Data processing system display screen including an image alteration area
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJeffrey Allen Jones, Alvaro Sanchez-Cifuentes
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Abstract
A data processing system, method, and computer program product are disclosed which include a display screen within a housing. The housing includes a horizontal mechanism parallel to a horizontal side of the display screen and a vertical mechanism parallel to a vertical side of the display screen. The display screen includes a display area and an image alteration area. The image alteration area may be accessed through the vertical and horizontal mechanisms. An input may be received at a discrete point along one of the mechanisms. In response to a receipt of an input, an image displayed within the display area is magnified.
Claims3
A display screen within a housing, comprising:
- a horizontal mechanism in the housing parallel to a horizontal side of the display screen;
- a vertical mechanism in the housing parallel to a vertical side of the display screen;
- means for receiving input at at least one discrete point along one of the mechanisms for indicating an area of the display screen to be magnified;
- an open guide through said housing for receiving a pointing device;
- said means for receiving input being an image alteration area;
- said open guide being located over said image alteration area;
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- said pointing device capable of touching said image alteration area when said pointing device is received within said open guide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.