Blending with planar maps
CA 2256913 A1 · Owner: Schiller, Stephen N. · Inventors: Clark, Daniel J.; Schiller, Stephen N.
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A system for blending graphical objects using planar map representations is described. A page description representation of an input document's graphical objects is converted, at least in part, into a planar map representation. A color is assigned to each region in the planar map as a function of the region's associated paths' transparency characteristics. In one embodiment if the, graphical processing system exhausts its memory during processing, those paths already converted to planar maps are rasterized. Any subsequent processing of graphical objects is thereafter performed in raster format. In another embodiment, an output page is divided into tiles where each tile may be rasterized …
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- Filed December 21, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended December 21, 2018.
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