the generation of an image having enhanced three-dimensional attributes from a source image having only two-dimensional spatial domain information is disclosed....
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6466230 |
Display techniques for object visibility in a three-dimensional virtual world
A limitation of modeling three-dimensional objects in a virtual world occurs when a user moves within the world and still wishes a certain target object to remain visible, instead of being occluded...
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6462749 |
Image processing unit, image processing method, storage medium synthesizing a scenario including an object's position, size and display time
By reconfiguring configuration information items according to the need, it was made possible to implement a natural displayed scene. Initialize the time âtâ to âOâ, extract the attribute...
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6456285 |
Occlusion culling for complex transparent scenes in computer generated graphics
A method of and apparatus for efficiently rendering a complex transparent scene. In furtherance of one embodiment of the present invention, the method comprises the step of determining a minimum...
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6456298 |
Image processing apparatus and method
To provide an image processing apparatus and method that enable high speed and high quality image drawing process. When a drawing instruction including drawing logical arithmetic process...
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6456299 |
Map making process
A process for producing a recreational map preferably using a computer operated program by first producing a bordered area; overlaying said bordered area with one or more template maps having...
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6452594 |
Method and apparatus for using a 3D graphics pipeline and 3D imaging for cost effective watermarking
A pixel array of an image and a computer model of a geometric surface are embedded within a piece of software. An image is rendered using the pixel array and the computer model of the geometry...
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6449388 |
Method for aligning an object with an image capture apparatus and a coupling eyepiece
The present invention relates to a method for aligning an object, whose image is to be recorded, with an image capture apparatus and a coupling eyepiece. Said method consists in using a light...
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6441802 |
Interactive control system having plural displays, and a method thereof
An interactive control system with plural displays comprising a plurality of first interactive control apparatus having input device and output device and a second interactive control apparatus...
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6437777 |
Three-dimensional virtual reality space display processing apparatus, a three-dimensional virtual reality space display processing method, and an information providing medium
In a virtual reality space shareable between users, messages to users are displayed such that they attract attention of users by effective,use of a display screen. When a browser is connected to a...
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6434279 |
Image registration method, image registration apparatus and recording medium
The invention provides a subpixel accuracy registration technique where accuracy is not lost even where an image is subjected to deformation due to influences of the characteristics of the imaging...
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6433798 |
Stationary scrolling for user interfaces
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for viewing objects on a display that allows a user to scroll through the objects by varying a non-positional display attribute of the...
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6429871 |
Graphic processing method and system for displaying a combination of images
A graphic processing method and system which is capable of displaying a combination of images from, for example, an external source such as TV signals and graphic data generated by a graphic...
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6424752 |
Image synthesis apparatus and image synthesis method
Disclosed are an image synthesis apparatus and an image synthesis method. According to the present invention, an image synthesis apparatus, for synthesizing a plurality of images to generate a...
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6421061 |
Mathematical set display apparatus and method, and storage medium having program recorded thereon
A set diagram display control apparatus performs a set diagram display process. When the elements or number count of each of a plurality of sets is input to a set relation list, the element counts...
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6417866 |
Method and apparatus for image display processing that reduces CPU image scaling processing
From a display memory, an image scaler retrieves display data representing an image, and produces a data stream representing a scaled version of the image. Based on the data stream, a...
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6417855 |
System and method for utilizing thresholds during a dynamic display of data relationships between static charts
Method and system aspects for utilizing thresholds during the display of dynamically displayed charts are described. The aspects include obtaining data from first and second static charts and...
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6417819 |
Background image display control system used in chat system
A background image display control system is applied to a chat system in which a server performs a broadcast communication control of character information between a plurality of user computers...
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