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Class Information
Number: 345/423
Name: Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems > Computer graphics processing > Three-dimension > Tessellation
Description: Subject matter which includes the process of dividing a surface or 3D graphic object into smaller surfaces or 3D graphic objects.
Patents under this class:
| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5689627 |
Polygon drawing and filling apparatus which initially sorts three dimensional polygons by planar characteristics |
Nov. 18, 1997 |
| 5675826 |
Image data storage |
Oct. 7, 1997 |
| 5671157 |
Method and system for displaying three dimensional images |
Sep. 23, 1997 |
| 5664071 |
Graphics plotting apparatus and method |
Sep. 2, 1997 |
| 5649079 |
Computerized method using isosceles triangles for generating surface points |
Jul. 15, 1997 |
| 5644687 |
Methods and system for thermal analysis of electronic packages |
Jul. 1, 1997 |
| 5642293 |
Method and apparatus for determining surface profile and/or surface strain |
Jun. 24, 1997 |
| 5630039 |
Tessellating complex in polygons in modeling coordinates |
May. 13, 1997 |
| 5619626 |
Processing image data |
Apr. 8, 1997 |
| 5604849 |
Overlay management system and method |
Feb. 18, 1997 |
| 5602979 |
System and method for generating smooth low degree polynomial spline surfaces over irregular meshes |
Feb. 11, 1997 |
| 5592598 |
Method of color coding orientation information |
Jan. 7, 1997 |
| 5581673 |
Method and device for dividing and drawing polygons |
Dec. 3, 1996 |
| 5561749 |
Modeling of surfaces employing polygon strips |
Oct. 1, 1996 |
| 5555356 |
System and method for generating a trimmed parametric surface for display on a graphic display device |
Sep. 10, 1996 |
| 5555352 |
Object-based irregular-grid volume rendering |
Sep. 10, 1996 |
| 5553206 |
Method and system for producing mesh representations of objects |
Sep. 3, 1996 |
| 5550960 |
Method and apparatus for performing dynamic texture mapping for complex surfaces |
Aug. 27, 1996 |
| 5544291 |
Resolution-independent method for displaying a three dimensional model in two-dimensional display space |
Aug. 6, 1996 |
| 5542030 |
System and method for optimizing surface projections during generation of finite element representations of objects |
Jul. 30, 1996 |
| 5537519 |
System and method for converting boundary representations to constructive solid geometry representations for three-dimensional solid object modeling |
Jul. 16, 1996 |
| 5522021 |
Word boundary parameter evaluation for bit block transfer operation in a computer graphics system |
May. 28, 1996 |
| 5506947 |
Curve and surface smoothing without shrinkage |
Apr. 9, 1996 |
| 5488684 |
Method and apparatus for rendering trimmed parametric surfaces |
Jan. 30, 1996 |
| 5483626 |
Method and apparatus for transforming graphics |
Jan. 9, 1996 |
| 5481659 |
Method for generating free-form surface data |
Jan. 2, 1996 |
| 5475799 |
Method of modeling shapes using a combination of different shapes to represent the resultant shape |
Dec. 12, 1995 |
| 5475802 |
Selective polygon map display method |
Dec. 12, 1995 |
| 5465323 |
Method for modelling a surface and device for implementing same |
Nov. 7, 1995 |
| 5448686 |
Multi-resolution graphic representation employing at least one simplified model for interactive visualization applications |
Sep. 5, 1995 |
| 5448687 |
Computer-assisted design system for flattening a three-dimensional surface and for wrapping a flat shape to a three-dimensional surface |
Sep. 5, 1995 |
| 5440674 |
Mesh generation with quasi-equilateral triangulation for finite element analyses |
Aug. 8, 1995 |
| 5430831 |
Method of packing rectangular objects in a rectangular area or space by determination of free subareas or subspaces |
Jul. 4, 1995 |
| 5428718 |
Tessellation system |
Jun. 27, 1995 |
| 5428717 |
Methods for converting concave polyhedra to their convex hulls |
Jun. 27, 1995 |
| 5398307 |
Mesh generating method and apparatus therefor |
Mar. 14, 1995 |
| 5390292 |
Apparatus for converting a gregory patch |
Feb. 14, 1995 |
| 5377320 |
Method and apparatus for the rendering of trimmed nurb surfaces |
Dec. 27, 1994 |
| 5369737 |
Normalization of vectors associated with a display pixels of computer generated images |
Nov. 29, 1994 |
| 5369734 |
Method for processing and displaying hidden-line graphic images |
Nov. 29, 1994 |
| 5369735 |
Method for controlling a 3D patch-driven special effects system |
Nov. 29, 1994 |
| 5367615 |
Spatial augmentation of vertices and continuous level of detail transition for smoothly varying terrain polygon density |
Nov. 22, 1994 |
| 5357599 |
Method and apparatus for rendering polygons |
Oct. 18, 1994 |
| 5353390 |
Construction of elements for three-dimensional objects |
Oct. 4, 1994 |
| 5341463 |
Selective polygon map display method |
Aug. 23, 1994 |
| 5341461 |
Method of rendering a two dimensional drawing into a three dimensional drawing, using a CAD program |
Aug. 23, 1994 |
| 5321622 |
Boolean layer comparison slice |
Jun. 14, 1994 |
| 5315537 |
Automated quadrilateral surface discretization method and apparatus usable to generate mesh in a finite element analysis system |
May. 24, 1994 |
| 5313570 |
Method for determining color boundaries for correcting for plate misregistration in color printing |
May. 17, 1994 |
| 5313568 |
Three dimensional computer graphics employing ray tracing to compute form factors in radiosity |
May. 17, 1994 |
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