Patent ID: 9524086
Filing Date: 2016-12-20
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A multi-media display system for emphasizing and displaying images, comprising: a server computer providing graphical user interface display elements and functions to a remote client computer connected to the server computer through a computer network, the remote client computer including a display having a graphic user interface (GUI) and a user-interactive pointer controlled by a pointing device; a plurality of multi-media elements stored on the server computer, communicated to the remote client computer, and displayed on the GUI in a variety of shapes and sizes at locations specified according to a customizable photo-collage template, wherein: (a) one or more of the displayed multi-media elements appears to overlap another of the plurality of one or more displayed multi-media elements so that only portions of the overlapped multi-media elements appear visible, (b) the shapes and sizes associated with the photo-collage template are customizable by the user, and (c) the multi-media elements are adaptively located within the photo-collage template according to visual attributes of the multi-media elements; and a tool for controlling the display of each multi-media element displayed on the GUI so that when the pointer is located in association with a selected one of the displayed multi-media elements, and without further manipulation of the pointing device by the user, the display of the multimedia elements is modified to present the entire selected multi-media element in a different location separate from the photo-collage template simultaneously with the photo-collage template in such a way that the selected multi-media element is not overlapped by any other of the plurality of multi-media elements, the selected multi-media element comprising a non-rectangular shape when presented in the different location, and so that when the pointer is removed from association with the selected overlapped multi-media element, and without further manipulation of the pointing device by the user, the presentation of the selected multi-media element is stopped, and the selected multi-media element returns to its originally specified location according to the photo-collage template.