Patent ID: 6912326
Filing Date: 2005-06-28
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying an electronic document on a digital handheld device, the digital handheld device comprising a screen on which to view an electronic document, the screen having a plurality of pixels and having a width in pixels and a height in pixels, the method comprising: providing an original document comprising a plurality of pixels, and a having a width in pixels and a height in pixels; calculating a reduction ratio equal to a ratio of the original document width to the digital handheld device screen width; processing color values of a two dimensional array of pixels of the original document; building a reduced document comprising a plurality of pixels, and having a width in pixels equal to the width of the original document divided by the reduction ratio and a height in pixels equal to the height of the original document divided by the reduction ratio, a color value of each pixel of the reduced document determined by said processing; and displaying the reduced electronic document on the digital handheld device screen.