Picture stack

• US 20020167546A1
• Filed: 05/10/2001
• Published: 11/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kimbell, Benjamin D., Geer, Lisa M.
• Application Number:
  US09/854,037
• Publication Number:
  US 20020167546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/790
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor

Abstract

Images are presented to a user directly on the desktop of a graphical user interface in the stylized form of a picture stack, where the user can move among images in the stack by clicking on the stack. Such images may include photographic images captured by a digital camera or scanned into an information handling system.

Claims

1. A method for viewing images via an information handling system utilizing a graphical user interface having a desktop, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of images;

arranging said plurality of images into a picture stack comprising a top and bottom; and

placing said picture stack directly on the desktop of the graphical user interface, wherein said top image of said picture stack is displayed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of images are photographic images.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said placing comprises offsetting said plurality of images from one another.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said plurality of images are substantially the same size as one another.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a mousedown event within the picture stack; and

responding to said mousedown event.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein a second image is positioned behind said top image;

and wherein said responding comprises;

moving said top image to said bottom of said picture stack; and

moving said second image to said top of said picture stack.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein audio data is associated with said top image, further comprising playing said audio data when said top image is displayed.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying on the desktop at least one control separate from said picture stack.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said displaying comprises displaying a toolbar.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising receiving the selection of a control on is said toolbar.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of said plurality of images comprises a border.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising:

instructions for receiving a mousedown event within the picture stack; and

instructions for responding to said mousedown event.

15. The computer program product of claim 14, wherein a second image is positioned behind said top image;

and wherein said instructions for responding comprise;

instructions for moving said top image to said bottom of said picture stack; and

instructions for moving said second image to said top of said picture stack.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein audio data is associated with said top image, further comprising instructions for playing said audio data when said top image is displayed.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, further comprising instructions for displaying on the desktop at least one control separate from said picture stack.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, further comprising instructions for is receiving the selection of at least one said control.

12. A method for viewing images via an information handling system utilizing a graphical user interface having a desktop, the method comprising:

displaying a plurality of images;

arranging said plurality of images into a picture stack comprising a top and bottom, at least one of said images comprising a border, wherein a second image is positioned behind said top image; and

placing said picture stack directly on the desktop of the graphical user interface, wherein said top image of said picture stack is displayed;

receiving a mousedown event within the picture stack;

moving said top image to said bottom of said picture stack; and

moving said second image to said top of said picture stack.

13. A computer program product for use with an information handling system utilizing a graphical user interface having a desktop, the computer program product comprising:

instructions for displaying a plurality of images;

instructions for arranging said plurality of images into a picture stack comprising a top and bottom; and

instructions for placing said picture stack directly on the desktop of the graphical user interface, wherein said top image of said picture stack is displayed.