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Object-oriented graphic system

US5455599A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 4, 1995
Grant dateOct 3, 1995
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Expiry dateApr 4, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T17/00
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An object-oriented graphic system is disclosed including a processor with an attached display, storage and object-oriented operating system. The graphic system builds a component object in the storage of the processor for managing graphic processing. The processor includes an object for connecting one or more graphic devices to various objects responsible for tasks such as graphic accelerators, frame buffers, page description languages and vector engines. The system is fully extensible and includes polymorphic processing built into each of the support objects.

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