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7620902 |
Collaboration spaces
A computer implemented method and system enable users to create a social network providing access to other users. By providing access to such networks via a visual presentation, the system renders...
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7620901 |
Simultaneous input across multiple applications
One or more users may interact simultaneously with different applications on the same device through an input system such as a touch-sensitive display screen. Simultaneous user input may be...
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7610558 |
Information processing apparatus and method
An information processing apparatus generates and displays a mixed reality image in which a plurality of subjects have virtual objects by their hands. The apparatus includes a unit for measuring a...
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7609260 |
Image generation program product and image processing device
This program product causes a computer to function as a unit for setting spectator information including the number of spectators belonging respectively to first and second spectator types, a unit...
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7594179 |
Information processing system, service providing apparatus and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program
The present invention is related to an information processing system, a service providing apparatus and method, an information processing apparatus and method, a recording medium, and a program...
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7585224 |
Storage medium having game program stored therein and game apparatus
A game apparatus selects one of a plurality of characters as a selected character. The game apparatus also sets a position of a virtual camera in accordance with the position of the selected...
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7577913 |
Method of using a fovea type pointer in a video conferencing system including at least two 2-dimensional display screens forming a common virtual surface
Using a fovea type pointer in a video conferencing system including 2-dimensional display screen forming a virtual surface between participants interacting with the display screens. The virtual...
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7552188 |
Network system, element thereof and network visualization method
On at least one of computers constituting a plurality of nodes on a network N, a management information file representing links between nodes is stored. The computer of each node stores, into a...
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7546536 |
Communication device, communication method, and computer usable medium
A letter string editing unit of a communication device receives an edit instruction for a letter string, and edits a letter string in accordance with the instruction. A decide input reception unit...
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7538775 |
Storage medium storing game program and game apparatus
A relative position of each object with respect to a point of view is changed by changing at least one of information indicating a position of the point of view and information indicating a...
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7536655 |
Three-dimensional-model processing apparatus, three-dimensional-model processing method, and computer program
Three-dimensional-model processing apparatus, three-dimensional-model processing methods, and computer programs are provided. In a three-dimensional-model processing apparatus, method, and computer...
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7533346 |
Interactive spatalized audiovisual system
An interactive spatialized audiovisual system links a plurality of remote used terminals. The system comprises a networked computer having an associated user database including user status...
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7519918 |
Mobile virtual desktop
A device includes a display screen and a processor to render a display of a portion of a logical image on the screen. The logical image is larger than that which can be displayed on the display...
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7515156 |
Method and apparatus for parallel speculative rendering of synthetic images
A method, apparatus and computer program product for parallel speculative rendering of synthetic images in an image rendering system are presented. The operations include obtaining measurements...
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7512883 |
Portable solution for automatic camera management
A “virtual video studio”, as described herein, provides a highly portable real-time capability to automatically capture, record, and edit a plurality of video streams of a presentation, such...
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7506264 |
Method and apparatus for presenting navigable data center information in virtual reality using leading edge rendering engines
A method, an apparatus, and computer instructions are provided for presenting navigable data center information in virtual reality using leading edge rendering engines. Virtual rooms may be...
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7502825 |
Populating online forums
A forum for user interaction is provided. A clone of the forum is created, thereby allowing any number of users to be in the same forum while limiting the number of users in each instance of the...
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7492362 |
Virtual space rendering/display apparatus and virtual space rendering/display method
A view image rendering module ( 102 ) generates an image of a virtual space on the basis of a first viewpoint indicating the viewpoint of a user on the virtual space, and displays the generated...
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7487468 |
Video combining apparatus and method
A video combining apparatus to superimpose a virtual image such a CG image on a video image of the real world or on a see-through type display device. An area in which the virtual image is not to...
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7484175 |
Method and apparatus for increasing personability of instant messaging with user images
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for handling instant messages. In response to receiving an instant message, a determination is made as to whether a picture of a sender of the instant...
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7477250 |
Method and system for hapto-visual scene development and deployment
A method of creating a system for haptically and graphically rendering one or more scenes. The method includes generating one or more haptic targets for haptically rendering the scene as a virtual...
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7472047 |
System and method for constraining a graphical hand from penetrating simulated graphical objects
Movement of a graphical hand is constrained when the physical hand controlling the graphical hand does not have a similar physical constraint. An analysis of a revolute-joint-link-spring model in...
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7464337 |
Multimedia communication method using virtual world interface in mobile personal computers
A method for communication of multimedia data using virtual world interface in a mobile personal computers is disclosed. The method comprises logging in to the server; displaying an initial menu...
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7441198 |
Virtual collaboration window system and method
This invention is a method for manipulating virtual objects displayed on a video conference broadcast by generating a computerized three dimensional image of an object to be superimposed on a first...
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7426539 |
Dynamic bandwidth control
Data transfer over a computer network relating to a data object of a multiple user network application, from a network user who owns the data object to an updating user, is achieved by transfer of...
