Phu K. Nguyen

US Patent 7088360 Simplified identifier generation in a computer aided design (CAD) environment

US Patent 7088367 Methods and system for general skinning via hardware accelerators

US Patent 7091990 Method of guided blind deconvolution of microscopic images and software

US Patent 7098907 Method for converting explicitly represented geometric surfaces into accurate level sets

US Patent 7098915 System and method for determining line-of-sight volume for a specified point

US Patent 7102633 Method for conforming objects to a common depth perspective for converting two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images

US Patent 7102647 Interactive horizon mapping

US Patent 7106322 Dynamically adjusting a sample-to-pixel filter to compensate for the effects of negative lobes

US Patent 7109993 Method and system for the automatic computerized audio visual dubbing of movies

US Patent 7110891 Degaussing vulnerability display program

US Patent 7113186 3 Dimensional slab rendering system method and computer-readable medium

US Patent 7113187 Method and system for localized advertising using localized 3-D templates

US Patent 7113194 Method and apparatus for rotating an image on a display

US Patent 7116323 Method of hidden surface reconstruction for creating accurate three-dimensional images converted from two-dimensional images

US Patent 7116324 Method for minimizing visual artifacts converting two-dimensional motion pictures into three-dimensional motion pictures

US Patent 7116329 Image processing method

US Patent 7116330 Approximating motion using a three-dimensional model

US Patent 7119819 Method and apparatus for supporting two-dimensional windows in a three-dimensional environment

US Patent 7123253 System and method for parallel rendering of images

US Patent 7123254 Method of and device for modifying standard model

US Patent 7123264 Moving image management apparatus and method

US Patent 7123265 Method and apparatus for adding real-time primitives

US Patent 7123266 Method and apparatus for a video graphics circuit having parallel pixel processing

US Patent 7126599 Graphics processing apparatus and method for computing the distance between three-dimensional graphic elements

US Patent 7126601 Graphics memory system that utilizes detached-Z buffering in conjunction with a batching architecture to reduce paging overhead

US Patent 7129946 Computer-aided presentation method for a 3D subject

US Patent 7129947 Use of normal meshes in three-dimensional imaging

US Patent 7133054 Methods and apparatus for navigating an image

US Patent 11176730 Systems for secure collaborative graphical design using secret sharing

US Patent 11176738 Method for calculating the comfort level of footwear

US Patent 7136061 Three-dimensional check image viewer and a method of handling check images in an image-based check processing system

US Patent 7136063 Triangle management in triangular meshes based on a tri-edge structure

US Patent 7136064 Occlusion culling for object-order volume rendering

US Patent 7138999 Refinement of a triangular mesh representing a three-dimensional object

US Patent 7142205 Single gesture map navigation graphical user interface for a personal digital assistant

US Patent 7142206 Shared N-patch edges

US Patent 7142207 Hierarchical sorting of linked objects in virtual three-dimensional space

US Patent 7148889 System and apparatus for customizing a computer animation wireframe

US Patent 7148897 Rendering successive frames in a graphic object system

US Patent 7148906 Image display device and method for displaying an image on the basis of a plurality of image signals

US Patent 7148908 Method and apparatus for generating image transitions

US Patent 7151541 Moveable animated display device

US Patent 7151542 Manipulation of motion data in an animation editing system

US Patent 7151551 Method and system for maintaining persistence of graphical markups in a collaborative graphical viewing system

US Patent 7154497 Dynamic tree-node property page extensions

US Patent 7165253 Common programming interface for hardware components

US Patent 7167173 Method and structure for image-based object editing

US Patent 7167179 Image sensing apparatus, image synthesizing method, image processing apparatus, and image processing method

US Patent 7167180 Automatic path planning system and method

US Patent 7170474 Plasma display panel driver, driving method thereof, and plasma display device

US Patent 7170510 Method and apparatus for indicating a usage context of a computational resource through visual effects

US Patent 7170511 Creating a parallel structure for scene-based rendering

US Patent 7170513 System and method for display list occlusion branching

US Patent 7170514 Determining regions that are occluded from an observation point

US Patent 7173616 Method for determining the bounding voxelisation of a 3D polygon

