Patent ID: 7487462

Claim:
A method for indicating an object, comprising: providing a workspace having a populated space and one or more view spaces on a display, each of the view spaces being a view of a part of the populated space that extends coordinates of each view space, each view space being delineated by a border having sides; determining at least one object in the populated space; determining a direction of the at least one object in the populated space from a view space; determining a distance of the at least one object from the view space; indicating only an object of the at least one object that exists outside the view space with a single indicator on a respective one of the sides closest to the at least one object to indicate the direction of the at least one object relative to the view space; and adding a visual effect to the single indicator based on the distance by indicating the single indicator on an inner bound of the border if the at least one object is inside a predetermined boundary in the view space delineating objects that are near the view space, and on an outer bound of the border if the at least one object is outside the predetermined boundary in the view space delineating objects that are far from the view space.