METHOD OF SYNCHRONIZING MULTIPLE VIEWS OF MULTIPLE DISPLAYED DOCUMENTS

• US 20090187853A1
• Filed: 01/22/2008
• Published: 07/23/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bluebeam, Inc. (Nemetschek SE)
• Original Assignee: Bluebeam, Inc. (Nemetschek SE)
• Inventors: Noyes, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 9,280,254 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/802
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• 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 3/1431 using a single graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1438 using more than one graphics controller
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

There is provided a method of synchronizing multiple views of multiple displayed documents. The method includes displaying a first document in a first viewing window. The method includes displaying a second document in a second viewing window. The method includes determining from the viewing windows an active window. The method includes determining for the active window a scale value and an offset value associated with the display of the associated one of the documents. The method includes redisplaying each document associated with the viewing window that is not the active window by using the determined scale and offset values.

Claims

1. A method of synchronizing multiple views of multiple displayed documents, the method comprising:

displaying a first document in a first viewing window;

displaying a second document in a second viewing window;

determining from the viewing windows an active window;

determining for the active window a scale value and an offset value associated with the display of the associated one of the documents; and

redisplaying each document associated with the viewing window that is not the active window by using the determined scale and offset values.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and second viewing windows are within a single workspace window.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the first and second viewing windows are within separate workspace windows.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the first and second workspace windows are displayed on separate computer monitors.

5. The method of claim 1 further includes determining for the active window a rotation value associated with the display of the associated one of the documents, redisplaying each document associated with the viewing window that is not the active window by using the determined rotation value.

6. The method of claim 1 further includes receiving from the user an updated scale value for the first viewing window, redisplaying the first document in a first viewing window with the updated scale value, redisplaying each document associated with the viewing window that is not the active window by using the updated scale value.

7. The method of claim 1 further includes receiving from the user an updated offset value for the first viewing window, redisplaying the first document in a first viewing window with the updated offset value, redisplaying each document associated with the viewing window that is not the active window by using the updated offset value.

8. The method of claim 1 includes determining for each viewing window a reference offset value and a reference zoom value, the displaying of the first and second documents includes displaying the first and second documents using the reference offset and scale values, the redisplaying of each document includes using the determined reference offset and scale values.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the first viewing window has a first window frame dimension, the second viewing window has a second window frame dimension, the first and second window frame dimensions are the same.

11. A method of synchronizing multiple views of multiple displayed documents, the method comprising:

displaying a first document in a first viewing window;

displaying a second document in a second viewing window, the first and second viewing windows are in separate workspace windows;

determining from the viewing windows an active window;

determining for the active window a scale value and an offset value associated with the display of the associated one of the documents; and

redisplaying each document associated with the viewing window that is not the active window by using the determined scale and offset values.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the first and second workspace windows are displayed on separate computer monitors.