Patent ID: 8369877
Filing Date: 2013-02-05
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. An image server, comprising: a main image portion data transmitting device for reading, from within a requested image requested by image request data transmitted from a mobile telephone comprising a display device formed to include a display screen, a first image portion of an area, which is displayable on said display screen, when a size of the requested image is larger than a size of the display screen and an entirety of the requested image cannot be displayed, in a prescribed order block by block, where each block comprises a plurality of pixels, and transmitting first image portion data representing said first image portion to the mobile telephone in an order of reading blocks; a rotation angle deciding device for deciding a rotation angle of a remaining second image portion, which is the requested image minus the first image portion, based upon a scrolling direction represented by scrolling direction data representing a scrolling direction transmitted from the mobile telephone in such a manner that a scroll image portion comes into view in an order along the scrolling direction from an edge portion of the display screen in terms of the scrolling direction; a rotating device for rotating the second image portion through the rotation angle decided by said rotation angle deciding device; and a scroll image portion data transmitting device for reading a scroll image portion corresponding to a scrolling amount, which is represented by scrolling amount data of the mobile telephone, in a same order as the prescribed order to be applied to the first image portion block by block from within the second image portion that has been rotated by the rotating device, and transmitting scroll image portion data representing the scroll image portion to the mobile telephone in the order of the reading blocks, wherein said rotation angle deciding device: