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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:
Nov. 14, 2000
Filed:
Jun. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert Clair, Belmont, MA (US);
Assignee:
Athena Design Systems, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345423 ;
Abstract
A method and system for generating designs by repetition of a user-defined image component which is arranged throughout an image pixelmap according to any desired pattern. Vector descriptions are used to specify pixelmap locations where the unit cell is to be copied. A user can define placement vectors that copy the unit cells apart from one another, adjacent one another or in an overlapping pattern. In the latter case, a formalism is provided for 'masking out' a portion of the unit cell to avoid deletion of desired image information.