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20090147023 | DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENSES FOR DIGITAL IMAGE CROPPING AND MEASUREMENT - In one or more implementations, a cropped image is defined within a boundary on an original image displayed on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the original image displayed on the display, the appearance of the lens including a focal region and a base region. A graphical user interface (“GUI”) is displayed on the display for adjusting the appearance of the lens. | 06-11-2009 |
20090172587 | DYNAMIC DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT USER INTERFACE FOR APPLICATION ACCESS AND CONTENT ACCESS ON ELECTRONIC DISPLAYS - A method for presenting applications on a display screen, comprising: displaying a first presentation on the display screen, the first presentation including two or more icons; receiving a signal indicative of an icon, the icon being one of the two or more icons, the icon having an application associated therewith; initiating the application, the application having information associated therewith; generating a second presentation, the second presentation having a first area for presenting the information at least partially surrounded by a second area for presenting reduced-size versions of the two or more icons other than the icon; and, displaying the second presentation on the display screen to replace display of the first presentation. | 07-02-2009 |
20090265656 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE HAVING AN ATTACHED TOOLBAR FOR DRAG AND DROP EDITING IN DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENS PRESENTATIONS - Detail-in-context techniques are described. In an implementation, an original image is distorted to produce a distorted region for a selected object at a first position in an original image displayed on a display screen. The distorted region magnifies at least a portion of the object. A signal is received to drag the object and the distorted region from the first position to a second position. A signal is received to drop the object at the second position. The distorted region is removed from the original image after the object is dropped at the second position. | 10-22-2009 |
20090284542 | LENS-DEFINED ADJUSTMENT OF DISPLAYS - In an implementation, an image is distorted for display on a display device to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the image. A brightness level of the appearance of the lens for display on the display device is adjusted such that the brightness level of the appearance of the lens differs from a brightness level of the portion of the image that surrounds the appearance of the lens. | 11-19-2009 |
20100026718 | DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENSES FOR DIGITAL IMAGE CROPPING, MEASUREMENT AND ONLINE MAPS - In one or more implementations, a signal is received selecting a geographic location in an original image of a digital map for display on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the digital map for display on the display, the appearance of the lens including a focal region that includes a magnification of the geographic location and a base region that surrounds the focal region. | 02-04-2010 |
20100045702 | Navigating Digital Images using Detail-in-context Lenses - In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed. | 02-25-2010 |
20110069086 | Detail-in-Context Presentations in Client/Server Systems - A method for generating a presentation of a region-of-interest in an original image for display on a display screen of a client coupled over a network to a server, comprising: establishing a lens having a focal region for the region-of-interest at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region; if the lens is in transit between first and second locations for the region-of-interest in the original image, applying the lens to the original image by a first method to generate the presentation at the client; and, if the lens is stationary in the original image, receiving the presentation from the server, the server applying the lens to the original image by a second method to generate the presentation. | 03-24-2011 |
20120121207 | NAVIGATING DIGITAL IMAGES USING DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENSES - In an implementation, an appearance of lens is displayed on a display device for a selected region of an image to magnify the selected region of the image in comparison with a portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens. A zoomed-in view of the image is displayed on the display device by increasing magnification of the portion of the image outside the appearance of the lens successively as an animation until the magnification of the portion of the image outside of the appearance of the lens corresponds with the magnification of the selected region of the image within the appearance of the lens, at which point the appearance of the lens is no longer displayed. | 05-17-2012 |
20120200606 | DETAIL-IN-CONTEXT LENSES FOR DIGITAL IMAGE CROPPING, MEASUREMENT AND ONLINE MAPS - In one or more implementations, a signal is received selecting a geographic location in an original image of a digital map for display on a display. The original image is distorted to give an appearance of a lens being applied to the digital map for display on the display, the appearance of the lens including a focal region that includes a magnification of the geographic location and a base region that surrounds the focal region. | 08-09-2012 |
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20090024476 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED GEOGRAPHICALLY-BASED AND TIME-BASED ONLINE ADVERTISING - A method for presenting advertisement images on a display screen, comprising: subdividing a map image into a plurality of geographic regions; associating a first advertisement image with a first region and a second advertisement image with a second region, the first and second regions being ones of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal indicative of a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest being another of the plurality of geographic regions; selecting an advertisement image for the region-of-interest from among the first and second advertisement images; generating a presentation of the region-of-interest, the presentation including a view of the advertisement image; and, displaying the presentation on the display screen. | 01-22-2009 |
20090204672 | CLIENT-SERVER SYSTEM FOR PERMISSIONS-BASED LOCATING SERVICES AND LOCATION-BASED ADVERTISING - A method in a server coupled to a device through a network for delivering message content to the device, the method comprising: maintaining at the server a message content store, the message content store including message content sorted by geographic position, class, and subclass; receiving at the server from the device a request message for message content, the request message including a geographic position of the device, an extent of a geographic region surrounding the geographic position of the device, a class, and a subclass; determining at the server the message content using the geographic position, the extent, the class, and the subclass; and, sending a response message including the message content from the server to the device, wherein the message content is displayed on a display screen of the device. | 08-13-2009 |
20110137735 | USES OF MULTIPLE LOCATION PARAMETERS, POLYGONAL EXCLUSION AND INCLUSION ZONES, AND OTHER INPUT DATA IN LOCATION-COUPLED INFORMATION SELECTION - A method for presenting advertisement images on a display screen, comprising: subdividing a map image into a plurality of geographic regions; associating an advertisement image with a region of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal indicative of a group of regions of the plurality of geographic regions; receiving a signal indicative of a region-of-interest, the region-of-interest corresponding to at least one region of the plurality of geographic regions; determining whether the region and the region-of-interest are included in the group of regions, and if so, generating a presentation of the advertisement image; and, displaying the presentation on the display screen. | 06-09-2011 |