Detail-in-context lenses for interacting with objects in digital image presentations
AssigneeIdelix Software Inc.
InventorsDavid Baar, Ali Solehdin
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Abstract
Methods for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for initiating a control operation for a user-selectable video game character, for emphasizing an advertisement in a computer generated display, and for presenting multiple GUIs in desktop user interfaces using detail-in-context graphical distortions. The method for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for a user-selectable item presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising: receiving a selection signal for the item from a user; distorting the original image to produce a distorted region for the item to provide the user with detailed information for the item; and, receiving a purchase signal for the item from the user.
Claims30
A method for initiating an electronic shopping transaction for a user-selectable item presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising:
- receiving a selection signal for said item from a user;
- distorting said original image to produce a distorted region for said item to provide said user with detailed information for said item;
- and,
- receiving a purchase signal for said item from said user.
The method of claim I wherein said original image includes a DVD image, a video cassette image, a cable television image, a satellite television image, and a video game image.
The method of claim I wherein said distorted region is on said item.
A method for initiating a control operation for a user-selectable video game character presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising:
- receiving a selection signal for said character from a user;
- distorting said original image to produce a distorted region for said character to provide said user with detailed information for said character;
- and,
- receiving a control signal for said character from said user.
A method for emphasizing an advertisement presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising:
- distorting said original image to produce a distorted region for said advertisement to provide a user with detailed information for said advertisement.
A method for presenting a second GUI over a first GUI on a computer display to avoid occlusion of predetermined elements of said first GUI, comprising:
- determining whether overlaying said second GUI on said first GUI will occlude said predetermined elements;
- in response to said determining, distorting said second GUI to produce a distorted GUI having a distorted region avoiding said occlusion of said predetermined elements;
- and,
- overlaying said distorted GUI on said first GUI for presentation on said computer display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.