SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE VISUALIZATION OF PROPERTIES OF OBJECTS

• US 20140258925A1
• Filed: 03/11/2013
• Published: 09/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Corel Corporation (Corel Holdings LP)
• Original Assignee: Corel Corporation (Corel Holdings LP)
• Inventors: Peloquin, Claude, Ko, Neville W.
• Application Number:
  US13/793,602
• Publication Number:
  US 20140258925A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/808
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A method includes the steps of: providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium including a computer readable code configured to run on a computer and to perform a process to visualize a property of objects of a computer drawing; providing a user input device communicatively coupled to the computer; displaying by the computer a list of the properties of the objects in the computer drawing; selecting by the user input device by a hover-over operation a selected property from the list of the properties; and indicating by the computer a marker on the computer drawing at one or more locations of an instance of the objects having the selected property. A system for visualization of a property of objects is also described.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

providing a computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer readable code configured to run on a computer and to perform a process to visualize a property of objects of a computer drawing;

providing a user input device communicatively coupled to said computer;

displaying by said computer a list of said properties of said objects in said computer drawing;

selecting by said user input device by a hover-over operation a selected property from said list of said properties; and

indicating by said computer a marker on said computer drawing at one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of providing a user input device comprises the step of providing a computer mouse communicatively coupled to said computer.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said step of selecting by said user input device comprises selecting by a mouse hover a selected property from said list of said properties.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said process to visualize a property comprises a process to visualize a style and said list of said properties comprises a list of styles and said selected property comprises a selected style and said instance of said objects having said selected property comprises an instance of said objects having said selected style.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said process to visualize a property comprises a process to visualize a style set and said list of said properties comprises a list of style sets and said selected property comprises a selected style set and said instance of said objects having said selected property comprises an instance of said objects having said selected style set.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said property comprises a color property.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said property comprises a shape property.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said property comprises a font property.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein said list of said properties comprises a list of icons representing a property.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein said list of icons representing a property comprise icons of a color representing a color property.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein said list of icons representing a property comprise icons of a shape representing a shape property.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said list of icons representing a property comprise icons of a font representing a font property.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of indicating by said computer a marker comprises indicating by said computer a graphical symbol marker on said computer drawing at one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of indicating by said computer a marker comprises indicating by said computer a color change marker on said computer drawing at one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of indicating by said computer a marker comprises indicating by said computer an animated marker on said computer drawing at one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of indicating by said computer a marker comprises indicating by said computer a computer mask superimposed with said computer drawing at one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of indicating by said computer a marker comprises indicating by said computer a re-rendered computer drawing indicating by a modification of one or more pixels one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of indicating by said computer a marker comprises indicating two or more co-located properties with at least one offset marker.

19. A system comprising:

A computer configured to run a computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprising a computer readable code configured to run on a computer and to perform a process to visualize a property of objects of a computer drawing;

a user input device communicatively coupled to said computer; and

wherein said computer readable code is configured to display by said computer a list of said properties of said objects in said computer drawing, and to select by said user input device by a hover-over operation a selected property from said list of said properties, and to indicate by said computer a marker on said computer drawing one or more locations of an instance of said objects having said selected property.