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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1992
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1989
Hisashi Kasahara, Yokohama, JP;
Hideki Koike, Yokosuka, JP;
Tsutomu Horikoshi, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshinobu Tonomura, Yokohama, JP;
Tomio Kishimoto, Yokohama, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Tokyo, JP;
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.