Patents Examined by Chante? Harrison
  • Patent number: 8054320
    Abstract: A system is provided for scaling image data comprising a Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine adapted to read the image data from a horizontal pixel strip in a column-by-column format, a scaling block adapted to scale the image data read by the read DMA engine into scaled column output data, and a buffer memory for storing the scaled column output data for the horizontal pixel strip. A method is also provided for scaling an image comprising reading pixel values from a pixel strip in a column-by-column manner across the pixel strip and scaling the pixel values for each column to produce scaled column output data. The scaled column output data for a plurality of columns is then read and the scaled column output data is scaled from the plurality of columns to produce scaled row output data for a row of pixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.
    Inventors: Gordon R. Clark, Douglas G. Keithley
  • Patent number: 8044975
    Abstract: Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for providing a wallpaper. To this end, a current state of a mobile terminal is detected, particle images and fluid image reflecting the detected current state of the mobile terminal are generated, and the generated particles and the generated fluid are displayed on a preset wallpaper so as to generate a wallpaper. Then, user motion is detected, acceleration and movement amount are extracted from the detected user motion, and movement amounts and movement directions of the particles and the fluid are determined based on the extracted acceleration and movement amount. Then, the particles and fluid are displayed in reflection of the gravity on movement amounts and movement directions of particles and fluid. Accordingly, it is possible to provide a wallpaper having an effect as if an actual snow globe is moved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Soon-Ok Kim, Chan-Woo Park, Kyu-Ok Choi, Do-Hwan Choi, Jong-Hyun An
  • Patent number: 8040347
    Abstract: Thin films or sharp edges in a fluid body are expressed in the display of a particle-based fluid-body simulation. The surface construction method is a method applied to a method for rendering calculation results on the screen of a display device using data that are obtained by calculation of a fluid-body simulation based on a particle method executed by a CPU or the like. The method has a first stage of allocating a concentration sphere to a particle that is a calculation object and computing an implicit function curved surface, and computing a plurality of base vertices (V0) for creating a fluid-body surface by the implicit function curved surface; and a second stage that is executed at least one time for adjusting a surface sharpness for each of the plurality of base vertices (V0) for creating the fluid-body surface that is computed in the first stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Prometech Software, Inc.
    Inventor: Takahiro Harada
  • Patent number: 8040348
    Abstract: A combined sectional view is produced by obtaining a section plane based on one of a plurality of section lines, which is currently set as a target, and on a cut face along the target section line, obtaining an adjacent section plane passing a crossed point between a connected section line, which is connected to the target section line, and the target section line and being perpendicular to a plane including the plurality of section lines and to the section plane, specifying one or more elements and/or parts of elements of a three-dimensional model, which are necessary to draw a sectional view of the model, with respect to the section plane and the adjacent section plane, projecting the specified elements and/or the parts of the elements to obtain a sectional view corresponding to the target section line, and combining a plurality of sectional views obtained by executing the above-described processes for each of the section lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
    Inventor: Ryusuke Eri
  • Patent number: 8031195
    Abstract: An interactive data analysis system is disclosed. The interactive data analysis system has a computer-generated user interface which includes a plurality of histogram elements having data band controls. The data band controls allow modification of subjective parameters related to the data analysis and produce realtime updates to data forms which present the analyzed data to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Vision Critical, Inc.
