Patents
Patents for G06T 15 - 3d [three dimensional] image rendering (29,056)
01/2000
01/25/2000US6018353 Three-dimensional graphics accelerator with an improved vertex buffer for more efficient vertex processing
01/25/2000US6018350 Illumination and shadow simulation in a computer graphics/imaging system
01/25/2000US6018348 Method for visibility culling
01/20/2000DE19929752A1 Object surface smoothing for scientific image representation, using iterative Gaussian smoothing and set of Gouroud normal
01/19/2000EP0972409A1 Graphical video systems
01/19/2000EP0972273A1 Apparatus and method for applying effects to graphical images
01/19/2000EP0972271A1 Image composition method and apparatus
01/19/2000EP0972266A1 Method and apparatus for assessing the visibility of differences between two signal sequences
01/19/2000EP0521084B1 Method and apparatus for rendering anti-aliased polygons
01/19/2000CN1048564C Programmable graphics processor for information processing system and external memory system
01/18/2000US6016152 Apparatus and method for non-uniform image scaling
01/18/2000US6016151 3D triangle rendering by texture hardware and color software using simultaneous triangle-walking and interpolation for parallel operation
01/18/2000US6016150 Sprite compositor and method for performing lighting and shading operations using a compositor to combine factored image layers
01/18/2000US6016149 Lighting unit for a three-dimensional graphics accelerator with improved processing of multiple light sources
01/18/2000US6016148 Automated mapping of facial images to animation wireframes topologies
01/18/2000US6015473 Method for producing a precision 3-D measuring apparatus
01/12/2000EP0834157B1 Method and apparatus for texture mapping
01/12/2000CN1048347C Method and apparatus for adaptive shading
01/11/2000US6014472 Special effect device, image processing method, and shadow generating method
01/11/2000US6014145 Navagation with optimum viewpoints in three-dimensional workspace interactive displays having three-dimensional objects with collision barriers
01/11/2000US6014144 Rapid computation of local eye vectors in a fixed point lighting unit
01/11/2000US6014143 Ray transform method for a fast perspective view volume rendering
01/06/2000WO2000000934A2 Filter for transforming 3d data in a hardware accelerated rendering architecture
01/06/2000WO1999059026A3 Panoramic movies which simulate movement through multidimensional space
01/05/2000EP0969417A2 Method and apparatus for displaying three-dimensional image by use of tensor rendering
01/05/2000EP0969416A2 Display techniques for object visibility in a three-dimensional virtual world
01/05/2000EP0969415A2 Display techniques for threedimensional virtual reality
01/05/2000EP0969411A1 Image processing apparatus
01/05/2000EP0968683A1 Method and apparatus for forming and displaying image from a plurality of sectional images
01/04/2000US6012014 Map display apparatus for motor vehicle
01/04/2000US6011581 Intelligent method and system for producing and displaying stereoscopically-multiplexed images of three-dimensional objects for use in realistic stereoscopic viewing thereof in interactive virtual reality display environments
01/04/2000US6011565 Non-stalled requesting texture cache
01/04/2000US6011556 Automatic apparatus for drawing image of three-dimensional object on a screen
12/1999
12/29/1999WO1999067748A2 An improved method and apparatus for per pixel mip mapping and trilinear filtering
12/29/1999EP0967606A1 Recording medium for storing still pictures and a recording and/or reproducing method and apparatus therefor
12/29/1999EP0967578A2 Object rendering system to produce X-ray-like images
12/29/1999CA2270705A1 Display technique for three dimensional virtual reality
12/28/1999US6009190 Texture map construction method and apparatus for displaying panoramic image mosaics
12/28/1999US6009188 Method and system for digital plenoptic imaging
12/28/1999US6008820 Processor for controlling the display of rendered image layers and method for controlling same
12/28/1999US6008818 Method and apparatus for producing animation image
12/28/1999US6008815 Method for adaptive polygon rendering with fast operation speed of interpolation
12/28/1999US6008813 Real-time PC based volume rendering system
12/28/1999US6007428 Operation controlling device and video processing system used therewith
12/28/1999CA2130270C A rendering and warping image generation system and method
12/23/1999WO1999066720A1 A method of and apparatus for handling high bandwidth on-screen-display graphics data over a distributed ieee 1394 network utilizing an isochronous data transmission format
12/23/1999WO1999066716A1 A method of and apparatus for partitioning, scaling and displaying video and/or graphics across several display devices
12/23/1999WO1999066454A1 A method of and apparatus for bitmap animation of on-screen-display graphics data over a distributed ieee 1394 network utilizing havi architecture and a clipping region having a visible window
12/22/1999EP0965222A2 Model-based view extrapolation for interactive virtual reality systems
