Qnx Software Systems Limited

Garry Turcotte

David Donohoe

Peter H Van Der Veen

Dan T Dodge

Colin Burgess

Steve Tomkins

Xiaodan Tang

Brian Edmond

A system compositing images from different applications includes a movie clip based application, an image application, and a compositing application that is in communication with the movie clip based application and the image application. The movie clip based application defines one or more movie clip images for display. The image application provides one or more images for display with the one or more movie clip images. The compositing application operates to composite the one or more movie clip images with the one or more images of the image application for viewing on a display.

System compositing images from multiple applications

A system for compositing images using a multilayer graphics controller includes first and second applications. The first application defines masked display regions to a layer of the multilayer graphics controller using masking criterion. The second application provides an image to a further layer of the multilayer graphics controller for display in the masked region. The image may be a still image, streaming video, Internet image, or any other image type.

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Garry Turcotte