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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2000
Stuart Kent Card, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, Iii, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allison Gyle Woodruff, Foster City, CA (US);
Jock Douglas Mackinlay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Stuart Kent Card, Los Altos Hill, CA (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Allison Gyle Woodruff, Foster City, CA (US);
Jock Douglas MacKinlay, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
A system is described for displaying images of a virtual three-dimensional book having one or more virtual pages. The system comprises a display system capable of executing a display program wherein images of the virtual three-dimensional book are produced on the display system. The display system may include a magnification function producing a virtual magnifier moveable over the virtual pages. The display system may also include a the 'stretchy page' display method wherein one section of the page is directly magnified, while other adjacent sections may be directly magnified in a horizontal or vertical direction, but not both directions. Moreover, a virtual page may also be tilted about a central axis of the virtual page to accommodate viewing of a desired section on the display system. Finally, a computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having computer readable code embodied therein for producing images of a virtual three-dimensional book is also disclosed.