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7567850 Method and system for creating a product parts catalog  
A method and a system are disclosed for enabling an automatic creation of a parts list and 3-dimensional illustrations of a product based on 3-dimensional CAD or XVL data of an industrial product...
7551173 Pixel accurate edges for scanline rendering system  
A method ( 2500 ) of converting a monotonic curve into edge information is disclosed. A method ( 2800 A) of determining an integer edge crossing value, Xi, for a new edge crossed by a scanline...
7439990 Surface selecting method and information processing apparatus  
A surface selecting method in an information processing apparatus for selecting a prescribed surface of a 3D model displayed on a display unit of the information processing apparatus includes a...
7298382 Figure selection method, figure selection device, and storage medium storing figure selection program  
A figure selection method and device including a retrieval operation of a figure element adjacent to a designated figure element where a figure is formed by a plurality of figure elements....
7134089 Directional focus navigation  
A rendering engine that supports directional focus navigation, in response to a directional input, shifts the focus to an appropriate focusable element. The rendering engine determines one or more...
7119817 Image generating system and program  
There are provided an image generating system and program which can generate an image of an object variable in its state depending on an impacted position, in real-time with less amount of data and...
7079139 Method and system for measuring an item depicted in an image  
A method and system for measuring an object represented by a three dimensional model includes an algorithm for displaying the three dimensional object in a 2 dimensional space. Once rendered in two...
6981229 System for dynamically mapping input device movement as a user's viewpoint changes  
The present invention is directed to a two-handed input control system that dynamically changes an input-to-object mapping for mapping movement of a graphical object on a display of a virtual scene...
6975336 Liquid crystal device and electro-optical device, driving circuit and drive method therefor, and electronic apparatus  
The invention relates to a device and methods to reduce the number of voltage levels of a data signal and to simplify a generation process therefor when gray-scale display is performed using an MLS...
6928618 Intelligent drag of assembly components  
One or more embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for positioning a graphical component in a computer-implemented drawing program. A selection of a...
6906731 Method of automatically determining the starting point for analysis of a data set comprising a tubular structure  
The invention relates to a method of analyzing an object data set comprising points in a multi-dimensional space, in which dataset a tubular structure, such as blood vessels, occurs. The method...
6894699 Image display device employing selective or asymmetrical smoothing  
An image display device includes a smoothing unit that filters the image data to be displayed. According to one aspect of the invention, only bright parts of the image that are adjacent to dark...
6882349 Efficient image allocation for zone rendering  
Embodiments of the present invention efficiently support rendering of high resolution images under zone rendering. In particular, a bin array rectangle and binner clipping rectangle for determining...
6614458 Method and apparatus for displaying and manipulating multiple geometric constraints of a mechanical design  
Computer instructions that operate to view a display of geometric constraints associated with a selected piece of geometry of a mechanical design and to drag and manipulate multiple geometric...
6559872 1D selection of 2D objects in head-worn displays  
A method for selecting an object in a two-dimensional display using a one-dimensional input device includes displaying a selector circle on the display and increasing or decreasing the radius of...
6538675 Display control apparatus and display control system for switching control of two position indication marks  
A display system receives image data from a plurality of image sources and displays the received image data on a display unit. The display system includes an input unit for inputting a control...
6408323 Job execution managing apparatus and computer-readable recording medium with program recorded therein for making a computer function as a job execution managing apparatus  
The job execution managing apparatus according to the present invention comprises an information storing section for storing therein job information comprising a character string defining a user's...
6384841 Intelligent selection of graphic objects keypoints and relationships  
The present invention provides a computer system with an improved graphically-oriented user interface that permits the user to more easily select for manipulation one object from a number of...
6359627 Method for selecting a graphic primitive and a recording medium  
To select a graphic primitive hidden behind a graphic primitive displayed in foreground, a point on the display screen is pointed to by a pointing device. A CPU detects graphic primitives that...
6317757 Web page display system utilizing locally stored image data components that are integrated according to part combination information transmitted by a server  
Home pages displayed at terminals are each defined by a combination of multiple parts. The terminal stores home page configuration data and a plurality of items of image data for each part. In...
6249316 Method and system for creating a temporary group of images on a digital camera  
A method and system for grouping a series of images stored in a digital camera. The digital camera includes a view finder for displaying a plurality of the image cells, where each of the image...
6115046 Method and apparatus for generating three dimensional drawing on a graphics display  
A design system for designing, dynamically changing and displaying design drawings. The invention allows a user to select a solid object from a display as the current, active object. The user then...
6081657 Method of locating and representing circuit elements of an electronic circuit for the functional testing of the circuit  
There is proposed a method for locating and representing circuit elements of an electronic circuit for functional testing of the circuit, the circuit diagram information of which circuit is stored...
6081268 Method for ignoring redundant constraints in a graphic editor  
Using an input device of a computer system, a graphic drawing is defined to include at least one graphic component. The graphic component is subject to a plurality of constraints. At least one of...
