Image panning and zooming effect

• US 10,459,621 B2
• Filed: 09/23/2015
• Issued: 10/29/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Matas, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Li, Grace Q
• Application Number:
  US14/863,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20160054878A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,497 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038

Abstract

A method may include displaying an image on an electronic device to a user of a system, the image comprising content downloaded from the system. The method may include determining a relationship between the content of the image and the user accessing the image based on information from the system, and then displaying an animation of panning the image. The panning of the image may include displaying at least a first portion of the image before a second portion of the image to the user accessing the image based on displaying a movement of the image that is determined based on the relationship between the content of the image and the user. The first portion of the image may be different from the second portion of the image.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying an image on an electronic device to a first user of a system, the first user being a viewer of the image as determined by the system, the image comprising content downloaded from the system, the content comprising one or more entities corresponding to nodes of a social graph, wherein the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, one or more first nodes corresponding to the first user and one or more second nodes corresponding to each of the one or more entities;

determining a relationship between each of the entities of the image and the first user by automatically determining the relationship between each of the entities and the viewer of the image based on information from the social graph indicating an affinity level between the first nodes corresponding to the first user and each of the second nodes corresponding to the one or more entities; and

displaying an animation of panning the image to start from a first portion corresponding to a first entity of the one or more entities and then moving while zoomed in onto a second portion corresponding to one or more second entities of the one or more entities before zooming out to display the whole image,

wherein when it is determined that the one or more second entities of the image comprise at least one second user, the movement of the animation of panning the image is determined based on the affinity level between the first nodes corresponding to the first user and the second nodes corresponding to the one or more second entities, and

wherein when it is determined that the content of the image does not comprise at least one second user, the movement of the animation of panning the image is determined based on one or more properties of the one or more second entities.

2. The method of claim 1,

wherein the one or more second entities each corresponds to the at least one second user, the at least one second user corresponding to a node of the social graph;

and

the method further comprises, when the first user is accessing the image while viewing one or more content items associated with one or more third users,

determining whether any of the third users corresponds to the at least one second user of the image; and

in response to determining that at least one of the third users corresponds to the at least one second user, panning the image starting from the user in the image that corresponds to the at least one second user.

3. The method of claim 2,

wherein when the image comprises more than one user, the animation comprises panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the at least one second user, and then to each of the other users of the image;

and

wherein when the image comprises only one user, the animation comprises panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the at least one second user, and then zooming outward until the entirety of the image is displayed.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more content items comprises one or more of:

a user profile associated with the second user;

an original post associated with the second user;

a comment on a post associated with the second user;

or

a reshare of a post associated with the second user.

5. The method of claim 1,

wherein the one or more second entities each corresponds to the at least one second user, the at least one second user corresponding to a node of the social graph;

and

the method further comprises, when the image is sent from the first user to a third user through a server,

determining whether either the first user or the third user corresponds to at least one second user of the image;

in response to determining that the first user corresponds to the at least one second user of the image, panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the first user; and

in response to determining that the third user corresponds to the at least one second user of the image, panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the third user.

6. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

display an image on an electronic device to a first user of a system, the first user being a viewer of the image as determined by the system, the image comprising content downloaded from the system, the content comprising one or more entities corresponding to nodes of a social graph, wherein the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, one or more first nodes corresponding to the first user and one or more second nodes corresponding to each of the one or more entities;

determine a relationship between each of the entities of the image and the first user by automatically determining the relationship between each of the entities and the viewer of the image based on information from the social graph indicating an affinity level between the first nodes corresponding to the first user and each of the second nodes corresponding to the one or more entities; and

display an animation of panning the image to start from a first portion corresponding to a first entity of the one or more entities and then moving while zoomed in onto a second portion corresponding to one or more second entities of the one or more entities before zooming out to display the whole image,

wherein when it is determined that the one or more second entities of the image comprise at least one second user, the movement of the animation of panning the image is determined based on the affinity level between the first nodes corresponding to the first user and the second nodes corresponding to the one or more second entities, and

wherein when it is determined that the content of the image does not comprise at least one second user, the movement of the animation of panning the image is determined based on one or more properties of the one or more second entities.

