Patent ID: 8687016

Claim:
A method for enhancing the quality of visual prompts in an interactive media response system, said method comprising: determining a video codec used by a thin device, wherein said video codec is a block based codec, wherein said video codec generates pixel blocks, and wherein each pixel block of said pixel blocks comprises boundaries; based on said determining said video codec used by said thin device, generating a spatial map of said boundaries for said pixel blocks; accessing visual prompts to be displayed on said thin device; and modifying display parameters of a plurality of text visual prompts of said visual prompts, wherein said plurality of text visual prompts comprises a plurality of characters, and wherein said modifying comprises: jittering, using said spatial map that was generated, at least one character of said plurality of characters such that at least one edge of each character of said plurality of characters is positioned on a portion of at least one of a horizontal and vertical boundary of said boundaries such that a display of said at least one edge appears to be less blurred than a portion of said at least one character, which portion is not positioned on any boundary of any pixel block of said pixel blocks, said jittering thereby increasing an overall visual sharpness of said visual prompts on display.