Abstract: A graphics processing apparatus (2) performs tile based compositing operations. Tile metadata includes flag data (tfd), such as transparency and/or intensity flag data, indicating whether a given input graphics tile make less than a predetermined first threshold level of contribution or more than a second predetermined threshold level of contribution to a corresponding output graphics tile. For example, if an input graphics tile is transparent, then its reading from a memory (6) and/or subsequent processing may be suppressed. If a given input graphics tile is opaque, then any underlying input graphics tiles were are obscured may have their reading and/or further processing suppressed.

Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for labeling an image. A two-dimensional street-level image and a three-dimensional model representing at least a portion of the image's content are received. Data representing a label to annotate at least a portion of a building in the two dimensional image is also received. A determination is made using the three dimensional mode as to where position the label for presentation within the two-dimensional model such that the label does not obscure presentation of the building in the two-dimensional image.

Abstract: A system and method for creating and viewing artificial reality (AR) messages at an event, such as a sporting event, and sharing the event on a social network thereby enhancing and expanding the participant and spectator experience. The AR messages include geo-referenced artificial reality words or symbols to indicate distances, tips, targets or other information to the participant. The event is shared with spectators, such as friends or a subset of friends in the participant's social network. In addition to creating an active gallery for an event, messages can be exchanged among participants and spectators and virtual goods, money, and donations exchanged.

Abstract: A method of distributing map data from a map server to a wireless communications device entails generating a bitmap array representative of the vector map data for a given zoom level, computing attributes of the bitmap array to determine which map features to retain and which map features to suppress, and then transmitting to the wireless device only the map data for the map features to be retained. By counting the number of bitmap cells representing a polygonal map feature such as a park, lake, or island, the approximate area is quickly estimated. If the area falls below a threshold, the map data for the small polygon is discarded. Similarly, if a polyline map feature overlaps (or is too proximate to) another polyline map feature, one of the polyline map features is discarded. The map data actually transmitted is thus reduced, thereby economizing bandwidth without unduly sacrificing map detail.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception module configured to receive image data from external devices (e.g., smart phones, tablets, laptop computers, etc.). The image data includes images from each external device that correspond to images displayed on the external device. The information processing apparatus also includes a display control module configured to select an arrangement pattern comprising a plurality of display regions to display the images shared from the external devices. The arrangement pattern is selected from a plurality of arrangement patterns according to the number of images to be displayed on the display screen and information about the aspect ratio of each image to be displayed. The display control module is further configured to display the image data on a display screen according to the selected arrangement pattern.

Abstract: One preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a method for transitioning a user interface between viewing modes. The method of the preferred embodiment can include detecting an orientation of a mobile terminal including a user interface disposed on a first side of the mobile terminal, wherein the orientation of the mobile terminal includes an imaginary vector originating at a second side of the mobile terminal and projecting in a direction substantially opposite the first side of the mobile terminal. The method of the preferred embodiment can also include transitioning between at least two viewing modes in response to the imaginary vector intersecting an imaginary sphere disposed about the mobile terminal at a first latitudinal point having a predetermined relationship to a critical latitude of the sphere.

Abstract: A microscope system for stitching element images to generate a stitched image includes an element image obtaining unit configured to obtain the element image; a user image obtaining unit configured to capture a plurality of user-specified areas being an area of a sample specified by a user to obtain a plurality of user images; a rectangle area deciding unit configured to decide a rectangle area including the plurality of user-specified areas; a candidate area deciding unit configured to decide, as a candidate area, each of a plurality of areas having a size of a field of view of the element image obtaining unit arranged in a grid-like manner in the rectangle area so as to fill the rectangle area; and an element area selecting unit configured to select an element area to obtain the element image, from the plurality of candidate areas.

Abstract: A method for combining a plurality of images into a synthesis image and an electronic device implementing the same are provided. The image synthesis method of the present disclosure includes acquiring coordinates of an object in a source image; extracting a target image from the source image based on the coordinates such that the target image contains the object; and displaying the target image in a section of a frame mapped to the source image.

Abstract: A display control apparatus that allows a user to easily find a desired image on a multi-display screen in a short time. Attribute information of images stored in a storage medium is read out. The images stored in the storage medium is classified into a plurality of groups on the basis of the read attribute information and arranged for each group on a multi-display screen which is controlled to be displayed on a display device. Display processing is controlled so that, when the multi-display screen is displayed, an image having the highest priority of the display processing in a first group having the highest priority of the display processing of the groups is displayed first, and then display processing of an image having the highest priority of the display processing in a second group of the groups.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus and method for processing an object on a screen of a terminal that may receive or determine information about a recognition area of a wallpaper image of a home screen of the terminal, determine whether the recognition area and an object overlap based on information about the recognition area, and process the object so that the recognition area is not covered or concealed by the object on the home screen.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to virtually segment a display are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes a display abstraction component configured to interface, at a kernel level, between an operating system and a graphics processor, the display abstraction component to receive, adapt, and process display calls from the operating system and instruct the graphics processor to divide the display into multiple virtual displays according to a user specified virtual configuration preference to allow the display to replicate a multiple display configuration.

