Patent ID: 7134093

Claim:
A method for displaying a user-selected portion of an image, said method comprising: displaying said image via a graphical user interface; providing a display area of a certain size via the graphical user interface, said display area being provided adjacent said image; displaying a first slider that is variable in size according to user input, said first slider being displayed superimposed aver said image to define a corresponding first portion of said image within a boundary of said first slider; displaying a second slider, said second slider being distinct from said first slider and being superimposed over said image, both said first slider and said second slider being displayed in two-dimensional space, said second slider cooperating with said first slider to define a portion of said image at an intersection of said second slider and said first slider, said first slider being translatable and resizable along a first axis within said two-dimensional space that is orthogonal to a second axis within said two-dimensional space along which said second slider is translatable and resizable, said second slider being variable in size according to user input; displaying said portion of said image in said display area, said portion of said image being enlarged relative to said image to fill said display area of said certain size; accepting user input to resize one of said first and second sliders, the user input being accepted responsive to a users manipulation of an input device; displaying said one of said first and second sliders as resized, said resized one of said first and second sliders being displayed superimposed over said image to define a corresponding portion of said image within said boundary of said one of said first and second sliders; and displaying said corresponding portion of said image in said display area, said corresponding portion of said image being enlarged relative to said image to fill said display area of said certain size.