METHOD OF COMPUTERIZED PRESENTATION OF A LEGEND OF OBJECT SYMBOLS ON A DOCUMENT

• US 20170116167A1
• Filed: 10/25/2016
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/26/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bluebeam, Inc. (Nemetschek SE)
• Original Assignee: Bluebeam Software Incorporated (Nemetschek SE)
• Inventors: Kutilek, Jack, Chenault, Elliot
• Granted Patent: US 10,534,859 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A method of computerized presentation of a legend of object symbols on a document. The method includes receiving a document having object symbols. Each object symbol includes a graphical representation, an object symbol type and an object type numerical value. The method includes generating one or more groups of object symbols of the one or more object symbols based upon the object symbol type of each of the object symbols. The method includes deriving a group cumulative quantity for each group of object symbols based upon the object type numerical value of each object symbol in each group of object symbols. The method includes generating a legend including a one or more legend entries corresponding to each of the one or more groups of object symbols. Each legend entry includes a group type symbol, the object symbol type, and a group cumulative quantity. The method includes displaying the legend.

Claims

1. A method of computerized presentation of a legend of object symbols on a document, the method comprising:

receiving a document having one or more object symbols, each object symbol including a graphical representation, an object symbol type and an object type numerical value associated therewith;

generating one or more groups of object symbols of the one or more object symbols based upon the object symbol type of each of the object symbols;

deriving a group cumulative quantity for each group of object symbols based upon the object type numerical value of each object symbol in each group of object symbols;

generating a legend including a one or more legend entries corresponding to each of the one or more groups of object symbols, each legend entry including a group type symbol, the object symbol type corresponding to the group of object symbols, and a group cumulative quantity; and

displaying the legend on the document.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the object type numerical value for a given object symbol is 1.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the object type numerical value for a given object symbol corresponds to a measurement.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the measurement is a linear distance

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the measurement is an area.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein a selected one of the one or more object symbols has more than one object type numerical value associated therewith.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein each legend entry includes a unit of measurement corresponding to the group cumulative quantity.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein each legend entry includes a type description corresponding to the object symbol type.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein each group type symbol includes a graphical representation.

10. The method of claim 1 further includes:

receiving a selection of object symbols of the one or more object symbols, the generating of the one or more groups of object symbols is based upon the selected object symbols.

11. The method of claim 1 further includes:

receiving changes to the document, the changes include changes to a number of the object symbols;

revising the group cumulative quantity for each group of object symbols which have been changed;

regenerating the legend; and

redisplaying the legend on the document.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein the document includes multiple pages, the method includes:

receiving a page range of the multiple pages, the generated one or more groups of object symbols is within the received page range.