Method and system for displaying stereoscopic detail-in-context presentations
First Claim
1. A method for presenting an image with a graphical user interface (“
- GUI”
), the method comprising;
causing a display of a detail-in-context presentation including a stereoscopic lens in the image, wherein a focal region of the stereoscopic lens is at a first height above portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens; and
causing a display of a lens control icon of the GUI at a second height above the portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens in the detail-in-context presentation,wherein the lens control icon is configured to allow control of a characteristic of the focal region of the stereoscopic lens,wherein the first height and the second height are not zero, andwherein the characteristic of the focal region comprises at least one of a magnification of the entire focal region or a size of the focal region.
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Abstract
A method for generating a stereoscopic presentation of a region-of-interest in a monoscopic information representation. The method includes the steps of: (a) selecting first and second viewpoints for the region-of-interest; (b) creating a lens surface having a predetermined lens surface shape for the region-of-interest, the lens surface having a plurality of polygonal surfaces constructed from a plurality of points sampled from the lens surface shape; (c) creating first and second transformed presentations by overlaying the representation on the lens surface and perspectively projecting the lens surface with the overlaid representation onto a plane spaced from the first and second viewpoints, respectively; and, (d) displaying the first and second transformed presentations on a display screen to generate the stereoscopic presentation.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for presenting an image with a graphical user interface (“
- GUI”
), the method comprising;causing a display of a detail-in-context presentation including a stereoscopic lens in the image, wherein a focal region of the stereoscopic lens is at a first height above portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens; and causing a display of a lens control icon of the GUI at a second height above the portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens in the detail-in-context presentation, wherein the lens control icon is configured to allow control of a characteristic of the focal region of the stereoscopic lens, wherein the first height and the second height are not zero, and wherein the characteristic of the focal region comprises at least one of a magnification of the entire focal region or a size of the focal region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A data processing system comprising:
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a processor and memory having instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the data processing system to perform operations comprising; causing a display of a detail-in-context presentation including a stereoscopic lens in an image, wherein a focal region of the stereoscopic lens is at a first height above portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens; and causing a display of a lens control icon of a graphical user interface (“
GUI”
) at a second height above the portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens in the detail-in-context presentation,wherein the lens control icon is configured to allow control of a characteristic of the focal region of the stereoscopic lens, wherein the first height and the second height are not zero, and wherein the characteristic of the focal region comprises at least one of a magnification of the entire focal region or a size of the focal region. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. At least one computer-readable storage device including instructions executable to cause a data processing system to:
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cause a display of a detail-in-context presentation including a stereoscopic lens in an image, wherein a focal region of the stereoscopic lens is at a first height above portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens; and cause a display of a lens control icon of a graphical user interface (“
GUI”
) at a second height above portions of the image outside of the stereoscopic lens in the detail-in-context presentation,wherein the lens control icon is configured to allow control of a characteristic of the focal region of the stereoscopic lens, wherein the first height and the second height are not zero, and wherein the characteristic of the focal region comprises at least one of a magnification of the entire focal region or a size of the focal region. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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