Patent ID: 7908568

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of displaying graphical objects in a display in which a computer system performs operations comprising: displaying a graphical object in the display in response to receiving a first input; fixating said graphical object in the display in response to receiving a second input; and in response to said fixating, displaying an object that would have been occluded by said fixating said graphical object in an area of the display outside the area occupied by said graphical object, wherein the displayed object that would have been occluded comprises a window object within which a plurality of picture objects are displayed, each picture object showing a digital photograph, and wherein at least a portion of the window object and at least one picture object would have been occluded, and wherein, in response to said fixating, displaying the object that would have been occluded comprises: resizing the window object so that no portion of the window object is occluded by the graphical object; and redisplaying each picture object within the resized window object so that no picture object is occluded.