Patent ID: 9444970
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,G09G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An apparatus for magnifying an image, the apparatus comprising: means for presenting a visible image portion of the image; magnification means arranged to magnify part of the image to form a magnified image portion and unmagnified image portions, said magnified and unmagnified image portions together containing all the image information contained within the image; wherein at least part of the magnified image portion and a visible part of the unmagnified image portions are within the visible image portion and the magnified image portion does not obscure the unmagnified image portions as a result of shifting the visible part of the unmagnified image portions relative to the magnified image portion, wherein non-visible portions outside of the visible image portion are also shifted relative to the magnified image portion by the same amount as the visible part of the unmagnified image portions, and the non-visible portions are not presented by the means for presenting the visible image portion of the image; wherein the visible part of the unmagnified image portions comprises a first unmagnified image portion and a second unmagnified image portion, and further wherein the first unmagnified image portion is shifted in a first dimension and wherein the second unmagnified image portion is shifted in a second dimension so that at least one gap is created between the first unmagnified image portion shifted in the first dimension and the second unmagnified image portion shifted in the second dimension, wherein no gap existed between the first unmagnified image portion and the second unmagnified image portion before the first unmagnified image portion and the second unmagnified image portion are shifted; and wherein the image comprises a time line.