Patents by Inventor William M. Troxel

William M. Troxel 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).

  • System and method for intuitive manipulation of the layering order of graphics objects
    Patent number: 8773468
    Abstract: A technique for manipulating the layering order of graphical objects in a digital canvas or document is disclosed. A graphics object that is included in a layer in the digital canvas or document is selected. The digital canvas or document is searched in order to define a subset of graphics objects that includes the selected graphics object and any other graphics objects that overlap with the selected graphics object. A layering-order control enables a user to move the layer associated with the selected graphics object to a depth in the digital canvas or document that includes a layer associated with one of the other graphics objects in the subset of graphics objects. The concurrent re-positioning of multiple layers associated with two or more selected graphics objects is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Ballagh, Roger B. Milne, Sean A. Kelly, William M. Troxel, Jeffrey C. Ward