    Inventor: Manuel Zahariev
  • Patent number: 8022946
    Abstract: A wipe pattern generation apparatus that can generate wipe patterns of various shapes at high speed and moreover can be miniaturized. is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsubota, Hiroyuki Izumi
  • Patent number: 8013859
    Abstract: A graphical display combines multiple dimensions of information relating to resource allocation and usage by a group of computer systems and sub-systems of the computer systems. The graphical display includes a series of graphics, each indicating resource usage by one of the computer systems. In addition, each graphic has multiple sections. Each section of the graphic indicates resource usage by a sub-system that is within the computer system represented by the graphic. Each section of the graphics may also be color-coded. The color code indicates the amount of resources the associated sub-system is receiving relative to the amount of resources that has been designated for that sub-system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas C. Cannon, III
  • Patent number: 7999830
    Abstract: Rendering graphics on a display of a device. In a portable or wireless device, a list of instructions needed to refresh or generate a frame is first created. The created instructions are then parsed or optimized to remove instructions that result in unnecessary processing instructions. The optimized list is then executed. During generation of a given frame, a view hierarchy is traversed to identify damaged portions of a display. The damaged portions are not copied to the frame. Also, information that has not changed is likewise not usually copied. Damage from the previous frame less damage from the current frame is copied to the appropriate buffer. The instructions are optimized to render only the portion of the frame that is necessary. Portions of the display that are not visible are not traversed in the view hierarchy and are not considered until visible on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Arthur Anthonie Van Hoff, Geoffrey W. Chatterton
  • Patent number: 7999829
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates performing an image-editing operation across multiple perspective planes. During operation, the system receives a selection for a source area for the image-editing operation, wherein the source area spans one or more perspective planes. The system also receives a selection for a destination area for the image-editing operation, wherein the destination area spans one or more perspective planes. Next, the system defines one or more partial source areas for the one or more perspective planes spanned by the source area. The system also defines one or more partial destination areas for the one or more perspective planes spanned by the destination area. The system then applies the image-editing operation from each partial source area to each relevant partial destination area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Ralf Berger, Steven M. Troppoli
  • Patent number: 7978210
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, a cropped image is defined within a boundary on an original image displayed on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the original image displayed on the display, the appearance of the lens including a focal region and a base region. A graphical user interface (“GUI”) is displayed on the display for adjusting the appearance of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Noregin Assets N.V., L.L.C.
    Inventors: Zeenat Jetha, Andrew Carlisle, Andrew Skiers, David J. P. Baar
  • Patent number: 7973810
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a display device that allows its useful life to be prolonged without letting the user of the device conscious of changes in the display state of the display device, and the power consumption to be prevented from increasing, and the usable time without charging to be prevented from being shortened even when a light emitting display device is used. The display device is driven by a power source chargeable by connection with an external power source and includes a display portion (4), a display control portion (31) that switches between an inverted display state and a non-inverted display state of said display portion (4), and a power source detection portion (5) that detects a connection with said external power source. The display control portion switches between the inverted display state and non-inverted display state of said display portion (4) when said power source detection portion (5) detects a connection with said external power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2011
    Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
    Inventors: Kazunari Ueda, Tomiyo Ema
  • Patent number: 7965299
    Abstract: In a method of compositing graphic elements in a pixel-based renderer, a first graphic element is received having a first color and a first opacity, and a second graphic element is received having a second color and a second opacity. A blend output is obtained from a blend function dependent on the first color and the second color, and a resultant color is determined of a compositing operation on the first and second graphic elements, with the resultant color being dependent on the blend output and otherwise being independent of the second color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kevin John Moore, Craig William Northway, Alexander Vincent Danilo
  • Patent number: 7961190
    Abstract: A method and system that provides a unique data display tool for use in the investment area and utilizes color coated entries in various data displays to aid in the client's assimilation of investment data and information. More specifically, the method and system uses a plurality of colors that are superimposed over data contained in various data category displays. Any one category data may contain a number of different such colored overlays. It is between different data displays, the same color would be used for the same data category presented in each display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Inventors: James F. Marshall, Jonathan J. Marshall
  • Patent number: 7948497
    Abstract: A chipset is electrically connected with an external graphic module, which generates a first graphic signal and outputs it to the chipset. The chipset includes an internal graphic module and a control module. The internal graphic module generates a second graphic signal, and the control module receives the first graphic signal and the second graphic signal. The control module divides the first graphic signal into at least two first graphic sub-signals and divides the second graphic signal into at least two second graphic sub-signals, respectively. When under a first output mode, the control module simultaneously outputs one of the first graphic sub-signals and one of the second graphic sub-signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Via Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Zhong, Lei Feng
  • Patent number: 7932907
    Abstract: A graph layout technique that creates a layered graph layout with a given aspect ratio. The present layered graph layout technique better utilizes the available space and, at the same time, creates an aesthetically pleasing drawing of a directed graph. In one embodiment it determines the layout of the new graph based on a modified Sugiyama technique combined with a modified Coffman-Graham scheduling algorithm. Given a directed graph and a desired aspect ratio, it uses a binary search and the Coffman-Graham scheduling algorithm to find a layout of the graph that has an aspect ratio that matches the given aspect ratio of the available space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corp.
