USING VISUAL LANDMARKS TO ORGANIZE DIAGRAMS

Patent №

US 9,766,787

Granted

2017-09-19

Filed 2014

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

vision · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14453044

Visual landmarks are used to organize diagrams. Elements of a diagram can be arranged in accordance with configurable defined properties of visual landmarks to provide some degree of layout structure within the diagram. Users can customize visual landmarks to cause the visual landmarks to exhibit desired behavior.

VisionKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 3/04842G06F 3/0481G06F 3/0482G06F 3/04845G06F 16/29G06T 11/206G06T 11/26

AI classification

Vision0.99
AI hardware0.82
Planning0.73
Knowledge representation0.62
Speech0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Machine learning0.00
Natural language0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 334770449

Assignors

DANTON, STEPHEN M., ROBERTS, SCOTT, MOLLICONE, LAURENT, SEHN, JORDAN, PRICE, TAD D., PECK, DAVID K., RYCHIKHIN, YURI

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

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