Abstract: The present invention provides an interactive system and method for effective and convenient language translation. The system and method provides a translation window that is opened in conjunction with a Web page window containing Web pages hosted on the Internet. The translation window and Web page window are automatically adjusted in size and position so that they fit on one user-viewable screen without overlapping. The translation window is linked to a translation dictionary database accessible through the Internet which provides accurate and comprehensive definitions of the words that are identified to be translated.

Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving a request to display an image. The image is displayed as a succession of subimages such that a human eye perceives the subimages as the image and a photograph or screen shot at any point in time captures a single subimage.

Abstract: A computer implemented method includes receiving a request to display text. The text is displayed as a succession of subimages such that a human eye perceives the subimages as the text and a photograph or screen shot at any point in time captures a subset of the subimages representing an incomplete version of the text.

Abstract: Rendering electronic chart objects is provided. A set of chart elements having a common set of properties is identified. Formatting attributes of the chart elements and the data point locations for each chart element are also identified. Path information is generated for the chart elements that includes the formatting attributes and the data point locations. The path information is provided to a rendering engine that renders a chart element. Each chart element in the set is displayed on a display screen. Chart elements having a common set of properties are only rendered once. Alternatively, chart objects are rendered by generating and storing an image of chart objects having a common geometry and common properties and by copying the stored image to each data point location. Dynamic selection of rendering engines based on property and performance criteria may be utilized to enhance rendering performance.

Abstract: A method for displaying continuous video content on a mobile phone LCD renders plural source video textures as consecutive surfaces on the display. A hardware scaler, rather than a general purpose graphical processing unit (GPU), is used to render a particular surface whenever possible, because it uses less battery power than the GPU. The method determines if the hardware scaler is capable of rendering a particular surface and if the particular surface is to be rendered with one or more additional images derived from a source other than a source video texture. The hardware scaler renders surfaces, including any additional images, if it is capable of doing so; otherwise the GPU renders the surface. The method is applied dynamically to each video texture in a video session, so that the manner of rendering each surface, whether by using the hardware scaler or the GPU, can change from surface to surface.

Abstract: A first image pickup means picks up an image of a real space, to thereby obtain a first background image. A first positional relationship estimating unit estimates, in a case where the first background image includes a first marker image being an image of a marker previously registered and located in the real space, a first positional relationship being a spatial positional relationship of the first image pickup means to the marker based on the first marker image, and estimates, in a case where the first background image fails to include the first marker image, the first positional relationship based on a displacement of a feature point extracted from the first background image. An image generating unit generates a first additional image based on the first positional relationship, and synthesizes the first additional image and the first background image, to thereby generate a synthetic image.

Abstract: A computer-readable media for performing a method for displaying information in an engineering drawing. Labels are connected to objects in an engineering drawing. The connections are governed by relationships based on calculations simulating particle interactions and collision avoidance. A change in the position of a first label or of the engineering drawing is indicated. A new location of a second label is calculated such that the relationships between the second label and the engineering drawing and between the first and second labels are maintained, and the second label does not overlap other labels or objects in the engineering drawing. The movement of the second label to the new location may be animated.

Abstract: A method and system for creating a transition between a first scene and a second scene on a computer system display, simulating motion. The method includes determining a transformation that maps the first scene into the second scene. Motion between the scenes is simulated by displaying transitional images that include a transitional scene based on a transitional object in the first scene and in the second scene. The rendering of the transitional object evolves according to specified transitional parameters as the transitional images are displayed. A viewer receives a sense of the connectedness of the scenes from the transitional images. Virtual tours of broad areas, such as cityscapes, can be created using inter-scene transitions among a complex network of pairs of scenes.

Abstract: There is provided a mobile terminal including a movement information acquisition section for acquiring movement information of a mobile terminal possessed by a user, a picked-up image acquisition section for acquiring a peripheral image of the mobile terminal, which is imaged by an imaging device, a transmission section for transmitting the movement information acquired by the movement information acquisition section to a server device which is connected to the mobile terminal via a network, a reception section for receiving community information which is generated by the server device based on a history of the movement information and which can be shared between the user possessing the mobile terminal and another user other than the user possessing the mobile terminal, and a display control section for displaying, on a display screen, a displayed image included in the community information in a superimposed manner on a peripheral image of the mobile terminal.

