Patents by Inventor Radu C. Margarint

Radu C. Margarint 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).

  • Patent number: 8478074
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to providing multiple and native representations of an image. According to an example embodiment, multiple realizations of an image may be generated and provided, rather than only a single realization, for example. Also, in another embodiment, the generation and output of multiple realizations may use one or more native objects to natively perform the transforms or image processing to provide the images or realizations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rajat Goel, Margaret L. Goodwin, Radu C. Margarint, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Thomas W. Olsen, Wei-Chung Jones Wang
  • Patent number: 8457432
    Abstract: Various embodiments create a source image from a web page and then process the source image effective to remove left and/or right border areas so that a reduced-size web page image created from the source image has a better chance of capturing relevant content for a viewer. In at least some embodiments, image processing techniques are utilized to identify repeating patterns of pixels along left and/or right border areas of a source image. The image processing techniques can process individual rows of pixels looking for patterns of pixel color values. Identified patterns of pixel color values are noted and then subsequently used to remove regions of the source image in which repeating patterns occur. Having removed these regions from a source image, the source image can be reduced in a manner directed to improving information density contained in a reduced-size web page image created from the source image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karim T. Farouki, Radu C. Margarint, Timothy R. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20110307808
    Abstract: An increasing amount of the world's content resides on the web in a form targeted to web browser rendering. It may be advantageous to utilize this web content within non-web-based rich client applications because such rich client applications may provide robust features and/or interactions that web-based platforms lack. Unfortunately, integrating web content into non-web user interfaces may be a difficult task. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for rendering web content within a user interface are disclosed herein. In particular, a composition component may be configured to invoke one or more rendering components to generate rendered web content in a common format within a surface. The rendered web content may be provided to a user interface for display. An input component may be configured to invoke a rendering component to update rendered web content based upon interaction with rendered web content within the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. Giambalvo, Andrew D. Cox, Radu C. Margarint
  • Publication number: 20110173564
    Abstract: The viewing functionality of an application may be extended by use of an adapter. An application is instantiated, and the application may provide a view box that contains a scrolling feature as part of its interface. The adapter uses the application “behind the scenes” to collect information in a way that is not visible to the user. Mouse gestures may be defined to perform various viewing functions such as zooming. The adapter intercepts these gestures in the window that the user uses to interact with the application, and interprets the gestures as specific view commands (such as zoom). Based on the commands (or, possibly, in anticipation of commands that have not yet been issued), the adapter uses the application to collect content. The application then scales the content appropriately, puts the scaled content in a document, and overlays the document on top of the view box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Radu C. Margarint, Andrew D. Cox, Gary W. Flake, Karim T. Farouki, Alan K. Wu
  • Publication number: 20090328080
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide an API hooking mechanism to intercept drawing-related calls into a graphics interface, such as a Graphics Device Interface (GDI or GDI+), and redirect the calls to an alternate destination which is different from a destination intended by a calling application. By being aware of when a targeted window for redirection begins and ends drawing, and by being able to control which surfaces the targeted window is actually drawn to, various embodiments can present a compatible interface and control drawing of individual windows in a system on a specific window-by-window level. Redirection can take place at various levels of granularity including on a child window-by-child window basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Radu C. Margarint, Karim T. Karouki, Timothy R. Sullivan, Gregory D. Swedberg
  • Publication number: 20090324120
    Abstract: Various embodiments create a source image from a web page and then process the source image effective to remove left and/or right border areas so that a reduced-size web page image created from the source image has a better chance of capturing relevant content for a viewer. In at least some embodiments, image processing techniques are utilized to identify repeating patterns of pixels along left and/or right border areas of a source image. The image processing techniques can process individual rows of pixels looking for patterns of pixel color values. Identified patterns of pixel color values are noted and then subsequently used to remove regions of the source image in which repeating patterns occur. Having removed these regions from a source image, the source image can be reduced in a manner directed to improving information density contained in a reduced-size web page image created from the source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karim T. Farouki, Radu C. Margarint, Timothy R. Sullivan
  • Publication number: 20080008392
    Abstract: Various embodiments are disclosed relating to providing multiple and native representations of an image. According to an example embodiment, multiple realizations of an image may be generated and provided, rather than only a single realization, for example. Also, in another embodiment, the generation and output of multiple realizations may use one or more native objects to natively perform the transforms or image processing to provide the images or realizations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2006
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rajat Goel, Margaret L. Goodwin, Radu C. Margarint, Robert A. Wlodarczyk, Thomas W. Olsen, Wei-Chung Jones Wang