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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:
Dec. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 03, 1997
Gregory T Nalder, Nampa, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
An intuitive menu for visual displays is provided. Modern complex printed pages consist of several printed objects which may be overlaid upon each other. Examples are a main object such as text, a background such as a picture, colored or gray scale field, and the texture or watermark of the page itself. When duplicating such a page using a scanner, a user must choose the relative visibility of the background and watermark with respect to the main object. The invention provides a series of choices representing the relative visibility of the printed objects. Several images are presented to the user who selects the image most closely representing the desired output.