Abstract: A display controller including a pixel processor which processes working pixel data for each pixel of a frame, and which includes an overlap detector, a collision detector, and a construction processor. The overlap detector detects an overlap when any new pixel value of a new update region is within a region of a current update of the frame. The collision detector issues a correction request when at least one pixel within the overlap region has a begin pixel value prior to the current update that is different from an end pixel value provided by the current update, and when a new pixel value provided by the new update for the pixel is different from the end pixel value. The construction processor updates the working pixel data before the current update is completed using a new pixel value for each non-overlapping pixel.

Abstract: A method of automatic updating and filtering information applied to an electronic display device is provided. The electronic display device includes a user interface, at least one detecting unit and a processing unit, and the user interface includes a first displaying zone and a second displaying zone. The method includes the following steps. First, the detecting unit generates a detecting signal according to an action of the electronic display device and transmits the detecting signal to the processing unit. Then, the processing unit downloads first update information and second information from a server according to users' profile and the detecting signal. The priority of the first update information is higher than the second update information. Then, the first update information and the second update information are respectively shown on the first displaying zone and the second displaying zone.

Abstract: When an obstacle does not exist in a horizontal direction, a PC coordinate is set as a point of gaze. When the player character comes close to a high wall such that the obstacle exists in the horizontal direction, a first virtual straight line that has a predetermined length and intersects with the wall is set in the predetermined direction. A second virtual straight line that has the predetermined length and extends in an opposite direction is set at an intersection point of the first virtual straight line and the face of the wall. Next, it is determined whether the second virtual straight line intersects with another obstacle. When the second virtual straight line does not intersect with another obstacle, the coordinate of the tip end of the second virtual straight line is set as the point of gaze.

Abstract: A display control apparatus displays image data pieces based on an array in which the image data pieces are sorted in accordance with a specified rule. The display control apparatus extracts, with use of one image data piece from the array as a reference, image data pieces at a set interval from the image data pieces arranged in the array, and arranges and displays the extracted image data pieces that include the reference image data piece on a screen of a display unit based on an order of the array. If the reference image data piece or the interval used in the extraction of the image data pieces has been changed based on an instruction from a user, the display on the display unit is changed with use of the new reference and interval.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for displaying objects. A software application is associated to a profile storing display characteristics for the software application. A video display screen is segmented into segments. A video object produced by the software application is mapped to a segment in the video display screen that corresponds to the profile.

Abstract: An image display control apparatus includes a division unit and a display controller. The division unit divides a rectangular display area into plural rectangular sub-areas in a direction in which one side of the display area extends. The display controller performs display control to enlarge or reduce rectangular images so that while aspect ratios of the images are maintained, a length of each of the sub-areas in the direction in which the one side of the display area extends is equal to or substantially equal to a length of each of the images in the direction in which the one side of the display area extends, and to display at least some of the enlarged or reduced images in the sub-areas.

Abstract: A passenger cabin unit of a passenger transportation vehicle includes a display device configured to present visual effects, information and images. The display device is disposed so as to completely or substantially cover surfaces of the passenger cabin unit which are visible from inside the passenger cabin unit. The display device is divided into first display regions and a second display region. Each of the first display regions is assigned to a respective individual passenger or group of passengers. A plurality of passenger command input devices are each disposed in a respective one of the first display regions and are each configured to be operated by the respective individual passenger or group of passengers to control visual presentation. A crew command input device is configured to be operated by cabin crew to control visual presentation on some or all of the first display regions and on the second display region.

Abstract: A display apparatus including an information selecting unit, a retrieval range deciding unit, and a retrieving unit. The information selecting unit selects at least one piece of information from a plurality of pieces of information stored in a memory, each of the plurality of pieces of information being attached with additional information. The retrieval deciding unit decides a retrieval range on the basis of the additional information attached to each piece of the information selected by the information selecting unit. The retrieving unit retrieves and outputs additional pieces of information of the plurality of pieces of information corresponding to the retrieval range decided by the retrieval-direction/retrieval-range deciding unit from the memory.

