Owner Microsoft Corporation

Inventors El-Gammal, Mohammed Gaber; Lyapunov, Mikhail M; Betrisey, Claude; Leonov, Mikhail V; Brown, David Colin Wilson

Agent Davies Collison Cave

Pub. Number AU-B-2003200970

Priority 10/099809 14.03.02 US

Filing date 11 March 2003

Wipo publication date 2 October 2003

Acceptance publication date 23 October 2008

A63F 13/00 (2006.01) Aspects of games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions, e.g. on a television screen, showing representations related to the game

G06T 13/00 (2006.01) Animation effects in two dimensional (2D) images, e.g. using sprites

G09G 3/20 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes - for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix

G09G 3/36 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes - using liquid crystals

G09G 5/00 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators

G09G 5/02 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators - characterised by the way in which colour is displayed

G09G 5/24 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators - Generation of individual character patterns

G09G 5/26 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators - for modifying the character dimension, e.g. double width, double height

G09G 5/28 (2006.01) Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators - for enhancement of character form, e.g. smoothing