Patents by Inventor A. Michael Burbidge

A. Michael Burbidge has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8943408
    Abstract: Techniques that facilitate review of bitmapped representations of text in a file are described. In some embodiments, one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image may be received. One or more selected text elements may be determined based on the cursor movements. Determining may include searching a data structure, separate from the bitmap image, which includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image. A portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined selected text elements may be highlighted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Roey Horns, Michael Burbidge
  • Publication number: 20130124978
    Abstract: Techniques that facilitate review of bitmapped representations of text in a file are described. In some embodiments, one or more signals representative of cursor movements over a bitmapped representation of text in a bitmap image may be received. One or more selected text elements may be determined based on the cursor movements. Determining may include searching a data structure, separate from the bitmap image, which includes information regarding text element locations corresponding to the bitmapped text representation in the bitmap image. A portion of the bitmapped representation of text corresponding to the determined selected text elements may be highlighted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Roey Horns, Michael Burbidge
  • Publication number: 20030228684
    Abstract: There is provided a photobioreactor comprising an upstanding core structure; a plurality of substantially transparent tubes supportable by the core structure; flow means for causing a synthesis mixture to flow through each of the transparent tubes; and withdrawal means for withdrawing a biomass synthesis product from the mixture. The plurality of transparent tubes is helically wound in parallel. There is also provided the use of the photobioreactor in the production of biomass from a synthesis mixture comprising living plant matter together with essential nutrients for growth of the plant matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ian Michael Burbidge, Jonathan Desmond Harper
  • Patent number: 6621506
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for applying suites of operations to selected data through a user interface. In response to a selection of data from a user through a user interface, the user interface creates a specifier object which binds implementations of operations provided by the user interface to the selected data according to the type of the data. In general, the technique includes receiving a selection of data having a type from a user through a user interface of a computer program running on a computer; recognizing the type of the selected data; and creating a specifier object according to the type, where the specifier object specifies an implementation of an operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventor: A. Michael Burbidge
  • Publication number: 20030097491
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus implementing a technique for applying suites of operations to selected data through a user interface. In response to a selection of data from a user through a user interface, the user interface creates a specifier object which binds implementations of operations provided by the user interface to the selected data according to the type of the data. In general, the technique includes receiving a selection of data having a type from a user through a user interface of a computer program running on a computer; recognizing the type of the selected data; and creating a specifier object according to the type, where the specifier object specifies an implementation of an operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Publication date: May 22, 2003
    Inventor: A. MICHAEL BURBIDGE
  • Patent number: 5802531
    Abstract: The embedding of parts within one another, and synchronization of their various views, is implemented by means of a data structure consisting of two major components. One component, a display list, comprises a list of frames, or other container structures, in which a part of interest is displayed. The second component of the data structure is a proxy run, run identifies each part that is embedded in the part of interest. Together, these two data components define a matrix structure, in which there is a row for each embedded frame in a part, and a column for each frame within which the part is displayed, or vice versa. This structure provides a mechanism to keep the size and shape of corresponding embedded frames, which are displayed in different views, synchronized with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Apple Computer, Inc.
    Inventors: Henri C. Lamiraux, Anthone Michael Burbidge