Patent ID: 7797640
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a flexible display field on a monitor, comprising the steps of providing a display field with a main window, into which a plurality of information windows are incorporatable and which has a basic grid with a regular raster; allocating individual grid fields to a respective information window for displaying in an assigned grid field; setting a grid stage of a basic field via a central first user control device for the main window; switching the main window between a regular grid occupancy in which a size of each incorporated information window corresponds to a size of one grid field of the basic field, and an irregular grid occupancy in which a size of at least one information window corresponds to a size of an integral multiple of one grid field of the basic grid; initiating a switchover of a user by a selection and a change in size of an information window; and effecting the switchover as soon as a corner point of a frame attached by and dragged with a computer mouse is moved just beyond a diagonal of an adjacent grid field.