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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:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2003
Applicants:
Qi He Hong, Bracknell, GB;
Adam Michael Baumberg, Bracknell, GB;
Alexander Ralph Lyons, Bracknell, GB;
Inventors:
Qi He Hong, Bracknell, GB;
Adam Michael Baumberg, Bracknell, GB;
Alexander Ralph Lyons, Bracknell, GB;
Assignee:
Canon Europa N.V., Amstelveen, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed an apparatus and method for combining three or more texture mapstogether to generate a single, combined texture map. The texture maps are repeatedly combined together in pairs, with each pair generating a larger texture map for subsequent combination with another texture map, until only one texture map remains containing all of the original texture maps.