| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 20080211832 | Vehicular Operating Apparatus - A vehicular operating apparatus in which an operating portion on which operating switches are arranged is arranged in a vehicle cabin in a separate location that is physically distanced from a display portion that displays an operation menu image showing the positional arrangement and function of the operating switch of the operating portion. An imaging mechanism captures an image of a hand of a user that operates the operating portion, a combining and displaying mechanism combines the captured image of the hand with the operation menu image and displaying the combined image on the display portion, and a light emitting portion illuminates the operating portion. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20100045702 | Navigating Digital Images using Detail-in-context Lenses - In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100164992 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE - The image display device includes: a storage unit that stores a plurality of templates for image arrangementa setting unit that sets a number of arrangement subject images; an image selection unit that selects the arrangement subject images from among photographic images; a decision unit that makes a decision as to whether or not the orientations of the selected arrangement subject images are portrait format or landscape format; a template selection unit that selects a subject template from among the plurality of templates stored in the storage unit, on the basis of the number of images to be arranged and the decision result by the decision unit; a creation unit that creates an image for display by arranging the arrangement subject images in the image arrangement regions within the selected subject template; and a display control unit that displays the created image upon a display device. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100188421 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a storage section and a control section. The storage section stores a plurality of templates having different predetermined designs with template attribute information, the plurality of templates each being applied to a display of a content including at least one of a document and an image with the content being laid out on the template. The control section performs a matching processing of component information, as a search key, of the content with the template attribute information, and selects, as a template corresponding to the content to be applied to the display of the content, a template whose template attribute information has a higher match rate than others. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100214317 | Monitoring and control device - A monitoring and control device for use in a remote monitoring and control system includes a display unit provided with a screen for displaying operation buttons mated with the loads, an operation input unit operable by a user, the operation input unit including a touch switch panel superimposed on the screen of the display unit and a control unit for performing display control of the display unit and load control in response to the operation of the operation input unit. The control unit includes a display control unit for causing the display unit to display one operation page selected from a plurality of operation pages containing different combinations of operation buttons and a page changeover unit for changing over the operation page displayed on the display unit in response to a user's operation. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100245389 | MEASURING APPARATUS AND MEASURING METHOD - There is provided a technique for smoothly performing position (movement) adjustment of a waveform marker by making switching between rough adjustment and fine adjustment in a series of marker operations possible with a single means and continuously. A display control section displays a measured waveform on the two-dimensional coordinates, which have a first axis and a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, on the display section. A waveform marker is movable by a marker operation corresponding to a direction parallel to the first axis. The display control section has a detecting section, which detects the marker operation corresponding to a direction parallel to the second axis, and changes either setting of the waveform marker or the display range of the measured waveform according to the detection result of the detecting section. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100271396 | System and method for selective viewing of a hidden presentation within a displayed presentation - There is provided a system and method for selective viewing of a hidden image within a displayed image. There is provided a method for providing a composite presentation, comprising displaying a plurality of elemental presentations including a first presentation and a second presentation to provide the composite presentation, wherein the displaying of the second presentation makes at least a first portion of the first presentation become unrecognizable to a human eye viewing the composite presentation without a use of a visual aid. This rendering of the first presentation as unrecognizable to the human eye may be accomplished through filtering techniques such as one or more of optical polarization, shuttering, depth of field alteration, light intensity alteration, light angle alteration, anaglyph filters, and other filtering techniques. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110025714 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING ARTISTIC IMAGE TEMPLATE DESIGNS - A method for storing a pre-designed digital template having a number of digital openings for displaying at least one digital image within each opening. Each opening has stored required image attributes associated with it for finding appropriate images to place in the opening. At least one of the non-primary image files has a satisfactory required image attribute score as computed by the computer system which is based on a required image attribute for an associated opening where an image of the at least one other of the non-primary image files will be displayed. The required image attribute itself is based upon at least one of the image attributes of the primary image file. