Patent ID: 8106926
Filing Date: 2012-01-31
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. In a portable media player having a user input and a fixed size display device, a method of navigating an enlarged image presented by the fixed size display device, the enlarged image having an total image size greater than the fixed size of the display device, comprising; overlaying a movable window on a portion of the image; presenting the overlaid portion of the image at a first zoom level by the fixed size display device; receiving a user supplied navigation input at a user input device; causing the movable window to move in a direction along a first closed path corresponding to the first zoom level and in response to the user supplied navigation input wherein the direction of movement along the first closed path corresponds to a direction associated with the user supplied navigation input; and successively presenting a first pre-determined number of overlaid portions of the image at specific positions on the first closed path that cumulatively present substantially the entire image, wherein the first pre-determined number of successive overlaid portions is related to the first zoom level and the specific locations on the first closed path are based upon the first zoom level, wherein when the user supplied navigation input is circular in nature, then a first direction corresponds to a counterclockwise type user supplied navigation input and a second direction corresponds to a clockwise type user supplied navigation input.