Navigating digital images using detail-in-context lenses
AssigneeNoregin Assets N.V., L.L.C.
InventorsMichael Doyle, Zeenat Jetha, Garth B. D. Shoemaker
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Abstract
In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed.
Claims36
A method comprising:
- constructing an appearance of a lens by a data processing system for display of a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens;
- and
- constructing a zoomed-in view of the image by the data processing system by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed.
A method comprising:
- receiving a signal at a data processing system to zoom-out from a magnified view of an image;
- and
- displaying an animation by the data processing system in response to the receiving, the animation including an appearance of a lens for a region of the magnified view of the image having a magnification that remains constant as a magnification of a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens is decreased.
An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium device having instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by a data processing system, causes the data processing system to perform operations comprising:
- displaying an appearance of a lens for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens;
- and
- displaying an animation that includes increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed.
An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium device having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a data processing system, causes the data processing system to display an animation including an appearance of a lens for a region of a magnified view of an image having a magnification that remains constant as a magnification of a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens is decreased.
A method comprising:
- constructing an animation by a data processing system, the animation including an appearance of a lens for a region of a magnified view of an image having a magnification that remains constant as a magnification of a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens is decreased;
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- causing display of the animation by the data processing system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.