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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:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
May. 16, 2001
Applicants:
Robert E. Bou, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel Lee Thompson, Austin, TX (US);
Inventors:
Robert E. Bou, Austin, TX (US);
Daniel Lee Thompson, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G09G 5/14 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G06T 15/00 (2011.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/14 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G06T 15/00 (2013.01); G06T 19/00 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for automating a draw order of entities output from a computer. A drawing output from a computer (e.g., on a display device) is obtained by a drawing program and examined to identify two or more entities that overlap/intersect. The drawing program then automatically determines the drawing order for the two or more entities based on a set of one or more predefined rules.