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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1999
Mark D Seaman, Greeley, CO (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A Method for selecting a placement, on a medium such as a page or a computer screen, of a photograph or another placement item with optional, associated caption from a set of multiple placement items. The method provides techniques for creating customized layouts for the set of items to be displayed. The placement process utilizes values for placement feature size by multiplying the negative of the height by the width of the placement feature divided by a preselected constant C . Feature orientation values are computed by subtracting the height from the width of the placement feature, and multiplying the result by a preselected constant C . A placement-weight value is then computed from the above, said placement-weight value specifying priority of placement of a feature.