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Authored by: albert on Tuesday, March 12 2013 @ 07:22 PM EDT |
I had intended to include semiotcs as a reference, with a short citation.
In my example the 'sign holder' is the device that presents the pictograph. It
is not abstract, it is a physical object. It can exist in many forms, and each
form may be patentable. It could be a computer.
The pictograph is the output of the computer. Like a road sign, it is often
physical and viewable. (Sometimes a computers output is not physical or
viewable, really abstract.)
Sometimes the pictograph represents a physical object (a rendering of railroad
tracks), sometimes not (a red circle with a diagonal line through it). It's
abstract; not real railroad tracks, and what does that red circle represent?
The interpretation is in the mind of the beholder. The real meaning of the
pictograph is determined by convention, law, or definition: Careful crossing
those tracks; don't do whatever is behind that red circle.
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