US Patent 7173617 System and method for generating and using systems of cooperating and encapsulated shaders and shader dags for use in a computer graphics system

US Patent 7176928 Recovery of a serial bitstream clock at a receiver in serial-over-packet transport

US Patent 7184036 Integrated system for quickly and accurately imaging and modeling three-dimensional objects

US Patent 7184040 Early stencil test rejection

US Patent 7184044 Electronic drawing viewer

US Patent 7184061 System and method for framing an image

US Patent 7190362 System and method for organizing data for a 3-dimensional graphics pipeline

US Patent 7196704 Multiresolution geometry caching based on ray differentials with stitching

US Patent 7199793 Image-based modeling and photo editing

US Patent 7199795 Multiresolution geometry caching based on ray differentials with modifications

US Patent 7199802 Multiple-mode window presentation system and process

US Patent 7202866 Apparatus and method of browsing image data based on color temperature, and computer readable medium therefor

US Patent 7202873 Specific scene image selecting apparatus, computer program and computer readable medium on which the computer program is recorded

US Patent 7202874 Method for drawing object having rough model and detailed model

US Patent 7205991 Graphical user interface widgets viewable and readable from multiple viewpoints in a volumetric display

US Patent 7209139 Efficient rendering of similar objects in a three-dimensional graphics engine

US Patent 7212197 Three dimensional surface drawing controlled by hand motion

US Patent 7212198 Simulation system having image generating function and simulation method having image generating process

US Patent 7212205 Curved surface image processing apparatus and curved surface image processing method

US Patent 7215334 Method and system for supporting user in analyzing performance of object, using generalized and specialized models on computer

US Patent 7215337 Systems and methods for the estimation of user interest in graph theoretic structures

US Patent 7221372 Method of analyzing and modifying a footprint

US Patent 7224363 Computer-readable recording medium with waveform editing program stored and waveform editing system

US Patent 7224365 System and method for transferring thematic information over the internet

US Patent 7224369 Image processing apparatus and method of same

US Patent 7230621 Three-dimensional imaging system and methods

US Patent 7233328 Flexible and modified multiresolution geometry caching based on ray differentials

US Patent 7233964 Method and system for compositing three-dimensional graphics images using associative decision mechanism

US Patent 7236166 High-resolution rapid manufacturing

US Patent 7236167 Computational geometry using control geometry having at least two dimensions

US Patent 7236168 Method for removing blends in B-rep models

US Patent 7236172 System and process for geometry replacement

US Patent 7236173 Method and apparatus for providing access to maps on a thin client

US Patent 7239315 Apparatus and method of browsing image data based on color temperature, and computer readable medium therefor

US Patent 7242401 System and method for fast volume rendering

US Patent 7248256 CAD data evaluation method and evaluation apparatus

US Patent 7248260 Image generation system, program, information storage medium and image generation method

US Patent 7248262 Process and data structure for providing required resolution of data transmitted through a communications link of given bandwidth

US Patent 7248269 Magnification methods, systems, and computer program products for virtual three-dimensional books

US Patent 7250944 Geographic view of a modelling system

US Patent 7250946 Shared N-patch edges

US Patent 7250954 Three-dimensional image rendering devices and methods

US Patent 7256781 Image processing apparatus and method of same

US Patent 7256783 Image capture device, a method of capturing images, an image producing device and a method of producing images

US Patent 7259762 Method and system for automatically transforming CT studies to a common reference frame

US Patent 7262785 Ink editing architecture

US Patent 7265752 Multi-chart geometry images

US Patent 7265758 Communication protocol for synchronizing animation

US Patent 7268781 Image display control method

US Patent 7274367 Method for defining animation parameters for an animation definition interface

US Patent 7280116 Pixel data preprocessing methods and systems

US Patent 7283133 Triangle management in triangular meshes based on a tri-edge structure

US Patent 7287212 Methods and systems for Viterbi decoding

US Patent 7292238 Method of displaying an output image of a scene from a freely selectable viewpoint

US Patent 7295201 Method and system for generating automated exploded views

US Patent 7295203 Determining regions that are occluded from an observation point

US Patent 7295205 Method and system for optimizing a finite element mesh

US Patent 7295207 Method for managing animation chunk data and its attribute information for use in an interactive disc

