Dynamic image presentation

• US 9,383,916 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2010
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Srinivasan, Sridhar, Zhu, Rui, Denney, Justin Samuel
• Primary Examiner(s): He, Yingchun
• Application Number:
  US12/770,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20110074824A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,258 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04808 Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen
• 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: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0286 Details of a shift registers arranged for use in a driving circuit
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0442 Handling or displaying different aspect ratios, or changing the aspect ratio
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/045 Zooming at least part of an image, i.e. enlarging it or shrinking it
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0464 Positioning
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/14 Solving problems related to the presentation of information to be displayed
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3225 using an active matrix
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T

Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for efficiently organizing images in a display. A size of an image is scaled by an image scale factor, while an aspect ratio for the image is maintained, where the image scale factor comprises a combination of a first scale distance and a second scale distance. The scaled image is filled into a first display line, if the size of the scaled image is not greater than an amount of display space remaining in the first display line; otherwise the scaled image is filled into a second display line. The image is expanded to mitigate white space in the display after the scaling, while maintaining the image'"'"'s aspect ratio. This can be performed for a collection of images presented on a display to provide an enhanced user experience.

Claims

1. A method, implemented at least in part via a processing unit, comprising:

responsive to receiving a zoom indication in association with a first arrangement of images, creating a second arrangement of images by at least one of filling an image from a second display line into a first display line if a size of the image is not greater than an amount of display space remaining in the first display line after receiving the zoom indication or filling the image from the first display line into the second display line if the size of the image is greater than the amount of display space remaining in the first display line after receiving the zoom indication, the zoom indication corresponding to a scale factor that is a non-linear function described by

2. The method of claim 1, the method performed at least in part via a computing device.

3. The method of claim 2, the computing device comprising a smart phone.

4. The method of claim 2, the computing device comprising a portable media player.

5. The method of claim 2, the computing device comprising a personal digital assistant.

6. The method of claim 2, the computing device comprising a touch screen device.

7. The method of claim 2, the computing device comprising a mobile device.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

providing for scrolling a display comprising the second arrangement of images in merely two opposite directions.

9. The method of claim 8, the two opposite directions comprising a horizontal direction.

10. The method of claim 8, the two opposite directions comprising a vertical direction.

11. The method of claim 1, the non-linear function comprising an exponential function.

12. The method of claim 1, at least one of the first arrangement of images or the second arrangement of images associated with a search query.

13. The method of claim 1, the first display line different than the second display line.

14. A system, comprising:

one or more processing units; and

memory comprising instructions that when executed by at least one of the one or more processing units, perform a method comprising;

responsive to receiving a zoom indication in association with a first arrangement of images, creating a second arrangement of images by at least one of filling an image from a second display line into a first display line if a size of the image is not greater than an amount of display space remaining in the first display line after receiving the zoom indication or filling the image from the first display line into the second display line if the size of the image is greater than the amount of display space remaining in the first display line after receiving the zoom indication, the zoom indication corresponding to a scale factor that is a combination of a previous scale factor and a function described by

15. The system of claim 14, comprising a mobile device.

16. The system of claim 14, comprising a portable media player.

17. The system of claim 14, comprising a touch screen device.

18. The system of claim 14, comprising a personal digital assistant.

19. A computer readable memory comprising instructions that when executed, perform a method, comprising:

responsive to receiving a zoom indication in association with a first arrangement of images, creating a second arrangement of images by at least one of filling an image from a second display line into a first display line if a size of the image is not greater than an amount of display space remaining in the first display line after receiving the zoom indication or filling the image from the first display line into the second display line if the size of the image is greater than the amount of display space remaining in the first display line after receiving the zoom indication, the zoom indication corresponding to a scale factor that is a combination of a previous scale factor and a function described by

20. The computer readable memory of claim 19, wherein at least one of the first arrangement of images or the second arrangement of images are associated with a search query.