Patents by Inventor Vladimir V. Smirnov

Vladimir V. Smirnov 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).

  • Rendering highlighting strokes
    Patent number: 7924284
    Abstract: A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node. Additionally, visuals containing highlighter strokes of the same color are grouped into collections of visuals (one collection per each highlighter color), and change the opacity of the collection (parent) visual to semi-transparent (or any other transparency value defined for the highlighter effect).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Ewanchuk, Koji Kato, Stefan Wick, Vladimir V. Smirnov, Sam J. George, Shawn Van Ness
  • Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment
    Patent number: 7499058
    Abstract: A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Shawn Van Ness, Sam George, Stefan Wick, Brian Ewanchuk, Todd Torset, Wayne Zeng, Xiao Tu, Koji Kato, Alexander Kolmykov-Zotov, Timothy Kannapel, Manoj Biswas, Kevin Welton, Richmond Lough, Chandramouli Kompella, Hongan Wang, Steven P. Dodge, Todd M. Landstad, Shiraz Somji, Vladimir V. Smirnov, Stephen A. Fisher, Rudolph Balaz, Michael Russell