Methods to Pan, Zoom, Crop, and Proportionally Move on a Head Mountable Display

An apparatus, including a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by a computing device, cause the apparatus to perform functions comprising:

• displaying at least one viewable object on a display, wherein the apparatus is configured to receive head-movement data corresponding to head movements and to receive hand-movement data corresponding to inputs from a hand-movement input device;
• panning the at least one viewable object on the display based on received head-movement data;
• zooming the at least one viewable object on the display based on received hand-movement data;
• receiving an indication that navigation of the at least one viewable object is complete, wherein the navigation of the at least one viewable object includes panning the at least one viewable object on the display based on the head-movement data, and zooming the at least one viewable object on the display based on the hand-movement data;
• determining whether a cropping mode is activated;
• and
• responsive to determining that the cropping mode is activated, generating a cropped image of the at least one viewable object on the display resulting from the navigation of the at least one viewable object being complete.

A computing device, comprising:

• a hand-movement input device;
• a display;
• a processor;
• and
• a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions that, upon execution by the processor, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:
• displaying at least one viewable object on the display, wherein the computing device is configured to receive head-movement data corresponding to head movements and to receive hand-movement data corresponding to inputs from the hand-movement input device;
• receiving head-movement data;
• panning the at least one viewable object on the display based on the head-movement data;
• receiving hand-movement data;
• zooming the at least one viewable object on the display based on the hand-movement data;
• receiving an indication that navigation of the at least one viewable object is complete, wherein the navigation of the at least one viewable object includes panning the at least one viewable object on the display based on the head-movement data, and zooming the at least one viewable object on the display based on the hand-movement data;
• determining whether a cropping mode is activated;
• and
• responsive to determining that the cropping mode is activated, generating a cropped image of the at least one viewable object on the display resulting from the navigation of the at least one viewable object being complete.