Method and apparatus for creating and displaying navigators for guiding to related image information
US5123088A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Jun 26, 1989 |
| Grant date | Jun 16, 1992 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 26, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S707/99948
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Image information units, related with one another in the order of their magnitudes defined for each of a plurality of properties of each image, are prestored in an image information storage and management device. All image information units adjoiningly related by their properties with a main image being displayed on a display are read out of the image information storage and management device, and contracted images of the read-out image information units are displayed as navigators on the display screen, together with the main image.
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