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20090262118 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND STORAGE DEVICE FOR CREATING, MANIPULATING AND TRANSFORMING ANIMATION - An animation method, system, and storage device which takes animators submissions of characters and animations and breaks the animations into segments where discontinuities will be minimized; allows users to assemble the segments into new animations; allows users to apply modifiers to the characters; provides a semantic restraint system for virtual objects; and provides automatic character animation retargeting. | 10-22-2009 |
20130328861 | Generation of Road Data - Some embodiments provide a method for generating road data. The method receives data regarding several road segments and several junctions for a map region. The road segments include a first road segment and a second road segment that intersect at a particular junction. The method determines whether the first road segment and the second road segment are separate segments of a same road. When the first and second road segments are separate segments of the same road, the method defines an aggregate road that references the first and second road segments. In some embodiments, the method determines whether the first and second road segments are separate segments of the same road by using location data and road properties of the first and second road segments. In some embodiments, the aggregate road is stored as an ordered list of road segments that link together at junctions. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328879 | Scalable and Efficient Cutting of Map Tiles - A process is provided that reduces the amount of data for a map tile that could not be displayed separately on the scale of that tile. The process generates an equivalent of the road data by rasterizing the vectors representing road segments lying within a tile and generating a connectivity mask that keeps track of which pixels are connected to which other pixels along the vectors. The process constructs an undirected graph. Each “on” pixel of the undirected graph represents a vertex and the vertices are connected by edges generated from the connectivity graph, but without a set direction. The process traces the undirected graph to generate chains of connected road segments and takes the chains and simplifies them in order to reduce the amount of data that must be stored and transmitted for the tile in order to produce all the visible roads of the tile at that scale. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328915 | Annotation of Map Geometry Vertices - Some embodiments provide a method for a mapping service. The method receives a set of road segments for a map region. For each road segment in the set, the method generates a geometry that includes a set of vertices that define a boundary for the road segment. The geometries are included as part of a map tile for the map region. The map tiles are for downloading to user devices that render map presentations using the geometries. For several of the vertices, the method stores data with the vertices that specifies for the device at least one aspect of rendering the road for the map presentation. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328916 | Smoothing Road Geometry - Some embodiments provide a method for a mapping service. For a set of road segments that intersect at a junction in a map region, the method generates an initial set of geometries for use in generating downloadable map information for the map region. For each corner formed by the geometries at the junction, the method determines whether to perform a smoothing operation. When a particular corner meets a set of criteria, the method modifies the geometries of at least one road segment to smooth the corner. | 12-12-2013 |
20130328924 | Constructing Road Geometry - Some embodiments provide a method for a mapping service. The method generates an initial set of geometries for a road graph defined for a map region. The road graph includes several road segments and junctions aggregated into roads. The method identifies an overlap between a first geometry of a first road segment and a second geometry of a second road segment. The first road segment and the second road segment are parts of different roads and do not meet at a junction. The method automatically modifies at least one of the first and second geometries in order to prevent the first geometry and second geometry from overlapping. In some embodiments each geometry is defined by a set of vertices that specify its boundaries. The method of some embodiments automatically modifies the vertices of at least one of the first and second geometries. | 12-12-2013 |
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20080292172 | Method for automatically selecting a display mode for an image data record of an organ to be examined - According to an embodiment of the invention, a method for automatically selecting a display mode for an image data record is provided. In an embodiment of the process, spatially resolved values of a parameter are determined in a first image data record of the organ to be examined, with the parameter allowing an evaluation of a functionality of the organ to be examined. Thereupon a deviation of the determined values of the parameter from a tolerance range is localized. The result of the localization is saved, and a display mode of a second image data record is selected on the basis of the result of localization, with the second image data record being a 3D image data record. The second image data record is shown in the selected display mode. | 11-27-2008 |
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20090024606 | Identifying and Linking Similar Passages in a Digital Text Corpus - A corpus contains digital text from multiple documents. A passage mining engine identifies similar passages in the documents and stores data describing the similarities. The passage mining engine groups similar passages into groups based on degree of similarity or other criteria. The passage mining engine ranks the similar passages found in the text corpus based on quality or other criteria. A user interface is presented that includes hypertext links associated with the similar passages that allow a user to navigate the documents. | 01-22-2009 |
20090055389 | Ranking similar passages - Passages in a digital corpus are scored and ranked based at least in part on characteristics of instances of the passages occurring in the corpus. Such characteristics include the popularity of the author, the characteristics of the words introducing and following the similar passage, frequency of appearance of the passage in the digital corpus, the length of the similar passage, the words of the similar passage, the usage of punctuation with the similar passage, and the diffusion of the similar passage within the digital corpus. The characteristics are scored and weighted to produce ranking scores for the associated passages. The ranking scores are used for purposes including selecting passages to display in association with a document and ranking passages displayed in response to a search. | 02-26-2009 |
20090055394 | IDENTIFYING KEY TERMS RELATED TO SIMILAR PASSAGES - Key terms for similar passages from a large corpus are identified and used to enhance searching and browsing the corpus. The corpus contains multiple documents such as the text of books. Browsing by concept is supported by identifying a set of similar passages or quotations in documents stored in the corpus and assigning key terms to passages which links conceptually related passages together. The context of each passage instance is identified and can include, for example, the text surrounding the passage. The contexts of all similar passage instances are analyzed in order to identify key terms for the similar passage. The related key terms are analyzed to identify relationships among the key terms from different similar passage sets. The key terms can be used as a basis for navigating the documents in the corpus. The key terms enable browsing the documents in the corpus by concepts referenced in the documents. | 02-26-2009 |