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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008

Filed:

Dec. 15, 2004
Applicants:

Lutz Gerhard, Seattle, WA (US);

Tom Underhill, Seattle, WA (US);

Gary Pritting, Issaquah, WA (US);

John Schilling, Seattle, WA (US);

Eric S. Rockey, Seattle, WA (US);

Keri Vandeberghe, Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Lutz Gerhard, Seattle, WA (US);

Tom Underhill, Seattle, WA (US);

Gary Pritting, Issaquah, WA (US);

John Schilling, Seattle, WA (US);

Eric S. Rockey, Seattle, WA (US);

Keri Vandeberghe, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/02 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/20 (2006.01); G06F 15/13 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically generates a color scheme for graphics. In embodiments of the present invention, the graphics software program receives a selection of a color transformation and a semantic model describing a graphic. The graphics software program interpolates color values for different portions of the graphic according to the color transformation and semantic model. In other embodiments, a data structure is provided for a color transformation definition created to assign the color values to portions of the graphic.


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