Patents Examined by Sajous Wesner
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Patent number: 8599221Abstract: An image processing device includes a first display section configured to display an image, an input receiving device configured to receive an input associated with the image, and a computer processing unit (CPU). The CPU is configured to determine a selected portion of the image based on the input, to reduce a scaling factor associated with the selected portion of the image as an amount of time that the input device continuously receives the input increases, and to apply the scaling factor to the selected portion of the image to generate a scaled image. The device also includes a second display section configured to display the scaled portion of the image.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Masaaki Wakizaka
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Patent number: 8593475Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for scheduling and storing media creation are described. Methods and apparatuses for rendering a plurality of vector graphic objects on a display are also described.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2010Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Andi Terrence Smithers, Rachid El Guerrab, Baback Elmieh
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Patent number: 7995073Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for edge anti-aliasing of vector graphics. The system involves a video driver, which may include commercially available hardware, such as a graphics accelerator card. The method involves identifying the edges of a tessellated image represented by compound shapes, redefining the triangles that have a side shared with one of the edges, and defining a new plurality of triangles, which are added to the redefined triangles. The new plurality of triangles correspond to the edges. By exploiting the style interpolation computational features of most graphics accelerator hardware, the triangles corresponding to the edges are interpolated between the styles on each side of the edges, thereby anti-aliasing the edges.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Maxim Shemanarev, Michael Antonov, Brendan Iribe
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Patent number: 7924290Abstract: A method and system for performing a texture operation with user-specified offset positions are disclosed. Specifically, one embodiment of the present invention sets forth a method, which includes the steps of deriving a first destined texel position based on an original sample position associated with a pixel projected in a texture map and a first offset position specified by a user and fetching texel attributes at the first destined texel position for the texture operation.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Anders M. Kugler, Alexander L. Minkin, William P. Newhall, Jr., Christopher J. Migdal, Pemith R. Fernando, Lup-Yen Peter Young, Mehmet Cem Cebenoyan, Yury Y. Uralsky
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Patent number: 7916150Abstract: Methods, systems and data structures produce a rasterizer. A graphical state is detected on a machine architecture. The graphical state is used for assembling a shell rasterizer. The machine architecture is used for selecting replacement logic that replaces portions of shell logic in the shell rasterizer. The machine architecture is used for selectively inserting memory management logic into portions of the shell logic to produce.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: William A. Hux, Stephen Junkins
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Patent number: 7889207Abstract: An image apparatus (10) for providing an adjusted image (242) of a scene (236) includes a capturing system (16) and a control system (24). The capturing system (16) captures an underexposed first frame (240) that is defined by a plurality of pixels (240A), including a first pixel and a second pixel. The first frame (240) includes at least one of a first texture region (240S) and a second texture region (240T). The control system (24) can analyze information from the pixels (240A) and determine if the first pixel has captured a portion of the first texture region (240S) or the second texture region (240T). Further, the control system (16) can analyze information from the pixels (240A) and to determine if the second pixel has captured a portion of the first texture region (240S) or the second texture region (240T). With this design, the control system (16) can reduce the noise in the first frame (240) to provide a well exposed adjusted image (242).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventors: Li Hong, Maki Suzuki, Mark Takita, W. Thomas Novak
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Patent number: 7884831Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide texture caches and related circuits that store and retrieve texels in a fast and efficient manner. One such texture circuit provides an increased number of bilerps for each pixel in a group of pixels, particularly when trilinear or aniso filtering is needed. For trilinear filtering, texels in a first and second level of detail are retrieved for a number of pixels during a clock cycle. When aniso filtering is performed, multiple bilerps can be retrieved for each of a number of pixels during one clock cycle.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: February 8, 2011Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Alexander L. Minkin, Joel J. McCormack, Paul S. Heckbert, Michael J. M. Toksvig, Luke Y. Chang, Karim Abdalla, Bo Hong, John W. Berendsen, Walter Donavan, Emmett M. Kilgariff
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Patent number: 7864188Abstract: Several embodiments of the present application disclose techniques, systems and methods for changing or rendering input image data that may assume a first white point for a given display into image data to be rendered under a second—assumed, desired or measured—white point of the display.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michael Francis Higgins, Candice Hellen Brown Elliott
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Patent number: 7843462Abstract: A system for displaying a digital video sequence includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) and a display device. The GPU receives and modifies the digital video sequence to compensate for perceived blur based on motion between frames of the digital video sequence. The display device displays the modified digital video sequence. A method and computer readable medium having computer readable code is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Eunice Poon
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Patent number: 7777755Abstract: A display device calibration system is provided. The overall color response of a display family is characterized, and the idiosyncratic color response characteristics of the display family are determined. The idiosyncratic color response characteristics of the display family are related to respective idiosyncratic color response points. Individual idiosyncratic color response point values for an individual member of the display family are determined. The color response of the individual member of the display family is specified from the individual idiosyncratic color response point values of the individual member of the display family and the overall color response of the display family.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2007Date of Patent: August 17, 2010Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gabriel G. Marcu, Wei Chen
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Patent number: 7742056Abstract: An image display system includes: an information processing apparatus that performs predetermined correction processing for image data to be displayed; and an image display apparatus that displays an image on the basis of the image data correction-processed in the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a first image correction operation processing section that executes, for the image data, correction processing set on the basis of characteristics of the image data of a plurality of correction processing to be performed for the image data. The image display apparatus includes a second image correction operation processing section that executes, for the image data correction-processed in the information processing apparatus, correction processing other than correction processing executed in the information processing apparatus of the plurality of correction processing to be performed for the image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2007Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Yasunaga Miyazawa
