AFFINITIVE PLACEMENT BY PROXIMITY IN A COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED GRAPHICS SYSTEM

Patent №

US 6,417,865

Granted

2002-07-09

Filed 1999

Owner

ASHLAR INCORPORATED

+1 more

Lab

AI components

2

vision · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09265021

A computer-implemented graphics program provides affinitive placement of objects by proximity, wherein two or more objects are automatically placed in a drawing relative to one another using similarly-situated and previously-placed objects as examples for the suggested placement of the objects.

AI classification

Vision0.99
Planning0.84
Knowledge representation0.35
AI hardware0.07
Natural language0.04
Evolutionary computation0.02
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

ASHLAR INCORPORATED

assignment · 98190461

AUTODESK, INC.

assignment · 98190464

Assignors

BOU, ROBERT E., ASHLAR INCORPORATED

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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