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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2000
Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Newton, MA (US);
Prasad V. Prabhu, Macedon, NY (US);
Douglas B. Beaudet, Geneseo, NY (US);
Elizabeth Rosenzweig, Newton, MA (US);
Prasad V. Prabhu, Macedon, NY (US);
Douglas B. Beaudet, Geneseo, NY (US);
Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY (US);
Abstract
A comprehensive, multi-dimensional graphical user interface (GUI) using metadata provides for multiple methods and displays for browsing and retrieving pictures in a picture database. The main level display, which is linked to other level displays has in the preferred embodiment, a hierarchical picture grouping iconic region () with directories and files containing pictures in the database, a main display area () for displaying pictures, thumbnails and graphical browsers, a picture content iconic region () according to predefined content categories and picture metadata, and a graphical browser region () having indicia of the graphical browsers utilized by the GUI. In addition to the main level (), the present-inventive GUI also has a number of display levels linked to the main display level () via one or more icons (and) in the main display level.