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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2004
Daniel C. Robbins, Seattle, WA (US);
Raman K. Sarin, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Edward B. Cutrell, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel C. Robbins, Seattle, WA (US);
Raman K. Sarin, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
Edward B. Cutrell, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates navigating smoothly and gracefully through any type of content viewable on portable devices such as cell-phones, PDAs, and/or any other hybrids thereof. In addition, such navigation can be performed while preserving perspective and context with respect to a larger amount of content. Pointing devices can also be used to navigate through content—the amount or detail of the content being dependant on the speed of the pointing device. Additionally, a semi-transparent overview of content can be overlaid a zoomed-in portion of content to provide perspective to the zoomed in portion. Content shown in the semi-transparent overview can depend on the location of the pointing device with respect to the content.