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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2010
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2006
Kim Mccall, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kurt Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);
John Barrus, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Bradley Rhodes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Kim McCall, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kurt Piersol, Campbell, CA (US);
John Barrus, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Bradley Rhodes, Mountain View, CA (US);
Stephen Savitzky, San Jose, CA (US);
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting page images for display from a plurality of page images corresponding to an image-based document, the plurality of page images including merged page images and each merged page image having salient content from multiple successive page images of the image-based document merged into one image; and serially displaying the selected page images on a display.