2356 results about "Layout" patented technology

The present invention facilitates the specification and distribution of templated content materials by a content provider over an information exchange network such as the Internet. The present invention incorporates a system for managing inventories of graphical elements and their relationships to pre-defined page templates. A database capable of keeping track of users and their corresponding access privileges within the system is employed to monitor user activity. Ultimately, through the use of a software component delivered over the Internet for use within standard web browsers, end-users are able to populate templates under the constraints imposed by the rules of the manufacturers at the time of template design. These population elements which “fill in the blanks” of the pre-defined templates may be either of type IMAGE or TEXT. Image regions are populated by choosing from a subset of the entire image inventory, while TEXT types can be completely free form, with specific rules guiding justification, point size, font, and leading, or “fill in the blank” form with the same constraint rules as free form. Once the end user has met all of the criteria for a fully populated template, the system provides sophisticated means for downloading a high resolution file (such as a print-ready file or other file representation of the composed publication) which encapsulates all resources needed (layout, images, fonts, and constraint geometries) to fulfill the requirements of the publication. The downloaded file may be printed or published by electronic transfer, e.g., to a publisher for printing of the actual publication.

Methods and apparatus for variable document printing are disclosed in which a graphical user interface is configured to allow user manipulation of layout rules associated with content containers within a template for variable document generation. One method involves creating a layout for a variable data document based upon a template. The method firstly sets at least one container in the template to form the layout, and then establishes at least one constraint associated with each selected one of at least one feature of the container, the establishing including, for each feature, detecting a user instigated selection of the corresponding feature. The layout is then modified to thereby generate the document by placing content into the containers, wherein at least one dimension of the least one container and/or a position of the at least one container in the layout are varied based on a property of the placed content on a condition that each constraint in the layout is satisfied.

Methods and apparatus for variable document printing are disclosed in which a graphical user interface is configured to allow user manipulation of layout rules associated with content containers within a template for variable document generation. One method involves laying out (626) container objects (407, 408) forming part of a template (624) intended for a variable data document. The objects each have a rectangular boundary in two-dimensional space, and the method comprises detecting an operation (628, 2800) to modify a position of at least one edge of at least one of the objects. Then, rules of association between edges of the objects having a corresponding orientation to the one edge are identified. A position of at least the one edge is then modified whilst observing the rules of association between all the correspondingly oriented edges. Finally an objective function derived from the rules of association between the correspondingly oriented edges is minimized (3009) to thereby balance a layout of the objects in at least the dimension of modification. Other methods involve maintaining the objective function for a group of edges, the addition and removal of constraints in respect of correspondingly oriented edges, the removal, addition and then removal of constraints in modifying the width of a container, the calculation of text container sizes, and the creation of tables, particularly for text containers.

A method and apparatus for managing installation information. In one embodiment the method comprises obtaining, via an installation application on a mobile device comprising at least one processor, identification information for at least one component of an installation; obtaining, via the installation application, position information for the at least one component; and generating, via the installation application, a template for indicating a physical layout of at least a portion of the installation based on the identification information and the position information.

A record layout in a legacy application is defined by the record definition in the source code of the language in which the application was written. For each record in a legacy application, the layout of the record is saved in a language-neutral and architecture neutral format in preparation for a runtime invocation. During runtime, for each record, the legacy application can send architecture-specific binary information as it exists in memory on the legacy computer to a component runtime environment that will construct a compatible object-oriented instance of a class to manipulate the information. Once the information is manipulated, the updated information can be represented to the original legacy application in an architecture-specific binary record layout.

A method for loading a layout with advertising item data is provided. Layout header data is parsed. A layout item object is then built. Global layout variables are replaced with values. Local layout variables are replaced with data from content objects. Displayed data is then created.

The invention is directed towards method and apparatus for representing multidimensional data. Some embodiments of the invention provide a two-layered data structure to store multidimensional data tuples that are defined in a multidimensional data space. These embodiments initially divide the multidimensional data space into a number of data regions, and create a data structure to represent this division. For each data region, these embodiments then create a hierarchical data structure to store the data tuples within each region. In some of these embodiments, the multidimensional data tuples are spatial data tuples that represent spatial or geometric objects, such as points, lines, polygons, regions, surfaces, volumes, etc. For instance, some embodiments use the two-layered data structure of the invention to store data relating to geometric objects (such as rectangles) that represent interconnect lines of an IC in an IC design layout.

Systems and methods for verifying integrated circuit designs: (a) receive input corresponding to physical layouts of cells of the design and available master cells. The systems and methods then determine if the design cells are intended to correspond to one of the master cells, and if so, the systems and methods then determine if the layouts of the cells and the corresponding master cells match one another, e.g., by a layout vs. layout comparison of the design cell with the master cell to determine if the coordinates of the polygon(s) in the design cell match corresponding coordinates of the polygon(s) in the master cell. An “XOR” comparison may be used to determine if the design cell features match the corresponding master cell features. Computer-readable media may be adapted to include computer-executable instructions for performing such methods and operating such systems.

A computer is programmed to use at least one rule to identify from within a layout of an IC design, a set of regions likely to fail if fabricated unchanged. An example of such a rule of detection is to check for presence of two neighbors neither of which fully overlaps a short wire or an end of a long wire. The computer uses at least another rule to change at least one region in the set of regions, to obtain a second layout which is less likely to fail in the identified regions. An example of such a rule of correction is to elongate at least one of the two neighbors. The computer may perform optical rule checking (ORC) in any order relative to application of the rules, e.g. ORC can be performed between detection rules and correction rules i.e. performed individually on each identified region prior to correction.

The invention discloses a self-adaption display method, a configuration file generating method and a configuration file generating device and belongs to the technical field of display. The self-adaption display method includes that acquiring the display resolution and layout size of the current device, selecting the layout configuration file corresponding to the display resolution, determining the actual pixel size of the non-character type layout element in the display interface according to the layout configuration file, selecting the character configuration file corresponding to the layout size, determining the actual character size of the character type layout element in the display interface according to the character configuration file, and displaying the display interface according to the actual pixel size and the actual character size. The self-adaption display method, the configuration file generating method and the configuration file generating device solve the problem of the background technology that the pressure generated by the code compiling and maintaining of application program is increased greatly to match with different types of screens, realize to dynamically select the configuration file according to the display resolution and layout size of the adapter device, realize the self-adaption display for each layout element, and reduce the pressure on the application program developing cost.

A system for converting a collection of data to a structured, printable and navigable document includes: an analyzer and a layout unit. The analyzer is coupled to receive a data collection source such as a web page associated with a wiki and other user parameters, and generates a representation of content associated with the data collection source. The output of the analyzer is coupled to an input of the layout unit to provide the representation of content. The layout unit is also coupled to receive a style sheet or other user preferences. The linearizer of the layout unit retrieves the necessary content using the representation of content. The retrieved content is then formatted by the layout selector of the layout unit to generate a paginated document and metadata. This output can then be printed on any conventional printer or manipulated and interacted with using applications or a web browser.

Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of routing nets in a multi-layer integrated-circuit (“IC”) layout. For a particular net, the method specifies widths for routing the particular net in different directions on the same layer. It then defines a particular route for the particular net, where the route has different widths in the different directions on the same layer.