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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:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
David F Herbstman, Seattle, WA (US);
David P Simons, Lynnfield, MA (US);
Scott S Snibbe, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe System Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345474 ;
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for animating a property (such as the position of an object) using floating keyframes to selectively decouple property space and time constraints. Fixed keyframes and floating keyframes may used to specify a path through an n-dimensional property space, but the motion along the path is controlled only by the fixed keyframes. The timing of the floating keyframes is determined by temporal attributes of the nearest fixed keyframes.