METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING AN IMAGE COMPOSED OF PIXELS

• Main Author: KOHN, JUERGEN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.11.2003
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; IMAGE DATA PROCESSING OR GENERATION, IN GENERAL; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

The invention relates to a method for the size-adjusted display of a digital document on pixel-oriented output device, comprising the following steps: the output picture data of the digital document to be displayed which are stored in a digital storage medium and comprise predetermined dimensional data for displaying the digital document in a predetermined size are read into a main memory; the dimensional data of the desired output format of the digital document to be displayed on the output device as a target picture, with the dimensional data being stored in the storage medium, are read into the main memory; the predetermined dimensional data of the digital document and the dimensional data of the desired output format are processed by means of at least one computer unit interconnected with the main memory, and a scaling factor is produced depending on said dimensional data; the predetermined dimensional data in the output picture data are multiplied with the scaling factor by means of the computer unit, and the thus modified output picture data are stored as target picture data in the main memory or any other storage medium; the target picture data are transmitted to the output device and the digital document is displayed according to the target picture data on the output device; the dimensional data of the desired output format are checked recurrently in intervals; in the case of changed dimensional data the scaling factor is newly generated and the target picture data are newly calculated and the digital document is displayed again.