Patent Document ID: 5471572
Application ID: 08088349
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for interactively magnifying a base texture to generate an unblurred magnified image of the base texture, said apparatus adapted for use with an interactive computer graphics processing system, said apparatus comprising: a base texture generator for filtering a high resolution source image to generate a base texture, said high resolution source image comprising high frequency information and low frequency information, said high frequency information being not strongly correlated with said low frequency information; a detail texture generator for extracting a representative portion of said high frequency information from said source image to generate a detail texture, said detail texture comprising said extracted representative portion of high frequency information; and an image magnifier, coupled to said base texture generator and said detail texture generator, for augmenting said generated base texture with high frequency information from said detail texture to thereby generate a magnified image of said generated base texture.