Image data displaying system and method
AssigneeInnotive Corporation
InventorsHao Le, Kwang Soon Moon, Tomoyuki Okamura
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Abstract
The system for displaying huge images in accordance with the present invention comprises: a storage device (1) for storing image data winch is divided in either one of the row direction and the column direction and contains at least two subdivided blocks; a first temporary storage device (9) for sequentially reading out data stored in the storage device (1), temporarily storing data as read and, when the data reaches a predetermined unit of data size, outputting all the data as input. And the present invention serves to improve the processing speed of huge images by bypassing the main storage device (3) during the processing operation of image data.
Claims16
A data file browsing system for displaying image data composed of an array of pixel data, comprising:
- an image data dividing mechanism for dividing said image data in a direction perpendicular to the direction of reading said pixel data items to generate a plurality of divided image data items;
- a storing means for storing said divided image data items;
- a means for reading a desired portion from said divided image data items;
- said storing means;
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- an image displaying mechanism for combining and displaying said portion, wherein
- said image data is data obtained by converting, to image data, a plurality of markup language files having a hierarchical structure in terms of tag data,
- the image data as converted being arranged in the lateral direction in accordance with said hierarchical structure;
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- wherein said image displaying mechanism is used to scroll the image data in the lateral direction in accordance with said tag data;
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- wherein said markup language files are provided through the Internet as Web pages,
- wherein each of said image data arranged in the form of a two dimensional array is associated with a link to an address in the Internet where is provided the original markup language file before conversion, and
- wherein said Web page can be accessed by clicking the respective image data as arranged in the form of the two dimensional array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.