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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Terrance Callahan, Aurora, CA;
Aaron B. Boxer, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Dicomit Dicom Information Technologies Corp., Markham, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 ;
Abstract
A method and system for selectively rendering a two dimensional view of a three dimensional image, in order to facilitate rapid three dimensional imaging in a realtime or static context. Specifically, the system includes means for identifying display coordinates that continue to show the same image coordinates from view to view, and bypasses rasterization for the next view for such display coordinates, thereby reducing the access to memory required in order to retrieve image data, as well as data processing time, all required to generate new two dimensional views of a three dimensional image.