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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Lubomir D. Bourdev, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen N. Schiller, Hayward, CA (US);
Martin E. Newell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/377 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/377 ;
Abstract
Methods and computer programs for processing a computer graphics illustration having overlapping pieces of artwork. The method includes flattening at least some of the pieces of artwork into non-overlapping regions, storing information describing how the appearances of one or more pieces of artwork can be combined to determine an appearance for at least one of the non-overlapping regions, determining an appearance for at least one of the non-overlapping regions based on the stored information, and outputting the determined appearance.