Presentation of large objects on small displays

• US 20070124669A1
• Filed: 09/21/2004
• Published: 05/31/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Makela, Mikko
• Application Number:
  US10/573,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20070124669A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/201
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents

Abstract

A method for presenting at least a part of an object is shown, comprising at least partially dividing at least one object into a plurality of sub-objects, presenting the plurality of sub-objects in a first representation, making at least one sub-object of the plurality of sub-objects an active sub-object, and in response to a user operation on the at least one active sub-object, presenting at least one of the at least one active sub-objects in a second representation. The at least one object may be a 2D object, e.g. a Hypertext Markup Language HTML page or a page of a text document, or a 3D object, e.g. a Virtual Reality Markup Language VRML object, and said display may be integrated in a portable electronic device. The invention further relates to a device, a system, a computer program and a computer program product.

Claims

1. A method for presenting at least a part of an object, comprising:

at least partially dividing at least one object into a plurality of sub-objects;

presenting said plurality of sub-objects in a first representation,

determining at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects to be made an active sub-object; and

making said at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects an active sub-object; and

in response to a user operation on said at least one active sub-object, presenting at least one of said at least one active sub-objects in a second representation.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one object and said sub-objects are 3D-objects.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least one object is a page, and wherein said sub-objects are areas.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said user operation, at least one of said at least one active sub-objects is selected, and wherein at least said selected sub-object is presented in said second representation.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least two sub-objects of said plurality of sub-objects are made active sub-objects.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least partial division of said at least one object into said plurality of sub-objects is based on a structure of at least a part of said at least one object.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein said at least partial division of said at least one object into said plurality of sub-objects is based on a sectioning algorithm.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said first representation, at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects is scaled to a size that is smaller than the original presentation size of said respective sub-object.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said first representation, at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects is cropped.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said first representation, at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects is indicated by an icon.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein sub-objects of said plurality of sub-objects with a size that is above a size threshold, or that contain an amount of information that is above an information threshold are made active sub-objects, or both.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of said at least one active sub-objects is automatically focused, or selected according to a selection criterion, or both.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein in said second representation, said at least one active sub-object is scaled to a size that is larger than its size in said first representation.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein within at least one of said sub-objects presented in said first representation, elements can be directly selected by a user.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of sub-objects is composed of different types of sub-objects, and wherein at least one group of sub-objects of a second type is associated with at least one sub-object of a first type.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein said at least one active sub-object that is present in said second representation is said at least one sub-object of said first type, and wherein in response to a further user operation on said at least one sub-object of said first type, said at least one group of sub-objects of said second type associated with said at least one sub-object of said first type is presented.

17. A computer program with instructions operable to cause a processor to perform the method steps of claim 1.

18. A computer program product comprising a computer program with instructions operable to cause a processor to perform the method steps of claim 1.

19. A device for presenting at least a part of an object, comprising:

means for at least partially dividing at least one object into a plurality of sub-objects;

means for presenting said plurality of sub-objects in a first representation;

means for determining at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects to be made an active sub-object; and

means for making said at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects an active sub-object; and

means for presenting at least one of said at least one active sub-objects in a second representation.

20. The device according to claim 19, wherein said sub-objects are presented on a display of a portable electronic device.

21. A system for presenting at least a part of an object, comprising:

means for at least partially dividing at least one object into a plurality of sub-objects;

means for presenting said plurality of sub-objects in a first representation,

means for determining at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects to be made an active sub-object; and

means for making said at least one sub-object of said plurality of sub-objects an active sub-object; and

means for presenting at least one of said at least one active sub-objects in a second representation.