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110069086 | Detail-in-Context Presentations in Client/Server Systems - A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen of a client coupled over a network to a server, comprising: establishing a lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region; if the lens is in transit between first and second locations for the region-of-interest in the original image, applying the lens to the original image by a first method to generate the presentation at the client; and, if the lens is stationary in the original image, receiving the presentation from the server, the server applying the lens to the original image by a second method to generate the presentation. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110169864 | PATIENT SPECIFIC ANATIOMICAL SKETCHES FOR MEDICAL REPORTS - The invention relates to a system ( | 07-14-2011 |
| 20120044265 | INDOOR LIKELIHOOD HEATMAP - The subject matter disclosed herein may relate to methods, apparatuses, systems, devices, articles, or means for generating or using an indoor likelihood heatmap, etc. For certain example implementations, a method for a device may comprise projecting multiple grid points over a schematic map of an indoor area, with the schematic map indicating multiple obstructions of the indoor area. Feasible paths between grid point pairs of the multiple grid points may be determined. For a particular grid point of the multiple grid points, a count of the feasible paths that traverse the particular grid point may be determined. A likelihood heatmap for use in one or more navigational applications may be generated based, at least in part, on the count. Other example implementations are described herein. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120105480 | VISUALIZATION APPARATUS - The invention relates to a visualization apparatus for visualizing quality of applying energy to an object. The quality of applying energy at a location on the object ( | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120147046 | Generating Graphic Object Collages - A regular mesh of rectangular cells ( | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120194556 | 3D AVIONICS VIEWPOINT CONTROL SYSTEM - The present invention provides a system and method for displaying exocentric views of an aircraft in a three-dimensional manner, wherein a pilot, or other user, can select from a plurality of different exocentric viewpoints. The user can thus see a three-dimensional rendering of the terrain, obstacles, and/or other images around the aircraft from vantage points other than the egocentric vantage point of most aircraft display systems. This enables the pilot to easily increase his or her situational awareness. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120249594 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR EDITING IMAGES FOR A PHOTO ALBUM - For generating photo albums on events such as weddings, the photo albums can always be generated in the same quality. A professional photographer photographs the bride and groom on a wedding. Images are read from a developed film and stored in a file server. A template used for generating a photo album is added with composition information representing composition of images to be inserted in image insertion areas therein. When an operator selects one of the images to be inserted in any one of the image insertion areas with reference to an editing screen having a catalog display field and a template display field, processing information representing a magnification ratio and/or a trimming position is generated based on the composition information so that the selected image has the composition appropriate for the image insertion area. The selected image is processed according to the processing information. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120306924 | CONTROLLING OBJECTS IN A VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT - Methods, systems, and computer-storage media having computer-usable instructions embodied thereon, for controlling objects in a virtual environment are provided. Real-world objects may be received into a virtual environment. The real-world objects may be any non-human object. An object skeleton may be identified and mapped to the object. A user skeleton of the real-world user may also be identified and mapped to the object skeleton. By mapping the user skeleton to the object skeleton, movements of the user control the movements of the object in the virtual environment. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20130044133 | DETERMINATION OF BLANK SECTORS IN DIGITAL IMAGES - A process for producing rectangular aggregates in a digital image in which a user is directed to put annotation relating to the image. The process includes implementing a divergence level calculation procedure for categorizing the pixels of the image either above or below a divergence threshold. Then, imposing a grid on the image, of which each grid element is larger than a pixel. Further, implementing a grid element homogeneity calculation procedure, by employing homogeneity threshold for classifying the grid elements as being either homogeneous or non-homogeneous. Further, implementing a rectangular aggregate formation procedure, in which homogeneous grid elements are grouped in rectangles. