Abstract: The system helps facility managers and other users to efficiently navigate through a building or complex of buildings, and quickly gather information for (and control) individual building systems or groups of systems. A method includes displaying an image representing at least a portion of a building; and displaying a gradient indicator representing a parameter associated with a zone of the building, wherein the gradient indicator is displayed with the image in accordance with the zone for the parameter.

Abstract: A graphics engine with shader unit thread serializing and instance unrolling functionality that executes multi-threaded shader logic in a single hardware thread is described. Hardware accelerated tessellation functionality is implemented utilizing programmable pipeline stages that allow custom, runtime configuration of graphics hardware utilizing programs compiled from a high level shader language that are executed using one or more shader execution cores. In one embodiment, multiple shader unit program threads are serialized to run in one hardware thread to allow a greater number of instructions to be executed on the shader cores and preserve hardware threads for primitive processing by other shader units.

Abstract: A video multiviewer system may include a plurality of video inputs and a multiviewer video processor coupled to the plurality of video inputs. The multiviewer video processor may include a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU) cooperating therewith for generating video data based upon the plurality of video inputs and with added graphic content. The video multiviewer system may further include a display coupled to the multiviewer processor for displaying multiple video windows based upon the video data.

Abstract: A device and method are provided for two dimension (2D) to three dimension (3D) conversion. A 2D to 3D conversion device receives a 2D image data. The 2D to 3D conversion device assigns position data of a predetermined window. The 2D to 3D conversion device generates a depth map including a depth data of the 2D image data according to the 2D image data and the position data of the predetermined window. The 2D to 3D conversion device converts the 2D image data into a 3D image data according to the depth data of the depth map and the position data of the predetermined window.

Abstract: A workflow for 3D content authoring, delivery, and rendering is facilitated based on pre-authored image projections to obtain improvements in authoring efficiency. Additionally, a content delivery platform centered on such pre-authored image projections provides a mechanism for significantly improving streaming efficiency for 3D worlds. Multiple images encode primary surface detail of 3D worlds in real-time applications. Examples of such projections include images that can be as rich as film frames, feature animation frames, high end digital renders, concept paintings, or any suitable combination thereof. An algorithm for improved image projection camera path trajectories, sampling selection, and blending may be implemented by various systems and methods to facilitate smooth transitions during movements of a player within a game set in the 3D space. In addition, a back-projection technique may be implemented by various systems and methods to propagate revisions of one or more projections.

Abstract: Embodiments of methods and systems for stereo-aware image editing are described. A three-dimensional model of a stereo scene is built from one or more input images. Camera parameters for the input images are computed. The three-dimensional model is modified. In some embodiments, the modifying the three-dimensional model includes modifying one or more of the images and applying results of the modifying one or more of the images to corresponding model vertices. The scene is re-rendered from the camera parameters to produce an edited stereo pair that is consistent with the three-dimensional model.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an operating unit configured to calculate a tangent-line direction of an edge and a normal-line direction of the edge by using a vertical-direction derivative value and a horizontal-direction derivative value of a pixel value of a pixel in an input image; a converting unit configured to convert local coordinates positioned within a predetermined area with respect to a target pixel in the input image into rotated coordinates, by rotating the local coordinates according to an angle formed by the horizontal direction and the tangent-line direction of the edge; and a fitting unit configured to perform, at the rotated coordinates, a fitting process that employs a least-squares method by using a curved surface model expressed with the pixel value of the target pixel in the input image.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention include a system, method and computer-readable medium for viewing images in a three-dimensional environment. A user is identified. A social graph of the identified user and a plurality of other users is accessed. Based on the social graph, a plurality of images associated with one or more of the other users in the social graph are determined. The plurality of images and data are provided to a client device, wherein the data enables the display of the images in the 3D environment, at the client device.

Abstract: A computerized method and system of rendering a graphical image containing a volumetric object on an electronic display is provided. The method includes defining, at a processing circuit, the volumetric object as a volume. The volume comprises a plurality of polygons. The method includes rendering the volume for a first plurality of pixels of the electronic display. The volume is described by volume characteristics. The method includes rendering a graphical image for a second plurality of pixels of the electronic display. The graphical image is described by global characteristics. When a view ray for at least one of the second plurality of pixels intersects at least one of the first plurality of pixels, the global characteristics and a proportion of the volume characteristics are combined when rendering the graphical image. The proportion is defined by an extent of the intersection of the view ray.

Abstract: A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database, such as a map database, in the form of vector data having image features defined as sets of vertex data. The vertex data includes location data as well as an attribute reference pointer variable value that references a first lookup table, in the form of a texture map, which is sent to or generated in the image rendering system. The attribute reference variable value stored in the first lookup table is then used to reference a second lookup table, which may also be in the form of a texture map, to determine the specific values for a plurality of vertex attributes or properties, as stored in the second look up table.

