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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2008
Charles Bissonnette, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Charles Parker, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Cook, Seattle, WA (US);
Douglas Charles Shimonek, Sioux City, IA (US);
William Hsu, Redmond, WA (US);
Yin LI, Issaquah, WA (US);
Charles Bissonnette, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Charles Parker, Sammamish, WA (US);
Daniel Cook, Seattle, WA (US);
Douglas Charles Shimonek, Sioux City, IA (US);
William Hsu, Redmond, WA (US);
Yin Li, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Image editing tools are commonly used to assist with manipulating and saving visual compositions. Many image editing tools provide slicing functionality to create images slices (sub-images) of the visual composition. As provided herein, a slice representation of a visual composition is defined by an arbitrarily chosen set of coordinates within the visual composition. This slice region may be defined independent of other slice regions (e.g. the slice region may or may not overlap, abut, etc. other slice regions). The slice representation comprises the slice region and one or more objects or portions thereof within the slice region. Slice representations may also comprise overlapping objects and/or slice region coordinates. Objects may be manipulated within a slice representation without affecting that object within other slice representations.