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Number: 345/421
Name: Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems > Computer graphics processing > Three-dimension > Hidden line/surface determining
Description: Subject matter wherein it is determined whether a portion of an object is hidden or covered by another object and, if so, not displaying (removing) that portion of the object which is hidden.


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Class Number Class Name Patents
345/422 Z buffer (depth buffer) 481


Patents under this class:
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Patent Number Title Of Patent Date Issued
7619749 Methods and apparatus of aligning surfaces Nov. 17, 2009
7619624 Methods and apparatus for rendering or preparing digital objects or portions thereof for subsequent processing Nov. 17, 2009
7616151 Reducing scattering center data using magnitude-based reduction Nov. 10, 2009
7609263 Drawing processing apparatus and method for compressing drawing data Oct. 27, 2009
7609854 Method for displaying medical image information dependent on a detected position of the observer Oct. 27, 2009
7609893 Method and apparatus for producing classifier training images via construction and manipulation of a three-dimensional image model Oct. 27, 2009
7605820 Creating texture data outside of a chart boundary Oct. 20, 2009
7602332 Reducing scattering center data using multi-volume aggregation Oct. 13, 2009
7595798 Application sharing user interface improvements Sep. 29, 2009
7593010 Software-implemented transform and lighting module and pipeline for graphics rendering on embedded platforms using a fixed-point normalized homogenous coordinate system Sep. 22, 2009
7592947 Generating radar signatures for multiple objects Sep. 22, 2009
7590512 System and method for deformation analysis using inverse pre-deformation of finite element mesh Sep. 15, 2009
7583263 System and method for transparency rendering Sep. 1, 2009
7580035 Real-time collision detection using clipping Aug. 25, 2009
7580170 Fabrication method for a computer-generated hologram or a holographic stereogram in which a three-dimensional object having visualized cross-sectional surfaces is recorded and computer-generat Aug. 25, 2009
7573474 Systems and methods for optimizing geometric stretch of a parametrization scheme Aug. 11, 2009
7570804 Apparatus and method for determining stereo disparity based on two-path dynamic programming and GGCP Aug. 4, 2009
7567205 Dynamic ray traversing Jul. 28, 2009
7567258 Hardware-accelerated anti-aliased vector graphics Jul. 28, 2009
7564457 Shot shading method and apparatus Jul. 21, 2009
7555163 Systems and methods for representing signed distance functions Jun. 30, 2009
7554540 System and method of visible surface determination in computer graphics using interval analysis Jun. 30, 2009
7551172 Sending three-dimensional images over a network Jun. 23, 2009
7545387 Method and apparatus for sampling on a non-power-of-two pixel grid Jun. 9, 2009
7538765 Method and apparatus for generating hierarchical depth culling characteristics May. 26, 2009
7538770 Tree-based compositing system May. 26, 2009
7528843 Dynamic texture fetch cancellation May. 5, 2009
7525542 Automatically generating appropriate near and far clipping planes for a 3D scene while guaranteeing minimum of Z-buffer precision Apr. 28, 2009
7525543 High performance shading of large volumetric data using screen-space partial derivatives Apr. 28, 2009
7518609 System, method and computer program product for modeling a transition between adjoining surfaces Apr. 14, 2009
7518607 Hidden-line removal method Apr. 14, 2009
7519449 Rendering system and method and recording medium therefor Apr. 14, 2009
7519603 Efficient data structure Apr. 14, 2009
7509241 Method and apparatus for automatically generating a site model Mar. 24, 2009
7505036 Order-independent 3D graphics binning architecture Mar. 17, 2009
7505043 Cache efficient rasterization of graphics data Mar. 17, 2009
7502026 System and method for analyzing and imaging three-dimensional volume data sets Mar. 10, 2009
7499051 GPU assisted 3D compositing Mar. 3, 2009
7499052 Z-jittering of particles in image rendering Mar. 3, 2009
7483029 GPU having raster components configured for using nested boustrophedonic patterns to traverse screen areas Jan. 27, 2009
7479960 Object visibility control for ray tracing Jan. 20, 2009
7479958 Image generating device and image generating method Jan. 20, 2009
7468726 Culling in a vertex processing unit Dec. 23, 2008
7460119 Invisible space skipping with adaptive granularity for texture-based volume rendering Dec. 2, 2008
7460117 Sliding texture volume rendering Dec. 2, 2008
7450120 Apparatus, system, and method for Z-culling Nov. 11, 2008
7439990 Surface selecting method and information processing apparatus Oct. 21, 2008
7439970 Computer graphics Oct. 21, 2008
7436414 Method for accelerated determination of occlusion between polygons Oct. 14, 2008
7429986 Method of determining relative z-ordering in an image and method of using same Sep. 30, 2008

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