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7505050 Recording medium, reproduction apparatus, recording method, reproducing method, program and integrated circuit for recording a video stream and graphics with window information over graphics display  
A recording medium storing an AVClip structured by multiplexing video stream and a graphics stream. The video stream represents a moving picture made of a plurality of pictures, and the graphics...
7505049 Instrumentation  
A method of displaying information on an instrument for viewing by a user includes the steps of a) displaying information on a first focal plane, and b) moving the information displayed on the...
7505162 Digital scanning systems and methods for scanning multi-sided cards and documents  
The present invention relates to scanning multi-sided documents. The scanner device scans the multi-sided document one side at a time. The image of each side is tiled vertically or horizontally to...
7505048 Estimation of overlap of polygons  
Various techniques are disclosed for easily and accurately estimating the amount of overlap between two or more polygons. With various examples of these techniques, a pattern of objects, such as...
7502022 Synthesis mode, synthesis writing mode, and reading mode for power saving in a portable device  
An image synthesis output apparatus is capable of saving power in the stage of obtaining a synthetic image of a plurality of images. In the apparatus, during a period when either of first and...
7499051 GPU assisted 3D compositing  
A method to perform compositing of three-dimensional images includes, on a Central Processing Unit (CPU), automatically assembling a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) program for each element of a...
7499586 Photographing big things  
The subject application provides an architecture that facilitates producing a single image that can visualize a scene too large to depict from any single perspective view. These images can be...
7495675 Processing illustration artwork  
Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing a computer graphics illustration having pieces of artwork.
7495674 Video generation and capture techniques  
Video processing arrangement including a host computer having a monitor, a video asset coupled to the computer for generating video signals and an interface for connecting the video asset to the...
7495677 Controller driver and display panel driving method  
A controller driver includes a driving process circuit configured to receive background bit map data of a background image and font data for a character image, and a font drawing circuit configured...
7495663 System and method for computing a continuous local neighborhood and paramaterization  
The present invention relates to a system for interactively moving a hit point within a current triangle of the model, where the hit point defines a location of a brush stamp relative to the model,...
7492372 Overlap density (OD) heatmaps and consensus data displays  
Systems and methods that generate or provide overlap displays of multiple sets of data in a manner that advantageously simplifies trend visualization in large sets of data. A 2-dimensional...
7492375 High dynamic range image viewing on low dynamic range displays  
Techniques and tools for displaying/viewing HDR images are described. In one aspect, a background image constructed from HDR image information is displayed along with portions of the HDR image...
7489322 Apparatus for priority transmission and display of key areas of image data  
An apparatus for selecting, prioritizing, saving, and receiving image data. Portions of an image can be selected and the selected portions assigned priorities. The prioritized image portions can...
7489363 Method of scaling partial area of main picture  
The present invention provides a method of scaling a partial area of a main picture, by which the partial area of the main picture can be magnified in a manner of scaling the partial area of the...
7486337 Controlling the overlay of multiple video signals  
In one embodiment the present invention includes receiving an alpha component of a graphics signal, receiving a primary video signal, and receiving a secondary video signal. A portion of the alpha...
7487465 Application clippings  
A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for: receiving a user input to activate a clip utility within an open application window; enabling a selection of a particular portion of the open...
7483042 Video graphics module capable of blending multiple image layers  
A video graphics module capable of blending multiple image layers includes a plurality of video graphic pipelines, each of which is operable to process a corresponding image layer. One of the video...
7483036 Reducing the number of compositing operations performed in a pixel sequential rendering system  
An apparatus for recording an object-based image one pixel at a time in scanline order includes an optimization module for generating a set of compositing messages corresponding to a first pixel...
7479968 Semi-transparent highlighting of selected objects in electronic documents  
Highlighting selected objects in an electronic document is provided in a manner such that a highlighted object maintains coloring and formatting properties to allow for a maintenance of visual...
7479957 System and method for scalable portrait video  
Generation, coding and transmission of an effective video form, scalable portrait video. As an expansion to bi-level video, portrait video is composed of more gray levels, and therefore possesses...
7479967 System for combining virtual and real-time environments  
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for combining virtual reality and real-time environment. The present invention provides a system that combines captured real-time video...
7479969 Grid detection method  
Method of detecting an image of a grid in a digital image by extracting a number of features from the digital image and classifying extracted features in a classification algorithm, preferably...
7477264 Compositing external images into a multimedia rendering pipeline  
Compositing functionality is provided in the form of an application program interface (API) that applications can utilize to composite images on video data that is to be rendered. In at least some...
7477243 Apparatus for controlling the shift of virtual space and method and program for controlling same  
A virtual-space shift control apparatus includes a detecting element that detects a touch operation or a drag operation of a pointing device having a plurality of pointing elements, performed on a...
