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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:
Sep. 24, 1991
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1989
Applicant:
Inventors:
Kurt Akeley, Mountain View, CA (US);
Carl P Korobkin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
340747 ; 340723 ; 340721 ;
Abstract
A system for displaying graphic images comprising an arrangement for clipping polygons against preselected clipping planes, an arrangement for determining when the vertices of a polygon all lie within one of a number of particular subspaces defined by the clipping planes, and an arrangement for disabling the means for clipping so long as all vertices of a polygon lie in the same subspace.