Patent ID: 8836728

Claim:
A method, comprising: presenting video information including images having a first video resolution level on a display; receiving a pause control directive and pausing the video information on an image; receiving a zoom control directive to magnify an image portion of the image; and in response to receiving the zoom control directive: replacing the image at the first video resolution level with a second version of the image having a higher video resolution level; magnifying the image portion in the second version of the image to form an enhanced magnified image using image scaling; detecting a plurality of objects within the enhanced magnified image; automatically selecting one of the detected plurality of objects to be a selected target object; retrieving target information for the selected target object within the enhanced magnified image based on a set of target information retrieval rules identifying a type of information to retrieve and an associated presentation format for displaying the information; and presenting retrieved target information about the enhanced magnified image on the display.