Patent ID: 9196227
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. In a computer system having a display screen configured to display visual content, a method comprising: retrieving from a storage medium a set of one or more rules for magnifying a particular collection of visual content, including at least a span of text, to be displayed on the display screen, the set of one or more rules specifying different magnification techniques for achieving different magnification levels, including a first set of one or more techniques for magnifying the particular collection of visual content to magnification levels below a threshold specified by the set of one or more rules and a second set of one or more techniques for magnifying the particular collection of visual content to magnification levels above the threshold specified by the set of one or more rules, the second set of one or more techniques differing from the first set of one or more techniques by at least one technique; applying the first set of one or more techniques to magnify the particular collection of visual content to a first magnification level below the threshold, for display on the display screen, wherein applying the first set of one or more techniques to magnify the particular collection of visual content comprises applying a magnification technique with text wrapping to the span of text in the particular collection of visual content; and applying the second set of one or more techniques to magnify the particular collection of visual content to a second magnification level above the threshold, for display on the display screen, wherein applying the second set of one or more techniques to magnify the particular collection of visual content comprises applying to the span of text in the particular collection of visual content a magnification technique that does not wrap text; wherein applying the magnification technique that does not wrap text comprises introducing horizontal scrolling to the particular collection of visual content at the second magnification level, and wherein applying the magnification technique with text wrapping does not comprise introducing horizontal scrolling to the particular collection of visual content at the first magnification level.