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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jens E. Rasmussen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lars E. Rasmussen, Fairlight, AU;
Bret Steven Taylor, Los Gatos, CA (US);
James Christopher Norris, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Ma, Kingsford, AU;
Andrew Robert Kirmse, Emerald Hills, CA (US);
Noel Philip Gordon, Hunters Hill, AU;
Seth Michael Laforge, Mountain View, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of displaying a map on a display page includes displaying a map image; displaying at least one zoom control object overlaid on the map image using an image overlay technique to display the at least one zoom control object within the map image, thereby increasing an area within the display page available for the map image; and changing a manner in which the map image is displayed in response to receiving a selection of the at least one zoom control object.