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Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010

Filed:

Jun. 28, 2007
Applicants:

Alex Kan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Michael J. E. Swift, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sean Gies, San Fransisco, CA (US);

Loren Brichter, San Jose, CA (US);

Christopher Niederauer, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alex Kan, Mountain View, CA (US);

Michael J. E. Swift, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sean Gies, San Fransisco, CA (US);

Loren Brichter, San Jose, CA (US);

Christopher Niederauer, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Techniques for anti-aliasing of graphical objects. A graphical object to be displayed on a display image may be modified to include a border region at least partially surrounding the object. The color of the border region may be selected based on the color of the background over which the graphical object is to be displayed. The graphical object is linearly filtered. The linearly filtered graphical object is displayed on a display device.


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