Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1995-08-04
1997-09-09
Powell, Mark R.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345352, 345157, 345146, G06F 300
Patent
active
056664990
ABSTRACT:
A graphical user interface with clickaround tools for enhanced user interaction with an application program utilizing "two-handed" techniques. The "tool-handed" technique provides two displayed cursors controlled by two distinct pointing input devices. Actuation of a secondary input device, corresponding a secondary cursor, provides a tool palette or menu near a displayed primary cursor. This technique allows a user to select and activate tools to perform substantive operations on displayed objects of the application program. The interface allows the user to invoke tools in a fluent and seamless fashion, thus maintaining the user's focus on the substantive operations and not the procedural motions of tool access.
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Baudel Thomas
Buxton William A. S.
Fitzmaurice George W.
Harrison Beverly L.
Kurtenbach Gordon P.
Breene John E.
Powell Mark R.
Silicon Graphics Inc.
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