Patent ID: 8578273
Filing Date: 2013-11-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of presenting a slideshow over a display, comprising the steps of: (a) generating thumbnail images from a plurality of source images, including the step of resizing a height of the plurality of source images to a constant height in the thumbnail images and maintaining an aspect ratio of each source image in the thumbnail images, the source images having a higher resolution than a corresponding thumbnail image; (b) plotting a position for thumbnail images on the display in a brickwork pattern including a plurality of even rows and uneven columns; (c) skewing one or more of a horizontal, vertical and/or rotational position of one or more thumbnail images positioned in said step (b); (d) rendering the thumbnail images on the display; (e) automatically determining a curved or irregular path over which panning of the thumbnail images is to be performed; (f) panning over the thumbnail images in the curved or irregular path determined in said step (e); (g) pausing over and zooming in on a thumbnail image during said step (f) of panning over the thumbnail images, said step (g) including the steps of opening the source image from which the thumbnail image was generated, superimposing the higher resolution source image over the thumbnail image prior to zooming in on the image, and cross fading the source and thumbnail images; and (h) periodically presenting an in-place slideshow including the step of cross fading a plurality of related images while positioned at a constant viewing perspective.