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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2007

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2003
Applicant:

Hiroaki Itou, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventor:

Hiroaki Itou, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image managing apparatus for managing a plurality of image data units includes: an image data acquiring unit for acquiring the image data units; an attribute information acquiring unit for acquiring attribute information units respectively associated with the image data units in such a manner that each attribute information unit corresponds to an associated one of the image data units; an image data classifying unit for classifying the image data units into a plurality of image-data groups based on the attribute information units; a thumbnail image creating unit for creating thumbnail image data units in order to display the image data units as thumbnail images; and a display unit for displaying the thumbnail images for each image-data group.


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