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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:
Aug. 31, 2004
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Philippe Cailloux, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/120 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 1/120 ;
Abstract
A method is provided of associating objects on a non-linear contour according to one or more corresponding values. The method includes assigning a value to each object in a set of one or more objects, providing a starting point and an end point on a non-linear contour, graduating points on the non-linear contour covering a range of values inclusive of the values associated with each of the objects, and associating each object in the set of objects along the non-linear contour according to the value assigned to the object and the corresponding value associated with a point along the non-linear contour.