Hand-held with auto-zoom for graphical display of Web page

• US 20020030699A1
• Filed: 07/19/2000
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Van Ee, Jan
• Granted Patent: US 6,466,203 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 1/0025 in a remote control unit remote control tuning in general H03J9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H03J 2200/25 Remote control device with display

Abstract

A mobile phone has a display with a touch screen. The device has a browser and is capable of retrieving a Web page from the Internet. The page is first displayed in its entirety. The user can recognize the page'"'"'s general lay-out and presence of hyperlinks. When the user touches a particular location on the touch screen that corresponds to a portion of the page'"'"'s image, the portion gets displayed so as to fill the display'"'"'s area. Thus, the user can browse the Web with a display of limited size.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

an input for receiving data;

a display;

a data processing system connected to the input and to the display for processing the received data and for rendering an image corresponding to the data received;

wherein;

the apparatus has a touch screen for enabling a user to interact with the apparatus;

the system is operative to enable the user to select via the touch screen a portion of the image, when displayed at a first scale, for rendering the selected portion on the display at a second scale larger than the first scale.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the portion selected corresponds to a location on the touch screen.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, being a handheld device.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising a mobile phone.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, comprising a browser.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the data comprises streaming video.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, having wireless Internet access.

8. Software for being installed on an information processing apparatus, wherein:

the apparatus has an input for receiving data, a display, a data processing system connected to the input and to the display for processing the received data and for rendering an image corresponding to the data received, a touch screen for enabling a user to interact with the apparatus; and

the software renders the apparatus operative to enable the user to select via the touch screen a portion of the image, when displayed at a first scale, for rendering the selected portion on the display at a second scale larger than the first scale.