Patent ID: 8681132

Claim:
A scanning display apparatus comprising: (a) a display operable: (i) to receive one or more driver signals and generate corresponding visual information for presentation on the display; and (ii) to sense radiation received at the display and generate one or more sensing signals corresponding to a region proximate to the display; and (b) computer hardware coupled to the display for generating the one or more driver signals for the display and for receiving the one or more sensing signals from the display, the computer hardware being operable to provide an interactive user interface at the display; wherein the apparatus is configured to sense one or more objects when placed upon or positioned in proximity to the display and obscuring at least part of the visual information displayed on the display as an obscured portion of the visual information and leaving an unobscured portion of the visual information displayed on unobscured parts of the display unobscured by the one or more objects, and in response to sensing the one or more objects obscuring the obscured portion of the visual information displayed on the display, to adapt the visual information for display on the unobscured parts of the display by rearranging the obscured portion of the visual information already displayed on the display from obscured parts of the display to the unobscured parts of the display for displaying on the unobscured parts of the display, alongside the unobscured portion of the visual information, the obscured portion of the visual information already displayed on the display and moved from the obscured parts without changing a size of the obscured portion of the visual information already displayed on the display.