Patent ID: 6084598
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A computer system of the type having a processor, a display, a memory, a cursor positioning device, a cursor, a computer program for providing a graphics interface that includes a graphics buffer, and a graphics computer program encoded on said memory and operating on said operating system, said graphics computer program comprising:first means for displaying at least a portion of a first representation of said digital image on a first area of said display;second means for displaying on said display at least one selection button for operator selection of graphic control modes; said graphic control modes comprising at least one of a warping mode, a smoothing mode, a stretching mode, an image size control mode, a toggle mode, a restore mode, and an un-do mode;in which said smoothing mode provides smoothing of said first representation in at least one of an operator selected shape and a cursor having a predetermined shape with a transparent inside section; andsaid stretching mode provides an operator selected region within said first representation within which the portion of said first representation enclosed by said selected region is at least one of said stretched, shrunken, in any axis, and copied, within said first area; andthird means for providing for an operator selection of each graphic control mode.