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US 2016/0078593 A1Published application
Universal digital content zooming techniques
Assigneebarnesandnoble.com llc
InventorAmir Mesguich Havilio
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Assigneebarnesandnoble.com llc
InventorAmir Mesguich Havilio
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Techniques are disclosed for digital content zooming. In one example case, the hypotenuse of the digital content (or a combination of both height and width values of the content) is initially set to provide the 100% zoom level and is subsequently used to resize or zoom that content. In particular, an arbitrary constant that is independent of the content itself is used to define the initial or 100% zoom level at which the content is initially displayed. The arbitrary constant may be, for example, a hypotenuse size in pixels, or a specific combination of height and width in pixels. In one specific example, the arbitrary constant can be selected based on, for instance, an average of current physical screen and/or virtual viewing window resolutions' hypotenuse sizes, in pixels. In any case, the arbitrary constant can be used to set the initial size of the content, and to compute zoom steps.
A method for zooming content in an electronic display system, the method comprising:
A computer program product comprising a plurality of instructions non-transiently encoded thereon that when executed by one or more processors cause a process for zooming content in an electronic display system to be carried out, the process comprising:
A computing system comprising:
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