Patent ID: 6806888
Filing Date: 2004-10-19
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:a computer system having a first display element operable for displaying a first image on the display element for viewing by a first user, wherein the computer system provides an interface far receiving from the user selections of one or more portions of the image for displaying to an audience on respective one or more audience display elements, wherein the entire first image is displayed in view of the first user and only the selected portions are displayed in view of an audience; a converter, wherein the computer system is operable to send to the converter first information for the first display element image and selection data identifying the portions of the image, and the converter is operable to responsively generate second information for one or more audience display element images corresponding to the user-selected one or more portions of the first image, and wherein the computer system is operable to receive user selections of scaling for the respective audience display element images and responsively send scaling information to the converter, the converter being operable to selectively scale the audience display element images so that the audience display element image sizes relative to the audience display elements may be different than the respective sizes of the selected portions of the first image relative to the entire first image or relative to the first display element, wherein the selections of portions of the image include selections identifying a window of the first image and, wherein the computer system is operable to include, in the first display element image information sent to the converter, supplemental information such that, responsive to a portion of such a selected window being obscured in its first user display element image by another window in the first image, the selected window's audience display element image includes the obscured portion of the first window.