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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:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2003
Applicants:
Farhad Fuad Islam, Apex, NC (US);
Neil Eric Carlyle, Bayview, AU;
Margaret Hanna, Gladesville, AU;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The method represents a plurality of independent data items. The method first assigns a multi-dimensional iconic representation to each data item, then alters at least one dimension of each iconic representation according to a change in a corresponding state of the corresponding data item.