Patent ID: 8451294

Claim:
A system for partial rendering of an application image, the system comprising: a microprocessor capable of executing instructions embodied as a software application; a display device coupled to said microprocessor capable of physically rendering at least one image based on a set of instructions embodied as a software application; an image adapter interposed between the microprocessor and the display device wherein the image adapter includes a virtual display buffer; and a plurality of software portions, wherein: one of said software portions is configured to physically render the at least one image on the display device; one of said software portions is configured to create within the virtual display buffer a virtual rendering of the at least one image; one of said software portions is configured to identify on the virtually rendered at least one image a portion of the at least one image; and one of said software portions is configured to remove from the display device the at least one image that was previously physically rendered on the display device except for the at least one portion of the at least one image, wherein the removed portion of the at least one image comprises at least a portion of at least one of a control bar or a menu of the application image; wherein the at least one portion of the at least one image can be repositioned on the display device through the entire viewing area of the display device, and wherein the positioning of the at least one portion of the at least one image on the display device is independent of the virtual rendering of the at least one image on the virtual display buffer.