Compound lenses for multi-source data presentation
First Claim
1. A method comprising:
- displaying, by a data processing system, an image having an appearance of a compound lens that includes a focal region at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region across which magnification decreases from a magnification of the focal region to a magnification of a region of the image outside the appearance of the lens, the focal region including a plurality of facets, each facet having substantially similar magnifications, one to another; and
responsive to receipt of data indicating selection of one of the facets of the appearance of the conpound lens, transitioning from a display of the appearance of the compound lens having the plurality of facets to a display of an appearance of a simplex lens having a single facet having data from the selected facet of the appearance of the compound lens.
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Abstract
A method in a computer system for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen, the original image having one or more images relating to the region-of-interest, the method comprising: establishing a lens for the region-of-interest, the lens having a focal region with a magnification for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region across which the magnification varies to provide a continuous transition from the focal region to regions outside the lens; subdividing the focal region into one or more facets, each facet for displaying a respective image relating to the region-of-interest; and, applying the lens to the original image to produce the presentation.
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28 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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displaying, by a data processing system, an image having an appearance of a compound lens that includes a focal region at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region across which magnification decreases from a magnification of the focal region to a magnification of a region of the image outside the appearance of the lens, the focal region including a plurality of facets, each facet having substantially similar magnifications, one to another; and responsive to receipt of data indicating selection of one of the facets of the appearance of the conpound lens, transitioning from a display of the appearance of the compound lens having the plurality of facets to a display of an appearance of a simplex lens having a single facet having data from the selected facet of the appearance of the compound lens. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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- 14. A tangible computer-readable medium comprising instructions that are stored thereon and that are executable to cause a computing device to transition from a display of an image having an appearance of a compound lens that includes a plurality of facets with substantially similar magnifications in a focal region of the compound lens, to a display of the image that includes an appearance of a simplex lens that has a single facet which forms a focal region of the simplex lens and which includes data from a selected facet of the plurality of facets of the appearance of the compound lens, the focal region of the simpliest lens has a magnification and is at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region across which magnification continuously decreases from the magnification of the focal region of the simplex lens to a magnification of a region of the image outside the appearance of the simplex lens.
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23. A data processing system comprising a processor and memory having instructions that are executable by the processor to cause the data processing system to perform operations comprising:
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applying an appearance of a compound lens having a plurality of facets with substantially similar magnifications in a focal region to an image, the appearance of the compound lens including the focal region at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region across which magnification decreases from the substantially similar magnifications of the plurality of facets of the focal region to a magnification of a region of the image outside the appearance of the compound lens; and applying an appearance of a simplex lens having a single facet to the image to replace the appearance of the compound lens in response to receipt of an input that indicates selection of one of the plurality of facets of the appearance of the compound lens. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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