Abstract: A visual display of a panoramic region is provided in which a static context display is provided for an active display displayed in a mobile display window. Active images are sequentially generated and displayed from temporally sequential frames of visual data that each represent an image defining a region within a larger panoramic region such that at least two of the images define regions that do not coincide. Each displayed image is positioned on a display screen with respect to the position of other displayed images on the display screen in accordance with the spatial relationship in the panoramic region of the content of the displayed image to the content of the other displayed images. At some time during the visual display, one or more context images (a context display) is displayed while an active image is displayed. Each context image is at least part of an image represented by a frame of the set of temporally sequential frames of visual data.

Abstract: An interactive display system includes an electronic camera which intermittently records a participant's image and digitally inputs the video image into a computer, creating a digitized “virtual user image”. The camera is positioned behind a large viewing screen which faces the user and records the user's image through an opening provided within the screen. The computer further receives a text string having a fall rate value. For each digital image received by the camera, a software program determines the destination of each line of text according to its fall rate, and then uses pixel color comparison techniques to determine if a “virtual obstacle” is located at the particular destination. If not, the text is displayed at the destination so that the text appears to “fall” on the screen. If a virtual obstacle is present, a new higher destination is determined until the virtual obstacle is no longer detected.

Abstract: An interactive display system includes an electronic camera which intermittently records a participant's image and digitally inputs the video image into a computer, creating a digitized “virtual user image”. The camera is positioned behind a large viewing screen which faces the user and records the user's image through an opening provided within the screen. The computer further receives a text string having a fall rate value. For each digital image received by the camera, a software program determines the destination of each line of text according to its fall rate, and then uses pixel color comparison techniques to determine if a “virtual obstacle” is located at the particular destination. If not, the text is displayed at the destination so that the text appears to “fall” on the screen. If a virtual obstacle is present, a new higher destination is determined until the virtual obstacle is no longer detected.

Abstract: An interactive display system includes an electronic camera which intermittently records a participant's image and digitally inputs the video image into a computer, creating a digitized “virtual user image”. The camera is positioned behind a large viewing screen which faces the user and records the user's image through an opening provided within the screen. The computer further receives a text string having a fall rate value. For each digital image received by the camera, a software program determines the destination of each line of text according to its fall rate, and then uses pixel color comparison techniques to determine if a “virtual obstacle” is located at the particular destination. If not, the text is displayed at the destination so that the text appears to “fall” on the screen. If a virtual obstacle is present, a new higher destination is determined until the virtual obstacle is no longer detected.