Patent ID: 9594489
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: rendering content on a display; detecting an object in front of, but not in contact with, a front surface of the display; determining, at least partly in response to the detecting the object, a first location on the front surface of the display that is spaced a shortest distance from the object relative to distances from the object to other locations on the front surface of the display; determining a first portion of the content that is rendered at the first location or within a threshold distance from the first location; displaying, in a first region of the display, a magnified window of the first portion of the content; determining that the object has moved below a predetermined speed across the front surface of the display while maintaining a spaced relationship with the front surface of the display; and in response to the determining that the object has moved below the predetermined speed across the front surface of the display, moving the magnified window with the object across the front surface of the display to a second region of the display, wherein the magnified window after the moving contains a second portion of the content that is rendered at, or within the threshold distance from, a second location on the front surface of the display corresponding to a position of the object after the object has moved across the front surface of the display.