Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing color data includes storing fragment pointer and color data together in a color buffer. A delta color compression (DCC) key indicating the color data to fetch for processing is stored, and the fragment pointer and color data is fetched based upon the read DCC key for decompression.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method to assist a user in interacting with an electronic relay for electric power distribution grids. The method provides for identifying light signals emitted by one or more user-interface components of the user-interface panel of the electronic relay by processing images of said user-interface panel, which have been captured by the camera of a mobile computerized device. The method further provides for showing information, which describes the identified light signals emitted by said user-interface components on the display of said mobile computerized device.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method for designing a three-dimensional (3D) mesh in a 3D scene. The method comprises displaying a 3D mesh in a 3D scene and providing a global orientation and selecting, with a pointing device, one or more vertices of the 3D mesh, thereby forming a set of one or more vertices. The method comprises computing at least one picking zone that surrounds each vertex of the set. The method comprises providing a first manipulator for controlling a displacement of each vertex of the set along one or more NUV directions and determining whether the pointing device is maintained within the picking zone. If not, the method comprises providing a second manipulator for controlling a displacement of the one or more vertices of the set along one or more directions defined by the global orientation. The method improves user interactions for switching back and forth a first and second manipulators.

Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for expressing an emotion in a conversation message using a gesture are provided. A message expression method may include: receiving a message that is entered in a message input area of a chatroom; obtaining animation information based on an input applied to the message in the message input area; modifying the message based on the animation information; and displaying the modified message in a chat view area of the chatroom in response to receiving a message send request.

Abstract: Data processing methods and devices are provided. A processing device comprises memory and a processor. The memory, which comprises a cache, is configured to store portions of data. The processor is configured to issue a store instruction to store one of the portions of data, provide identifying information associated with the one portion of data, compress the one portion of data; and store the compressed one portion of data across multiple lines of the cache using the identifying information. In an example, the one portion of data is a block of pixels and pixels and the processor is configured to request pixel data for a pixel of a compressed block of pixels, send additional requests for data for other pixels determined to belong to the compressed pixel block and provide an indication that the requests are for pixel data belonging to the compressed block of pixels.

Abstract: An output content generation device, includes: a first calculation unit that calculates a size, in a display region of a display device, of each of pieces of information to be displayed in the display region; a determination unit that determines whether or not the pieces of information are arrangeable in the display region, based on the size of each of the pieces of information and a size of the display region; and a generation unit that allocates the pieces of information in a plurality of screens accommodated in the display region in a distributed manner, and generates output content of the pieces of information, when the pieces of information are not arrangeable in the display region, thereby enabling information to be legibly viewable.

Abstract: A three-dimensional shape data editing apparatus includes a processor configured to set, based on three-dimensional shape data of a surface of a three-dimensional shape of an object configured by using a formation surface of at least one of plural flat surfaces or curved surfaces, for each of plural divided three-dimensional regions, a distance from a predetermined location of the region to the formation surface of the three-dimensional shape of the object configured by the formation surface.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to control a display of notification related to a notification target present outside a field of view of a user depending on a relationship between attribute information of the notification target and attribute information of the user.

Abstract: A method for graphics processing. The method including rendering graphics for an application using graphics processing units (GPUs). The method including using the plurality of GPUs in collaboration to render an image frame including a plurality of pieces of geometry. The method including during the rendering of the image frame, subdividing one or more of the plurality of pieces of geometry into smaller pieces, and dividing the responsibility for rendering these smaller portions of geometry among the plurality of GPUs, wherein each of the smaller portions of geometry is processed by a corresponding GPU. The method including for those pieces of geometry that are not subdivided, dividing the responsibility for rendering the pieces of geometry among the plurality of GPUs, wherein each of these pieces of geometry is processed by a corresponding GPU.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a product inspection apparatus that may include an electronic device having a visual inspection software application. The visual inspection software application may activate a camera of the electronic device to capture images of a product, such as a vehicle. A display screen of the electronic device may present product images. The product images may be digitally processed, and augmented by the addition of computer-generated images associated with a status of inspection of each element of the vehicle in the product images. Each computer-generated image may include a graphical indicator associated with the status of inspection of a particular element. Each computer-generated image may be projected on top of a real world image of the particular element presented on the display screen.

