77 results about "Graphical projection" patented technology

A data model of a modeled environment is maintained within a database. The data model includes data defining a plurality of hierarchically arranged subsets of space within the modeled environment and data defining a plurality of items populating the modeled environment. A data processing system displays within a display device at least first and second windows. The first window displays a map of the modeled environment, where the map includes at least one user-selectable graphical element representing one of the plurality of hierarchically arranged subsets of space or one of the plurality of items. In response to a first user input, a graphical element is copied from the first window and displayed within the second window. In response to a second user input selecting the graphical element within the second window, data from the database associated with the subset of space or item represented by the graphical element is presented.

A system and method for drawing in a three-dimensional space. The drawings may include dots, line segments, arrows, polylines (open and closed), polygons, surfaces and 3D volumes. The method may include receiving user input that specifies a drawing in a displayed window and mapping the drawing into the 3D space. The mapping process may involve mapping the drawing onto a surface of an existing graphical object in the 3D space, or, mapping the drawing onto a user-specified plane in the 3D space. The drawing may represent a user's interpretation of a geological feature present on the graphical object surface. The graphical object may represent an object of significance in hydrocarbon exploration and production, e.g., an interpreted section or horizon in the earth's subsurface.

Methods and systems for compressing and decompressing 3-D geometry data which includes regularly tiled surface portions. One compression method includes representing a surface portion as a "vertex raster", which comprises specifying an extent value and encoding the vertex parameter values of vertices within the surface portion. The extent of the surface portion specifies the arrangement of vertices within the surface portion, and allows the vertices to be properly assembled into drawing primitives during decompression. The encoded vertex parameter values may be encoded globally (by setting initial values and corresponding delta values), locally (on a per-vertex basis), or using a combination of these techniques. Absolute, delta encoding, or delta-delta encoding may be utilized for these parameter values. Vertex parameters which may be encoded in this manner include position, color, normals, z-displacement values, texture map coordinates, and surface material properties. Additionally, connectivity information may also be encoded using this compression method by specifying quad split bits and half-resolution edges. Quad split bits are used to tessellate a quadrilateral formed by neighboring vertices of a surface portion according to the direction of the strongest color change. Half-resolution edges are utilized to gradually shift from an area of high resolution to an adjacent surface portion represented in lower resolution. For graphical objects which include a plurality of adjacent surface portions, a step command is disclosed which allows data from one surface portion to be advantageously reused. Decompression of a vertex raster representation may comprise decoding the extent value, global parameter values, and a per-vertex stream of local parameter values.

A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for modifying positions of sample positions for selectably oversampling pixels to anti-alias non-geometric portions of computer-generated images, such as texture, at least in part, by shifting shading sample positions relative to a frame of reference. There is generally no relative motion between the geometries and the coverage sample positions. In one embodiment, an apparatus, such as a graphics pipeline and/or a general purpose graphics processing unit, anti-aliases geometries of a computer-generated object. The apparatus includes at least a texture unit and a pipeline front end unit to determine geometry coverage and a subpixel shifter to shift shading sample positions relative to the frame of reference. The apparatus can receive subpixel shifting masks to select subsets of shading sample positions. Each of the shading sample positions is shifted to a coverage sample position to reduce level of detail (“LOD”) artifacts.

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for manipulating graphical objects are provided. For example, a polygonal mesh may be modeled based on graphical object content, and then both a graphical object based on the graphical object content and a map of control points based on the polygonal mesh may be rendered on a display. A user may activate one or more of the displayed control points and may provide one or more user movements to reposition the activated control points. The polygonal mesh may be physically simulated in response to the user movements of the control points, and then the graphical object and the map of control points may be re-rendered based on the physical simulation of the polygonal mesh. The graphical object content may include multiple character glyphs of a text string, and the polygonal mesh for that content may include one or more intra-character polygons per character glyph.

Methods and systems for compressing and decompressing 3-D geometry data which includes regularly tiled surface portions. One compression method includes representing a surface portion as a "vertex raster" by specifying an extent value and encoding the vertex parameter values of vertices within the surface portion. The extent value specifies the arrangement of vertices within the surface portion and allows the vertices to be properly assembled into drawing primitives during decompression. The encoded vertex parameter values (such as position, color, normals, z-displacement values, texture map coordinates, and surface material properties) may be encoded globally (by setting initial values and corresponding delta values), locally (on a per-vertex basis), or using a combination of these techniques. Absolute, delta, or delta-delta encoding may be utilized for these parameter values. Connectivity information may also be encoded using this compression method by specifying quad split bits and half-resolution edges. For graphical objects which include a plurality of adjacent surface portions, a step command may be used to allow reuse of data for more than one surface.

