Elastic presentation space
AssigneeIdelix Software Inc.
InventorsDavid J. P. Baar, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, David J. Cowperthwaite, Mark Tigges, Robert Komar, Jerome F. Bauer
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Abstract
A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual information; selecting a region of interest within the scaled representation; applying a transformation to the scaled representation to improve the visual detail in the region of interest; and, displaying the transformed presentation on the display screen.
Claims99
A system for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen, said system having memory and an input device, comprising:
- a processor coupled to said memory, display screen, and input device and adapted for:
- applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by:
- creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest;
- and, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said information onto a plane;
- said lens surface shape causing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and tapering of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information;
- and,
- displaying said presentation on said display screen.
A computer program product having a computer readable medium tangibly embodying computer executable code for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising:
- code for applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by:
- creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest;
- and, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
- said lens surface shape causing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and tapering of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information;
- and,
- code for displaying said presentation on said display screen.
A method for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen, comprising:
- applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by:
- creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest;
- and, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
- said lens surface shape providing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and blending of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information;
- and,
- displaying said presentation on said display screen.
A system for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen, said system having memory and an input device, comprising:
- a processor coupled to said memory, display screen, and input device and adapted for:
- applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by:
- creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest;
- and, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
- said lens surface shape providing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and blending of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information;
- and,
- displaying said presentation on said display screen;
- wherein said region of interest, said lens surface, and said lens surface shape include a plurality of regions of interest, a plurality of lens surfaces, and a plurality of lens surface shapes, respectively.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.