Patents by Inventor Susan Cheng-Looi

Susan Cheng-Looi 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).

  • Mixed color groups
    Patent number: 7852514
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implemented for creating and manipulating groups of color swatches that represent the results obtained by mixing multiple inks, such as multiple spot inks or spot inks and process inks. A mixed color group is defined based on data representing two or more colors, representing inks, and color parameters for each of the colors. The mixed color group includes mixed color swatches that each represent a mixture of amounts of two or more colors. The amounts of colors for each of the mixed color swatches are defined according to a function of the color parameters of the colors. The invention allows a user to create and modify swatches representing a spectrum of mixed colors from a combination of spot colors and/or process colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Kathryn Chinn, William Eisley, Susan Cheng-Looi
  • Mixed color groups
    Patent number: 7408673
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implemented for creating and manipulating groups of color swatches that represent the results obtained by mixing multiple inks, such as multiple spot inks or spot inks and process inks. A mixed color group is defined based on data representing two or more colors, representing inks, and color parameters for each of the colors. The mixed color group includes mixed color swatches that each represent a mixture of amounts of two or more colors. The amounts of colors for each of the mixed color swatches are defined according to a function of the color parameters of the colors. The invention allows a user to create and modify swatches representing a spectrum of mixed colors from a combination of spot colors and/or process colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Kathryn Chinn, William Eisley, Susan Cheng-Looi
  • Rendering panels in multiple display contexts
    Patent number: 6587102
    Abstract: A method for describing a panel to be displayed in a plurality of display contexts within a user interface including defining a panel description describing the functionality of the panel, a plurality of resource descriptions each describing the appearance of the panel and a mapping from each display context to one of the plurality of resource descriptions. The method includes associating the mapping and the panel description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas H. Taylor, Susan Cheng-Looi
  • RENDERING PANELS IN MULTIPLE DISPLAY CONTEXTS
    Publication number: 20020054085
    Abstract: A method for describing a panel to be displayed in a plurality of display contexts within a user interface including defining a panel description describing the functionality of the panel, a plurality of resource descriptions each describing the appearance of the panel and a mapping from each display context to one of the plurality of resource descriptions. The method includes associating the mapping and the panel description.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 1998
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: THOMAS H TAYLOR, SUSAN CHENG-LOOI