A method of creating an image is disclosed. The image is formed by rendering at least a plurality of graphical objects to be composited according to a first hierarchical structure (eg. 4500) representing a compositing expression for the image. The first hierarchical structure (4500) includes a plurality of nodes each representing at least a component of the image or an operation for combining sub-expressions of the compositing expression. The method stores a second hierarchical structure (300) for at least one node of the first hierarchical structure (4500). The second hierarchical structure (300) indicates at least an unobscured region of an object associated with the node. A space in which the object is defined is partitioned into a plurality of regions. The second hierarchical structure (300) is then overlayed on the object such that the object is substantially encompassed within the second hierarchical structure (300) and the overlayed second hierarchical structure (300) is traversed to identify any of the plurality of regions which include at least a portion of the unobscured region. Finally, the image is created by rendering the identified regions.

A data model of a modeled environment is maintained within a database. The data model includes data defining a plurality of hierarchically arranged subsets of space within the modeled environment and data defining a plurality of items populating the modeled environment. In response to a first user input selecting a plurality of features of the modeled environment, where each of the selected features is one of the subsets of space or one of the items, a plurality of graphical elements are displayed within a whiteboard window to represent the plurality of user selected features. A control for at least one function is also presented to the user in association with the whiteboard window. In response to a second user input selecting the control for the function, a logical connection between at least two of the plurality of features having corresponding graphical elements within whiteboard window are automatically generated by reference to a rule set. In addition, a graphical element representing the logical connection is displayed within the whiteboard window.

For integrating multiple different touch based inputs, a method is disclosed that includes displaying a graphical object on a touch screen device, receiving an input of a user touch of the graphical object on the touch screen, and altering an indicated portion of the touch screen responsive to a characteristic of the touch.

Systems and methods of projecting graphical objects are disclosed. In one example, a system includes a virtual reality (VR) rendering engine configured to generate a virtual reality space of a geographic region of interest with a graphical feature that represents a physical feature in the geographic region of interest. A display is configured to display a VR graphical user interface (GUI) with the generated virtual reality space and a menu including graphical objects. A graphical object may be placed on the graphical feature in the virtual reality space. A projector interface determines a projection surface on the physical feature based on the placement of the graphical object in the virtual reality space and generates instructions for a projector to project an image of the graphical object onto the projection surface in the physical feature of the geographic region of interest.

The present invention is directed to the graphical selection of objects. A selection indicator, one or more object indicators, and a position indicator are presented on a display. The selection indicator may be manipulated to indicate object indicators by rotating the selection indicator until an object indicators is within the area of the selection indicator and to select an object indicator which has been indicated. The selection indicator may be rotated so a portion overlaps with the location occupied by a portion prior to rotation. A menu indicator is also presented on the display. The menu indicator comprises a selector icon and a list of representations of the object indicators indicated by selection indicator. The selector icon may be manipulated to indicate a single representation of an object indicator and to select the object indicator represented by the representation of the indicated object indicator.

The invention discloses a three-dimensional perspective transforming method of two-dimensional graphics, which comprises the following steps of: skeleton drawing; node mapping: mapping nodes on a two-dimensional molding graphic onto a skeleton according to the corresponding relation between the two-dimensional molding graphic and the skeleton as well as distances and orientation; skeleton adjustment: carrying out the three-shaft rotation of the skeleton by respectively passing around a rotating point and a rotating shaft, and carrying out three-dimensional adjustment; node back-projection: back-projecting the nodes into a three-dimensional space according to the orientation parameters of the nodes projected onto the skeleton by adopting a reverse calculating method, so as to obtain an adjusted three-dimensional modeling graphic object; and projection mapping of a three-dimensional modeling graphic: projecting the three-dimensional molding graphic of the three-dimensional space onto an appointed plane according to the position of a view point to obtain a two-dimensional perspective effect graphic. Through the mode, by adopting the three-dimensional perspective transforming method of the two-dimensional graphics provided by the invention, the efficiency of perspective adjustment in the producing process of two-dimensional cartoons is effectively improved, and the quality of the cartoons is effectively ensured while the cost is saved.

