| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 7079144 |
Curve generating device and method, and program recorded medium |
July 18, 2006 |
| A user gives, as input, two curves at a start time and at an end time and reference correspondence points with respect to the respective curves. Then, a pursuit operation of pursuing a reference correspondence point is carried out with respect to picture images successive in the time axi |
| 6859207 |
Method and apparatus for producing a coordinated group animation by means of optimum state feedb |
February 22, 2005 |
| An apparatus is disclosed for producing an animation of a group including a plurality of members which are dynamically controlled. The apparatus includes a role assignment switchboard for assigning roles to the respective members of the group so as to achieve a layout specifying a pa |
| 6690827 |
Approximation method of shape data, information processing apparatus and medium |
February 10, 2004 |
| An shape data approximation method for reducing the amount of data with an adjacency relationship between a plurality of components maintained. The shape data is read, an adjacent region of the shape data is designated, a virtual surface and a virtual edge are created in the designated a |
| 6636647 |
Method and apparatus for merging data and medium for providing program for merging data |
October 21, 2003 |
| A first original image and a second original image are input to create a merged image. A superimpose area, which an operator designates using an input device, is set as a superimpose area. A portion of the first original image to be superimposed is determined. A superimposing process |
| 6621924 |
Contour extraction apparatus, a method thereof, and a program recording medium |
September 16, 2003 |
| There is provided a contour extraction apparatus and a method thereof by which candidate data of a plurality of subjectively evaluable contour curves can be presented to a user by obtaining an accurate color projection axis and the user can be invited to make selection. An update sec |
| 6583823 |
Methods, apparatuses, and mediums for repairing a pixel associated with motion-picture processes |
June 24, 2003 |
| Intra-frame repair is applied to an area to be repaired which lacks image information in a frame. Matching between the area to be repaired in the frame and areas in adjacent frames is performed to obtain the corresponding areas in the adjacent frames and average processing is applied |
| 6556195 |
Image processing device and image processing method |
April 29, 2003 |
| In the case a two-dimensional image (FIG. 11A) displaying a house-shaped three-dimensional object is stored in a noted buffer, when shape information indicating that a check-patterned wall is rectangular and the four apexes of the wall as characteristic points are designated by a user, |
| 6535213 |
Curve edition system, curve-loop detecting system, curve-loop removing system |
March 18, 2003 |
| Two curves indicating the border of an object in an image are simply edited and loops formed owing to edition of the curves indicating the border of an object in an image are detected and removed. A curve edition apparatus according to the present invention incorporates: converting units |
| 6529206 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor |
March 4, 2003 |
| A projected image of a three-dimensional object is displayed in a frame which is a constituent of a moving picture. Shape information concerning the shape of a surface of the three-dimensional object and a characteristic point on the projected image of the surface are designated. The |
| 6486879 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and information providing medium |
November 26, 2002 |
| The invention provides an image processing apparatus and method and an information providing medium by which a three-dimensional model can be plotted accurately. A model data production section performs a model data production process for shape data and surface color data of a measured |
| 6434277 |
Image processing apparatus and method, and medium therefor |
August 13, 2002 |
| An image processing apparatus and method generates, from a two-dimensional image, expanded images obtained by expanding, on a two-dimensional plane, a plurality of surfaces constituting a three-dimensional object displayed in the two-dimensional image. In the image processing apparatus a |
| 6396952 |
Computer animation generator |
May 28, 2002 |
| Polygonal data input in a first step is subjected to evaluation in which all edges of the polygon data are ranked in importance on the basis of a volume change caused by removal of that edge. The edges are sorted on the basis of an evaluation value in a third step. In a fourth step, the |
| 6392659 |
Image connecting method, image connecting apparatus, and storage medium storing an image connect |
May 21, 2002 |
| The invention provides an image connecting method, an image connecting apparatus, and a storage medium on which an image connecting program is stored, for connecting a first image and a second image such that particular connecting areas are determined for the first image and the seco |
| 6326968 |
Image data approximation considering normal vectors |
December 4, 2001 |
| Distortion of normal vectors when approximating shape data with normal vectors is restrained. At step ST1, original polygon date is input. At step ST2, each edge is evaluated for performing removal of an edge. At step ST3, the evaluation values are sorted by magnitude and the edge ha |
| 6304672 |
Edge detecting method and edge detecting device which detects edges for each individual primary |
October 16, 2001 |
| An edge detecting method and an edge detecting device improve the accuracy in edge detection and extract the outline correctly even in the general image. In the case of detecting the picture element group which is changing rapidly as compared with its surroundings as the edge from within |
| 6298155 |
Apparatus and method for generating time-series data, apparatus and method for editing curves an |
October 2, 2001 |
