Methods, systems, and programming for scaled display of web pages
First Claim
1. A method of displaying a web page on a fixed pixel resolution screen, comprising:
- providing a user interface that allows a user to select to generate a first set of one or more inputs and to select to generate a second set or one or more inputs;
responding to whether the user has generated the first set of inputs or the second set of inputs, respectively, by displaying a given web page on said screen with a first scale view or with a second scale view;
wherein;
in the first scale view;
a column containing text has a first width; and
a text string has a first font size relative said first column width; and
in the second scale view;
said column has a second, smaller width; and
said text string has a second font size that is larger relative to said second column width than the first font size is relative to the first column width; and
each character of said text string is displayed each scale views with a font bitmap in which the shape and pixel alignment of the character has been selected to improve readability at the pixel resolution at which the font bitmap is displayed on said screen in said view.
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Abstract
One aspect of the invention can selectively display a web page on a fixed resolution screen at first or second scale view. The second scale view has a smaller column width, but a font size that is larger relative to the column width. Both views displays a string using fonts that are optimized for their display resolution. Another aspect of the invention is similar, but is not limited to use on a fixed resolution display and it allows a user to select to change image size, column width, and relative font size as group. The first and second aspects of the invention can be combined. Image size and horizontal displacements can also be scaled. A third aspect of the invention displays a web page on a fixed pixel resolution screen with the width and horizontal displacement of a column scaled down, and with pixel optimized fonts.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of displaying a web page on a fixed pixel resolution screen, comprising:
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providing a user interface that allows a user to select to generate a first set of one or more inputs and to select to generate a second set or one or more inputs;
responding to whether the user has generated the first set of inputs or the second set of inputs, respectively, by displaying a given web page on said screen with a first scale view or with a second scale view;
wherein;
in the first scale view;
a column containing text has a first width; and
a text string has a first font size relative said first column width; and
in the second scale view;
said column has a second, smaller width; and
said text string has a second font size that is larger relative to said second column width than the first font size is relative to the first column width; and
each character of said text string is displayed each scale views with a font bitmap in which the shape and pixel alignment of the character has been selected to improve readability at the pixel resolution at which the font bitmap is displayed on said screen in said view. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method of displaying a web page on a screen, comprising:
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providing a user interface that allows a user to select to generate a first set of one or more inputs and to select to generate a second set of one or more inputs;
responding to whether the user has generated the first set of inputs or the second set of inputs, respectively, by displaying a given web page on said screen with a first scale view or with a second scale view;
wherein;
in the first scale view;
an image has a first size;
a column, containing text, has a first width; and
a text string has a first font size relative said first image size and column width; and
in the second scale view;
said image has a second, smaller size;
said column has a second, smaller width; and
said text string has a second font size that is larger relative to said second image size and column width than the first font size is relative to the first image size and column width;
the generation of the first and second inputs allows a user to change the display parameters of image size, column width, and relative font size as a group, without the need to separately select to changes two or more of such display parameters. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method of displaying a multi-column web page on a fixed pixel resolution screen, comprising:
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providing a user interface that allows a user to select to generate a first set of one or more inputs and to select to generate a second set of one or more inputs;
responding to whether the user has generated the first set of inputs or the second set of inputs, respectively, by displaying a given web page on said screen with a first scale view or with a second scale view;
wherein;
in the first scale view;
an image has a first size and a first horizontal displacement;
a column, containing text, has a first width and first horizontal displacement; and
a text string has a first font size relative said first image size, column width, and horizontal displacements; and
in the second scale view;
said image has a second, smaller size and a second, smaller horizontal displacement;
said column has a second, smaller width and a second, smaller horizontal displacement; and
said text string has a second font size that is larger relative to said second image size, column width, and horizontal displacements than the first font size is relative to the first image size, column width, and horizontal displacements;
each character of said text string is displayed in each scale view with a font bitmap in which the shape and pixel alignment of the character has been selected to improve readability at the pixel resolution at which the font bitmap is displayed on said screen in said view;
the generation of the first and second inputs allows a user to change the display parameters of image size, column width, horizontal displacements and relative font size as a group, without the need to separately select to changes two or more of such display parameters;
said web page is displayed each scale view with a multi-column layout in which one or more columns is horizontally displaced to the right of another column; and
said first and second horizontal column displacements, respectively, determine the horizontal location of such a horizontally displaced column in said first and second scaled views. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of displaying a web page on a fixed pixel resolution screen, comprising:
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accessing a web page'"'"'s contents, including a text string and specified pixel width and horizontal pixel displacement relative to said web page for a column into which said string is to be laid out;
laying out and displaying said web page on said screen so that;
the column is displayed on the screen with a pixel width proportionally scaled down relative to said specified pixel width and with a horizontal pixel displacement proportionally scaled down relative to said specified horizontal pixel displacement;
each character of said text string is displayed in said column with a font bitmap in which the shape and pixel alignment of the character has been selected to improve readability at the pixel resolution at which the bitmap is displayed on said screen; and
the font used to display the characters of said string represent each character whose shape has two horizontally separated vertical strokes by, in at least in one pixel row, having at least one relatively uncovered pixel horizontally placed between one or more relatively covered pixels on each side representing said two horizontally separated strokes. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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