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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 1988
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
David C Reynolds, Boulder, CO (US);
Michael Wong, Longmont, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340747 ; 340709 ; 364521 ;
Abstract
Graphics display system having a moving cursor, such as a cursor, for selecting a displayed entity. The correlation of a cursor with an entity intended to be selected is performed by storing a unique tag assigned to each entity in a cell in a correlation array related to a pel or group of pels corresponding to locations in a bit map of the pels comprising the entity. The x,y coordinates of the cursor are converted into a cell number corresponding to the bit map locations matching such x,y coordinates. The entity tag is then retrieved from the addressed cell.