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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:
Apr. 20, 2004
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
John-Michael Wiley, Redmond, WA (US);
Martin John Sedluk, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A system and method for selecting a cartographically-preferred label position from a plurality of potential label positions for a feature on a computer-generated map. The mechanism analyzes each pixel within each potential label position to determine the presence of a colliding label or a colliding feature, and calculates a total penalty for each potential label position. Then, based on the several total penalties, the mechanism determines which of the potential label positions is the cartographically-preferable label position and places the label in that label position.