Image panning and zooming effect

• US 9,245,312 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2012
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Matas, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman, Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Vu
• Application Number:
  US13/676,831
• Publication Number:
  US 20140132638A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,168 Days
• Field of Search: 345/660, 345/672, 715/738, 715/745, 715/788, 715/853
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 13/80 2D [Two Dimensional] animation, e.g. using sprites
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/02 Affine transformations for image registration G06T3/147; for image mosaicing G06T3/4038

Abstract

In one embodiment, when an image is displayed on an electronic device, the image may be panned from one portion to another portion based on information associated with the image or a user viewing the image. In some embodiments, the image may pan starting from a leftmost user in the image and moving to the rightmost user in the image. In some embodiments, the image may pan starting from a specific user near the center of the image and zooming outward until the entire image is displayed. In some embodiments, the image may pan starting from a first user in the image having a highest affinity with the user viewing the image, and ending with a second user in the image having a lowest affinity with the user viewing the image.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying an image on an electronic device to a user of a social-networking system, the image comprising content downloaded from a social graph of the social-networking system, wherein the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, and at least one node of the social graph corresponds to the user;

determining a relationship between the content of the image and the node corresponding to the user accessing the image based on the social graph of the social-networking system; and

displaying an animation of panning the image to display at least a first portion of the image before a second portion of the image to the user accessing the image based on displaying a movement of the image that is determined based on the relationship between the content of the image and the node corresponding to the user of the social-networking system, the first portion of the image being different from the second portion of the image.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users; and

the image is panned starting from a leftmost user in the image, moving from left to right, and ending with a rightmost user in the image.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the image comprises one or more users; and

the image is panned starting from a specific user near the center of the image and zooming outward until the entire image is displayed.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users; and

the image is panned starting from a first user in the image having a highest affinity with the node corresponding to the user accessing the image and ending with a second user in the image having a lowest affinity with the node corresponding to the user accessing the image.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the image comprises one or more users;

the image is panned in response to the user accessing the image selecting a specific user in the image; and

the image is panned starting from the specific user selected by the user accessing the image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users;

a content item associated with a specific user in the image is displayed with the image on the electronic device; and

the image is panned starting from the specific user associated with the content item.

7. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

display an image on an electronic device to a user of a social-networking system, the image comprising content downloaded from a social graph of the social-networking system, wherein the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, and at least one node of the social graph corresponds to the user;

determine a relationship between the content of the image and the node corresponding to the user accessing the image based on the social graph of the social-networking system; and

display an animation of panning the image to display at least a first portion of the image before a second portion of the image to the user accessing the image based on displaying a movement of the image that is determined based on the relationship between the content of the image and the node corresponding to the user of the social-networking system, the first portion of the image being different from the second portion of the image.

8. The media of claim 7, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users; and

the image is panned starting from a leftmost user in the image, moving from left to right, and ending with a rightmost user in the image.

9. The media of claim 7, wherein:

the image comprises one or more users; and

the image is panned starting from a specific user near the center of the image and zooming outward until the entire image is displayed.

10. The media of claim 7, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users; and

the image is panned starting from a first user in the image having a highest affinity with the node corresponding to the user accessing the image and ending with a second user in the image having a lowest affinity with the node corresponding to the user accessing the image.

11. The media of claim 7, wherein:

the image comprises one or more users;

the image is panned in response to the user accessing the image selecting a specific user in the image; and

the image is panned starting from the specific user selected by the user accessing the image.

12. The media of claim 7, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users;

a content item associated with a specific user in the image is displayed with the image on the electronic device; and

the image is panned starting from the specific user associated with the content item.

13. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors operable when executing the instructions to;

display an image on an electronic device to a user of a social-networking system, the image comprising content downloaded from a social graph of the social-networking system, wherein the social graph comprises a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, and at least one node of the social graph corresponds to the user;

determine a relationship between the content of the image and the node corresponding to the user accessing the image based on the social graph of the social-networking system; and

display an animation of panning the image to display at least a first portion of the image before a second portion of the image to the user accessing the image based on displaying a movement of the image that is determined based on the relationship between the content of the image and the node corresponding to the user of the social-networking system, the first portion of the image being different from the second portion of the image.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users; and

the image is panned starting from a leftmost user in the image, moving from left to right, and ending with a rightmost user in the image.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the image comprises one or more users; and

the image is panned starting from a specific user near the center of the image and zooming outward until the entire image is displayed.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users; and

the image is panned starting from a first user in the image having a highest affinity with the node corresponding to the user accessing the image and ending with a second user in the image having a lowest affinity with the node corresponding to the user accessing the image.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the image comprises one or more users;

the image is panned in response to the user accessing the image selecting a specific user in the image; and

the image is panned starting from the specific user selected by the user accessing the image.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein:

the image comprises a plurality of users;

a content item associated with a specific user in the image is displayed with the image on the electronic device; and

the image is panned starting from the specific user associated with the content item.