Automated system and method for annotation using callouts

Details Automated system and method for annotation using callouts Automated system and method for annotation using callouts

1997-01-08

2000-10-17

Nguyen, Phu K.

Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system

Computer graphics processing

Shape generating

G06F 1500

Patent

active

061339253

ABSTRACT:
An automated method of providing a callout in a display field of a visual display. The processor designates first and second display locations in the display field and, responsively to a set of formatting criteria, automatically brings a callout into existence. The callout has a stem region and an annotation region, with the stem region having a first vertex displayed proximally to the designated first display location and a second vertex displayed proximally to the annotation region, and the annotation region being displayed proximally to the designated second display location. The processor can designate the first or second locations responsively to input accepted from a pointing device. The annotation region can contain an annotation that pertains to an item displayed in a vicinity of the first designated display location. The callout can be manipulated, in particular by rotation, with the callout being accurately displayed throughout the manipulation (so-called WYSIWYG display).

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patent: 5621871 (1997-04-01), Jaremko et al.
Shapeware Corporation, "Visio 2.0 Introducing Visio Master Shapes," pp. 4-6, and 123-124, 1993.
Shapeware Corporation, "Visio 2.0 Using Visio," pp. 30-31, 1993.

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