Patent ID: 6081277
Filing Date: 2000-06-27
Classification: G06F,G06T,G09G

Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling a display of one frame of an image having a predetermined size in a window, said apparatus comprising:comparison means for comparing at least one of a length in the vertical direction and a length in the horizontal direction of one frame of an image with a length of the window in the corresponding direction;compression means for adjusting said at least one length of the frame to the length of the window in the corresponding direction by compressing at least a portion of the frame in the direction of said at least one length if said at least one length of the frame is larger than the length of the window in the corresponding direction, the other portion of the frame being not compressed in the corresponding direction; andoutput means for outputting the frame having the at least one portion compressed by said compression means and the other portion not compressed by said compression means.