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Server-based rasterization of vector graphics

US7982749B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Abraham Mathew · Mountlake Terrace, US
William Guthrie Morein · Seattle, US
Sung Won Shin · Issaquah, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 31, 2008
Grant date	Jul 19, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 20, 2030

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06T11/40
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Technologies are described herein for high-performance rasterization of a vector graphic on a server computer. A vector graphic loader receives the vector graphic and generates an intermediate data structure from the vector graphic. A vector graphic renderer receives the intermediate data structure and renders the intermediate data structure to a render surface. An imaging component encodes the contents of the render surface to a raster image in a standard image format. The vector graphic loader and the vector graphic renderer are configured for multi-threaded and multi-processor execution on a server computer, which provides high performance.

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