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High-speed search system for image data storage

US5220648A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 25, 1990
Grant dateJun 15, 1993
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Expiry dateMay 25, 2010

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99933
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A high-speed search system for an image data storage system, which comprises a device for storing images, each of the images being identified by search information data and an image number, wherein each image is defined as a numbered page, with the pages constituting a numbered file, and with the files being stored in the storing device, a first control circuit for selecting each of the files which correspond to specified search information data, a device for selecting target images to be searched, a circuit for searching the storing device for the target image selected by the selecting device, a device for displaying the images searched by the searching circuit, a device for designating the manner of presentation of the images by the display device, a second control circuit for selecting from the storing device the image number of the images relevant to the searched image based on the manner designated by the designating device, and a circuit for enabling the display device to display the image represented by the image number selected by the second control circuit.

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