Patents by Inventor Bodin Dresevic
Bodin Dresevic 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).
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Patent number: 7346230Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Gregory Nicholas Hullender
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Patent number: 7346229Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: March 18, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Gregory Nicholas Hullender
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Patent number: 7343053Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that includes a mapping of the ink's coordinates from one space to another. The responsibility of transforming the ink into desired coordinates occurs after the capture of the ink and at least based on the mapping in the data structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: March 11, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Gregory Nicholas Hullender
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Patent number: 7321689Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be associated globally with the ink strokes and/or with each stroke individually. Aspects include a data structure that supports ink for multiple applications. Using the storage system, method, and data structure, various applications may expand on ink to include additional attributes while permitting the ink to be used in applications not supporting the additional attributes. When encountering an unknown tag, the applications will skip past the end of the tag and its associated data to start reading the next tag.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 22, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Donald D. Karlov, Subha Bhattacharyay, Patrick Haluptzok
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Patent number: 7319789Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be associated globally with the ink strokes and/or with each stroke individually. Aspects include a data structure that supports ink for multiple applications. Using the storage system, method, and data structure, various applications may expand on ink to include additional attributes while permitting the ink to be used in applications not supporting the additional attributes. When encountering an unknown tag, the applications will skip past the end of the tag and its associated data to start reading the next tag.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 15, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Donald D. Karlov, Subha Bhattacharyay, Patrick Haluptzok
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Patent number: 7317834Abstract: Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be associated globally with the ink strokes and/or with each stroke individually. Aspects include a data structure that supports ink for multiple applications. Using the storage system, method, and data structure, various applications may expand on ink to include additional attributes while permitting the ink to be used in applications not supporting the additional attributes. When encountering an unknown tag, the applications will skip past the end of the tag and its associated data to start reading the next tag.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2004Date of Patent: January 8, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Donald D. Karlov, Subha Bhattacharyay, Patrick Haluptzok
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Patent number: 7299424Abstract: A lasso select tool that allows a user to draw a flexible line of selection ink in order to select one or more graphical objects for manipulation. As the user draws this selection line, the lasso select tool continuously redraws and displays a connection line connecting one end of the selection line with the opposite end of the selection line. This connection line thus graphically demonstrates to the user the area that is presently encompassed by the resulting lasso enclosure. Further, the lasso select tool will change the appearance of any object selected with the lasso enclosure. The lasso select tool also selects objects that are only substantially encompassed by the lasso enclosure. For example, the lasso select tool may select ink objects that are only 60% or more encompassed by the lasso enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2002Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Robert J. Jarrett, Gerhard A. Schobbe, Marieke Iwema, Charlton E. Lui, F. David Jones, Emily K. Rimas, Bodin Dresevic, Subha Bhattacharyay
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Patent number: 7283670Abstract: A method of analyzing electronic ink, in which document data for a document containing electronic ink content is received from a software application running on a first processing thread. The first processing thread is employed to provide the document data to an electronic ink analysis process for analyzing on a second processing thread. Control of the first processing thread is then returned to the software application. After the results of the analysis are received, the results are reconciled with the current document data for the document.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jamie Wakeam, Richard Duncan, Bodin Dresevic, Herry Sutanto, Sashi Raghupathy, Timothy H. Kannapel, Zoltan Szilagyi, Michael Shilman
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Patent number: 7236180Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For example, the ink stroke may be dynamically rendered as a stroke having uniform transparency while it is being drawn. Only the new ink segment that has most recently been added to the stroke may be drawn, and areas of the new ink segment that overlap older segments of the ink stroke may be frozen, or excluded from being re-painted.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2004Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Michael Kallay
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Patent number: 7218779Abstract: Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having a first predetermined granularity (e.g., words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, drawings, etc.); and (c) making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application. This “information” made available to the application may include, for example, the actual groupings of the strokes, the number of stroke groupings having the first predetermined granularity, machine generated text corresponding to the stroke groupings, or the like. The results of the divide method may be stored in an ink division result object.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2003Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Dodge, Alexander Gounares, Arin J Goldberg, Bodin Dresevic, Jerome J Turner, Matthew Paul Rhoten, Robert L Chambers, Sashi Raghupathy, Timothy H Kannapel, Tobiasz Zielinski, Zoltan C Szilagyi