7. The media of claim 6,

wherein the one or more second entities each corresponds to the at least one second user, the at least one second user corresponding to a node of the social graph;

and

the method further comprises, when the first user is accessing the image while viewing one or more content items associated with one or more third users,

determining whether any of the third users corresponds to the at least one second user of the image; and

in response to determining that at least one of the third users corresponds to the at least one second user, panning the image starting from the user in the image that corresponds to the at least one second user.

8. The media of claim 7,

wherein when the image comprises more than one user, the animation comprises panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the at least one second user, and then to each of the other users of the image;

and

wherein when the image comprises only one user, the animation comprises panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the at least one second user, and then zooming outward until the entirety of the image is displayed.

9. The media of claim 7, wherein the one or more content items comprises one or more of:

a user profile associated with the second user;

an original post associated with the second user;

a comment on a post associated with the second user;

or

a reshare of a post associated with the second user.

10. The media of claim 6,

wherein the one or more second entities each corresponds to the at least one second user, the at least one second user corresponding to a node of the social graph;

and

the method further comprises, when the image is sent from the first user to a third user through a server,

determining whether either the first user or the third user corresponds to at least one second user of the image;

in response to determining that the first user corresponds to the at least one second user of the image, panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the first user; and

in response to determining that the third user corresponds to the at least one second user of the image, panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the third user.

11. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to;

display an image on an electronic device to a first user of a system, the first user being a viewer of the image as determined by the system, the image comprising content downloaded from the system, the content comprising one or more entities corresponding to nodes of a social graph, wherein the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, one or more first nodes corresponding to the first user and one or more second nodes corresponding to each of the one or more entities;

determine a relationship between each of the entities of the image and the first user by automatically determining the relationship between each of the entities and the viewer of the image based on information from the social graph indicating an affinity level between the first nodes corresponding to the first user and each of the second nodes corresponding to the one or more entities; and

display an animation of panning the image to start from a first portion corresponding to a first entity of the one or more entities and then moving while zoomed in onto a second portion corresponding to one or more second entities of the one or more entities before zooming out to display the whole image,

wherein when it is determined that the one or more second entities of the image comprise at least one second user, the movement of the animation of panning the image is determined based on the affinity level between the first nodes corresponding to the first user and the second nodes corresponding to the one or more second entities, and

wherein when it is determined that the content of the image does not comprise at least one second user, the movement of the animation of panning the image is determined based on one or more properties of the one or more second entities.

12. The system of claim 11,

wherein the one or more second entities each corresponds to the at least one second user, the at least one second user corresponding to a node of the social graph;

and

the method further comprises, when the first user is accessing the image while viewing one or more content items associated with one or more third users,

determining whether any of the third users corresponds to the at least one second user of the image; and

in response to determining that at least one of the third users corresponds to the image the at least one second user, panning the image starting from the user in the image that corresponds to the at least one second user.

13. The system of claim 12,

wherein when the image comprises more than one user, the animation comprises panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the at least one second user, and then to each of the other users of the image;

and

wherein when the image comprises only one user, the animation comprises panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the at least one second user, and then zooming outward until the entirety of the image is displayed.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more content items comprises one or more of:

a user profile associated with the second user;

an original post associated with the second user;

a comment on a post associated with the second user;

or

a reshare of a post associated with the second user.

15. The system of claim 11,

wherein the one or more second entities each corresponds to the at least one second user, the at least one second user corresponding to a node of the social graph;

and

the method further comprises, when the image is sent from the first user to a third user through a server,

determining whether either the first user or the third user corresponds to at least one second user of the image;

in response to determining that the first user corresponds to the at least one second user of the image, panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the first user; and

in response to determining that the third user corresponds to the at least one second user of the image, panning the image starting from the user in the image corresponding to the third user.