Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1996-01-26
1998-09-01
Bayerl, Raymond J.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345340, G06F 314
Patent
active
058016996
ABSTRACT:
Using a graphical user interface (GUI), users manipulate, organize, classify, and/or arrange icons by having the icons bind (stick) to one another and be moved as aggregates. Icons sticky sites may be on icons, windows, or other graphical objects. For example, when an icon with a sticky site is dragged close to another icon with a sticky site, the icons bind together and are subsequently moved as one graphical unit. In some embodiments, a visual indication or binding is given. The icons may be unbound by pointing to an unbinder icon, or using a button sequence on the mouse of keyboard.
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Hocker Michael David
Keller Neal Martin
McLean James Gordon
Pickover Clifford Alan
Winarski Daniel James
Bayerl Raymond J.
International Business Machines - Corporation
Percello Louis J.
Sax Steven P.
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