Inovo Limited

3-d-v-u Israel (2000) Ltd.

Fly Over Technologies Inc.

Isaac Levanon

Yoni Lavi

Yonatan Lavi

Large-scale images are retrieved over network communications channels for display on a client device by selecting an update image parcel relative to an operator controlled image viewpoint to display via the client device. A request is prepared for the update image parcel and associated with a request queue for subsequent issuance over a communications channel. The update image parcel is received from the communications channel and displayed as a discrete portion of the predetermined image. The update image parcel optimally has a fixed pixel array size, is received in a single and or plurality of network data packets, and is constrained to a resolution less than or equal to the resolution of the client device display.

Optimized image delivery over limited bandwidth communication channels

Large-scale images are retrieved over network communications channels for display on a client device by selecting an update image parcel relative to an operator controlled image viewpoint to display via the client device. A request is prepared for the update image parcel and associated with a request queue for subsequent issuance over a communications channel. The update image parcel is received from the communications channel and displayed as a discrete portion of the predetermined image. The update image parcel optimally has a fixed pixel array size, is received in a single network data packet, and is constrained to a resolution less than or equal to the resolution of the client device display.

A 3D scalable surface renderer allows efficient real-time 3D rendering of high-detail smooth surfaces. The renderer is exceptionally effective with software rendering and low-end weaker graphics accelerators, and provides excellent visible quality per the amount of polygons used, while retaining low CPU processing overhead and high efficiency on graphics hardware. The 3D scalable surface renderer provides real time rendering of extremely detailed smooth surfaces with view-dependent tessellation using an improved level of detail approach.

Adaptive quadtree-based scalable surface rendering

Dynamic visualization of image data provided through a network communications channel is performed by a client system including a parcel request subsystem and a parcel rendering subsystem. The parcel request subsystem includes a parcel request queue and is operative to request discrete image data parcels in a priority order and to store received image data parcels in a parcel data store. The parcel request subsystem is responsive to an image parcel request of assigned priority to place the image parcel request in the parcel request queue ordered in correspondence with the assigned priority. The parcel rendering subsystem is coupled to the parcel data store to selectively retrieve and render received image data parcels to a display memory. The parcel rendering system provides the parcel request subsystem with the image parcel request of the assigned priority.

System and methods for network image delivery with dynamic viewing frustum optimized for limited bandwidth communication channels

Defects are removed from a tessellated polygonal mesh provided for the rendering of polygon corresponding image parcels through a process that first determines, for a predetermined segment of a first edge of a first polygon within the polygonal mesh, a difference in tessellation level between the first polygon and a second polygon disposed adjacent the predetermined edge of the first polygon, subject to the occurrence of a defect in the polygonal mesh between the first and second polygons. A terminus of the predetermined segment is then computed based on the difference in the tessellation levels and a new vertex, corresponding to the terminus, is added to a first set of vertices that define the first polygon. An image parcel can then be rendered based on the set of vertices, including the added vertex, such that the first image parcel as rendered covers the defect in the polygonal mesh between the first and second polygons.

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Ramat Hasharn, Israel

Isaac Levanon