US Patent 7295220 Interactive system and method

US Patent 7298369 Method for displaying calibration-required data

US Patent 7298374 Scheme for providing wrinkled look in computer simulation of materials

US Patent 7298378 Virtual reality universe realized as a distributed location network

US Patent 7301536 Electro-optic vision systems

US Patent 7317457 Processing image data

US Patent 7319468 Image display apparatus

US Patent 7324110 Method and system for cleaning motion capture data

US Patent 7327359 Computer-readable recording medium recording image display control program, and image display control device and method

US Patent 7327363 Image processing apparatus, and computer program

US Patent 7330182 3D graphics processing method

US Patent 7330186 Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events

US Patent 7330187 Hybrid processing of OpenGL display list commands

US Patent 7333108 Entertainment apparatus, object display device, object display method, recording medium and character display method

US Patent 7333115 Image processing apparatus and method thereof

US Patent 7336274 Position related information presentation system, position related information presentation method and recording medium recording control program thereof

US Patent 7339583 Computer graphics data coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, coding method and decoding method

US Patent 7339591 Method to manage graphics address remap table (GART) translations in a secure system

US Patent 7342587 Computer-implemented system and method for home page customization and e-commerce support

US Patent 7348974 Image processing system for use with a patient positioning device

US Patent 7348975 Applications of interval arithmetic for reduction of number of computations in ray tracing problems

US Patent 7348978 Image processing

US Patent 7358969 Method and system for partitioning the surface of a three dimentional digital object model in order to map a texture

US Patent 7362324 Stereo image display apparatus and method, and storage medium

US Patent 7362329 Occlusion culling for object-order volume rendering

US Patent 11184602 Image processing apparatus and image processing method

US Patent 7365749 Computer readable medium for modifying an animation wire frame

US Patent 7372458 Method to fast search printing frequency to present a 3D image

US Patent 7372464 Processing image data

US Patent 7375727 System, method and computer program product for geometrically transforming geometric objects

US Patent 7375728 Virtual mirror

US Patent 7375732 Methods and apparatus for navigating an image

US Patent 7382369 Systems and methods for robust sampling for real-time relighting of objects in natural lighting environments

US Patent 7382372 Apparatus and method for creating moving picture

US Patent 7385600 Three dimensional display method, system and apparatus

US Patent RE40384 Apparatus and method for manipulating scanned documents in a computer aided design system

US Patent 7388583 Method of and scaling unit for scaling a three-dimensional model

US Patent 7391418 Three dimensional image processing

US Patent 7391420 Graphical user interface graphics-based interpolated animation performance

US Patent 7391421 Conversational interface agent

US Patent 7397473 Geometry based search method for 3D CAx/PDM repositories

US Patent 7397475 Interactive atlas extracted from volume data

US Patent 7405739 System and method for changing the relative size of a displayed image

US Patent 7408546 System and method for displaying and comparing 3D models (“3D matching”)

US Patent 7408547 Workstation for processing and producing a video signal

US Patent 7411587 Method and apparatus for three-dimensionally transforming two-dimensional linear data in accordance with three-dimensional topography data in real time and method and apparatus for three-dimensionally visualizing two-dimensional linear data together with three-dimensional topography data in real time

US Patent 7411588 Display apparatus and information processing method

US Patent 7417633 Workstation for processing and producing a video signal

US Patent 7420557 Vertex processing when w=0

US Patent 7423650 Method of representing and animating two-dimensional humanoid character in three-dimensional space

US Patent 7423652 Apparatus and method for digital video decoding

US Patent 7425955 Method for tracking depths in a scanline based raster image processor

US Patent 7432929 Image processing apparatus and image processing method

US Patent 7436407 Topology determination, decomposable shape generation, and structured mesh generation

US Patent 7436409 Communication protocol for synchronizing animation systems

US Patent 7436413 Image data processing apparatus and image display apparatus

US Patent 7439969 Single gesture map navigation graphical user interface for a thin client

US Patent 7439970 Computer graphics

US Patent 7439971 Mesh generation method for numerical simulation

US Patent 7439989 Detecting doctored JPEG images

US Patent 7443392 Image processing program for 3D display, image processing apparatus, and 3D display system

