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Dean Dayton Ballard
Also filed as: BALLARD DEAN D · BALLARD DEAN DAYTON
8 granted patents·273 citations·filing 1993–1999
90Inventor score
Files withMICROSOFT CORP7
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8 records- 0171US6321243B1Laying out a paragraph by defining all the characters as a single text run by substituting, and then positioning the glyphsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Nov 20, 2001·64 cites·19 claims
- 0270US6529197B1Method for rendering endpoints of segments during scan conversion of a glyphMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1999·Granted Mar 4, 2003·34 cites·8 claims
- 0368US5790126AMethod for rendering a spline for scan conversion of a glyphMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1995·Granted Aug 4, 1998·32 cites·11 claims
- 0468US5381521ASystem and method of rendering curvesMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1993·Granted Jan 10, 1995·42 cites·30 claims
- 0564US6288726B1Method for rendering glyphs using a layout services libraryMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Sep 11, 2001·47 cites·23 claims
- 0658US5867173AMethod for rendering a spline for scan conversion of a glyph comprising a plurality of discrete segmentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Feb 2, 1999·21 cites·16 claims
- 0756US6088041AMethod of dropout control for scan conversion of a glyph comprising a plurality of discrete segmentsMICROSOFT CORP·Filed 1997·Granted Jul 11, 2000·18 cites·16 claims
- 0852US6175372B1Method for estimating the memory required for scan conversation of a glyphFiled 1997·Granted Jan 16, 2001·15 cites·16 claims
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