Patents by Inventor Jeanne Udall

Jeanne Udall 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).

  • Optimizing the placement of clustered textural annotations
    Patent number: 10042833
    Abstract: A processor receives a command to optimize the placement of a plurality of annotations along a polyline displayed on a graphical user interface. The plurality of annotations has a plurality of font sizes and each font size has a height. A plurality of annotation slot size candidates is selected for logical annotation slots along the polyline. An annotation slot size is selected from among the plurality of annotation slot size candidates, wherein the chosen annotation slot size is smaller than largest of the font sizes. The polyline is divided into logical annotation slots having the chosen annotation slot size. The plurality of annotations is distributed among the logical annotation slots. The polyline and the distributed plurality of annotations is displayed on the graphical user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret O'Brien Scheers, Jeanne Udall
  • Optimizing the Placement of Clustered Textural Annotations
    Publication number: 20160034439
    Abstract: A processor receives a command to optimize the placement of a plurality of annotations along a polyline displayed on a graphical user interface. The plurality of annotations has a plurality of font sizes and each font size has a height. A plurality of annotation slot size candidates is selected for logical annotation slots along the polyline. An annotation slot size is selected from among the plurality of annotation slot size candidates, wherein the chosen annotation slot size is smaller than largest of the font sizes. The polyline is divided into logical annotation slots having the chosen annotation slot size. The plurality of annotations is distributed among the logical annotation slots. The polyline and the distributed plurality of annotations is displayed on the graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Margaret O'Brien Scheers, Jeanne Udall