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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2003
Method and system for image rendering including polymorphic image data in a graphical user interface
Dylan B. Ashe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lewis K. Cirne, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jeffrey R. Cobb, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramesh Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric C. Schlegel, Redmond, WA (US);
Dylan B. Ashe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lewis K. Cirne, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Jeffrey R. Cobb, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramesh Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Eric C. Schlegel, Redmond, WA (US);
Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system are provided for developing images for use in a graphical user interface. In one implementation, the method includes displaying a graphical user interface on a display device, and providing an operating system on a computer that is in communication with the display device. The operating system includes an imaging object structure that is an abstract base class from which subclasses of text imaging objects, picture imaging objects, and pattern imaging objects are derivable. The subclasses of text imaging objects, picture imaging objects, and pattern imaging objects are used to respectively generate text imaging objects, picture imaging objects, and pattern imaging objects for display in the graphical user interface.