Abstract: A terminal device includes a display unit having at least a first display area and a second display area, a detection unit configured to detect a viewing state in which the first display area and/or the second display area are being viewed, and a control unit configured to, when a predetermined application is executed, perform control on the basis of the viewing state detected by the detection unit, for switching between a state in which display is performed on either one of the first display area and the second display area and display is not performed on the other one of the first display area and the second display area and a state in which display is performed on both the first display area and the second display area. A method and computer program storage device holding computer readable instructions cooperate to form a system that performs these functions.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an overlap detector and a display modification unit. The overlap detector is configured to determine if a first image superimposed with a second image overlaps an object in the second image by greater than a threshold. The display modification unit is configured to change the content of the first image superimposed with the second image such that the first image no longer overlaps the object in the second image by greater than the threshold when the overlap detector detects that the first image overlaps the object in the second image by greater than the threshold.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for generating context-sensitive, co-salient thumbnails are described. Co-salient thumbnails may effectively convey more useful information than conventional thumbnails while using the same or similar display space. As such, co-salient thumbnails may make it easier for a user to locate a particular image in a large collection of similar images. In some embodiments, for each of a plurality of patches in a first image, an illustrative method may identify a corresponding similar patch in a second image based on one or more similarity measures. The method may then determine a distance from each of the plurality of patches to its corresponding similar patch and select a crop in the first image relative to the second image based on the determined distance. Optionally, the method may repeat these operations in the opposite direction to select a crop in the second image relative to the first image.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for a map tool for determining which points of interest in a map region for which to display designations or labels in a map view such that a displayed designation does not disappear and reappear as a user zooms in or out of a map view or as a user pans across a map region. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for a ranking tool that uses a hierarchy of categories in order to classify points of interest, where for each given hierarchical category, the points of interest within the given hierarchical category are further ranked according to ranking data for each given point of interest and also ranked according to the quantity of the ranking data for the given point of interest.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for generating thumbnail summaries for image collections are described. Thumbnails summaries may be representative of the image collection while being disjoint from each other. In some embodiments, a method may sample crops from some or all images in an image collection. From these candidate crops, the method may select representative but disjoint crops. In some embodiments, a desired representativeness and/or disjointedness of the candidate crops may be defined by a user. The method may then generate and/or select thumbnail summaries for the collection of images based at least in part on the selected candidate crops.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture to virtually segment a display are disclosed. A disclosed example system includes a display abstraction component configured to interface, at a kernel level, between an operating system and a graphics processor, the display abstraction component to receive, adapt, and process display calls from the operating system and instruct the graphics processor to divide the display into multiple virtual displays according to a user specified virtual configuration preference to allow the display to replicate a multiple display configuration.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a drawing unit which draws one of a plurality of images arranged in an order specified on the basis of a predetermined rule as a reference image in an image memory and which arranges and draws the predetermined number of images located on either side of the reference image in the order and continuing from the reference image as near images of the reference image in the order with reference to the reference image in the image memory; a display controller which displays the images falling within a predetermined range among the images drawn in the image memory on a display unit; and a controller which changes the position of the predetermined range in accordance with an instruction operation of changing a display state of the images on the display unit, when the instruction operation is received.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an integrated data visualization interface for multi-dimensional microscopy image and measurement data are disclosed. The integrated data visualization interface utilizes the known dimensional relational relationships between the images to automatically provide synchronized and coordinated visualization and manipulations across multiple related images and measurement data in multiple dataset viewer components (e.g., image grids, browsable image strips, tables, and graphs). Other features of the dataset viewer components are also disclosed.

Abstract: Labels to be displayed along an axis may be obtained as a sequence of labels. If it is determined that the labels in an original sequence of labels overlap, then an alternate sequence of labels that avoids the overlap of the labels may be determined. If it is determined that the labels in the original sequence of labels do not overlap, than the original sequence of labels may be displayed along the axis. If it is determined that the labels in the original sequence of labels overlap, then the alternate sequence of labels may be displayed.

Abstract: An image processing apparatus processes a virtual slide image. The image processing apparatus includes a display image data generating unit that performs image processing on at least one of observation region display image data and non-observation region display image data to generate display image data for displaying an image on a display apparatus, the image being different from that obtained when uniform image processing is performed on the entire image data.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a touch pad; a first display unit including a transparent display; a second display unit including a non-transparent display disposed below the transparent display; and a controller configured to selectively control the first and second display units to operate in a dual-operation mode by controlling at least a portion of the first display unit to be transparent and not display information and controlling the second display unit to display information that can be viewed through the at least the portion of the first display unit that is transparent.

Abstract: Techniques for navigating a real world via interactive maps are disclosed. According one aspect, at least one or more databases are maintained in one or more servers. A computing device is caused to display a first portion of the interactive map generated from a logic process based on a first database, wherein the first portion of the interactive map represents a first part of a real world (e.g., a shopping mall) and includes one or more nodes, one or more branches, and one or more of hotspots in the real world, each of the hotspots represents a point of interest that is selectable to show details about the point of interest. Auxiliary data associated with the each of the hotspots is accessed when the user selects one of the hotspots, and subsequently displayed to show a visual effect about the hotspot so that the user understands more about the hotspot.