| An apparatus and a method for generating time-series data, an apparatus and a method for editing curves and a recording medium having a recorded program in which the corresponding relation between curves at different time junctures is obtained from given corresponding points such as to |
| 6252985 |
Image detecting apparatus |
June 26, 2001 |
| An image area extracting method for extracting the desired areas from the image accurately and efficiently. The rough boundary area, in which the boundary area is roughly assigned between the desired area and areas other than the desired area, is divided into a plurality of small areas. |
| 6223249 |
Apparatus and method for controlling access to one or more disc storage devices |
April 24, 2001 |
| The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling access to a disc storage device comprising a plurality of discs storing a plurality of second data obtained by dividing first data, the disc being configured such that a number of sectors included at tracks in an oute |
| 6128046 |
Key signal generating apparatus and picture synthesis apparatus, and key signal generating metho |
October 3, 2000 |
| In this invention, when the portion from which a key signal .alpha. is to be generated of picture is caused to be foreground F, the portion except for the above is caused to be background B, and pixel value of pixels constituting that picture is designated at C, the key signal .alpha. is |
| 6100902 |
Image data approximation considering normal vectors |
August 8, 2000 |
| Distortion of normal vectors when approximating shape data with normal vectors is restrained. At step ST1, original polygon date is input. At step ST2, each edge is evaluated for performing removal of an edge. At step ST3, the evaluation values are sorted by magnitude and the edge ha |
| 6091420 |
Method for approximating shape data, drawing apparatus and information recording medium |
July 18, 2000 |
| A method and apparatus for approximating shape data in which the degree of fineness of a desired portion is set so as to differ from that of other portions for hierarchical approximation by a facilitated designating operation. Polygon data of an original are entered and the partial degre |
| 6078989 |
Disc array control method and disc array control apparatus |
June 20, 2000 |
| There is provided a disc array control method and apparatus for controlling access to a disc drive consisting of a plurality of second data obtained by dividing a first data and a plurality of discs for storing the error correction data for the second data. Particularly, the disc array c |
| 6014731 |
Disk control method and control apparatus capable of lowering data transfer load of computer by |
January 11, 2000 |
| In a storage disk control apparatus, a load of a computer caused by transferring data is reduced, and a waiting time until a data transfer operation is commenced is shortened. In the disk control method for controlling a disk apparatus including a disk having a plurality of storage r |
| 5995662 |
Edge detecting method and edge detecting device which detects edges for each individual primary |
November 30, 1999 |
| An edge detecting method and an edge detecting device detecting from a picture element group which is changing rapidly as compared with its surroundings an edge from within image data in which each picture element is composed of independent N numbers of dark and light data R, G, and B |
| 5974194 |
Projection based method for scratch and wire removal from digital images |
October 26, 1999 |
| The present invention is directed to a method of scratch removal from digitized images wherein a "scratched" portion of a digitized image which requires repair or noise removal, is identified and a binary mask is generated which distinguishes the defined "scratched" portion from the |
| 5963668 |
Computer animation generator |
October 5, 1999 |
| Polygonal data input in a first step is subjected to evaluation in which all edges of the polygon data are ranked in importance on the basis of a volume change caused by removal of that edge. The edges are sorted on the basis of an evaluation value in a third step. In a fourth step, the |
| 5914916 |
Methods and apparatus for controlling access to a recording disk |
June 22, 1999 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling the access to a recording disk which determines a skew so that a rotational delay time at an average distance of movement when a head accesses the recording disk is minimized. The methods and apparatus determine the position of a data block on the |
| 5892853 |
Methods, apparatus and program storage device for removing scratch or wire noise, and recording |
April 6, 1999 |
| Methods and apparatus for removing scratch and wire noise from digitized images handle the difficult case of non-uniformly shaded images which is the common situation in real applications. The methods and apparatus also utilize a soft edge noise mask to allow a smoother blending of the |
| 5887082 |
Image detecting apparatus |
March 23, 1999 |
| An image area extracting method for extracting the desired areas from the image accurately and efficiently. The rough boundary area, in which the boundary area is roughly assigned between the desired area and areas other than the desired area, is divided into a plurality of small areas. |
| 5774130 |
Computer animation generator creating hierarchies of models for rapid display |
June 30, 1998 |
| A drawing method of computer graphics in which an approximation of a model is executed in consideration of a target point of the observer, a position of model, a size of model on a picture plane, and a moving speed of model are considered and, further, a feeling of physical disorder that |
| 5708632 |
Methods and apparatus for controlling access to a recording disk |
January 13, 1998 |
| A method and apparatus for controlling the access to a recording disk which determines a skew so that a rotational delay time at an average distance of movement when a head accesses the recording disk is minimized. The methods and apparatus determine the position of a data block on the |