5973678 Method and system for manipulating a three-dimensional object utilizing a force feedback interface  
A method and system for manipulating a three-dimensional object in a computer-aided design (CAD) environment utilizes a force feedback interface. A gravitational sphere is defined around each of...
5961569 System and method for identifying a geographic point within a geographic section  
A system and method for identifying a geographic point within a geographic section of a geographic area. A geographic area containing a plurality of geographic points is divided into a plurality of...
5940063 Coordinate input apparatus  
A coordinate input apparatus is provided which is capable of accurately stopping a cursor at a desired position by an easy cursor movement operation. The coordinate input apparatus includes a...
5917495 Information presentation apparatus and method  
In the information presentation apparatus of the present invention, shape data of objects to be presented, shape data of the virtual environment in which the objects are presented, location data of...
5877772 Graphic processing apparatus allowing the user to specify image appearance by automatically expressing differences in color and hatching attributes  
A graphic processing apparatus is described which is capable of controlling the highlighting states of regions of an image by providing differences in color and hatching densities and the like to...
5712656 Graphic drawing apparatus  
Depiction of graphics which are displayed in combination with function graphs is accelerated. Graphics to be displayed on a display device in combination with function graphs are selected and drawn...
5598182 Image synthesis and processing  
An image processing apparatus for generating visible output images, including visually distinct images. A processor generates displayable image data by writing data to a frame store which is...
5577176 Method and apparatus for displaying a cursor along a two dimensional representation of a computer generated three dimensional surface  
A cursor is dynamically attached to a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional surface in a CAD system. The system maps input coordinates indicating an initial position and a final...
5548705 Wiping metaphor as a user interface for operating on graphical objects on an interactive graphical display  
A computer-controlled graphics display system using object-based representations of the displayed objects, and cooperating with a user-operated motion-sensitive input device. A powerful user...
5537132 Method of information reference for hypermedia  
An information reference method includes a computer, a storage unit for storing display information to be processed by the computer, a display unit for displaying display information stored in the...
5519818 Object-oriented graphic picking system  
A method and apparatus for defining customizable pick, hit or find detection criteria for geometric types including curves and using the results of the search as a basis for determining whether to...
5479589 Object-oriented system for selecting a graphic image on a display  
A method and apparatus for defining customizable pick, hit or find detection criteria for geometric types and using the results of the search as a basis for determining whether to perform an...
5465324 Method and system for defining geometric relations in a computer aided design system  
A computer aided design system assists the user in defining and editing geometric objects. It proposes several useful geometric relations between the cursor position and the already defined...
5442735 Method and apparatus for interactively manipulating models  
A method and a data processing system including a display device, an entry apparatus for enabling a user to enter data representing lines or surfaces of a model, such model data being stored in a...
5428723 Method and apparatus for capturing the motion of an object in motion video  
A method and apparatus for analysing the motion of an object in an motion video in which the frame of a video image (suitably converted to graphics format) is displayed on a video display unit and...
5404439 Time-space object containment for graphical user interface  
A computer-controlled graphics display system providing improved means for selecting objects for joint action. The invention helps the user of a graphical user interface more easily select a group...
5327528 Method and apparatus for cursor movement control  
A method for moving a cursor while constrained on a selected, displayed graphics object displayed on a display screen. Entering a signal for pointing to a position on the display screen,...
5287439 Graphic editing especially suitable for use in graphic programming, flow charts, etc.  
A figure editing apparatus for editing figure sets each comprising a set of a plurality of basic figures includes a first memory for storing, in correlated form, each figure set and the plurality...
5255359 Picking function for a pipeline graphics system using hierarchical graphics structures  
A graphics display system picking function tracks machine states of pickable primitive operators through the use of a pick stack and machine state memory. The pick stack operates as a stack when...
5208909 Pre-drawing pick detection in a graphics display system  
A method and apparatus for detecting operator selection of a graphics object prior to rasterization and pixel generation for that object. The method divides the screen into regions and analyzes...
5202671 Pick function implementation in a parallel processing system  
A processing system for identifying operator selection of a graphics object in a system using parallel pixel generation. Parallel pixel generation results in a fragment comprising a series of M...
5177474 Three-dimensional display apparatus  
A calculator calculates projection coordinates of principal vertexes of a displayed object with respect to a projection plane from a visual point. An evaluation device evaluates whether surfaces of...
5148521 Pick data queue for pipelined graphics system  
A pick queue and pick detection method that allows non-hierarchical graphic data models and applications to be used with pipelined processing systems. Pretransformed formatting logic is placed...
5027291 Application exit for potentially pickable primitives in a graphics system  
A method is described that gives local control to an application program during the drawing process when a "pickable" primitive intersects the pick window. This control is provided in such a way...
4977518 Video graphics system equipped with a graphics cursor  
Video graphics system which, by means of a graphics cursor, permits the identification of encoded surfaces of images represented on a screen. In order to do this, there are added to the parameters...
4870599 Traversal method for a graphics display system  
A method for traversal of primitives in a graphics display system includes calculating pick data for a predetermined primitive, testing the primitive for invisibility, exiting to a next graphics...
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