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Assigning a hot spot in an electronic artwork
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Inventors: Michaud, Jeffrey H.; Olson, Douglas K.;
Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (San Jose, CA)
Primary Examiner: Bashore; William
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Fish & Richardson P.C.
Apparatus and methods implementing a technique for creating an electronic artwork with a hot area. For a selected layer of the artwork, a non-transparent region is identified and an action is assigned to an area corresponding to the non-transparent region, the action defining a function that will be activated when the area is selected. The technique is advantageous in computer application programs that composite images from layers and for producing HTML (HyperText Markup Language) output that refers to a corresponding composited image, where the action is a URL and the area is defined by an image map. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION In general, in one aspect, the invention features apparatus and methods implementing a technique for creating an electronic artwork with a hot area.
For a selected layer of the artwork, a non-transparent region is identified and an action is assigned to an area corresponding to the non-transparent region, the action defining a function that will be activated when the area is selected.
The technique is advantageous in computer application programs that composite images from layers.
Advantageous implementations of the technique include one or more of the following features.
The action is a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
The layers of the artwork are composited and the area and the action are converted to a target output format.
The target output format is HTML (HyperText Markup Language).
A boundary of the non-transparent region is calculated and a definition of the area is calculated from the boundary.
The composited artwork is written out as an image file and an HTML file is written out; the HTML file contains an image map for the area and a URL for the action, and refers to the image file.
Among the advantages of the invention are one or more of the following.
An image object associated with a hot spot can be edited, and the hot spot will be conformed automatically to the edited object.
The content of a layer defining a hot spot can be dynamic, that is, computed from other data at the time the layers are composited, and the hot spot will be conformed automatically to the dynamic content.
Multiple hot spots can easily be created in a composite artwork.
The method of assigning hot spots can be added easily to any graphics application that supports layers.
The regions in the artwork layer by which a hot spot is defined do not have to be visible in the final composited image.
For example, a visibility attribute of a hot spot layer can be set to invisible, and the hot spot will still be generated.
Other features and advantages of the invention will become apparent from the following description and from the claims
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