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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. 31, 1992
Filed:
May. 11, 1990
Applicant:
Inventors:
John R DeAguiar, Sebastopol, CA (US);
Hal C Lonas, Jr, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Optigraphics Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ; G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382-1 ; 382 41 ; 340798 ; 395133 ;
Abstract
A hybrid image editor for editing raster and vector entities with a common set of vector edit operations. Raster and vector entities are stored in a single image layer. Raster entities are selectively converted to vector entities. Converted entities are selectively erased from an image comprising multiple, overlapping raster entities.