Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Computer graphics processing – Graph generating
Patent
1996-11-20
2000-04-18
Jankus, Almis R.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Computer graphics processing
Graph generating
G06T 300
Patent
active
060521309
ABSTRACT:
A data processing system, software program, and method scale the contents of a window or similar display area in unison and in proportion. During operation, all of the contained control, text, and images included in the window are scaled proportionately so that a user is still able to use the displayed object and the displayed object retains its characteristic image. Composite images of realistically-rendered objects are resized and moved in a manner which is dependent upon a common non-changing representation of a container and a contained object displayed on a display device. When the common non-changing representation is modified by resizing, a scaling operation is performed on the composite image as a whole. However, when the representation of a contained object is modified and the common non-changing representation is no longer displayed, a region of a contained object is "clipped out" from the container before the image is displayed. The contained object is then allowed to display its image as is required in light of the movement and resizing operations desired by the user.
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Bardon Didier Daniel
Burton Denise Marie
Isensee Scott Harlan
Morgan Scott Anthony
Mullaly John Martin
England Anthony V. S.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jankus Almis R.
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