Visualization using translucent contour surfaces
CA 2040634 C · Owner: Chiang, Wei-Hwan · Inventors: Chiang, Wei-Hwan; Behm, Jason Lyle
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Numerical data values are analyzed organized, and, stored for retrieval and rendering on a graphics display system. A system and method are provided for organizing numerical data arrays for rapid access and display. Several graphic representations are used to analyze scientific data. For example concurrently displayed translucent three dimensional contour surfaces are employed to analyze multi-dimensional data. Display management functions are provided for viewing data in three dimensional form, as cut by specified plane and as viewed over time by using short time delays between related displays to provide a movie-like presentation. Input data may be accepted from an operator by the …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 17, 1991 and granted June 7, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 17, 2013.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.