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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2014
Applicant:

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, Llc, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Inventor:

Amir Mesguich Havilio, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); H04B 10/2507 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 3/40 (2013.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 17/217 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01); H04B 10/2507 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for digital content zooming. In one example case, the hypotenuse of the digital content (or a combination of both height and width values of the content) is initially set to provide the 100% zoom level and is subsequently used to resize or zoom that content. In particular, an arbitrary constant that is independent of the content itself is used to define the initial or 100% zoom level at which the content is initially displayed. The arbitrary constant may be, for example, a hypotenuse size in pixels, or a specific combination of height and width in pixels. In one specific example, the arbitrary constant can be selected based on, for instance, an average of current physical screen and/or virtual viewing window resolutions' hypotenuse sizes, in pixels. In any case, the arbitrary constant can be used to set the initial size of the content, and to compute zoom steps.


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