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7423653 |
Displaying graphical textures
A method of displaying a graphical texture comprises determining whether an update exists for a particular content element from among one or more content elements, wherein each content element is...
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7421660 |
Method and apparatus to visually present discussions for data mining purposes
A method of organizing information is disclosed. The method comprises providing a visualization of actor communications in the context of one or more discussion, a discussion including at least one...
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7395509 |
Temporal visualizations of collaborative exchanges
A user interface (UI), which reflects exchanges in the past and the future between a user and entities. The UI includes a background having a user defined granularity, a plurality of dots, which...
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7376903 |
3D display system and method
A 3D volumetric display system is configured to generate 3D diagnostic displays of 3D volumetric data acquired from a patient by an imaging system in a virtual-reality environment and to permit a...
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7369137 |
Method for mapping a single decoded content stream to multiple textures in a virtual environment
A system includes a computing device to obtain encoded content data corresponding to at least one participant of a virtual reality environment. A memory device stores at least one texture...
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7362331 |
Time-based, non-constant translation of user interface objects between states
The present invention relates to a method for moving objects within the graphical user interface (GUI) of an operating system in a manner that provides a transitional effect between window states,...
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7343026 |
Operation recognition system enabling operator to give instruction without device operation
An operation recognition system including an object to be operated, at least one camera, a processor, and a controller. At least one camera is configured to acquire image data of an operator in a...
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7319992 |
Method and apparatus for delivering a virtual reality environment
Described is a method and apparatus for generating a customized dynamic virtual reality environment. The dynamic virtual reality environment communicates with a participant via a virtual personal...
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7312795 |
Image display apparatus and method
Image display method of superimposing virtual space image data on real space image data at an arbitrary viewpoint and exhibiting the superimposed image to a viewer is provided. When real space...
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7305617 |
Method for aligning text to baseline grids and to CJK character grids
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for controlling forced grid line spacing. The height of text consisting of a plurality of characters to...
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7259761 |
Systems and methods for sculpting virtual objects in a haptic virtual reality environment
A user of a virtual object or computer model uses a haptic interface device in the real world to manipulate a virtual tool in a virtual environment to interact and modify the virtual object. The...
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7240291 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for display of information relating to a virtual three-dimensional book
A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having a plurality of virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program...
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7240093 |
Use of online messaging to facilitate selection of participants in game play
A method and system facilitating selection of participants in multiplayer online electronic games. The method provides an efficient procedure for players to host and join new instances of...
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7225404 |
Method and apparatus for determining forces to be applied to a user through a haptic interface
A method and apparatus for determining forces to be applied to a user through a haptic interface. The method includes the steps of generating a representation of an object in graphic space, sensing...
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7221366 |
Real-time rendering system and process for interactive viewpoint video
A system and process for rendering and displaying an interactive viewpoint video is presented in which a user can watch a dynamic scene while manipulating (freezing, slowing down, or reversing)...
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7218921 |
Method and system for inviting and creating accounts for prospective users of an instant messaging system
A system and method for assigning a unique identifier to a prospective user of an instant messaging system. The IM system comprises a plurality of clients ( 111 ) having IM applications of the same...
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7210104 |
Information display method and information display system for finding another user in a plurality of users based upon registered information
A virtual space including a model in place of each user is displayed on a terminal of a user. About an item in which the user is interested, the level of interest is previously registered so that...
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7200639 |
Remote control system, server-client system, server for controlling terminal device, terminal device operating method, device information sharing method, storage media, and program transmission apparatus
A remote control system includes: an electric home terminal device 11 having a control program; a server PC 12 , for transmitting control data to the electric home terminal device 11 and for...
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7155680 |
Apparatus and method for providing virtual world customized for user
The invention relates to generating a variable virtual world in accordance with user's potential needs. An information processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor causes an image of a...
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7146576 |
Automatically designed three-dimensional graphical environments for information discovery and visualization
An apparatus and method for browsing a plurality of data objects represented by images displayed within a three-dimensional graphical environment is described. A plurality of data object...
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7143358 |
Virtual world internet web site using common and user-specific metrics
The present invention provides a virtual world that makes surfing the World Wide Web more satisfying and pleasurable to the user. The invention is arbitive to graphically and functionally restore a...
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7139982 |
Navigation methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books
A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program...
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7139796 |
Method and system for supporting image creating and storing of the same
At least a part of the three-dimensional community space is divided into regions and the right to use a region is sold at a particular price to a user who wants to obtain it. A user having the...
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7124372 |
Interactive communication between a plurality of users
A system, method, and computer program for interactive communication among a plurality of users. The invention, called Holocene Conversation Mode (“HCM”), takes advantage of the observation...
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7120875 |
Method and apparatus for augmented reality hybrid tracking system with fiducial-based heading correction
An apparatus and method is disclosed for enabling accurate registration of virtual information upon real objects in selected environments from the perspective of a moveable observation platform...
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