US Patent 7446772 Spectator experience for networked gaming

US Patent 7450119 Method and system for developing image processing applications

US Patent 7450121 Dynamic bit depth rendering

US Patent 7450123 System and method for render-to-texture depth peeling

US Patent 7453454 Image display system and method

US Patent 7453456 System and method of three-dimensional image capture and modeling

US Patent 7453458 Drawing method and drawing apparatus for displaying image data about a plurality of objects including semitransparent object and opaque object on computer display screen

US Patent 7453471 Service providing system, management terminal, mobile member, service providing program, and service providing method

US Patent 7456839 Screen creating device

US Patent 7456847 Video with map overlay

US Patent 7460125 Apparatus and method for immediately creating and controlling virtual reality interactive human body model for user-centric interface

US Patent 7463260 Handheld graphics text processing system and method

US Patent 7463265 Constraint schemes for computer simulation of cloth and other materials

US Patent 7463269 Texture data compression and rendering in 3D computer graphics

US Patent 7466320 User interface and method for persistent viewing of a user selected folder on a mobile device

US Patent 7468725 Method and apparatus for describing solid shapes, and CAD/CAM system which employs the method

US Patent 7468728 Apparatus for controlling a virtual environment

US Patent 7471290 Posture detection system

US Patent 7474307 Clinician review of an orthodontic treatment plan and appliance

US Patent 7474308 Graphics system having a variable density super-sampled sample buffer

US Patent 7474311 Device and method for processing video and graphics data

US Patent 7474318 Interactive system and method

US Patent 7479957 System and method for scalable portrait video

US Patent 7479960 Object visibility control for ray tracing

US Patent 7479961 Program, information storage medium, and image generation system

US Patent 7479963 Method and system for performing computer graphic simulation of a fluid using target-driven control

US Patent 7479964 Display technique for displaying a layout of a print network system

US Patent 7483025 Vector-based geographic data

US Patent 7486290 Graphical shader by using delay

US Patent 7486297 Method and apparatus for image processing in a handheld device

US Patent 7489313 Method of segmenting a three-dimensional data set allowing user corrections

US Patent 7489319 Light source device for three-dimensional display

US Patent 7492363 Telestrator system

US Patent 7492376 Graphics resampling system and method for use thereof

US Patent 7499047 Ink editing architecture

US Patent 7499048 Body region indication

US Patent 7502023 High-resolution rapid manufacturing

US Patent 7502027 Electronic drawing viewer

US Patent 7502031 Automatic component interface creator

US Patent 7505038 Method for displaying graphical data

US Patent 7505042 Editing apparatus, editing method, and program

US Patent 7508388 Method for extending the display of a 2D image of an object region

US Patent 7508389 Computer-aided selection method for a portion of a volume

US Patent 7508392 Method for expanding the display of a volume image of an object region

US Patent 7508396 Register-collecting mechanism, method for performing the same and pixel processing system employing the same

US Patent 7511711 Method for locating an impact on a surface and device therefor

US Patent 11189079 Processing of 3D image information based on texture maps and meshes

US Patent 7518606 System and method for generating curved pipe objects for computer aided design models

US Patent 7518614 Method and apparatus for capturing and transmitting screen images

US Patent 7522163 Method and apparatus for determining offsets of a part from a digital image

US Patent 7522168 Cell processor task and data management

US Patent 7522172 Display device

US Patent 7528830 System and method for rendering 3-D images on a 3-D image display screen

US Patent 7528833 Three-dimensional data controller and three-dimensional data processor

US Patent 7528842 Image processing apparatus and image processing method

US Patent 7532217 Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events

US Patent 7538766 Pre-computed shadow fields

US Patent 7538770 Tree-based compositing system

US Patent 7545374 Image display control program, image display control method, and video game device

US Patent 7548238 Computer graphics shader systems and methods

US Patent 7548246 System and method for defining a controlled device command set

US Patent 7551174 Method and apparatus for triangle rasterization with clipping and wire-frame mode support

