Method for rendering with composited images on cellular telephones

• US 20040204127A1
• Filed: 06/24/2002
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/24/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation)
• Inventors: Forlines, Clifton L., Marks, Joseph W.
• Application Number:
  US10/178,146
• Publication Number:
  US 20040204127A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations

Abstract

A method generates images on a display of a cellular telephone. First, vectors are stored in a memory of the cellular telephone. Each vector includes an identical number of elements. Sets of image templates are also stored in the memory. Then, a particular vector is indirectly selected by an input device, and selected ones of the image templates are composited by stacking the image templates in an image buffer in a predetermined order. Copying the image buffer to a screen buffer will then render an image corresponding to the selected vector.

Claims

1. A method for generating images on a display of a cellular telephone, comprising:

storing a plurality of vectors in a memory of the cellular telephone, each vector including an identical number of elements;

storing a plurality of sets of image templates in the memory, there being at least one element of each vector associated with each image template;

selecting a particular one of the plurality of vectors;

compositing selected ones of the image templates according to the elements of the selected vector, the compositing stacking the selected image templates in an image buffer of the memory in a predetermined order; and

copying the image buffer to a screen buffer to render an image corresponding to the selected vector.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein each vector encodes a set of gene pairs.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the image is of a koi as specified by the selected vector which encodes a particular set of gene pairs.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the set of gene pairs is associated with phenotypes, genotypes, and dominance characteristic.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the dominance characteristics include dominant, co-dominant, semi-dominant, recessive, and polygenic characteristics.

6. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

combining a first and second selected vector into a third vector by randomly selecting one gene from each pair in each associated set of gene pairs.

7. The method of claim 4 further comprising:

combining a first and second selected vector into a third vector by randomly selecting one gene from each pair in each associated set of gene pairs.

passing genes to offspring, as expressed in the third vector, according to Mendel'"'"'s law of independent assortment as indicated by the dominance characteristic.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein a displayed user interface of the cellular telephone includes a menu of items, and wherein the items are spatially arranged according to a keypad of the cellular telephone.

9. The method of claim 2 wherein each vector is less than one hundred bits.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of sets of image templates includes sets for background color, primary pattern, head pattern, secondary pattern, texture, and foreground of the image.

11. The method of claim 2 wherein the image is of a koi as specified by the selected vector which encodes a particular set of gene pairs, and wherein the plurality of sets of image templates includes sets for background color, primary pattern, head pattern, secondary pattern, texture, and foreground of the koi.

12. The method of claim 10 wherein the primary pattern is composited according to a pixel intensity threshold value.

13. The method of claim 10 wherein an edge of the primary pattern is composited according to a pixel intensity threshold value.

14. The method of claim 10 wherein the set of texture image templates are composited by blending with previously composited templates.

15. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

scaling and translating the image buffer before the copying.

16. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

annotating the image.

17. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

communicating selected ones of the vectors between a plurality of cellular telephones.

18. The method of claim 6 wherein a particular selected vector can only be combined a predetermined number of times.

19. The method of claim 1 wherein multiple ones of the images are discretely panned.

20. An apparatus for generating images on a display of a cellular telephone, comprising:

a first memory of the cellular telephone configured to store a plurality of vectors, each vector including an identical number of elements;

a second memory of the cellular telephone configured to store a plurality of sets of image templates, there being at least one element of each vector associated with each image template;

input means for selecting a particular one of the plurality of vectors;

processor means for compositing selected ones of the image templates according to the elements of the selected vector, the compositing stacking the selected image templates in an image buffer of the memory in a predetermined order; and

an screen buffer coupled to the image buffer to render an image corresponding to the selected vector on a display.