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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2010
Jonathan Ballagh, Boulder, CO (US);
Roger B. Milne, Boulder, CO (US);
Sean A. Kelly, Boulder, CO (US);
William M. Troxel, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jeffrey C. Ward, Arvada, CO (US);
Jonathan Ballagh, Boulder, CO (US);
Roger B. Milne, Boulder, CO (US);
Sean A. Kelly, Boulder, CO (US);
William M. Troxel, Broomfield, CO (US);
Jeffrey C. Ward, Arvada, CO (US);
Disney Enterprises, Inc., Burbank, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for manipulating the layering order of graphical objects in a digital canvas or document is disclosed. A graphics object that is included in a layer in the digital canvas or document is selected. The digital canvas or document is searched in order to define a subset of graphics objects that includes the selected graphics object and any other graphics objects that overlap with the selected graphics object. A layering-order control enables a user to move the layer associated with the selected graphics object to a depth in the digital canvas or document that includes a layer associated with one of the other graphics objects in the subset of graphics objects. The concurrent re-positioning of multiple layers associated with two or more selected graphics objects is also disclosed.