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Techniques for the automatic animation of changes to document content

US9645978B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

Peter Frem · Bothell, US
Said Abou-Hallawa · Redmond, US
Andrew Himberger · Woodinville, US
Susan Baker · Pennington, US
Malia Douglas · Seattle, US
Caitlin Ashley-Rollman · Seattle, US

Key dates

Filing date	Nov 16, 2011
Grant date	May 9, 2017
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 17, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06V30/414
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques for the automatic animation of document content are described. An apparatus may comprise a difference component operative to receive an old layout of a document and a new layout of the document, the new layout corresponding to an application of one or more changes to the old layout of the document, the difference component operative to determine a set of differences between the old layout and the new layout, and an animation layer generation component operative to generate a set of animation layers from the set of differences. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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