Patent ID: 8941584
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. An apparatus to simulate physical movement of a digital image, the apparatus comprising: an input receiving module configured to receive a position input; a calculation module configured to correlate the position input to a position of an image positioning coordinate; wherein the calculation module correlates a virtual x-coordinate of a virtual pixel position in a digital image of a physical specimen with a physical x-coordinate on the physical specimen by dividing a width of the physical specimen by a total number of virtual pixel positions in an x-axis to obtain an x-axis correlation; and wherein the calculation module correlates a virtual y-coordinate of a virtual pixel position in the digital image of the physical specimen with a physical y-coordinate on the physical specimen by dividing a height of the physical specimen by a total number of virtual pixel positions in a y-axis to obtain a y-axis correlation; a comparison module configured to compare a value for the virtual x-coordinate correlation with a value for the virtual y-coordinate correlation to determine which value is greater, wherein the correlation module uses the greater value for the virtual x-coordinate correlation and the virtual y-coordinate correlation in correlating the position of the virtual pixel in the virtual image with the physical position on the physical specimen; and an output module configured to output the position of the image positioning coordinate.