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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 1990
Filed:
Jul. 15, 1987
Yosinori Saki, Kanagawa, JP;
Hiroshi Kotera, Kanagawa, JP;
Kazuo Unemoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tomohiko Arikawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Wayne Jung, Skokie, IL (US);
Timothy Tutt, Skokie, IL (US);
Mike Dunk, Libertyville, IL (US);
Interand Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
An image retrieval system and method are provided for retrieving and displaying images of the plurality of images stored in the system. Images are grouped into collections of images, or documents. Representative images indicative of the representative images include representations of third, orthogonal or depth dimensions indicative of the number of images in the image groups. With a position indicating device, the user selects for display an image from an image group by indicating a position along the depth dimension of the representative image at a location corresponding to the relative location of the image in the image group. The image then is retrieved and displayed. Once the image is displayed, means are provided for sequential retrieval and display of images, forwards or backwards, through the images in the selected image group.