Patent ID: 9024967
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for modifying an image in an electronic video editing system, the method executing in a computer system including one or more processors coupled to at least one user input device and to a display screen, the method comprising the following acts performed by the one or more hardware processors: displaying four windows on the display screen, wherein the windows are adjacent to each other and placed in an upper-left, upper-right, lower-left and lower-right arrangement to form a set of four windows, wherein the set of four windows has a size defined by the outer edge boundaries of the set; and wherein any one of the four windows can be panned and/or zoomed independently of any other one of the four windows; accepting a signal from the at least one user input device to select an image in a video sequence for editing; displaying one instance of the selected image in a first of the four windows at a first zoom level; accepting signals from the at least one user input device to show a second instance of the selected image, the second instance consisting of a portion of the selected image at a second zoom level in a second of the four windows; accepting signals from the at least one user input device to modify the selected image; and updating the first and second instances of the selected image in the first and second windows, respectively, to show the modification of the selected image simultaneously in the first and second windows at the first and second zoom levels, respectively.