Patent ID: 7343052

Claim:
A method of creating an interactive visual medium comprising: providing an image at a first resolution; causing to be produced a first presentation data representing the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution; defining a grid over substantially the entire first presentation data and dividing the first presentation data into a plurality of sectors defined by the grid with each sector having substantially the same size; causing to be produced a second presentation data of one of the plurality of sectors comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second resolution and one or more pan sequences from a respective initial one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution to an intermediate image of a portion of the image and to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution; causing to be produced logical data linking the first and second presentation data; and causing the logical data and the first and second presentation data to be placed on the interactive visual medium.