Detail-in-Context Lenses for Interacting with Objects in Digital Image Presentations
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- causing an image of a video game to be displayed by a data processing system;
distorting the image by the data processing system to produce a presentation having a distorted region that gives an appearance of a lens being incorporated within the image, the appearance of the lens having a magnified region that is surrounded by a shoulder region that has a magnification that decreases from that of the magnified region to the image; and
causing the distorted image having the appearance of the lens incorporated within the image to be displayed by the data processing system.
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Abstract
Methods for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for initiating a control operation for a user-selectable video game character, for emphasizing an advertisement in a computer generated display, and for presenting multiple GUIs in desktop user interfaces using detail-in-context graphical distortions. The method for initiating an electronic shopping transaction, for a user-selectable item presented in a computer generated original image on a display, comprising: receiving a selection signal for the item from a user; distorting the original image to produce a distorted region for the item to provide the user with detailed information for the item; and, receiving a purchase signal for the item from the user.
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21 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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causing an image of a video game to be displayed by a data processing system; distorting the image by the data processing system to produce a presentation having a distorted region that gives an appearance of a lens being incorporated within the image, the appearance of the lens having a magnified region that is surrounded by a shoulder region that has a magnification that decreases from that of the magnified region to the image; and causing the distorted image having the appearance of the lens incorporated within the image to be displayed by the data processing system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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- 12. A tangible computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising a video game configured to distort an image of the video game to produce a presentation having a distorted region that gives an appearance of a lens being incorporated within the image, the appearance of the lens having a magnified region that is surrounded by a shoulder region that has a magnification that decreases from that of the magnified region to the image.
- 18. A game console comprising a processor and memory configured to maintain instructions that are executable on the processor to output a video game that includes a control operation that is initiated in response to a selection of a character of the video game, the control operation configured to cause an image of the video game to become distorted to produce a distorted region that includes the character and information for the character.
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