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Embedded navigation interface

  • US 7,707,516 B2
  • Filed: 05/26/2006
  • Issued: 04/27/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/26/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of navigating imagery, comprising:

  • providing a user interface for presentation on a display device, the user interface including a display area for presenting imagery;

    providing a navigation interface overlying the imagery, the navigation interface including a rotation control for rotating the imagery in the display area in response to a user interaction with the rotation control, where the rotation control includes a direction indicating portion thereon, the direction indicating portion indicates a predetermined compass direction associated with the imagery;

    receiving a user input invoking the direction indicating portion of the rotation control; and

    restoring the imagery and the rotation control synchronously to a predetermined orientation in the display area such that the direction indicating portion of the rotation control indicates the predetermined compass direction associated with the imagery.

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