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Patent number: 7724265Abstract: A YUV format to be stored in a memory is selected from A or B by a format judging unit for RGB data that is the input output display data of a memory unit, based on the comparison between chrominance (U, V) difference information on horizontal two pixels and the threshold values of U difference and V difference to be resistor-set at a format judging unit. The YUV data and information of A or B that are YUV format-converted at the format conversion unit are stored in the memory. The selection of the YUV format of A or B is, when the chrominance difference information is small as compared with the threshold value the format is YUV 422 (B conversion), and when it is large the format is that the low order bits of Y, U, V of each pixel are reduced (A conversion).Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2006Date of Patent: May 25, 2010Assignee: Renesas Technology Corp.Inventors: Naoki Takada, Yasuyuki Kudo, Goro Sakamaki
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Patent number: 7639264Abstract: An interface unit, a device with the interface unit and a process for generating an image signal containing color image data is provided for activating a color monitor from an image signal containing monochrome image data. The interface unit has an input terminal (16), an output terminal (17) and a processor (18) coupled between the input terminal (16) and the output terminal (17). This processor (18) is set up to receive, via the input terminal (16), a first image signal issued by a monitor activating device (1) of an apparatus for activating a monochrome monitor. The signal contains monochrome image data, at least a part of which represents a number of graphic objects (9, 10), and which is set up to activate a monochrome monitor, such that the graphic objects (9, 10) are displayed on this monitor. One or more colors are assigned to each graphic object (9, 10) by the processor (18) on the basis of a predetermined dependence stored in this processor (18).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Dräger Medical AG & Co. KGInventor: Thomas Ressing
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Patent number: 7623142Abstract: An apparatus includes a first member, a second member and a flexure. The flexure has a central portion connected to the first member, outer portions connected to the second member and an intermediate portion spaced from the first member and the second member.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2004Date of Patent: November 24, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Adel Jilani, Charles Gustav Schmidt, Kenneth James Faase
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Patent number: 7602401Abstract: An image display apparatus for displaying an image on a panel having pixels each including a plurality of subpixels of different colors includes an interpolation operator interpolating consecutive sampling values of pieces of input color data to correct phases of the pieces of input color data on the basis of positions of the subpixels in each pixel and output pieces of output color data; an area detector detecting a specific area from the image displayed on the panel by processing the input color data or the output color data; and a correction unit computing and outputting weighted averages of the pieces of input color data and the pieces of output color data on the basis of a detection result obtained by the area detector. The specific area is an edge portion, a portion where a luminance level gradually changes, or a repeated-pattern portion where a spatial frequency is high.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Koji Nishida, Mitsuyasu Asano, Kazuhiko Ueda
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Patent number: 7551182Abstract: A system and method is provided for assembling graphics information as a graphics display for presentation on a visual interface, the graphics information including a plurality of image tiles stored in a data store. The system and method comprise a management module for receiving a graphics request message and for coordinating processing of a selected number of the image tiles to generate at least one representative image tile as the graphics display in response to the graphics request message. The system and method also comprise a graphics system coupled to the management module for receiving processing information from the management module to facilitate access to the selected number of the image tiles. The selected number of image tiles are processed as a combination to generate the least one representative image tile, such that the graphics system includes graphics hardware such as a GPU/VPU configured for processing the graphics information.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2006Date of Patent: June 23, 2009Assignee: Oculus Info Inc.Inventors: Christopher Bethune, Ryan Eccles, Tom Kapler
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Patent number: 7515160Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for generating and applying image tone scale corrections with improved color fidelity.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 7, 2009Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.Inventor: Louis Joseph Kerofsky
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Patent number: 7479966Abstract: The disclosure relates to Method and Apparatus for Super Montage Large area Spectroscopic Imaging. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method for producing a spectroscopic image of an object includes the steps of (a) irradiating the object with light to thereby produce from the object scattered and/or emitted light for each of a plurality of wavelengths; (b) producing separately for each of the plurality of wavelengths a plurality of substantially contiguous sub-images of the object; (c) compensating for spatial aberrations in ones of the sub-images for a select one of the plurality of wavelengths; (d) compensating for intensity aberrations between ones of the substantially contiguous sub-images for one of the plurality of wavelengths; and (e) combining the sub-images for the select one wavelength to thereby produce said spectroscopic image of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2005Date of Patent: January 20, 2009Assignee: ChemImage CorporationInventors: John S. Maier, Jason H. Neiss
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Patent number: 7463270Abstract: A display system and method for use in controlling movement of a virtual image version of a physical object is described. A physical object may be placed on or near a display surface, which may sense the presence of the object and display a virtual image version of the object. In response to movement of the physical object, the virtual image may move as well. Movement speed of the virtual image may be capped at a maximum speed, so that if the physical object is moved too quickly, the image will remain moving at a constant maximum speed. Movement effects, such as blurring, fading, animation, etc. may be applied to the image during the movement. The movement may change direction as the physical object is detected in different positions, and the movement effects may be applied to smooth the change in direction (e.g., curving trajectory).Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Peter O. Vale, Duncan
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Patent number: 7446782Abstract: This is an image processing device for predicting the lower-order bits of target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data. The image processing device comprises a lower-order bit calculation unit for calculating the lower-order bits of the target pixel data, based on one or more pieces of pixel data constituting image data and specifying the data as corrected lower-order bits and a lower-order bit superimposition unit for superimposing the corrected lower-order bits calculated by the lower-order bit calculation unit on higher-order bits of the target pixel data.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Olympus CorporationInventors: Takashi Ishikawa, Masaki Higurashi