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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:
Sep. 11, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 22, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lars U. Borg, Saratoga, CA (US);
Stephen E. Carlsen, Issaquah, WA (US);
Stephen N. Schiller, Hayward, CA (US);
Mark Hamburg, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ; G06T 1/160 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/500 ; G06T 1/160 ;
Abstract
A raster image processor receives a file of instructions and images in any convenient page description language and blends the images in accordance with the specified blending mode and, possibly, opacity information.