Elastic presentation space
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Abstract
A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual information; selecting a region of interest within the scaled representation; applying a transformation to the scaled representation to improve the visual detail in the region of interest; and, displaying the transformed presentation on the display screen.
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75 Claims
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I_we. I/we claim:
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1. A system for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen, said system having memory and an input device, comprising:
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a processor coupled to said memory, display screen, and input device and adapted for;
applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
said lens surface shape providing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and blending of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information; and
,displaying said presentation on said display screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer program product having a computer readable medium tangibly embodying computer executable code for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising:
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code for applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
said lens surface shape providing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and blending of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information; and
,code for displaying said presentation on said display screen. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. An article having a computer readable modulated carrier signal being usable over a network, and having means embedded in the computer readable modulated carrier signal for directing a data processing system to display a region of interest within visual information on a display screen, comprising:
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means in the medium for applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
said lens surface shape providing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and blending of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information; and
,means in the medium for displaying said presentation on said display screen. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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