Abstract: A graphics or image rendering system, such as a map image rendering system, receives image data from an image database, such as a map database, in the form of vector data having image features defined as sets of vertex data. The vertex data includes location data as well as an attribute reference that references a lookup table, in the form of a texture map, which is sent to or generated in the image rendering system. The attribute reference is then used by an image shader, such as a vertex shader, to determine the specific values for a plurality of vertex attributes or properties, as stored in the look up table. The image rendering system thus processes the vector data in a manner that allows for minimal data to be sent to the image rendering system from the image database as this system enables multiple vertex properties to be specified by a single attribute reference for each vertex data point.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method for accessing display configuration information in a multi-graphics-processing-unit (multi-GPU) system, which includes the steps of asserting a select signal to steer the display configuration information of a display device, which is coupled to a discrete GPU (dGPU), to a motherboard GPU (mGPU) in the multi-GPU system if dGPU is unavailable, and validating the display configuration information prior to availing the dGPU or the display device as an option to be selected.

Abstract: Automated avatar creation and interaction in a virtual world may include detecting if a user's avatar has entered a predefined proximity area in the virtual world. An automated avatar may be presented in response to the user's avatar entering the predetermined proximity area. The automated avatar is presented for autonomous interaction with the user's avatar and presentation of the automated avatar is based on a specified criteria.

Abstract: In a digital color image of longitudinal melanonychia, RGB parameter values of each pixel are assumed as three components to form a three-dimensional vector. Latitudinal and longitudinal variables are obtained for each three-dimensional vector in an RGB space. The latitudinal and longitudinal variables are used to define a distribution of points, and from the distribution, a discrimination index is found. The discrimination index is classified according to a threshold, to discriminate whether the longitudinal melanonychia is malignant or benign. The distribution of points is displayed to realize visualization of the malignancy of the longitudinal melanonychia.

Abstract: In a stereoscopic image processing device capable of displaying and/or recording stereoscopic animated images and stereoscopic still images, stereoscopic still image data representing any stereoscopic still image are extracted from predetermined stereoscopic animated image data, and the parallax amount of the stereoscopic still image represented by the extracted stereoscopic still image data is acquired. The parallax amount of the stereoscopic still image data is converted so as to be larger than the acquired parallax amount.

Abstract: An initial face of an object having N faces along an axis of rotation is detected. A data set of ordered content items is assessed. An initial one of the ordered content items is visually presented within a field of a user interface shown on a display. The field of the user interface is a displayed graphical element of the user interface distinct from the object. The object being rotated along the axis of rotation is detected so that X number of faces are cycled as the object is rotated from the initial face to a post-rotation face of the N faces. The data set is sequentially advanced by X number of items from the initial one of the content items to a current item of the content items. The field of the user interface is updated to visually present the current content item.

Abstract: A circuit includes memory retiling methods which distribute image information among a plurality of memory channels producing reconfigured image information distributed among a subset of the plurality of memory channels allowing memory channels outside of the subset to be placed into a power save mode to reduce power consumption. Additional methods are disclosed for further reductions in power consumption.

Abstract: An observation path setting unit sets an observation path. A viewpoint setting and changing unit sets a viewpoint on the observation path. When a virtual endoscopic image viewed from the viewpoint is generated, a visual range determination unit identifies, based on a three-dimensional medical image, the position of a wall region of the tubular structure in a local observation direction at the viewpoint that has been set by the viewpoint setting and changing unit and in the vicinity of the local observation direction. The visual range determination unit estimates, based on a positional relationship between the viewpoint and the wall region, a global observation direction at the viewpoint, and determines a visual range of the virtual endoscopic image in such a manner that image information about a region located in the global observation direction with respect to the viewpoint is represented at a central part of the virtual endoscopic image.

Abstract: This disclosure describes adaptive spatial variant interpolation (SVI) techniques for image upscaling. In various embodiments, the interpolation techniques described in this disclosure may support low complexity upscaling of image while promoting high image quality, including enhanced sharpness, higher contrast and more accurate interpolation. The interpolation techniques may be applied using generalized finite impulse response (FIR) filters. In some embodiments, the interpolation techniques may be content-adaptive to provide more accurate interpolation while suppressing significant artifacts associated with sharp edges. In addition, the interpolation techniques may be readily applicable to upscaling of color imagery and video, e.g., in both YCbCr (luminance, blue chrominance, red chrominance) and RGB (red, green, blue) formats.

Abstract: A system for defining a radio scene to be emulated includes a display device configured to display a graphical user interface having a grid and at least one waveform block, representing at least a portion of a waveform, included in the grid in response to selection of a type of the waveform, at least one specification of the waveform, and a time pattern of the waveform. The grid has a frequency axis and a time axis, and the at least one waveform block extends along the time axis of the grid according to the time pattern of the waveform.