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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2001
David J. P. Baar, Vancouver, CA;
M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, Canmore, CA;
David J. Cowperthwaite, Burnaby, CA;
Mark Tigges, Vancouver, CA;
Robert Komar, Vancouver, CA;
Jerome F. Bauer, Vancouver, CA;
Idelix Software Inc., Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
A method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer, comprising the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual information; selecting a region of interest within the scaled representation; applying a transformation to the scaled representation to improve the visual detail in the region of interest; and, displaying the transformed presentation on the display screen.