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Patent number: 7203365Abstract: The present invention relates to storing information including electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and property information. Properties may be defined specifically for some strokes or may be stored in a tablet and referenced by one or more indices. Using tables and indices helps minimize the size of the data structure used to store the information.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2004Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Rudolph Balaz, Donald D. Karlov
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Patent number: 7190375Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering digital ink strokes of arbitrary stroke width while a user is drawing the ink strokes. An ink rendering system may receive sampled pen tip positions associated with a stylus or pen on a digitizer. The ink rendering system may further determine pen tip instances having particular shapes, sizes, and/or rotations, and may determine connecting shapes, preferably quadrangles, that connect between the pen tip instances. Smoothing techniques may also be used for existing digital ink.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2003Date of Patent: March 13, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Michael Kallay
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Patent number: 7167585Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2005Date of Patent: January 23, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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Patent number: 7158675Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy H. Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj K. Biswas, Robert L. Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen A. Fisher, Arin J. Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette E. Krantz, Todd A. Torset, Jerome J. Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz M. Somji
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Patent number: 7146046Abstract: An apparatus and a processor-implemented method are provided for determining a cusp within a stroke of electronic ink. Curvature at each of a plurality of points on the stroke is estimated. Based on the estimated curvature at each of the plurality of points, a neighborhood of the points where the cusp resides is identified. One of the points in the neighborhood of the points is determined to correspond to the cusp.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2002Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Manoj K. Biswas, Bodin Dresevic, Michael Kallay
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Patent number: 7145572Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for increasing the perceived quality of displayed images. This is achieved in a variety of ways including the use of a plurality of device specific display characteristics when preparing images for display. It is also achieved through the monitoring of display device and/or ambient light conditions, e.g., on a periodic basis, and using the obtained information when controlling display output. Another approach to improving the perceived quality of displayed images involves the use of information relating to a specific user's ability to perceive image characteristics such as color. By customizing display output to an individual user's own physical perception capabilities and/or viewing characteristics it is possible to enhance the image quality perceived by the individual viewer as compared to embodiments which do not take into consideration individual user characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, William Hill, Gregory C. Hitchcock, Leroy B. Keely, Jr., John C. Platt, J. Turner Whitted
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Patent number: 7134091Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for increasing the perceived quality of displayed images. This is achieved in a variety of ways including the use of a plurality of device specific display characteristics when preparing images for display. It is also achieved through the monitoring of display device and/or ambient light conditions, e.g., on a periodic basis, and using the obtained information when controlling display output. Another approach to improving the perceived quality of displayed images involves the use of information relating to a specific user's ability to perceive image characteristics such as color. By customizing display output to an individual user's own physical perception capabilities and/or viewing characteristics it is possible to enhance the image quality perceived by the individual viewer as compared to embodiments which do not take into consideration individual user characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2003Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, William Hill, Gregory Hitchcock, Leroy B. Keely, John C. Platt, J. Turner Whitted
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Patent number: 7130480Abstract: Methods and apparatus for displaying images, e.g., text characters, on display devices which have multiple separately controllable luminance elements per pixel. Multiple alpha values are generated per pixel, e.g., one per pixel sub-component. Filtering is then performed to generate a filtered alpha value for each pixel sub-component. The filtering operation uses as its input multiple alpha values. The alpha values used for the filtering operation may come from neighboring pixels. Accordingly, in the case where character glyphs are combined to form larger images, e.g., text strings, the filtering operation performed on glyph edge pixels depends on the content of a neighboring character glyph. In one embodiment unfiltered alpha values used to represent character glyphs are stored in a glyph cache. To avoid repeated filtering of character glyphs, in another embodiment, character glyphs are padded along their vertical edges, filtered and then stored in the glyph cache.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2004Date of Patent: October 31, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Claude Betrisey, Bodin Dresevic, John C. Platt
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Patent number: 7091963Abstract: Apparatus and methods for dynamically rendering transparent ink strokes, in some situations such that the rendered ink stroke has transparency similar to physical ink while it is being drawn. For example, the ink stroke may be dynamically rendered as a stroke having uniform transparency while it is being drawn. Only the new ink segment that has most recently been added to the stroke may be drawn, and areas of the new ink segment that overlap older segments of the ink stroke may be frozen, or excluded from being repainted.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2004Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Bodin Dresevic, Michael Kallay
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Publication number: 20060093219Abstract: The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2005Publication date: May 4, 2006Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexander Gounares, Steve Dodge, Timothy Kannapel, Rudolph Balaz, Subha Bhattacharyay, Manoj Biswas, Robert Chambers, Bodin Dresevic, Stephen Fisher, Arin Goldberg, Gregory Hullender, Brigette Krantz, Todd Torset, Jerome Turner, Andrew Silverman, Shiraz Somji