ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,978, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Method and apparatus with preview image generation" was invented by Jingu Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yunhao Zhang (Xi'an, China) and Yue Ma (Xi'an, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor-implemented method includes: determining whether a plurality of tile sets of different zoom levels comprises a tile image, based on either one or both of a position of the tile image in a virtual image and a size of the tile image, wherein tile image corresponds to a visible region covered by a preview interface in the virtual image; updating th...