Abstract: A space is modeled using images from a set of cameras in the space. An easy to use tool is provided that allows users to identify a reference location in an image and a corresponding reference location on a floor plan of the space. Based on these correspondences, a model is generated that can map a point in a camera's view to a point on the floor plan, or vice-versa. Subjects moving through the space are identified and tracked using the model and attributes associated with a subject. In a specific implementation, the attributes include velocity, color, size, and position. In a specific implementation, the space is a retail store and the subjects are customers browsing through the retail store.

Abstract: Enhanced character input using recognized gestures, in which a user's first and second gestures are recognized, and a control including radially disposed interaction elements is output. At least a portion of the interaction elements are associated with clusters of characters. When an interaction element is selected, the characters associated with the selected interaction element are disposed radially in relation to the selected interaction element. Using the control, the interaction element and a character associated with the selected interaction element are selected based on the user's recognized first and second gestures, respectively, and the selected character is output.

Abstract: Various embodiments present a combined visual entity that represents overlapping visual entities. The combined visual entity can include a primary visualization that represents one of the overlapping visual entities and annotations that represent others of the overlapping visual entities. For example, a map view can include multiple geographical entities that overlap. A primary visualization can be rendered that represents one of the multiple geographical entities. The primary visualization can be visually annotated (e.g., with symbols, letters, or other visual indicators) to indicate others of the multiple geographical entities. In some embodiments, a zoom operation can cause visual entities to be added and/or removed from the combined visual entity.

Abstract: A method of rendering a scene with a plurality of objects includes rendering an object in a scene, wherein a portion of the object spans at least two of a plurality of non-overlapping tiles that subdivide the scene, and wherein the portion of the object is rendered only once in rendering the scene. The process further includes storing the rendered output of the object into a deep-framebuffer. While rendering the object and storing the rendered output of the object, in response to the size of the deep-framebuffer reaching a predetermined threshold, the steps that are performed include dividing the deep-framebuffer's contents based on the plurality of non-overlapping tiles, storing the divided contents of the deep-framebuffer in a plurality of tile files, and clearing the contents of the deep-framebuffer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of displaying a dynamic 2D annotation associated with an object displayed in a 3D scene. The method includes providing a computer system that includes a display device; establishing a view location and direction; orienting the dynamic 2D annotation substantially perpendicular to the view direction; orienting the dynamic 2D annotation substantially horizontal relative to the 3D scene; positioning the dynamic 2D annotation relative to an attachment point on or near the object; extending an attachment handle between the dynamic 2D annotation and the attachment point; and displaying the dynamic 2D annotation and the attachment handle in the 3D scene on the display device.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus is provided to enable a user to integrate plural images on a single sheet in a pattern controlled by the user. The apparatus includes an image acquiring portion that acquires document images, and integration pattern determining portion that makes settings relating to the integration and an integrated document image generating portion that generates the integrated document images corresponding to the integration pattern. The apparatus includes a print portion that prints the integrated document images.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for displaying a logo image in a mobile terminal includes determining whether a screen displaying a logo image is changed, and if so, an available space in which any image is not displayed is searched according to predetermined criteria for a display of the logo image from a previous screen.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for presenting image data to include a graphic element. In one embodiment a method includes acquiring image data from a display buffer of a device, analyzing the image data to identify active and passive regions of the image data and ranking passive regions to determine a confidence measure for each passive region. The method may further include modifying the image data for display on the device to include a graphic element, wherein the graphic element is presented in a passive region based on the ranking.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for generating thumbnail summaries for image collections are described. Thumbnails summaries may be representative of the image collection while being disjoint from each other. In some embodiments, a method may sample crops from some or all images in an image collection. From these candidate crops, the method may select representative but disjoint crops. In some embodiments, a desired representativeness and/or disjointedness of the candidate crops may be defined by a user. The method may then generate and/or select thumbnail summaries for the collection of images based at least in part on the selected candidate crops.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for automatically determining an object type in a computer automated design application, and more particularly to automatically determining and drawing the pipe type of a pipe in a sprinkler system CAD drawing. The present invention allows a user to make various pipe parameter choices and decisions up front, and to then draw each individual pipe without having to each time make the numerous selections and decisions required to determine that pipe's proper type. The present invention may also be used to determine other component types in non-piping related CAD designs, such as electrical wiring, for example.