Newness and distinctiveness is claimed in the features of ornamentation as shown inside the broken line circle in the accompanying representation.

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

A device for managing image and audio files displays thumbnails, which are representative of the files, on a screen in different arrangements, depending on the selected layout and order. When the user enters input to indicates that he or she wishes to browse through the thumbnails, the thumbnails move across the screen in sequence, following a path through a focus outline in the center of the screen. The path followed by the thumbnails depends on the selected layout.

System for managing data objects

A wearable device assembly has a housing supporting a controller, display and indicator system thereon. The controller has at least one sensor wherein activity of a user wearing the device is detected. The controller selectively illuminates the indicator system to indicate a level of activity of the user.

Wearable device assembly having athletic functionality

Systems, apparatuses, and methods estimate the distance between a player and a ball by transmitting a chirp (sweep signal) to a radio tag located on the ball. During the chirp, the frequency of the transmitted signal is changed in a predetermined fashion. The radio tag doubles the transmitted frequency and returns the processed signal to a transceiver typically located on the player. The currently transmitted frequency is then compared with the received frequency to obtain a difference frequency from which an apparatus may estimate the distance. The apparatus may simultaneously receive the processed signal from the radio tag while transmitting the sweep signal.

Athletic Performance Monitoring Systems and Methods in a Team Sports Environment

The present invention provides apparatus and methods for a multi-dimensional user interface for use in audio visual production. A display system including a central processing unit (CPU) is coupled through appropriate input/output (I/O) circuitry to input devices, such as a keyboard, digital pad and/or track ball as well as a display device. The CPU is further coupled to a hard disk drive for the storage of programs and data, and is also coupled to a network through which the CPU may communicate with a variety of system resource devices such as editors, music synthesizers, graphics generators, scheduling resources, audio enhancement resources, etc. A user viewing the interface on the display may utilize one of the input devices, such as by way of example, the keyboard, to select, incorporate or otherwise integrate the various system resources to develop a unified multi-media production. The user interface of the present invention includes a control frame which in practice substantially fills all of the display screen of the display and is consistent for all user applications. The control frame is comprised of control panels which surround a variety of subwindows and acts as a consistent control area for all users of the interface. Once defined, elements may be selectively placed on an event horizon bar in the control frame. The placement of an element on the event horizon results in the display of timing data for the element, relative to other elements on the event horizon.

Multi-dimensional user interface

A simple differential equation method is proposed for modeling the aesthetic features of human hair. In the method, a simplified cantilever beam simulation is employed for hairstyle modeling, which allows hairdressing variations with volumetric and realistic appearance. In order to describe the dynamical behavior of hair in an animation, one-dimensional projective differential equations of angular momenta for linked rigid sticks are also derived. For the problem of collision detection between hair and a human head, the “rough” approximate solution is provided, which gives visually satisfactory results by solving the projective equations under a ps~udo-force field. The hair’s pliability can be controlled by using a set of stiffness parameters in the method. In addition, a fast rendering technique for anisotropic reflection is introduced, which is derived from Blirm’s specular model. The efficiency of the proposed method is illustrated by the still images and short animations obtained. CR

A simple method for extracting the natural beauty of hair

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an automatic recognizing method and device by which the action and behavior of a moving body such as a human being, animal, or machine is automatically recognized. SOLUTION: Measuring instruments 2, 3 for measuring the change of state caused by the action and behavior of a subject 1 are fitted, and the characteristic amount of the action of behavior being now carried out by the subject 1 is extracted from the measuring signals through a characteristic amount extracting part 5, and the correlation between the extracted characteristic amount and the reference data that are included in the characteristic amount data base 6 of the action or behavior previously stored is obtained by a signal processing unit 7 for recognizing the action or behavior. The motion or hehavior of the heighest correlation characteristic amount is output as the recognizing result.

Method, device and system for recognizing action and behavior

A three-dimensional shape of an object is recognized by developing enveloping surfaces of the object by a cone-silhouetting method, wherein the object is picked up by a binocular three-dimensional vision method by making use of geometrical restraint conditions derived by the cone-silhouetting method. The binocular parallax is increased to thereby ensure the recognition of the three-dimensional shape with improved accuracy. Local concave portions which can not be recognized by the cone-silhouetting method by itself are recognized with higher accuracy.

Apparatus and method for recognizing three-dimensional shape of object

There are provided apparatuses for generating the motion path of an object. One apparatus includes an input unit for inputting information representative of the position of a start point of the motion of an object, at least one of the magnitude and direction of a velocity at the start point, an end point of the motion of the object, and at least one of the magnitude and direction of a velocity at the end point, and a calculation unit for calculating a motion path from the start point to the end point, in accordance with the information inputted to the input unit. As an alternative of the position and velocity of an object, the rotary angle and angular velocity of an object may be used to represent the facing direction of the object. Another apparatus includes a display device for displaying information of the position of an object and an icon representative of the time corresponding to the position of the object, and a calculator for calculating information representative of the motion path, in accordance with the information entered by the icon and information representative of at least one of the magnitude and direction of a velocity at the position of the object. The motion path is then displayed on the screen. The motion of an object can be easily defined and smoothly coupled to a succeeding or preceding motion on each key frame. The path and/or surface reflection attribute of an object can be defined with a small number of procedures.

Method and apparatus for generating object motion path, method of setting object display attribute, and computer graphics system

A display apparatus and a modelling method for computer graphics includes a first memory for storing a first three-dimensional model, a detailed model, of a body represented by at least one of desired first number of dimensions, a desired first number of parameters and desired first parametric quantities, an arithmetic unit for arithmetically determining a second three-dimensional model, a simplified model, by varying at least one of the first number of dimensions, the first number of parameters and the first parametric quantities to at least one of a second number of dimensions, a second number of parameters and second parametric quantities in accordance with an algorithm for thereby creating automatically a simplified model for a body of less importance. A second memory stores the simplified model. A selector selects the first three-dimensional model or the second three-dimensional model by reference to a preset index for evaluation. A display unit displays the first three-dimensional model or the second three-dimensional model as selected.

Yoshiaki Usami

Papers

A simple method for extracting the natural beauty of hair

Method, device and system for recognizing action and behavior

Apparatus and method for recognizing three-dimensional shape of object

Method and apparatus for generating object motion path, method of setting object display attribute, and computer graphics system

Displaying method and apparatus for three-dimensional computer graphics