Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1997-10-17
2000-09-19
Bayerl, Raymond J.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
345348, 345352, 345353, G06F 300
Patent
active
061219657
ABSTRACT:
A user interface for a graphical application tool is disclosed. A graphical application tool is a software program, such as a computer-aided design (CAD) tool, a spreadsheet package, or a graphics drawing package, that graphically provides a user with a set of commands, tools and icons, which a user can graphically manipulate to generate, modify or analyze a work product in a work space area. The graphical application tool includes a graphical user interface (GUI) to provide users with a repositionable menu of available commands, tools and icons. The menu provides access to the commands, tools and device offerings without interfering with the user's work space area. In the illustrative computer-aided design (CAD) tool embodiment, the menu preferably provides a user with access to core and custom commands and circuit component offerings. Core commands presented in a core command section of the menu are preferably context-determined so that commands appropriate to the current operating mode of the graphical application tool are presented. Circuit component offerings presented in the device offering section of the menu are preferably technology-determined so that device offerings appropriate to the specified technology are presented. In other words, when the graphical application tool is initiated, the user is preferably queried for the type of technology the user will be designing with.
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Kenney David A.
Pantone John Anthony
Wolf Randall K.
Bautista X. L.
Bayerl Raymond J.
Lucent Technologies - Inc.
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