Patent ID: 7139006
Filing Date: 2006-11-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for presenting a set of images, comprising: selecting a set of display images from the set of images; assigning a 3D layout to each image in the set of display images; assigning a 3D trajectory to a virtual camera; rendering a set of active images of the set of display images according to the layout and the trajectory, the set of active images including a collector image, the collector image being rendered statically in a collector frame of an image plane of a display device, while remaining images in the set of active images are rendered dynamically on the image plane, and in which the collector frame is at a fixed depth position along the trajectory; animating the layout and the trajectory according to a user input; replacing the collector image in the collector frame with a next image in the set of active images; and repeating the rendering, animating, and replacing until a termination condition is reached.