| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7355930 |
Method of opening/closing a disk tray in a disk drive |
April 8, 2008 |
| A method for opening/closing a disk tray of a disk drive. The method includes the steps of when a first event occurs, sending a load/unload command to the disk drive, to which the disk drive responds with a second or third event, and resends the load/unload command to the disk drive |
| 7336888 |
Method and apparatus for performing continuous capture during recording real-time data |
February 26, 2008 |
| An encoder encodes the captured real-time data into a program stream. A disk authoring transforms the program stream into a disk file format. A disk writer records the disk file format on an optical disk, wherein the disk writer further includes at least two recording speeds. A buffer |
| 7331020 |
Method of representing a tree database and storage medium for same |
February 12, 2008 |
| A method of representing a tree database in a display menu. First, a tree database with a database name is provided. The provided tree database possess first level data nodes. The first level data nodes have a null set or second level data nodes. The first and the second data node have |
| 7302538 |
Storage medium for data backup and method for the same |
November 27, 2007 |
| The present invention discloses a writable storage medium with backup module contained therein to backup important data. With this writable storage medium, the user could automatically duplicate the data in the computer or the peripheral devices coupled thereto into the writable stor |
| 7302000 |
Method and system for two-pass video encoding using sliding windows |
November 27, 2007 |
| A method for two-pass video encoding using sliding windows. The method receives a video sequence (VS), selects a portion of frames in the VS from the beginning as an analysis window, encodes each frame in the analysis window to acquire multiple statistical features, such as a bitrate |
| 7276656 |
Method for music analysis |
October 2, 2007 |
| A method for music analysis. The method includes the steps of acquiring a music soundtrack, re-sampling an audio stream of the music soundtrack so that the re-sampled audio stream is composed of blocks, applying FFT to each block, deriving a vector from each transformed block, wherein th |
| 7269331 |
Apparatus and method of displaying video output |
September 11, 2007 |
| An apparatus for displaying video output with dynamically adjustable drop rate to control playback quality. The inventive apparatus includes a playback engine, a pre-fetch engine, a rendering engine, and a drawing engine. The playback engine sends a pre-fetch requirement and a playback |
| 7236226 |
Method for generating a slide show with audio analysis |
June 26, 2007 |
| With the method for generating a slide show in harmony with music, the user is able to compose an attractive and interesting slide show by a convenient and simple method. The steps of the method comprises: analyzing audio data to obtain reference points, wherein the reference points |
| 7227553 |
Method of digital creation of a multivision filter effect |
June 5, 2007 |
| A method of digital creation of a multivision filter effect. The method includes the steps of initializing a plurality of layers and masks corresponding to the layers, wherein the layers and masks have the same dimensions as a picture, and each of the layers has pixel information of |
| 7095408 |
System and method for creating three-dimensional graphic object having convex or concave portion |
August 22, 2006 |
| A system and method for creating a three-dimensional graphic object is disclosed. The system comprises an outline-processing unit for modeling a first two-dimensional object by at least one outline, a curve-processing unit for modeling a second two-dimensional object by a closed curve, a |
| 7075529 |
Method of processing diverse three-dimensional graphic objects |
July 11, 2006 |
| A method of rendering a 2-D graphic object having a plurality of pixels to a 3-D graphic object is disclosed. At first, a directional relation corresponding to the pixels is determined to define relations between the pixels and edges of the 2-D graphic object. Then, z-axis parameters |
| 6987515 |
Method for smooth transition between pre-rendered mode and real-time mode |
January 17, 2006 |
| A method for smooth transition between pre-rendered mode and real-time mode. First, a plurality of precast pictures having a set order are provided, each including an object and an object-position corresponding to the object. Then, a former position and a current position of a pointe |
| 6983081 |
Method for integration of source object into base image |
January 3, 2006 |
| A method for integration of a source object into a base image. The method comprises the steps of identifying similar border pixels, calculating characteristic values of the similar border pixels in the source object and the base image, creating a tonal map using the characteristic values |
| 6947610 |
Method of correcting an image with perspective distortion and producing an artificial image with |
September 20, 2005 |
| A method of correcting an image with perspective distortion and creating an artificial image with perspective distortion is disclosed. First, image data including a distorted object image are received. Next, the user inputs an operational instruction for setting a plurality of distortion |
| 6940907 |
Method for motion estimation |
September 6, 2005 |
| A method for motion estimation. The method includes a) dividing a search area into sub-areas with different densities, b) deriving distortions of a currently selected macro-block and its neighbors determined by the density of the current sub-area, c) if one of the distortions of the neig |
| 6876777 |
Image enhancement method |
April 5, 2005 |
| An image enhancement method. In the first stage, an image described in first image format is received. Then, each pixel is assessed with respect to its location on the edge of the image, and the value of the pixel in second image format is assessed with respect to its falling within the |
| 6839065 |
Method for producing bump mapping effect for a three dimensional object of a computer graphic |
January 4, 2005 |
| A method is for producing the bump mapping effect for a 3D object in a computer graphic. First, a shading vector is produced at one point of the surface of the 3D object. A shift coordinate with respect to this point is determined, according to the shading vector. According to the shift |
| 6810151 |
Method of performing lens effect using transform mask |
October 26, 2004 |
| A method of performing a lens effect to determine a realistic pixel content of a realistic pixel transformed by a virtual lens from a plurality of image pixels is disclosed. First, an offset mask having an offset value corresponding to a pixel point in the virtual lens is provided, and a |
| 6788318 |
Method for manipulating multiple multimedia objects |
September 7, 2004 |
| The present invention provides a method for manipulating multiple multimedia objects in a computer. The method comprises the steps of: storing a multimedia production as a set of layers, where each of the layers has objects independent from each other, displaying a plurality of tabs, |
| 6774894 |
Processing method for rendering a 3-dimensional arrow object |
August 10, 2004 |
| A processing method for rendering a planar arrow object into a 3-dimensional arrow object. The processing method of this invention comprises the steps as follows: setting a total length of an arrow object, wherein the arrow object includes at least one end having the arrowhead portio |
| 6714317 |
One-button-triggered image processing unit |
March 30, 2004 |
| A image processing unit, and particularly to a one-button-triggered image processing unit capable of processing image data automatically. This one-button-triggered image processing unit comprises a button for inputting a trigger signal so as to start on the operation of the unit; a p |
| 6577444 |
Method for image-based illumination effect in a three-dimensional scene |
June 10, 2003 |
| A method for an image-based rendering of light in a virtual volume is disclosed, which can provide various lighting effects in the two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional object. Furthermore, the virtual light source can be located at any position corresponding to the three-dime |
| 6545674 |
Method of selectively rendering graphic objects three-dimensional |
April 8, 2003 |
| The method of selectively rendering graphic objects three-dimensional of the present invention is realized by acquiring a relative position between each pixel of the 2-D graphic object and the outer closed curve v.sup.out through the definition of an internal closed curve v.sup.in and an |
| 6505738 |
CD package |
January 14, 2003 |
| A CD package comprising a case with an indentation, formed with fold lines and cut lines to fold out a brace and a hitch, whereby bracing the case, or hanging the case. The CD package can be reused to be a photo frame. |
| 6121976 |
Digital image-processing method for conducting color gradient |
September 19, 2000 |
| The present invention is related to a digital image-processing method for conducting a color gradient, which includes the steps of: (a) constructing a draft enclosed by an inner closed curve and an outer closed curve; (b) dividing the draft into a plurality of regions, each of which is e |