The invention provides technology to generate a graphical depiction on a video display device (VDD) for a stream of packets. Such a graphical depiction can take the form of a matrix of geometric shapes, e.g., squares, each geometric shape representing a packet. Each geometric shape can have an appearance that is indicative of what type the corresponding packet is. Colors can be assigned to the geometric shapes to denote the types of the corresponding packets, respectively. Such technology can also generate a graphical depiction on the VDD of a legend explaining color and packet type relations. Each color in the legend can be depicted in the form of the geometric shape, and each geometric shape can be operable as a pointing-device-clickable button so that, in response to a user clicking on one of the geometric shapes, an interface can be generated by which the color assigned to the geometric shape can be changed by the user.

A method for rendering graphical data is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes rendering an aliased version of one or more polygons and sampling one or more edges of the aliased polygons. The method also includes calculating a curve that approximates the edge portion and intersects a set of pixels, determining the proportional areas of the pixels located between the curve and the aliased edge portion, and rendering an anti-aliased version of the edge portion based on the proportional areas. Various devices, machine-readable media, and other methods for anti-aliasing of a graphical object are also provided.

Provided is a security analysis system based on graphical recognition, and relates to graphical recognition and security analysis. The system comprises an automatic line-drawing module, a graphical recognition module, and an output module, the automatic line-drawing module automatically draws a connecting line comprising high points and low points in a K-line, the graphical recognition module recognizes graphics formed by lines drawn by the automatic line-drawing module, and the output module outputs and displays a graphical recognition result. A corresponding security analysis method is also provided. The system and the method are advantageous in that the technical forms of the security are automatically analyzed through a computer, the analysis accuracy and the time efficiency are improved, and manpower is reduced.

The invention relates to a SiC-based GaN_HEMT back technology based on a graphical slide, and the technology comprises the following steps: carrying out the preparation of the front of a GaN HEMT device; protecting a front device region of the GaN HEMT device; preparing the graphical slide: projecting a background grounding hole pattern to be projected to a corresponding position of the slide, andremoving a slide material at the position so as to form a heat dissipation hole; carrying out the alignment and pasting of the GaN HEMT device and the graphical slide; thinning a SiC substrate; performing the back perforation process; performing the back grounding metal process; and removing the slide and the front protection layer. According to the invention, the slide material in a to-be-etchedSiC back hole region is removed or thinned on the slide at first, thereby forming the slide with the back hole pattern. Afterwards, the slide is enabled to be aligned with a GaN HEMT technology wafer, thereby effectively improving the thermal conduction capability of the whole wafer during the etching of SiC.

Systems and methods for graphically representing a deployment process of a development environment are described. A request to create a development environment is received from a user. The request is evaluated to identify a stored template appropriate for the requested development environment, and the identified stored template is parsed to identify a plurality of executable instructions. A graphical depiction of the executable instructions is generated for display on a display device coupled to a development environment deployment system. Upon receipt of an updated status of an executable instruction from a virtual machine host coupled to the development environment deployment system, the graphical depiction of the executable instructions is modified.

A program and apparatus which draw and display images of graphical objects, enabling their smooth and continuous transition from visible state to invisible state. For each given object, its distance from the current eye point is calculated for comparison with a predetermined semi-transparent distance, as well as with a predetermined invisible distance which is longer than the semi-transparent distance. The object is selected as a visible object that is to be subjected to image drawing operations if the above comparison has revealed that the calculated distance is shorter than the invisible distance. An image of the visible object is drawn in opaque mode if the distance is shorter than the semi-transparent distance, or in semi-transparent mode if the distance is longer than the semi-transparent distance. The resultant image is then displayed on a monitor screen.

The invention provides a spatial index generating method which is used for building spatial indexes of spatial data. The method includes: reading total number of objects contained in the spatial data, operating according to the total number of the objects and preset division units to obtain division number, dividing the spatial data into a plurality of spatial areas according to the division number, and generating spatial indexes according to at least one graph in the spatial areas or the spatial data. Through the method, storage space occupied by the generated spatial indexes can be controlled to be in an appropriate range, the generated spatial indexes are used for searching graphical objects of the spatial data, and time required by searching and processing can be reduced appropriately.