    Inventors: Lev Nachmanson, George Robertson, Bongshin Lee
  • Patent number: 7920151
    Abstract: A video processing device may comprise one or more processors and/or circuits for use in a video processing device, in which the one or more processors and/or circuits may comprise a video scaler, a memory, a scaler engine, a clock selection circuit. The one or more processors and/or circuits are operable to receive a video image and select a video input clock or a display output clock for upscaling the received video image, or select the video input clock or the display output clock for downscaling the received video image based on a determination of whether the video image is to be downscaled or upscaled. The one or more circuits may be operable to downscale the received video image to generate a first scaled video image, and/or upscale the received video image to generate a second scaled video image, based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander G. MacInnis, Chengfuh Jeffrey Tang, Xiaodong Xie, James T. Patterson, Greg A. Kranawetter
  • Patent number: 7920150
    Abstract: An image scaling system includes a window memory, a longitudinal scaler, a buffer and a latitudinal scaler. The window memory temporarily stores partial data of N image lines. The longitudinal scaler performs a longitudinal scaling operation on the partial data of the N image lines to thereby produce partial data of a longitudinal image line. The latitudinal scaler performs a latitudinal scaling operation on the partial data of the longitudinal image line to thereby produce scaling-part data of a latitudinal image line. The longitudinal scaler and the latitudinal scaler use a window average to perform an image shrinking operation and a bi-linear interpolation average to perform an image expanding operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chih-Cheng Ku, Chun-Chi Chen, Wen-Cheng Ho
  • Patent number: 7907150
    Abstract: A method of presenting multiple image sources of approximately registered images so that the mind can easily fuse the multiple images into one image. Improvement to fusing can be achieved by alternating views between sources at 85 hertz or more. The insertion of a black frame between the succession of frames optimizes the neurological functions of the human optical system (produces retinal decay) such that the perception of a useful fused image is greatly enhanced. Stereographic fusion can also be achieved to allow for fusion of loosely registered datasets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: Doubleshot, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Shulman, Donald R. Snyder, III
  • Patent number: 7898554
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining an up scale factor and a down scale factor according to a scale factor received from a graphics application program interface (API) to scale a graphics data in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. The up scale factor and the down scale factor may be precisely stored in the GPU based on a fixed number of bits. An actual scale factor which can be precisely stored in the GPU corresponding to the scale factor may differ from the scale factor with a difference. Graphics commands may be sent to the GPU to scale the graphics data according to the up scale factor and the down scale factor separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Loren Brichter, Alexander King-Chung Kan, Michael James Elliott Swift
  • Patent number: 7889210
    Abstract: A plurality of applications are integrated in a system by merging three-dimensional (3-D) display data contributions from the respective applications into a single display scene using a visual integration hub. The respective contributions of display data may be separately manipulated to establish registration or relative positioning and then locked together such that the composite image may be graphically manipulated as a single object. Two-dimensional (2-D) data such as text or spreadsheets are imbedded in the image and manipulated in the same manner as 3-D objects. The hub allows transfer of graphic data between applications and conversion of the graphic data to the format of each respective application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Borrel, William A. Tulskie, Jr.