Patents by Inventor Benjamin Cochran

Benjamin Cochran 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).

  • Accelerated rendering of images with transparent pixels using a spatial index
    Publication number: 20060262132
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for accelerated rendering of images with transparent pixels using a spatial index. A determination is made whether anything exists behind an object in an image. If not, then transparent pixels within the object are converted to a background color and rendered as opaque pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Publication date: November 23, 2006
    Inventor: Benjamin Cochran
  • Using geometry bounds to enable scale printing of virtual paper onto physical paper when using a printer with a differing printable area
    Publication number: 20060250621
    Abstract: A computer-implemented graphics program that correctly adapts images being printed to the physical capabilities of a printer. A published virtual paper is scaled to a physical paper, taking into account the virtual paper's size, geometry bounds for an image from the virtual paper being printed, balanced geometry bounds calculated from the geometry bounds, the physical paper's size and a printable area of the physical paper, so that the image being printed fits within a printable area of the physical paper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2005
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Benjamin Cochran, Brian Mathews