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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. 25, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
Applicants:
Sean Callahan, St Paul, MN (US);
Peter T. Barrett, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sean Callahan, St Paul, MN (US);
Peter T. Barrett, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 9/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/36 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Systems and methods for scan converting data into compressed representations of pixel data are described. In one aspect, shape geometry including shape and/or position attributes of one or more objects are directly scan converted into compressed scan converted data. The compressed scan converted data is stored into memory for subsequent application access and rendering.