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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:
Jan. 13, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 12, 2011
Applicants:

David Washington, Seattle, WA (US);

Jan-kristian Markiewicz, Redmond, WA (US);

Raymond Jui-mong Chen, Redmond, WA (US);

Ethan Nelson Ray, Redmond, WA (US);

Eric Hebenstreit, Kirkland, WA (US);

David Burg, Newcastle, WA (US);

Petru Iulian Cociorva, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

David Washington, Seattle, WA (US);

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Redmond, WA (US);

Raymond Jui-Mong Chen, Redmond, WA (US);

Ethan Nelson Ray, Redmond, WA (US);

Eric Hebenstreit, Kirkland, WA (US);

David Burg, Newcastle, WA (US);

Petru Iulian Cociorva, Redmond, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/003 (2013.01); G09G 2340/0407 (2013.01); G09G 2370/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

A device may display a presentation of elements (e.g., icons) on a display component. However, display components have a pixel density that affects aesthetic and practical aspects of the presentation (e.g., rendering the presentation at a variable and inconsistent size); yet, many presentations are not generated in view of the pixel density of the display component of the device. Presented herein are techniques for generating and displaying a presentation of elements in view of the pixel density of the display component, using a scale factor set of scale factors that specify a pixel density range and a scale factor value (e.g., 120%) to be applied to the elements of the presentation. The scale factor set may be kept small to reduce the administrative burden on the designer of the element, while also achieving approximately consistent sizing of the presentation on display components having variable pixel densities.


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