System and Method for Displaying and Manipulating a Floor Layout Display on a Computer

摘要

A graphic display on a computer system with a floor layout having a canvas layer and an overlay layer. The canvas layer has tile graphics laid out in a grid, the tile graphics representing portions of the floor. The overlay layer has overlay containers corresponding to the tile graphics, the overlay layer having overlay zones and overlay graphics. Overlay functions associated with overlay zones in an overlay container manipulate the tile graphic associated with the overlay container. The overlay graphics of each overlay container are transparent until a hover event occurs over the associated overlay container. A tile pallet illustrates the tile graphics in the canvas layer of the floor layout. A tool layout display includes indicia associated with various functions that can manipulate the tile graphics in the flooring layout. A perspective flooring layout is displayed in a transparent window of an environmental mask with a perspective room design.

主权项

1. A method of generating a graphic display on a monitor of a computer system, the computer system including a hover event, a drag event with a start point activation and a finish point activation, and a computer activation event for the graphic display, the method comprising the steps of:
displaying a room scene in the graphic display, the room scene including:
an environment mask having a perspective room design representing a portion of the room scene with a transparent widow in the perspective room design for representing at least a portion of the floor in the room scene,a floor layout display associated with the environment mask, the floor layout display having a canvas layer and an overlay layer,
the canvas layer having tile graphics with a perspective shape and arranged according to a predetermined perspective grid, the tile graphics representing a portion of the floor,the overlay layer having overlay containers with a perspective shape and arranged in a perspective grid correlating to the grid of tile graphics on the canvas layer, each overlay container being associated with the tile graphic located in a corresponding location of the canvas layer, each overlay container having at least one overlay function zone and an overlay function associated with each overlay function zone,wherein environment mask is positioned over the floor layout display and at least a portion of the floor layout display is visible through the transparent window of the environmental mask, and wherein the overlay functions of the overlay containers manipulate the tile graphic associated with the associated overlay container when the computer activation event occurs over the associated overlay function zone.