Optimal Viewing of Digital Images and Voice Annotation Transitions in Slideshows

• US 20100013861A1
• Filed: 07/31/2009
• Published: 01/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Palm, Inc. (TCL Technology Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Su, Yingfeng, Saft, Keith, Crowley, Matthew W.
• Granted Patent: US 8,255,795 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/667
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A system and a method are disclosed for optimally viewing a non-square aspect ratio photo or video within a non-square aspect ratio display area of a screen. In addition, a system and a method are disclosed for positioning and storing a reference point (e.g., a relative center point) of an image within a display area of a screen. Further, in a slideshow configuration, a system and a method allows for transition between images using sound annotations associates with a particular image.

Claims

1. A method for storing an image, the method comprising:

identifying a coordinate system for a viewable area within a screen;

retrieving the image for display within the viewable area of the screen;

providing for display a first position of the image, the first position corresponding to the image having a first portion displayed within the display area and a second portion being out of the viewable area, the first position corresponding to a first reference point within the coordinate system;

moving the image to a second position, the second position corresponding to the image having a third portion displayed within the viewable area and a fourth portion being out of the viewable area, the displaying of the image within the viewable area and the image unaltered between the first position and the second position;

identifying coordinates of a second reference point for the image in the second position within the coordinate system;

storing the coordinates of the second reference point; and

subsequently retrieving and providing for display the image in the second position based on the stored coordinates of the second reference point.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving reference coordinates associated with the image.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying the second position of the image in response to retrieval of the reference coordinates.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first reference point is a center of the display area in the first position and the second reference point is a center of the viewable area in the second position.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the image is retrieved from a remote storage.

6. A computer readable storage medium storing instructions thereon, the instructions, when executed by a processor cause the processor to:

identify a coordinate system for a viewable area within a screen;

retrieve the image for display within the viewable area of the screen;

provide for display a first position of the image, the first position corresponding to the image having a first portion displayed within the display area and a second portion being out of the viewable area, the first position corresponding to a first reference point within the coordinate system;

move the image to a second position, the second position corresponding to the image having a third portion displayed within the viewable area and a fourth portion being out of the viewable area, the displaying of the image within the viewable area and the image unaltered between the first position and the second position;

identify coordinates of a second reference point for the image in the second position within the coordinate system;

store the coordinates of the second reference point; and

subsequently retrieve and provide for display the image in the second position based on the stored coordinates of the second reference point.

7. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to retrieve reference coordinates associated with the image.

8. The computer program product of claim 7, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to display the second position of the image in response to retrieval of the reference coordinates.

9. The computer program product of claim 6, wherein the first reference point is a center of the viewable area in the first position and the second reference point is a center of the viewable area in the second position.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 6, wherein the instructions further comprise instructions that cause the processor to receive the image from a remote storage.