THUMBNAIL ZOOM

• US 20130063495A1
• Filed: 09/10/2011
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Baumgartner, Patrick, Milan, Joseph, Huang, Wei, Hancock, John, Voegele, Drew
• Granted Patent: US 9,721,324 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/666
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/04 Context-preserving transformations, e.g. by using an importance map panospheric to cylindrical image transformations G06T3/12

Abstract

File exploration is facilitated by enabling zoom with respect to a thumbnail as a function of an identified point of interest. More particularly, a scaled thumbnail of the same size as a thumbnail can be presented as a function of an identified point of interest. Furthermore, navigation, among other things, is enabled to allow panning with respect to a scaled thumbnail, for instance.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating file exploration, comprising:

employing at least one processor configured to execute computer-executable instructions stored in memory to perform the following acts;

identifying a scaled thumbnail of same size as a thumbnail as a function of a point of interest specified within the thumbnail or another scaled thumbnail.

2. The method of claim 1, identifying the scaled thumbnail with a different view and unchanged scale.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprises altering the point of interest as a function of a predetermined focal point.

4. The method of claim 3 comprises determining the focal point based on historically specified points of interest.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprises acquiring an alteration with respect to the scaled thumbnail.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprises notifying a program to open a file associated with the thumbnail in a view corresponding to the scaled thumbnail.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprises replacing the thumbnail with the scaled thumbnail.

8. The method of claim 7 further comprises replacing the scaled thumbnail with the thumbnail.

9. A system that facilitates file exploration, comprising:

a processor coupled to a memory, the processor configured to execute the following computer-executable components stored in the memory;

a first component configured to provide a scaled thumbnail of same size as a thumbnail based on an identified point of interest.

10. The system of claim 9, the first component dynamically provides incrementally scaled thumbnails automatically as a function of time.

11. The system of claim 9, the first component automatically provides incrementally scaled thumbnails at an increasingly slower rate.

12. The system of claim 9 further comprises a second component configured to accept a change with respect to underlying content represented by the scaled thumbnail.

13. The system of claim 9 further comprises a second component configured to initiate loading of a file associated with the scaled thumbnail with a view that matches the scaled thumbnail.

14. The system of claim 9 further comprises a second component configured to alter the point of interest as a function of a predetermined focal point.

15. The system of claim 9, the first component is configured to replace the thumbnail with the scaled thumbnail upon detecting a pointer over the thumbnail.

16. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that enables at least one processor to perform the following acts:

replacing a thumbnail with a scaled thumbnail of same size as the thumbnail based on an identified point of interest.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, replacing the thumbnail automatically with incrementally scaled thumbnails at predetermined time intervals.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17 further comprises replacing the thumbnail at increasingly longer time intervals as the scaled thumbnails scale up incrementally.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 further comprises initiating modification of content identified by the scaled thumbnail based on interaction with the scaled thumbnail.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16 further comprises altering the point of interest as a function of a predetermined focal point.