Patent ID: 9508171
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method of rendering at least one graphical object comprising a plurality of sub parts described with a page description language format, said method comprising the steps of: converting the at least one graphical object described with the page description language format into a set of edges associated with a common color attribute, the set of edges comprising at least a first edge pair and a second edge pair; detecting an edge of the second edge pair which is in an extended vertical line of a current edge from a first edge pair converted in the converting step, wherein the first edge pair and the second edge pair are vertically separated by a scanline gap precluding the second edge pair from continuing towards the first edge pair; joining the detected edge and the current edge to make a new edge pair passing through the scanline gap, the new edge pair having an empty fill portion in the scanline gap between the detected edge and the current edge; and processing the new edge pair to render the at least one graphical object.