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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2005
Laurence Crew, Redfern, AU;
Andrew John Shellshear, Marrickville, AU;
Laurence Crew, Redfern, AU;
Andrew John Shellshear, Marrickville, AU;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method () of displaying a plurality of images is disclosed. The method () displays the images in a stack arrangement. The stack may be a perspective stack and a non-perspective stack. Another method () of displaying a plurality of images is also disclosed. The method () displays the images in a stack following any arbitrary path. The methods () and () are particularly advantageous for displaying a collection of images of irregular sizes and aspect ratios. The methods () and () maintain the regular geometric layout of a stack of images and also ensure that the size of the minimum visible area of each image in the stack remains the same irrespective of the aspect ratio of a particular image.