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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. 19, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 24, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeffrey Alan Millington, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Anthony Albert Slominski, Harrison Township, MI (US);
Assignee:
Magellan DIS, Inc., Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3408154 ; 345136 ;
Abstract
A navigation system includes a display displaying a map of roads from a road database. The navigation system utilizes a palette of colors to display the road and background on the display. The palette preferably includes a plurality of shades for each of a plurality of colors to be displayed including the background color and the road color. The roads on the display are preferably anti-aliased by indexing a different intensity of the shade of the object based upon the relative position of the pixel and an ideal object area.