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(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
(88) Date of publication A3:
05.12.2007 Bulletin 2007/49
(43) Date of publication A2:
19.11.2003 Bulletin 2003/47
(21) Application number: 03008066.7
(22) Date of filing: 14.04.2003
(51) Int Cl.:
G06F 3/033 (2006.01) G06T 11/00 (2006.01)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR
HU IE IT LI LU MC NL PT RO SE SI SK TR
Designated Extension States:AL LT LV MK
(30) Priority: 14.05.2002 US 144256
(71) Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399 (US)
(72) Inventors:
• Iwema, Marieke
Renton, WA 98056 (US)
• Davis, Shawna
Seattle, WA 98103 (US)
• Jarrett, Robert J.
Snohomish, WA 98296 (US)
• Jones, David F.
Redmond, WA 98052 (US)• Barker, Guy
Kirkland, WA 98033 (US)
• Dresevic, Bodin
Bellevue, WA 98007 (US)
(74) Representative: Grünecker, Kinkeldey,
Stockmair & Schwanhäusser
Anwaltssozietät
Maximilianstrasse 58
80538 München (DE)
(54) Method and apparatus for hollow selection feedback
(57) An improved approach to highlighting a graphi-
cal object in a graphical user interface is disclosed. A
body of a highlighted graphical object may, upon selec-
tion or highlighting, be changed to a transparent color,
and a graphical outline, or "halo," is added surrounding
the original graphical object’s body. The halo may be in
the same color as the graphical object originally was,
preserving any meaning attributed to the color of the
graphical object and simplifying the user’s ability to iden-
tify the selected object
(s), as well as the ability to select
the highlighted object for further processing. The high-
lighted graphical object may also be displayed with a
bounding box to further identify the selected object(s). A
moving version of the highlighted graphical object may
be drawn during a moving process, in which the moving
version has an appearance distinct from the original ob-
ject.
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