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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. 18, 2001
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Oliver F. Morgan, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 ;
Abstract
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for use in computer display systems, and in particular, a graphical user interface for use in computer controlled multi-media editing systems. The user interface of the present invention utilizes the three components of color, hue, luminance and saturation, to convey information to a user. In a preferred embodiment, each of the three components are mapped to variables that are displayed on the interface. The value of a particular variable may be represented by a gradient of one of the color components or by a discrete value of one of the color components.