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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 60', 'Application No. 2005800081099', 'Application No. 2005800081099', 'Application No. 05', 'Application No. 05', 'Application No. 05', 'Application No. 4852', 'art 10', 'Application No. 2006', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 05713848', 'Application No. 05']

US9304651B2 - Method of real-time incremental zooming - Google Patents
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US9304651B2
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2014-02-05 Priority to US14/173,116 priority patent/US9304651B2/en
2014-02-05 Application filed by Hillcrest Laboratories Inc filed Critical Hillcrest Laboratories Inc
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This application claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/893,512, filed Aug. 16, 2007; which claims priority from U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/064,310, filed Feb. 23, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,260,789 B2, which issued on Aug. 21, 2007; which claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/546,859, filed on Feb. 23, 2004, and entitled “A Method of Real-time Incremental Zooming using Pointing”. This application is also related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/768,432. The subject matter of each of these applications is incorporated in its entirety herein by reference.
While the description has focused on zooming in on a map, exemplary methods may be equally applicable in other scenarios such as in virtual tour programs (i.e. real estate viewing for example) and in gaming, etc. The methods can also be used in menu selection within an entertainment/pay-per-view environment. For example, thumb nail images representing various movies available for viewing or on a pay-per-view basis may be displayed to a user on a display or screen. The user may utilize a 3D pointing device such as that developed by Hillcrest Laboratories, Inc. of Rockville, Md. to select one of the images. As a result of this selection, more detailed information corresponding to the selected image may be displayed to the user. Input devices may also include a graphic tablet, a tracking surface such as a track pad or a 3D pointing device.
1. A computer readable medium containing executable instructions which, when executed in a processing system, cause the system to perform a method comprising:
moving a cursor from a first display point on a user interface to a second display point on said user interface, said second display point being away from a center of said user interface;
receiving a selection input associated with said second display point;
providing a detailed view of the second display point and centering the user interface around the second display point; and
maintaining a position of the cursor on the second display point,
wherein the detailed view is obtained in a series of intermediate zooming levels,
further comprising storing information for each of said intermediate zooming levels as a history.
2. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the detailed view of the second display point is obtained while zooming in on the second display point and simultaneously panning over the user interface.
3. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the cursor position is maintained over the second display point at each zooming level.
4. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the number of zooming levels is at least two.
computing a linear distance between the center of the user interface and the second display point;
drawing a virtual line representing the linear distance; and
animating a movement of the cursor along the virtual line in said series of intermediate zooming levels.
6. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface corresponds to a location information program.
7. The computer readable medium of claim 1, wherein the user interface corresponds to a menu selection in a pay per view environment.
8. A method for handling a cursor on a user interface, comprising the steps of:
wherein the detailed view is obtained in a series of intermediate zooming levels, further comprising storing information for each of said intermediate zooming levels as a history.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein the detailed view of the second display point is obtained while zooming in on the second display point and simultaneously panning over the user interface.
10. The method of claim 8, wherein the cursor position is maintained over the second display point at each zooming level.
11. The method of claim 8, wherein the number of zooming levels is at least two.
13. The method of claim 8, wherein the user interface corresponds to a location information program.
14. The method of claim 8, wherein the user interface corresponds to a menu selection in a pay per view environment.
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