12/22/1999EP0846309B1 Image processing method for simulating structure in relief, and device for carrying out the method
12/22/1999CN1239566A Audio and vedeo data decoding method
12/21/1999US6005987 Picture image forming apparatus
12/21/1999US6005967 Picture synthesizing apparatus and method
12/21/1999US6005592 Image processing apparatus having improved memory access for high speed 3-dimensional image processing
12/21/1999US6005590 Geometrical operation apparatus for performing high speed calculations in a three-dimensional computer graphic display system
12/21/1999US6005589 Method and apparatus for representing motion of multiple-jointed object, computer graphic apparatus, and robot controller
12/21/1999US6005584 Method of blending a plurality of pixels on a texture map and a plural pixel blending circuit and image processing device using the same
12/21/1999US6005582 Method and system for texture mapping images with anisotropic filtering
12/21/1999US6005581 Terrain elevation path manager
12/21/1999US6005574 Data processing system including method and apparatus for performing graphics clipping operations
12/16/1999WO1999065224A2 Creating animation from a video
12/16/1999WO1999065223A2 Method and apparatus for generating virtual views of sporting events
12/16/1999WO1999064976A1 Method and device for storing and transmitting avatar information for use in a virtual environment
12/16/1999WO1999051029A3 A method and device for generating display frames from a sequence of source frames through synthesizing one or more intermediate frames exclusively from an immediately preceding source frame
12/16/1999CA2343743A1 Method and apparatus for generating virtual views of sporting events
12/15/1999EP0964364A2 3d mesh compression and coding
12/15/1999EP0898767B1 Object oriented method and system to draw 2d and 3d shapes onto a projection plane
12/14/1999US6003098 Graphic accelerator architecture using two graphics processing units for processing aspects of pre-rasterized graphics primitives and a control circuitry for relaying pass-through information
12/14/1999US6002743 Method and apparatus for image acquisition from a plurality of cameras
12/14/1999US6002738 System and method of performing tomographic reconstruction and volume rendering using texture mapping
12/14/1999US6002410 Reconfigurable texture cache
12/14/1999US6002407 Cache memory and method for use in generating computer graphics texture
12/14/1999US6002405 Method for creating a graphic work using a five point perspective system and a graphic work produced by the method
12/14/1999US6001015 Operation controlling device and video processing system used therewith
12/09/1999WO1999063490A1 3d image processing method and apparatus
12/09/1999WO1999063488A1 Image processing device and image processing method
12/09/1999CA2298776A1 Image processing device and image processing method
12/08/1999EP0961993A1 Automatic analysis in virtual endoscopy
12/08/1999EP0961992A2 System and computer-implemented method for modeling the three-dimensional shape of an object by shading of a two-dimensional image of the object
12/07/1999US5999641 System for manipulating digitized image objects in three dimensions
12/07/1999US5999199 Non-sequential fetch and store of XY pixel data in a graphics processor
12/07/1999US5999196 System and method for data multiplexing within geometry processing units of a three-dimensional graphics accelerator
12/07/1999US5999189 Image compression to reduce pixel and texture memory requirements in a real-time image generator
12/07/1999US5999187 Fly-through computer aided design method and apparatus
12/07/1999US5999183 Apparatus for creating a scalable graphics system with efficient memory and bandwidth usage
12/02/1999WO1999062032A1 Generation of three-dimensional, textured models
12/01/1999EP0961475A2 Rendering apparatus, multispectral image scanner, and three-dimensional automatic gonio-spectrophotmeter
12/01/1999EP0961233A2 Virtual reality system modelling player position and movement
12/01/1999EP0961223A2 Image synthesis system
12/01/1999EP0960389A1 A method and apparatus for synchronizing a computer-animated model with an audio wave output
11/1999
11/30/1999US5996052 Method and circuit for enabling a clock-synchronized read-modify-write operation on a memory array
11/30/1999US5995111 Image processing apparatus and method
11/30/1999US5995110 Method and system for the placement of texture on three-dimensional objects
11/30/1999US5995109 Method for rendering high order rational surface patches
11/30/1999US5995108 3D image composition/display apparatus and composition method based on front-to-back order of plural 2D projected images
11/30/1999US5995107 Caching in a three dimensional modeling and animation system
11/25/1999WO1999060527A1 Device for calculating real-time volume renderings and corresponding method
11/25/1999WO1999060526A1 Image processor, game machine, image processing method, and recording medium
11/25/1999WO1999060525A1 Method and apparatus for 3d representation
11/25/1999WO1999060523A1 Method and apparatus for image processing, and medium