Digital Painting

Patent 6870550 Issued on March 22, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date:

April 26, 2019. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Assignee

Adobe Systems Incorporated

Application

No. 09299294 filed on 04/26/1999

US Classes:

345/639, Weighted345/581, Attributes (surface detail or characteristic, display attributes)345/589Color or intensity

Examiners

Primary: Hjerpe, Richard
Assistant: Yang, Ryan

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Fish & Richardson P.C.

Foreign Patent References

0 678 831 EP 10/01/1995
0 854 637 EP 07/01/1998
0 881 597 EP 12/01/1998

International Classes

G09G005/00
G09G005/02
H04N001/405

Abstract

A user identifies an area of a digital canvas. Color gradients are determined based on a corresponding area on a reference. Brush strokes are applied in the area of the digital canvas, the brush strokes having trajectories based on the color gradients.

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