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20130113832 | EYE IMAGE SIMULATION DEVICE, EYE IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND EYE IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM - An eye image simulation device is provided that generates an eye image using information relating to an eyelash shape that is set up by a user. The eye image simulation device includes an eyelash generation unit that generates eyelashes with polygons using the information relating to the eyelash shape, a form alteration unit that alters a form that is configured by connecting the tips of the eyelashes generated by the eyelash generation unit, and a simulation image generation unit that generates the eye image using the eyelashes generated by the eyelash generation unit or the form altered by the form alteration unit. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130182013 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND PROGRAM - An apparatus includes an input unit and a control unit. The input unit is configured to receive an input from a user. The control unit is configured to control a display to display an image and an image mark, move over the image to a position indicated by the input unit, and display an indicator showing an amount of time until the image mark is fixed to a current location of the image mark on the image. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130215152 | PATTERN SUPERIMPOSITION FOR PROVIDING VISUAL HARMONICS - A system and method for superimposing tiling patterns in response to a user input or other stimuli is described. Such superimpositions provide aesthetically pleasing patterns that can be used in a variety of decorative ways. Also described is a system and method for generating superimposed patterns in response to a stimuli, such as a spoken word or sound, music, or other stimulus to automatically generate superimposed patterns, or to select superimposed patterns from a database to display and in such a manner as to provide a visual display representing the stimuli. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130249949 | GRAPHICAL MANIPULATION OF DIGITAL IMAGES - A method for graphical manipulation of digital images includes a computing device with an interface to a memory, a processor and a graphical application that is executed on the computing device. The processor is operative, under control of the graphical application, to retrieve one or more digital images from the memory and to process each of the retrieved digital images. Processing each retrieved digital image produces a respective set of modified digital images each with a central portion and a frame portion. The central portion is produced from content of the processed retrieved digital image, and the frame portion produced with a frame style and frame attributes that are related to the content of the processed retrieved digital image. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20140015861 | PROJECTION APPARATUS, PROJECTION SYSTEM, AND PROJECTION METHOD - A projection apparatus includes: a receiving unit that receives, from a drawing device, drawing position information indicating a drawing designated position on a projection surface and drawing request information; a first generating unit that generates image data to be projected onto the projection surface using the drawing position information received in a receiving period, over which the drawing request information is being received; a judgement-value calculating unit that calculates a drawing failure period, over which the drawing position information is not received in the receiving period; a pattern storage unit that stores multiple types of pattern images; a second generating unit that generates interpolation image data of a portion corresponding to the drawing failure period using one of the pattern images that is similar to the image data; and a projecting unit that projects the image data interpolated with the interpolation image data. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140132635 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ROOF AREA ESTIMATION - Systems and methods for computer-implemented determination of an estimated roof surface area are disclosed. In an embodiment of the invention, an aerial roof image is retrieved and displayed for a user. One or more of a plurality of stored roof templates are displayed with the aerial roof image. One of the roof templates may be selected so as to select a corresponding clear frame model to be overlayed on the aerial roof image. Nodes provided at vertices of the clear frame model may be aligned with corresponding vertices on the aerial roof image to change the dimensions of the clear frame roof model by dragging and dropping the nodes. One or more pitch values may be selected for association with the clear frame model. An estimated surface area of the roof is calculated and displayed based on the area of the resulting clear frame model and the one or more pitch values. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140204125 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING PHOTO COLLAGES - Embodiments of the present disclosure include a computer-implemented method for creating a final mosaic image. The method includes receiving a main image from a database of images. The method includes generating a grid overlay having one or more grid cells, the grid overlay being coupled with the main image such that the one or more grid cells each include a portion of the main image to create one or more image cells. The method also determines a tint value for each of the one or more image cells. The method also includes receiving one or more tile images from the database of images, and positioning one of the one or more tile images into each of the one or more image cells to create one or more tiled cells. The method also comprises assigning the tile image positioned in each of the tiled cells the tint value determined for the image cell that each of the tile images has been positioned into to create a polished image. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140307000 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In a display device provided with a frame memory developing an auxiliary line image as a display image and a means of reading out and displaying the image data developed in the aforementioned frame memory, the aforementioned auxiliary line image is constituted by background pixels and dashed auxiliary lines constituted by pixels which have luminance or color that is different from that of the background color and pixels with have nearly identical luminance or color to that of the background color; and by carrying out the display of the dashes so as to move, at fixed time intervals or arbitrary time intervals, the dash display areas of the aforementioned auxiliary lines on the trajectory of the figure described by the aforementioned auxiliary lines, the system is devised to display the auxiliary lines while controlling that an identical pixel of the display device is not displayed continually. | 10-16-2014 |
