Display apparatus for the display of documents in a three-dimensional workspace
US6012072A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jan 5, 1996 |
| Grant date | Jan 4, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 5, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T17/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An apparatus for displaying documents on a computer controlled display device provides a method for clipping. To clip a document is to restrict the viewable area of the screen object on the computer controlled display device associated with the document. A workspace viewer process maintains the documents in a three-dimensional virtual workspace. A document renderer and attribute-value pairs accomplish clipping in the virtual workspace. Clip stops constrain the clipping edges of a document so that the document may be clipped only to a specified set of positions.
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