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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. 28, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Craig G Eisler, Kirkland, WA (US);
G Eric Engstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345431 ; 345186 ; 345199 ; 345507 ;
Abstract
A method for managing color specification in a display device interface for a computer. The display device interface includes services to create palettes, to associate palettes with on or off screen surfaces such as sprites, overlays and textures, and to manipulate the entries in palettes. A method for managing color specification includes creating a palette that stores indices to another palette.