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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2003
Applicant:
Inventors:
Shouhei Numata, Hitachi, JP;
Tarou Takagi, Hitachi, JP;
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/03 ;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for processing data enables to display a preview image rapidly in case of processing large volume of data. Index data are generated by rendering the large amount of bit map data and stored in addition to the three-dimensional bit map data. By means that the two-dimensional image resulted from the rendering process is made prepared in advance before accepting the user's command for display and edit, the preview of the content of the data can be displayed rapidly at real-time when the user issues the command interactively.