Abstract: A smart window device includes: a window that is transparent and displays an effect image; a request receiver that receives, from a user, a stop request or a change request for the display of the effect image; a data acquirer that acquires effect image data indicating the effect image reflecting a preference of the user learned based on a length of time from a start of displaying the effect image until the request receiver receives the stop request or the change request and a type of an object; and a controller that: when a sensor detects the object, determines the type of the object based on a detection result of the sensor, selects an effect image to be displayed on the window from among the effect image data, based on the type of the object determined, and causes the effect image to be displayed on the window.

Abstract: A method is implemented at an electronic device for displaying output from an application. The electronic device includes a display module and an application. The application sends to the display module a request to display output on the fixed orientation display. The display module determines whether the application is able to scale the output from the application to fit the fixed orientation display. In accordance with a determination that the application is able to scale the output, the electronic device causes the application to receive information concerning the fixed orientation display from the display module and scale the output for display on the fixed orientation display according to the information. In accordance with a determination that the application is not able to scale the output, the display module scales the output received from the application, thereby enabling the output of the application to be displayed on the fixed orientation display.

Abstract: An image display method includes: displaying a first image having a first image surface on a display surface in a three-dimensional fashion; in response to a reception of an instruction of rotating the first image around an axis different from any axis in the display surface, rotating the first image around a first imaginary axis, the first imaginary axis being vertical to the first image surface and different from an axis vertical to the display surface; and displaying the rotated first image.

Abstract: A system and method for harmonization of vertical projections for displaying of geospatial object data on a mediated reality (MR) device. The method includes: determining an absolute elevation of the MR device relative to a fixed elevation reference; determining an elevation of the MR device relative to physical ground; determining a projection plane using the elevation of the MR device; determining positioning of the projection plane relative to the fixed elevation reference; determining positioning of the geospatial objects with relative vertical positioning data in the mediated reality display relative to the determined projection plane; determining positioning of the geospatial objects with absolute vertical positioning data in the mediated reality display relative to the fixed elevation reference; and outputting the positioned geospatial objects with relative vertical positioning data and the positioned geospatial objects with absolute vertical positioning data to the display of the MR device.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an electronic device includes a display and an eye tracker. The display includes one or more foveated areas. In the embodiment, the eye tracker is configured to collect eye tracking data regarding a gaze of one or more eyes of a user on the display. The electronic device also includes processing circuitry operatively coupled to the display. In the embodiment, the processing circuitry is configured to receive an indication of a motion associated with the gaze from the eye tracker. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a previous location associated with the gaze during a previous frame and a target position associated with the gaze during a target frame. In the embodiment, the processing circuitry is configured to expand one or more foveated areas of the display adjacent a previous position of the gaze of the user.

Abstract: According to an example, a server-based platform processes requests for graphical content on behalf of client computing devices.

Abstract: A method for facilitating dynamic-transparency chart overlays via a graphical user interface is provided. The method includes displaying, via a client device, the graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a graphical element to receive an input; receiving, via the graphical user interface, a request relating to an overlay request that corresponds to a visualization of a chart; retrieving data corresponding to the chart; converting the data into a structured data set based on a parameter; generating an overlay chart based on the structured data set, the overlay chart corresponding to a superimposition of the chart; and displaying, via the client device, the overlay chart on the graphical user interface in response to the request.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a display device which changes the quality of displayed images in real time according to the genres of the images, the display device comprising: a storage unit which stores picture quality according to the genres of images; a display unit which displays an image corresponding to an input image signal; and a control unit which acquires the genre of an image and changes the quality of the image to the picture quality corresponding to the genre.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a display; a camera; a memory; and a processor configured to identify a video captured in real time through the camera as a plurality of image sections, obtain spatial information corresponding to each image section, map the obtained spatial information to each of the plurality of image sections and store same in the memory, and control the display to add a virtual object image to the video and display the same on the basis of the spatial information mapped to each of the plurality of image sections when a user command for adding the virtual object image to the video is input.

Abstract: A video image processing device comprises at least one memory configured to store instructions and, at least one processor configured to execute the instructions. The at least one processor controls to display a trajectory indicating a change in a position of an object in a video image. The at least one processor controls to display an image of the object corresponding to a vicinity of the trajectory in the video image around a part of the trajectory.