Patent ID: 8213747
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A computing device comprising: a display device; one or more computer-readable storage media; a variable resolution image display module embodied on the one or more computer readable storage media and configured to obtain and display variable resolution images on the display device, individual variable resolution images being defined by at least one image pyramid, said one image pyramid including multiple levels, each level comprising a portion that is at a different resolution than a portion of another of the levels, individual levels being separated into different numbers of tiles, wherein one tile at a first of the levels corresponds to multiple tiles at a second of the levels, wherein each level comprises a different version of a same image, wherein the variable resolution image display module is configured to select an image for display at a resolution that is closest to a resolution associated with the display device, wherein the variable resolution image display module is configured to retrieve variable resolution images that are stored in a manner in which each level of the image pyramid has corresponding image data stored in a different folder, each folder including one or more files, each file including image data for a tile at the corresponding level.