Patent ID: 7088364

Claim:
A method for generating a stereoscopic presentation of a region-of-interest in a monoscopic information representation for display on a display screen, comprising: creating first and second transformed presentations by displacing said representation onto a lens for said region-of-interest and perspectively projecting said displaced representation onto a plane in first and second directions aligned with first and second viewpoints for said region-of-interest, respectively; displaying a graphical user interface (“GUI”) over said region-of-interest for adjusting said lens, wherein said lens includes a focal region and a base region and said GUI comprises a slide bar icon for adjusting a magnification for said lens; a bounding rectangle icon with at least one handle icon for adjusting a size and a shape for said focal region; a bounding rectangle icon with at least one handle icon for adjusting a size and a shape for said base region; a move icon for adjusting a location for said lens; a pickup icon for adjusting a location for said base region; and, a fold icon for adjusting a location for said focal region relative to said base region; and, displaying said first and second transformed presentations on said display screen.