METHOD AND SYSTEM HANDLING IMAGES ON A MULTI-TOUCH DEVICE

• US 20140358877A1
• Filed: 06/04/2013
• Published: 12/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hsiao, Shu-Fang, Lin, Shih-Chiang, Chiang, Kaili
• Granted Patent: US 10,452,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/695
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

Abstract

Disclosed is a system and method for gesture-based content-object rendering. The present disclosure provides for optimized display of a high-resolution image upon receiving input, such as a spread gesture, from a user respective of a displayed low-resolution image. The low-resolution and high-resolution image are subdivided into content objects or blocks and stored in a content database. Upon receiving the user input, the input areas respective of the image is identified, and the high-resolution image block is displayed. Subsequently, adjacent blocks corresponding to the input area are then displayed to effectuate an efficient download of the high-resolution image.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

communicating, via a computing device over a network, a request for content from a content provider, said content provider associated with a database storing a first content version of said content and a second content version of said content, each content version comprising a subdivision of content blocks mapped to respective content blocks of the other content version;

receiving, at the computing device, the first content version in response to said request, said receiving comprising receiving subdivision information describing the subdivision of the first content version;

displaying, via the computing device, the first content version on a display associated with the computing device;

receiving, at the computing device, an input from a user corresponding to the displayed first content version;

identifying, via the computing device, a first content block of the displayed first co version corresponding to the input based on the subdivision information;

fetching, via the computing device, a second content block associated with the second content version based on the subdivision information; and

displaying, via the computing device, the second content block.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said fetching comprises:

communicating a second request for the second content block of the second content version, said second request comprising said subdivision information associated with the identified first content block, wherein said subdivision information is utilized to identify the second content block of the second content version by mapping the identified first content block of the first content version to the second content block of the second content version; and

receiving the second content block based on a result of said mapping.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said displaying the second content block comprises overlaying the second content block over the identified first content block, wherein resultant to said overlaying, the display of the first content object comprises the second content block associated with the second content version and all other first content blocks associated with the first content version.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining an adjacent block to the displayed second content block, said adjacent block being a first content block within said subdivision of the first content version that shares a border with the second content block;

fetching another second content block within said subdivision of the second content version that corresponds to the determined adjacent block based on the subdivision information associated with the adjacent block; and

displaying said another second content block, wherein said displaying comprises overlaying said another second content block of the second content version over said adjacent block.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said fetching said another second content block comprising:

communicating a third request for said another second content block of the second content version that corresponds to the determined adjacent block, said third request comprising said subdivision information associated with said adjacent block, wherein said subdivision information is utilized to identify said another second content block by mapping the determined adjacent block within the subdivision of the first content version to said another second content block of the second content version; and

receiving said another second content block based on a result of said mapping.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising:

determining which version of said content the displayed content blocks correspond to,

wherein, if at least one displayed content block corresponds to the first content version, continue identifying adjacent blocks and fetching second content block versions of said adjacent blocks until the entire displayed image comprises second content blocks associated with the second content version, and

wherein, if the content displayed is entirely comprised of second content blocks associated with the second content version, said second content version is displayed.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said subdivision of the first content version and subdivision of the second content version is based on the resolution of said content.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the computing device comprises multi-touch capabilities, wherein the input is a spread gesture requesting to zoom-in on the displayed first content version.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first content version is a low-resolution version of said content and the second content version is a high-resolution version of said content.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said content is an image.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a computing device, perform a method comprising:

communicating, via a computing device over a network, a request for content from a content provider, said content provider associated with a database storing a first content version of said content and a second content version of said content, each content version comprising a subdivision of content blocks mapped to respective content blocks of the other content version;

receiving, at the computing device, the first content version in response to said request, said receiving comprising receiving subdivision information describing the subdivision of the first content version;

displaying, via the computing device, the first content version on a display associated with be computing device;

receiving, at the computing device, an input from a user corresponding to the displayed first content version;

identifying, via the computing device, a first content block of the displayed first content version corresponding to the input based on the subdivision information;

fetching, via the computing device, a second content block associated with the second content version based on the subdivision information; and

displaying, via the computing device, the second content block.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein said fetching comprises:

communicating a second request for the second content block of the second content version, said second request comprising said subdivision information associated with the identified first content block, wherein said subdivision information is utilized to identify the second content block of the second content version by mapping the identified first content block of the first content version to the second content block of the second content version; and

receiving the second content block based on a result of said mapping.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein said displaying the second content block comprises overlaying the second content block over the identified first content block, wherein resultant to said overlaying, the display of the first content object comprises the second content block associated with the second content version and all other first content blocks associated with the first content version.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, further comprising:

determining an adjacent block to the displayed second content block, said adjacent block being a first content block within said subdivision of the first content version that shares a border with the second content block;

fetching another second content block within said subdivision of the second content version that corresponds to the determined adjacent block based on the subdivision information associated with the adjacent block; and

displaying said another second content block, wherein said displaying comprises overlaying said another second content block of the second content version over said adjacent block.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein said fetching said another second content block comprising:

communicating a third request for said another second content block of the second content version that corresponds to the determined adjacent block, said third request comprising said subdivision information associated with said adjacent block, wherein said subdivision information is utilized to identify said another second content block by mapping the determined adjacent block within the subdivision of the first content version to said another second content block of the second content version; and

receiving said another second content block based on a result of said mapping.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, further comprising:

determining which version of said content the displayed content blocks correspond to,

wherein, if at least one displayed content block corresponds to the first content version, continue identifying adjacent blocks and fetching second content block versions of said adjacent blocks until the entire displayed image comprises second content blocks associated with the second content version, and

wherein, if the content displayed is entirely comprised of second content blocks associated with the second content version, said second content version is displayed.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein said subdivision of the first content version and subdivision of the second content version is based on the resolution of said content.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the first content version is a low-resolution version of said content and the second content version is a high-resolution version of said content.

19. A system comprising:

at least one computing device comprising;

memory storing computer-executable instructions; and

one or more processors for executing said computer-executable instructions, comprising;

communicating a request tier content from a content provider, said content provider associated with a database storing a first content version of said content and a second content version of said content, each content version comprising a subdivision of content blocks mapped to respective content blocks of the other content version;

receiving the first content version in response to said request, said receiving comprising receiving subdivision information describing the subdivision of the first content version;

displaying the first content version on a display associated with the computing device;

receiving an input from a user corresponding to the displayed first content version;

identifying a first content block of the displayed first content version corresponding to the input based on the subdivision information;

fetching a second content block associated with the second content version based on the subdivision information; and

displaying the second content block.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising:

communicating a second request for the second content block of the second content version, said second request comprising said subdivision information associated with the identified first content block, wherein said subdivision information is utilized to identify the second content block of the second content version by mapping the identified first content block of the first content version to the second content block of the second content version; and

receiving the second content block based on a result of said mapping.