A system for retrieving information. The system has a storage unit for storing an image that includes first and second selectable objects. The first selectable object is associated with a first metadata and the second selectable object is associated with a second metadata. The system also includes a visual output device and a processor that communicates with the visual output device and the storage unit to read the first and second metadata. The system also includes a user input device that comm...

There is disclosed a graphic processing method in which a first figure skeleton apart from an outline of a figure by each equal distance in a central direction of the figure is calculated using at least one of a medial axis and a chordal axis with respect to a figure representing the outline of the object shape reflected in a digital image by a set of points, branch lines to the skeleton from a vertex of the figure in the calculated first figure skeleton are removed to obtain a second figure ske...

An in-mold and in-line decorating method is disclosed which, using a single sheet layer, allows the placement of the highest possible quality graphics into the surface of products made from a variety of moldable thermoplastic, thermoset, and vulcanizable materials using a variety of molding processes. The methods also provide new or improved capabilities for product identification, safety, and serialized tracking.

A graphic processing method is implemented to determine which processing method is to be performed to improve graphic processing speed. First, it is determined whether the document page to be processed includes a large amount of graphics, in which case the document page is divided into a plurality of blocks to be sampled. First and second processing methods are then applied to the block samples to determine which processing method requires less time. The graphic processing method of shorter time...

A carrier for supporting graphic media materials includes a support member having a plurality of parallel transverse slots disposed on a facing surface thereof and a plurality of thin walled transverse strip members. Each of the transverse strip members are made from a flexible material and include an angled tab portion sized to be fitted into a corresponding slot of the support member and a cover portion that is defined by a width dimension that is larger than the spacing between adjacently spa...

A painting processing unit obtains minimum and maximum values of data of a graphic in the Y direction, and effective scan lines are initialized. Then, it obtains coordinates of intersection points of the graphic contour and the scan lines, and X coordinates are sequentially registered in an edge list. A judgment is made as to whether the edge list has overflowed. If it has not overflowed, the edge list is rearranged after registering X coordinates of all intersection points, and painting is perf...

An electronic graphic system (1) comprises a memory (2) for storing data representing an image and a user operable stylus and touch tablet combination (4) by which the user can select a notional painting implement a color with which to paint and can create data defining positions in the image at which painting is to occur. An address generator (5) is arranged to generate address data identifying addresses in the memory (2) corresponding to the user created position data. The stylus and touch tab...

Disclosed is a man-to-computer real-time graphic communication system that includes a piezoelectric substrate having a major surface defining an X, Y coordinate system. A pair of interdigitated surface wave transducers orthogonally disposed on the substrate surface transform periodic clock pulses from a pulse generator into two discrete surface wave pulses, one surface wave pulse propagating in the X coordinate direction of the substrate surface and the other propagating in the Y coordinate dire...

A liquid display that has a plurality of adjacent parallel tubes filled with a fluid and connected to a source of air that introduces bubbles into the tubes, so that the combination of bubbles form a word, or another recognizable graphic display. Each tube has a valve connected to the air supply, that controls the duration and flowrate of air injected into the tube so that a single bubble is formed within the tube. The valves are connected to a computer that opens and closes each valve to produc...

An electronic graphic recording system is provided in which the electron beam deflection in marking means as cathode-ray tube or the like is controlled in response to a signal representative of a variable or data and a signal representative of the electron beam deflection is recorded upon moving exhibiting means, thereby providing a record of the variable or data as a function of time. A circuit for shifting the level of the variable or data signal by a predetermined level and a blanking circuit...