Assigning screen designation codes to images
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US · United States
- Current Assignee / Owner
- IGT
- Publication Date
- 2010-05-06
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable · inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 048,966, filed Feb. 6, 2002, naming Gabriel Engel and Pita Witehira as inventors, assigned to the assignee of the present invention, and having attorney docket number PURE-P003, which claims the benefit of International Application Number PCT / NZ00 / 00161, filed Aug. 18, 2000, which claims the benefit of New Zealand Patent Number 337334, filed Aug. 19, 1999. Each of these applications is incorporated herein by reference in their entirety and for all purposes.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] Many software programs these days display information on a screen using effective a multi-layered approach.
[0003] For example, a drawing package may have a central area which the software user can draw upon.
[0004] In a typical drawing package there are many drop down menus, tool bars, cursors or templates which effectively overlay the drawing on the screen. The reason for this is that there is o...