| 20140340427 | METHOD, DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR COMPUTING A SPHERICAL PROJECTION IMAGE BASED ON TWO-DIMENSIONAL IMAGES - An image projection method for generating a panoramic image, the method including the steps of accessing images that were captured by a camera located at a source location, and each of the images being captured from a different angle of view, the source location being variable as a function of time, calibrating the images collectively to create a camera model that encodes orientation, optical distortion, and variable defects of the camera; matching overlapping areas of the images to generate calibrated image data, accessing a three-dimensional map, first projecting pixel coordinates of the calibrated image data into a three-dimensional space using the three-dimensional map to generate three-dimensional pixel data, and second projecting the three-dimensional pixel data to an azimuth-elevation coordinate system that is referenced from a fixed virtual to generate the panoramic image. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20150062176 | Method of Presenting Data in a Graphical Overlay - A system and a computer program product for displaying data in a graphical overlay. The method includes overlaying a first lens, including a first dataset, on a first region of the graphical overlay while a second lens, including a second dataset, overlaps the first lens. The first and second datasets are simultaneously displayed, and a correlation between the datasets is determined. Separation of the first and second lenses preserves a circumscribed region within each lens. The first dataset corresponds to first orientation position of the first lens. Rotation of the first lens to a second orientation position reconfigures the first dataset to provide a modified first dataset which corresponds to the second position. A rotational position may also be associated with points in time, a first position corresponding to a first point in time and the first dataset representing the first dataset at the first point in time. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150062177 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FITTING A TEMPLATE BASED ON SUBJECT INFORMATION - A method for fitting a template is described. A 2D template is selected based on user input. A subject is detected from an input image. Subject information is extracted from the input image. The subject information includes at least one of a location, a size, or an angle of the detected subject. The selected 2D template is fitted to the detected subject through a three-dimensional rotation based on the extracted subject information. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150294649 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A display control apparatus ( | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150324614 | Image Analysis - Provided is a method for performing analysis on an image. An image is provided to users, wherein contents of the image are hidden from the users. Information regarding the contents of the image is collected from the users wherein a question is posed to the users to determine contents of the image. Alternate inputs are received from the users to reveal the contents of the image, wherein each input from the users partially reveals the contents of the image. A response to the question from the users is received until it is determined that an input from one of the users would reveal an identity of a human subject present in the image. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150339838 | IMAGE MASK PROVIDING A MACHINE-READABLE DATA MATRIX CODE - A method, comprising: obtaining a message; initializing a plurality of digital image elements based on a template of a machine-readable matrix code, wherein each digital image element is associated with one or more machine-readable matrix code cells; and computing a color and a translucency property for each one of the plurality of digital image elements based on the message and based on a machine-readable matrix code specification, wherein at least two cells having an identical decode input value are associated with respective digital image elements, and wherein the digital image elements with which each one of the at least two cells is associated have a different color and/or translucency property relative to the color and/or translucency property of the digital image elements that are associated with the other cells from said at least two cells; and generating a machine-readable matrix code mask using the plurality of digital image elements. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20160098853 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING IMAGE - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for processing an image. The method includes: acquiring a first original image to be processed and creating a preset number copies of the first original image which the preset number copies and the first original image have a same image but different transparencies; offsetting content of each copy of the preset number copies of the first original image to obtain the preset number copies of first processed images; and overlaying the first original image and the preset number copies of the first processed images, and getting an overlaid first original image as a result of the first original image. | 04-07-2016 |
