MEDIUM INTEGRATION LEVEL Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC G06F3/00 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: present invention relates to methods of processing graphic and other video information for display in computer systems. The technical outcome is achieved due that, the medium integration level, which includes an application program interface (API) and an object model, allows for coordinated interaction between programmers and the data structure of scene graph for graph outuputting. Through interfaces, the program code adds child visual objects and other visual objects for construction of hierarchal scene graph, records a command list, for example geometry data, image data, animation data and other data for outputting and can specify conversion, clipping and non-transparency properties on visual objects. Medium integration level and API allow programmers to achieve composite effects in their applications directly, while enhancing the graph processing unit such that there is no adverse effect on normal output of applications. The multilevel system incorporates the possibility of combining different types of media (for example, two-dimensional graphs, three-dimensional graphs, video, audio, text and imaging) and their smooth and seamless animation.

EFFECT: improvement of graphic model, which allows for using numerous features and possibilities of graph processing and efficient output of complex graphic and audio-visual data.

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