7477252 Processing three dimensional data for spatial three dimensional displays  
A three dimensional image is displayed by providing initial data corresponding to the three dimensional image, generating a plurality of sets of data from the initial data, each set of data...
7477797 Concealed object recognition  
A method for viewing a first object that is obstructed by a second object. In such a method, the first object has a contrasting color to the second object and the second object is constructed from...
7477265 System and method for optimising halftoning printer performance  
An apparatus renders a plurality of graphical objects of an image on a scanline basis, with each scanline including at least one run of pixels, and each run of pixels being associated with at least...
7474317 Method and apparatus for displaying overlapping markers  
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable code for rendering graphical markers in a manner that avoids overlap of graphical markers on a map display. The process identifies a...
7471293 Method, system, and computer program product for displaying calendar-based SLO results and breach values  
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for displaying calendar-based service level objective (SLO) results and breach values. The method comprises: generating...
7471299 Compositing graphical objects  
Systems, computer-implemented methods and apparatus, including computer program apparatus, implementing techniques for rendering an image. A target area is identified in the image and a set of...
7471301 Method and system enabling real time mixing of synthetic images and video images by a user  
The invention concerns a method and a system for: (i) producing in a computer processing unit a flow of synthetic images, and (ii) tracing a scene by creating visual interactions between the...
7468735 Transitioning between two high resolution images in a slideshow  
A method of transitioning between two high resolution images in a slideshow includes replacing a first image with a lower resolution copy of that first image and fading out the lower resolution...
7466318 Avoiding unnecessary uncovered texture fetches  
Systems and methods for avoiding unnecessary uncovered texture fetches may improve texture mapping performance. A shader program compiler performs data-flow analysis to determine if texture fetches...
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...
7460118 Image processor, image processing method and image processing program  
An image processing method and an image processor for drawing the movements of such linear objects as fur, hair, and grass of a turf being influenced by wind have not been proposed thus far. The...
7456904 Method and apparatus for superimposing characters on video  
A method and apparatus for superimposing a character on video for display on a video screen comprising providing a system capable of displaying a plurality of RGB pixel values on a video screen,...
7457818 Context-based display technique with hierarchical display format  
A system that includes a graphical user interface that may be used to access information contained in a database is provided. The graphical user interface includes a matrix of icons that correspond...
7456847 Video with map overlay  
A system and method for placing reference locators on a streaming video image taken from a camera mounted on a vehicle. Sensors monitoring the camera field of view and direction of the optical axis...
7456848 Method for consolidating overlapping map markers  
A computer implemented method for consolidating overlapping markers in a mapping application. The process identifies a plurality of points for display from data describing locations and associated...
7454087 Image blending using linear blends of corresponding neighborhood means and variances from first and second image regions  
Systems and techniques for blending image data such that noise, texture and/or high-frequency data may be better preserved in a resulting blended image. In general, in one implementation, the...
7454309 Foot activated user interface  
A wearable computing apparatus includes a processor; a device for presenting information from the processor to a user, and a device for providing user input to the processor in response to the...
7453458 Drawing method and drawing apparatus for displaying image data about a plurality of objects including semitransparent object and opaque object on computer display screen  
A method is provided for multi-pass semitransparent processing having three passes. The method provides for displaying image data about a plurality of objects including opaque objects and...
7453471 Service providing system, management terminal, mobile member, service providing program, and service providing method  
The invention provides a service providing system which allows the user to easily receive service, which allows the user to receive not only information providing service but a variety of services,...
7450121 Dynamic bit depth rendering  
A method is described of compositing a plurality of graphical objects to create an image comprising a plurality of parts, where the parts may be a run of pixels along a scanline or a region of the...
7450137 System and method for blending images  
A method of blending a pair of images, each image comprising a plurality of pixels having an intensity. A blending edge is determined for each image, each blending edge comprising at least one...
7451457 Facilitating interaction between video renderers and graphics device drivers  
Facilitating interaction may be enabled through communication protocols and/or APIs that permit information regarding image processing capabilities of associated graphics hardware to be exchanged...
7446766 Multidimensional evidence grids and system and methods for applying same  
A method of generating an evidence grid representing an environment comprises the steps of collecting a set of stereo images at multiple locations within the environment using stereo sensors, and...
7446781 Compositing two-dimensional and three-dimensional image layers  
Systems, methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for generating a composite image from both two-dimensional (2D) image layers and...
7447616 Method and system for developing a vehicle package  
A computer-implemented method for rapidly designing a vehicle package is disclosed. The method receives virtual vehicle package model data, converts the data into mechanical vehicle package model...