Patent ID: 6417866
Filing Date: 2002-07-09
Classification: G06T,G09G

Abstract:
A method for displaying an image comprising both an unscaled portion and a scaled portion, the method comprising:storing in an unscaled display memory, original image data representing an original version of the image; receiving a scaling indicator when at least a portion of the image is to be scaled, wherein the scaling indicator indicates a scaling factor and a scaled display area location of a resulting scaled image; retrieving a portion of the original image data from the unscaled display memory, the portion being a subset of the original image data; scaling, based on the scaling factor, the portion of the original image data to produce scaled display data; retrieving an unscaled display data from the unscaled display memory, the unscaled display portion being another subset of the original image data; and providing the scaled display data for display in the scaled display area location and the unscaled display data in the unscaled portion of the image without changing the contents of unscaled display memory and wherein the image contains a plurality of subsets of the original image data.