Abstract: A method and an apparatus for constructing a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object are provided. The method includes capturing images of the object by scanning the object along a trajectory around the object, estimating positions of a scanner, which respectively correspond to the captured images, refining the estimated positions of the scanner based on at least two locations on the trajectory, estimating depth maps corresponding to the refined positions of the scanner, generating a surface mesh of the object by fusing the depth maps, and constructing and displaying the 3D model of the object by mapping textures onto the generated surface mesh.

Abstract: A tessellation method is described which uses vertex tessellation factors. For a quad patch, the method involves comparing the vertex tessellation factors for each vertex of the quad patch to a threshold value and if none exceed the threshold, the quad is sub-divided into two or four triangles. If at least one of the four vertex tessellation factors exceeds the threshold, a recursive or iterative method is used which considers each vertex of the quad patch and determines how to further tessellate the patch dependent upon the value of the vertex tessellation factor of the selected vertex or dependent upon values of the vertex tessellation factors of the selected vertex and a neighbor vertex. A similar method is described for a triangle patch.

Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display section, an imaging section, an image setting section, an object specification section configured to specify a specific object from within an outside scene captured by the imaging section, and a parameter setting section. The image setting section causes the image display section to display a marker image. After the parameter setting section determines that a user's head is substantially in a static condition, the image setting section provides information on time left for the imaging section to capture the outside scene. The parameter setting section obtains an image captured by the imaging section when the time expires.

Abstract: An artificial intelligence agent is machine trained and used to provide physically-based rendering settings. By using deep learning and/or other machine training, settings of multiple rendering parameters may be provided for consistent imaging even in physically-based rendering.

Abstract: Provided are methods and systems of glyph management using texture atlases that may, among other things, improve User Interface (UI) performance and quality, as well as reduce memory requirements for storing glyphs. Due to their monochrome nature, glyphs are stored on any one of the red, green, blue, or alpha color channels that exist within a texture memory. Commonly used glyphs may be used to generate an initial texture atlas or texture atlases. Texture atlases may also be dynamically updated as additional glyphs are needed. Required glyphs needed to be displayed in a UI may be provided from the texture atlas to a graphics processor, and the graphics processor can use texture information to render the glyphs in the UI.

Abstract: An application processor includes a reconfigurable hardware scaler which includes dedicated circuits configured to perform different scaling techniques, respectively and a shared circuit configured to be shared by the dedicated circuits. One of the different scaling techniques is performed by one of the dedicated circuits and the shared circuit.

Abstract: Generating a chart-type agnostic data structure for defining a chart for use in chart rendering, animation, interactivity, and accessibility via a web client is provided. Aspects of a charting system are operative to represent output of a server-side chart layout engine in a data structure that can transmitted to and consumed by the web client for rendering an interactive chart. For example, aspects of the charting system enable for chart layout and chart rendering to exist separately, providing efficient chart layout and preventing external exposure of chart layout code.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic kerning pair reduction for digital font rendering. Example methods may include receiving a first font file comprising glyph data and a first set of kerning pairs, determining a first kerning pair of the first set of kerning pairs that comprises a kerning adjustment value below a kerning adjustment threshold, removing the first kerning pair from the first set of kerning pairs to generate a second set of kerning pairs, and generating a second font file comprising the glyph data and the second set of kerning pairs.

Abstract: Augmented reality systems and methods are disclosed which provide for representing imperceptible aspects of telecommunications networks as visual, auditory, tactile, or audiovisual stimuli. In some embodiments, the representation is a type of augmented reality from the perspective of a user on the ground, such as a technician deployed in the field.

Abstract: Methods for disambiguation and tracking of two or more wireless hand-held controllers with passive optical and inertial tracking within a system having a head mounted virtual or augmented reality display device having a forward facing optical sensor having a field of view, and wherein the display device interfaces with wireless hand-held inertial controllers for providing user input to the display device, with each controller two passive optically reflective markers, one marker being position at or adjacent each end of the controller and being separated by a known distance, and each controller also including an onboard inertial measurement unit for providing inertial data corresponding to its orientation.

Abstract: An electronic device and method for providing a virtual object are disclosed, including a processor and memory storing program instructions executable by the processor to implement the method, which includes receiving a request for a virtual object including a plurality of present conditions, searching a database for the virtual object by comparing the received plurality of present conditions to a plurality of condition sets, each set associated with at least one virtual object stored in the database; and when none of the plurality of condition sets matches all of the received plurality of present conditions, detecting a partially matching condition set matching at least one of the received plurality of present conditions and providing a partially matching virtual object corresponding to the partially matching condition set.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to mechanisms and processes relating to artificially rendering images using viewpoint interpolation and extrapolation. According to particular embodiments, a method includes applying a transform to estimate a path outside the trajectory between a first frame and a second frame, where the first frame includes a first image captured from a first location and the second frame includes a second image captured from a second location. The process also includes generating an artificially rendered image corresponding to a third location positioned on the path.

