Patents Assigned to Island Graphics
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Patent number: 5855482Abstract: The present invention provides a method for quantifying a hierarchy of consumer desirability for an object advertised or displayed in a periodical, catalog or other publication. The present invention also provides a method for altering the profile of a page to enhance consumer desirability for an object positioned on the page. In addition, the present invention is directed to a method of formulating a page profile to maximize consumer desirability for an object positioned on a page.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 1996Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventor: Daniel Remer
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Patent number: 5801703Abstract: A menu interface including a bounded region divided into menu panels, each panel having a menu option. Selection of the menu option replaces the menu panel corresponding to a particular option with an expanded menu panel having tools, options, features and controls corresponding to the selected option. The menu interface is customizable to allow a user to expand, or contract, one or more panels to provide efficient access to the tools, options, features and controls of the expanded menu panels. Expanded menu panels maintain their relative order, and do not contract after a user makes a selection. Expansion and contraction of menu panels is expressly controlled by the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1996Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventors: Lori Bowden, Sharon L. Jochums, Erol Otus
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Patent number: 5636337Abstract: A computer system 100 for production of ink separations from an object-based print pre-process apparatus using a page description language. The print pre-process system facilitates creation of object spreads for any combination or configuration of objects on the rendered page. For each object on a rendered page, the computer system 100 makes use of a spread table to determine spread incidences. For each spread incidence, the computer system generates set union, intersection and difference for spreading, receiving, and obstructing objects by use of a modified Weiler algorithm. The modified Weiler algorithm creates a simplified graph of contour histories providing a visible portion of the spread object. The visible object is strokable within a clipped window set to the receiving object. The stroke color and width, set by the spread table, can be knockout print or overprint.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 1995Date of Patent: June 3, 1997Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventors: Mark Boenke, Derek Clegg, Mike Gittelsohn, Keith Passaretti, Audrey Seymour
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Patent number: 5596510Abstract: The task of transforming a description of the color of a pixel from one color space (e.g., CMYK) to another (e.g., RGB) results from (1) obtaining a first approximation of the transformation from a base lookup table, and (2) interpolating between this first approximation and a set of neighboring approximations. The interpolation task is also carried out by a loop table, in this case a second table: the delta table. The use of lookup tables for both the first approximation and interpolation tasks produces color transformations which are extremely rapid. A simplifying assumption about the nature of the delta function, the assumption of collinearity of delta functions across broad color regions, makes it possible to use a delta table of small size.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 1994Date of Patent: January 21, 1997Assignee: Island GraphicsInventor: Mark Boenke
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Patent number: 5588107Abstract: A menu interface including a bounded region divided into menu panels, each panel having a menu option. Selection of the menu option replaces the menu panel corresponding to a particular option with an expanded menu panel having tools, options, features and controls corresponding to the selected option. The menu interface is customizable to allow a user to expand, or contract, one or more panels to provide efficient access to the tools, options, features and controls of the expanded menu panels. Expanded menu panels maintain their relative order, and do not contract after a user makes a selection. Expansion and contraction of menu panels is expressly controlled by the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 1993Date of Patent: December 24, 1996Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventors: Lori Bowden, Sharon L. Jochums, Erol Otus
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Patent number: 5438653Abstract: A computer system for production of ink separations from an object-based print pre-process apparatus using a page description language. The print pre-process system facilitates creation of object spreads for any combination or configuration of objects on the rendered page. For each object on a rendered page, the computer system 100 makes use of a spread table to determine spread incidences. For each spread incidence, the computer system generates set union, intersection, difference, and edge extraction for spreading, receiving, and obstructing objects to create a simplified graph of contour histories providing a visible portion of the spread object. The visible boundary between the visible spread object and the receiving object is then extracted. The visible boundary is strokeable within a clipped window set to the receiving object. The stroke color and width, set by the spread table, can be knockout print or overprint.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1993Date of Patent: August 1, 1995Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventors: Marke Boenke, Derek Clegg, Mike Gittelsohn, Keith Passaretti, Audrey Seymour-Marks
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Patent number: 5402530Abstract: A computer system for production of ink separations from an object-based print pre-process apparatus using a page description language. The print pre-process system facilitates creation of object spreads for any combination or configuration of objects on the rendered page. For each object on a rendered page, the computer system makes use of a spread table to determine spread incidences. For each spread incidence, the computer system generates set union, intersection and difference for spreading, receiving, and obstructing objects by use of a modified Weiler algorithm. The modified Weiler algorithm creates a simplified graph of contour histories providing a visible portion of the spread object, The visible object is strokable within a clipped window set to the receiving object. The stroke color and width, set by the spread table, can be knockout print or overprint.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1991Date of Patent: March 28, 1995Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventors: Mark Boenke, Derek Clegg, Mike Gittelsohn, Keith Passaretti, Audrey Seymour
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Patent number: H2003Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enhancing an image by removing defects or blemishes from the image. A user selects a region of one or more pixels to be altered or modified. Interpolation techniques are used to determine interpolated values for pixels in the selected region based on the values of pixels surrounding the selected region. Thereafter, a smoothing function determines new values for each pixel in the selected region based on the values of pixels adjacent to the pixel being smoothed. The smoothing function kernel is applied iteratively to the pixels in the selected region until the image is smoothed to a desired degree.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1998Date of Patent: November 6, 2001Assignee: Island Graphics CorporationInventor: Richard T. Minner