Hand-held with auto-zoom for graphical display of web page
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1. A handheld communication device comprising:
- a wireless modem for receiving data;
a display that has a substantially small size suitable for in the handheld communication device;
a data processing system connected to the modem and to the display for processing the received data and for rendering an image corresponding to the data received;
a touch screen for enabling a user to interact with the device;
wherein;
the system is operative to enable the user to select through a touch location on the touch screen a portion of the image, when displayed at a first scale, for rendering the selected portion on the display at a second scale larger than the first scale thereby facilitating a selection of a feature; and
the selected portion when rendered at the first second scale is a zoomed-in version of part of the image at the first scale substantially centered around the touch screen location.
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Abstract
A mobile phone has a display with a touch screen. The device has a browser and is capable of retrieving a Web page from the Internet. The page is first displayed in its entirety. The user can recognize the page'"'"'s general lay-out and presence of hyperlinks. When the user touches a particular location on the touch screen that corresponds to a portion of the page'"'"'s image, the portion gets displayed so as to fill the display'"'"'s area. Thus, the user can browse the Web with a display of limited size.
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7 Claims
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1. A handheld communication device comprising:
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a wireless modem for receiving data; a display that has a substantially small size suitable for in the handheld communication device; a data processing system connected to the modem and to the display for processing the received data and for rendering an image corresponding to the data received; a touch screen for enabling a user to interact with the device; wherein; the system is operative to enable the user to select through a touch location on the touch screen a portion of the image, when displayed at a first scale, for rendering the selected portion on the display at a second scale larger than the first scale thereby facilitating a selection of a feature; and the selected portion when rendered at the first second scale is a zoomed-in version of part of the image at the first scale substantially centered around the touch screen location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7)
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6. Software for being installed on a A handheld communication device, comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium embodying software, the device comprising:
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a wireless modem for receiving data; a display that has a substantially small size suitable for in the handheld communication device; a data processing system connected to the input and to the display for processing the received data and for rendering an image corresponding to the data received; a touch screen for enabling a user to interact with the device; wherein; the software is operative to enable the user to select through a touch location on the touch screen a portion of the image, when displayed at a first scale, for rendering the selected portion on the display at a second scale larger than the “
first scale;
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, thereby facilitating a selection of a feature,the selected portion when rendered at the first second scale is a zoomed-in version of part of the image at the first scale substantially centered around the touch screen location.
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