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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:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Arthur Buxton, Toronto, CA;
George William Fitzmaurice, Toronto, CA;
Assignee:
Silicon Graphics Incorporated, Mountain View, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; G09G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395173 ; 395893 ; 395174 ; 395175 ; 395773 ; 345159 ; 345163 ; 345326 ; 345328 ;
Abstract
A system and method that maps temporal control functions into a six degree of freedom pointing device. The six degree of freedom pointing device controls both transport and view modes within a time-based media editing system and allows a user to toggle between modes without losing visual contact with graphical objects appearing on a video screen.