US Patent 7551180 Graphical end conditions for roadway design

US Patent 7554542 Image manipulation method and system

US Patent 7561156 Adaptive quadtree-based scalable surface rendering

US Patent 7561157 Compare mode for variable number of images

US Patent 7561162 Computer graphics data coding apparatus, decoding apparatus, coding method and decoding method

US Patent 7573479 Graphics processing device, graphics processing method, game machine, and storage medium

US Patent 7573480 System and method for capturing facial and body motion

US Patent 7574663 Method and apparatus for managing Internet transactions

US Patent 7576738 Method for constructing surface parameterizations

US Patent 7576739 Storage medium having game program stored therein, and game apparatus and game processing method therefor

US Patent 7586488 Multi-chart geometry images

US Patent 7589732 System and method of integrated spatial and temporal navigation

US Patent 7589742 Random map generation in a strategy video game

US Patent 7593011 Light map compression

US Patent 7593014 Image processing apparatus and game apparatus

US Patent 7598948 System and method of detecting rotated displays

US Patent 7598955 Hinted stem placement on high-resolution pixel grid

US Patent 7602395 Programming multiple chips from a command buffer for stereo image generation

US Patent 7602399 Method and apparatus for generating a pixel using a conditional IF

US Patent 7605811 Metaball drawing system, metaball drawing method, and memory medium storing metaball drawing program

US Patent 7605812 Intelligent modeling method and system for earmold shell and hearing aid design

US Patent 7605817 Determining camera motion

US Patent 7609264 Shell radiance texture function

US Patent 7609279 Data-driven layout engine

US Patent 7612773 Apparatus and method for rendering for display forward-looking image data

US Patent 7612778 Graphical user interface graphics-based interpolated animation performance

US Patent 7616200 System for reducing aliasing on a display device

US Patent 7623135 Method and apparatus for display image adjustment

US Patent 7629972 Image-based protruded displacement mapping method and bi-layered displacement mapping method using the same

US Patent 7629974 Storage medium storage game image processing program, game image processing apparatus and game image processing method

US Patent 7636087 Program, information storage medium, image generation system, and image generation method

US Patent 7636089 Photo mantel view and animation

US Patent 7639254 Intuitive hierarchical time-series data display method and system

US Patent 7643027 Implicit feature recognition for a solid modeling system

US Patent 7643028 Image generation program product and image generation device

US Patent 7646384 System and method to determine a simplified representation of a model

US Patent 7646390 Display and display system

US Patent 7656408 Method and system for animating a border

US Patent 7656410 Image buffering techniques

US Patent 7659905 Method and system to pre-fetch data in a network

US Patent 7663628 Apparatus and method for efficient animation of believable speaking 3D characters in real time

US Patent 7663631 Pixel engine architecture

US Patent 7667698 Image display system for displaying an adjustable widened virtual image

US Patent 7671857 Three dimensional image processing

US Patent 7671867 Method for locating underground deposits of hydrocarbon including a method for highlighting an object in a three dimensional scene

US Patent 7675513 System and method for displaying stereo images

US Patent 7675518 System and method for generating image shadows with ray-coherent integration of extruded transparency maps

US Patent 7675521 Method and apparatus for triangle rasterization with clipping and wire-frame mode support

US Patent 7683906 Frame buffer control for smooth video display

US Patent 7688317 Texture mapping 2-D text properties to 3-D text

US Patent 7688334 Method and system for video format transformation in a mobile terminal having a video display

US Patent 7692658 Model for layout animations

US Patent 7696992 Method and apparatus to facilitate multi-setting virtual reality experiences

US Patent 7714858 Distributed rendering of interactive soft shadows

US Patent 7724249 Terminal equipment for merging imaging data and text data, and transmitting and receiving the same on-line

US Patent 7737965 Handheld synthetic vision device

US Patent 7746342 Drawing processing apparatus, texture processing apparatus, and tessellation method

US Patent RE41428 Method and device for pictorial representation of space-related data

US Patent 7800617 Compare mode for variable number of images

US Patent RE41922 Method and apparatus for providing translucent images on a computer display

US Patent 7859551 Object customization and presentation system

US Patent RE42287 Stochastic level of detail in computer animation

US Patent 7961201 Method and apparatus for producing graphical machine vision content for distribution via a network