Image processing and display

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2005-05-13

2010-02-02

Pappas, Peter-Anthony (Department: 2628)

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Three-dimension

Reexamination Certificate

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07656403

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to store portions of a spherical image in a storage medium as a pair of triangles included in a convex quadrilateral. The triangles may form a portion of one or more substantially uniformly tessellated spherical surfaces.

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