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| Authored by: Ian Al on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 01:54 AM EST |
Not unless the screen itself moves.
PolR's article on
semiotics explains that everything that appears on any visual display
device, such as a computer monitor or touch pad screen, is a sign (or many signs
or no sign at all).
The display device is intended to display the signs to
people. Anything on the screen which has a meaning (i.e. it symbolises something
to people) is also a symbol.
A symbol 'bouncing' on a screen is the
moving of all of the pixels of the symbol (perhaps a symbol image of Magritte's
oil painting,'This Is Not A Pipe') from side to side on the screen quite
quickly. This is achieved by the processor manipulating the digital symbols used
to create the people-visible picture on the display device.
No oil
painting or photograph appears on the screen and bounces. It's just the
symbolism of the oil painting bouncing. The bouncing has not been invented and
is not patentable. The processor algorithm that moves the symbol from side to
side is invented, but is entirely a math algorithm and is non-patentable subject
matter.---
Regards
Ian Al
Software Patents: It's the disclosed functions in the patent, stupid! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tknarr on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 03:23 AM EST |
Nope. All the computer's doing is turning lights in a grid off and on. I
could do exactly the same by hand with an old Light-Brite set, moving lit pegs
one at a time to light or unlight a particular pixel to create the image of the
page bouncing. It'd be much slower than the computer, but it'd be exactly the
same process.
What, you thought the CPU had some magic that allowed it to
create images directly on the screen? Nope, a screen's just an array of lights
(or in the case of an LCD-type display, an array of shutters that expose or hide
the backlight shining through a set of colored filters) that the computer
switches on and off. The actual switching even follows the same pattern, with
the computer starting at the top-left pixel and setting it's switch state,
moving one to the right and repeating until it comes to the end of a row, moving
down one row and repeating until it reaches the bottom of the screen. Even
LCD-type screens do this, if you look at the data formats for DVI and HDMI data
links you can clearly seen the rows and pixels. The computer's electronics can
of course do this far faster than a human can, but "Do exactly what's already
being done but faster." isn't a patentable claim (a particular method for
doing it faster might be, but not merely the idea of doing it faster). [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: jesse on Monday, December 31 2012 @ 05:59 AM EST |
Because if that other mind follows the directions properly it
"bounces".
All it requires is following directions - mostly just adding 1 to a coordinate
system, then subtracting 1.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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