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Class Information
Number: 345/424
Name: Computer graphics processing, operator interface processing, and selective visual display systems > Computer graphics processing > Three-dimension > Voxel
Description: Subject matter wherein a volume element represents a value at a point in three-dimensional space (similar to a pixel in two-dimensional space).
Patents under this class:
| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 6313841 |
Parallel volume rendering system with a resampling module for parallel and perspective projections |
Nov. 6, 2001 |
| 6310620 |
Method and apparatus for volume rendering with multiple depth buffers |
Oct. 30, 2001 |
| 6304266 |
Method and apparatus for volume rendering |
Oct. 16, 2001 |
| 6285373 |
Method and apparatus for texture transmission and storage |
Sep. 4, 2001 |
| 6281901 |
Interactive overlay for displaying 3-D data |
Aug. 28, 2001 |
| 6278459 |
Opacity-weighted color interpolation for volume sampling |
Aug. 21, 2001 |
| 6278460 |
Creating a three-dimensional model from two-dimensional images |
Aug. 21, 2001 |
| 6278458 |
Method of reduction and compression of model, and medium for storage thereof |
Aug. 21, 2001 |
| 6266733 |
Two-level mini-block storage system for volume data sets |
Jul. 24, 2001 |
| 6262740 |
Method for rendering sections of a volume data set |
Jul. 17, 2001 |
| 6243098 |
Volume rendering pipelines |
Jun. 5, 2001 |
| 6219060 |
Rendering of surfaces from volumetric data employing both dividing and stretching cubes |
Apr. 17, 2001 |
| 6219444 |
Synthesizing virtual two dimensional images of three dimensional space from a collection of real two dimensional images |
Apr. 17, 2001 |
| 6219061 |
Method for rendering mini blocks of a volume data set |
Apr. 17, 2001 |
| 6219059 |
Interactive control of voxel attributes using selectable characteristics |
Apr. 17, 2001 |
| 6211884 |
Incrementally calculated cut-plane region for viewing a portion of a volume data set in real-time |
Apr. 3, 2001 |
| 6204853 |
4D KAPPA5 Gaussian noise reduction |
Mar. 20, 2001 |
| 6205350 |
Medical diagnostic method for the two-dimensional imaging of structures |
Mar. 20, 2001 |
| 6195789 |
Method for circuit design on a spherical semiconductor having critical dimensions |
Feb. 27, 2001 |
| 6191789 |
Ray casting method using hardware |
Feb. 20, 2001 |
| 6181348 |
Method for selective volume visualization via texture mapping |
Jan. 30, 2001 |
| 6169817 |
System and method for 4D reconstruction and visualization |
Jan. 2, 2001 |
| 6169551 |
Method and apparatus for computing and visualizing volume data values |
Jan. 2, 2001 |
| 6166742 |
Wavelet-assisted volume ray casting |
Dec. 26, 2000 |
| 6144385 |
Step-driven character animation derived from animation data without footstep information |
Nov. 7, 2000 |
| 6144384 |
Voxel data processing using attributes thereof |
Nov. 7, 2000 |
| 6144383 |
Volumetric data organization method that allows for cache efficient rendering speedups and efficient graphics hardware design |
Nov. 7, 2000 |
| 6141015 |
Method and apparatus for determining collision between virtual objects in a virtual space |
Oct. 31, 2000 |
| 6130671 |
Volume rendering lighting using dot product methodology |
Oct. 10, 2000 |
| 6115048 |
Fast method of creating 3D surfaces by `stretching cubes` |
Sep. 5, 2000 |
| 6111974 |
Apparatus and method for detecting sheet objects in computed tomography data |
Aug. 29, 2000 |
| 6111583 |
Apparatus and method for three-dimensional terrain rendering |
Aug. 29, 2000 |
| 6100862 |
Multi-planar volumetric display system and method of operation |
Aug. 8, 2000 |
| 6094203 |
Architecture for a graphics processing unit using main memory |
Jul. 25, 2000 |
| 6083162 |
Method and system for producing interactive, three-dimensional renderings of selected body organs having hollow lumens to enable simulated movement through the lumen |
Jul. 4, 2000 |
| 6084979 |
Method for creating virtual reality |
Jul. 4, 2000 |
| 6084593 |
Surface net smoothing for surface representation from binary sampled data |
Jul. 4, 2000 |
| 6075871 |
Apparatus and method for eroding objects in computed tomography data |
Jun. 13, 2000 |
| 6072497 |
Volumetric pre-clipping method that guarantees minimal number of sample points through a volume |
Jun. 6, 2000 |
| 6069634 |
System for rapidly deforming a graphical object |
May. 30, 2000 |
| 6069633 |
Sprite engine |
May. 30, 2000 |
| 6067366 |
Apparatus and method for detecting objects in computed tomography data using erosion and dilation of objects |
May. 23, 2000 |
| 6064391 |
Method for displaying region extracting processing in an image processing system |
May. 16, 2000 |
| 6054992 |
cutting, jointing and tearing volumetric objects |
Apr. 25, 2000 |
| 6040835 |
System for depicting surfaces using volumetric distance maps |
Mar. 21, 2000 |
| 6029168 |
Decentralized file mapping in a striped network file system in a distributed computing environment |
Feb. 22, 2000 |
| 6026171 |
Apparatus and method for detection of liquids in computed tomography data |
Feb. 15, 2000 |
| 6014143 |
Ray transform method for a fast perspective view volume rendering |
Jan. 11, 2000 |
| 6008813 |
Real-time PC based volume rendering system |
Dec. 28, 1999 |
| 5999187 |
Fly-through computer aided design method and apparatus |
Dec. 7, 1999 |
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