Elastic presentation space
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1. A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising:
- scaling said visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on said display screen;
selecting a region of interest within said scaled representation;
applying a transformation to said scaled representation to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest, wherein said lens surface is comprised of a plurality of polygonal surfaces constructed from a plurality of points sampled from said lens surface shape;
selecting parameters for said polygonal surfaces including size, shape, number, density, and pattern; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said scaled representation on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said overlaid scaled representation onto a plane; and
, displaying said presentation on said display screen.
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A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual information; selecting a region of interest within the scaled representation; applying a transformation to the scaled representation to improve the visual detail in the region of interest; and, displaying the transformed presentation on the display screen.
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1. A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising:
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scaling said visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on said display screen;
selecting a region of interest within said scaled representation;
applying a transformation to said scaled representation to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest, wherein said lens surface is comprised of a plurality of polygonal surfaces constructed from a plurality of points sampled from said lens surface shape;
selecting parameters for said polygonal surfaces including size, shape, number, density, and pattern; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said scaled representation on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said overlaid scaled representation onto a plane; and
,displaying said presentation on said display screen. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A method for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer comprising;
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applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest, wherein said lens surface is comprised of a plurality of polygonal surfaces constructed from a plurality of points sampled from said lens surface shape;
selecting parameters for said polygonal surfaces including size, shape, number, density, and pattern; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane; and
,displaying said presentation on said display screen. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51)
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52. A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer comprising:
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scaling said visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on said display screen;
selecting a region of interest within said scaled representation;
applying a transformation to said scaled representation to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said scaled representation on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said overlaid scaled representation onto a plane; and
,displaying said presentation on said display screen, wherein;
said visual information is a newspaper page including a column;
said region of interest includes said column; and
,said lens surface shape is selected to provide partial overwriting of areas of said newspaper page adjacent to said column and to blend said lens surface into undistorted areas of said newspaper page. - View Dependent Claims (53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75)
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76. A method for displaying a region of interest within visual information on a display screen of a computer comprising:
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applying a transformation to said visual information to improve visual detail in said region of interest by;
creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for said region of interest; and
, creating a presentation by overlaying said visual information on said lens surface and projecting said lens surface with said visual information onto a plane;
said lens surface shape providing overwriting of at least a portion of said visual information adjacent to said region of interest and blending of at least a portion of said lens surface into at least one undistorted area of said visual information; and
,displaying said presentation on said display screen. - View Dependent Claims (77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100)
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