Patents by Inventor Philip Andrew Mansfield, III

Philip Andrew Mansfield, III 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).

  • Identification of compound graphic elements in an unstructured document
    Patent number: 9959259
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a method of analyzing an unstructured document. The method receiving the unstructured document that includes a number of primitive graphic elements, each of which is defined as a single object in the unstructured document. The unstructured document has a drawing order that indicates the order in which the primitive graphic elements are drawn when the unstructured document is displayed. The method identifies positional relationships between successive primitive graphic elements in the drawing order. Based on the positional relationships, the method defines a single structural graphic element from several of the primitive graphic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Philip Andrew Mansfield, III, Michael Robert Levy