Abstract: Movies of volume rendered medical images, that give an impression of the anatomy, become more and more important, because this type of visualization comes close to reality. However it is time consuming to compose these movies, if another path than geometrical primitives (like a circle) is preferred. Besides this it is virtually impossible to reproduce comparable complex, manually composed, fly-paths. The proposed apparatus focuses on volume rendered movies of whole heart MR scans. It solves the problems mentioned above, by automatically deriving a fly-path from the segmentation data of the coronary arteries. A method, computer-readable medium and use are also provided.

Abstract: The claimed method for virtually selecting clothing is carried out on the basis of at least two photographs of the body of a subject dressed in an elastic template having reference markings. A computer may processes the markings, produce a three-dimensional mathematical model of the body of the subject, which is input into a database using an identification number pertaining to same. The database is accessible by a buyer, a seller and a clothing manufacturer. Standard-shape graphical elements are applied, in a regular pattern, to an elastic covering which is worn on the body, and the relationship between the elements is used as a basis for forming a three-dimensional model of the body.

Abstract: A method and system for rendering a graphic object that decouples shading from rasterization is disclosed. The method includes selecting a set of points of a graphic object for shading. At least one shading parameter is determined for application to the selected set of points of the graphic object. The selected points are shaded using the shading parameter image to produce a shaded graphic object image via a graphic processor at a first frequency relative to the frame rate. The shaded graphic object image is rasterized into a frame image in parallel at a second frequency relative to the frame rate. Multiple processors may be used for the shading and rasterization.

Abstract: A method and system for rendering a graphic object is disclosed. The method includes selecting a set of points of a graphic object for shading. At least one shading parameter is determined for application to the selected set of points of the graphic object. A shading parameter image is precalculated based on the determined at least one shading parameter. The shading parameter image is stored in a memory. The selected points are shaded using the shading parameter image to produce a shaded graphic object image via a graphic processor. The shaded graphic object image is rasterized into a frame image.

Abstract: A method for providing a User Interface (UI) based on a touch pressure and an electronic device using the same are provided. The UI providing method of the electronic device detects a touch pressure of a single touch input through a touch screen of the electronic device, and controls the electronic device based on the touch pressure. Since various UIs can be provided based on the touch pressure applied by the user in the touch screen, user convenience and entertainment can be improved.

Abstract: A head mounted display for supporting improvement in an act of moving a body is provided. The head mounted display includes image display unit that transmits external scenery therethrough and forms an image, a body motion detection unit that detects motions of a body of a user and at least a part of a tool bundled with the body, a model moving image acquisition unit that accesses a model moving image storage unit which stores, as a model moving image, a moving image showing a motion of the body, used as a reference of the act and stores the model moving image for each type of act, and acquires one or a plurality of model moving images corresponding to a detection result from the body motion detection unit, and a display control unit that causes the image display unit to form the acquired model moving image.

Abstract: Certain embodiments involve enhancing personalization of a virtual-commerce environment by identifying an augmented-reality visual of the virtual-commerce environment. For example, a system obtains a data set that indicates a plurality of augmented-reality visuals generated in a virtual-commerce environment and provided for view by a user. The system obtains data indicating a triggering user input that corresponds to a predetermined user input provideable by the user as the user views an augmented-reality visual of the plurality of augmented-reality visuals. The system obtains data indicating a user input provided by the user. The system compares the user input to the triggering user input to determine a correspondence (e.g., a similarity) between the user input and the triggering user input. The system identifies a particular augmented-reality visual of the plurality of augmented-reality visuals that is viewed by the user based on the correspondence and stores the identified augmented-reality visual.

Abstract: A visualization method for music-color synesthesia, belonging to the fields of cognitive psychology, color science and computer graphics, and relating to the visualization of the music synesthesia correlation of colors and the generation of a musical color combination scheme. In the method, a musical scale system is presented in the form of a color scale system, and the musical elements are presented through the color correlation to realize the synesthetic conversion between colors and musical elements, and on this basis, a color graphical conversion of the musical structure is performed. The implementations include: a conversion from colors to musical scales, a conversion from colors to chords, a conversion from colors to rhythm and a conversion from colors to texture etc.