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Device and method of browsing an image collection
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Inventors: Van Den Hoven, Elise Anna Walthera Hendrina; Eggen, Josephus Hubertus;
Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Eindhoven, NL)
Primary Examiner: Vu; Kieu D.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Belk; Michael E. Im; Paul
A device for browsing an image collection shows a continuously scrolling sequence of representations of images and commands in browsing area. A user can select a representation, which results in the full image being shown in a display area, or in the command being executed. Speed and direction of the scrolling can be varied with an input stroke in the browsing area. The representations could be shown together with border areas, which when selected limit the sequence to the representations belonging to the same category as the representation whose border area was selected. A general purpose computer can be programmed to function as the device by means of a computer program product. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The invention claimed is: 1.
A device for browsing an image collection, comprising browsing means for showing a sequence of representations in a browsing area, each representation corresponding to an image from the image collection, and display means for showing, in response to a selection of a representation from said sequence, in a display area an image from the image collection corresponding to the selected representation, characterized in that each representation in the sequence has a portion that can be used to select that representation resulting in a determination of a category for the representation and the browsing means is arranged to show the sequence by continuously scrolling the sequence in the browsing area further characterized in that the representation is shown together with a border area functioning as the portion, and the browsing means is arranged to show, in response to a selection of a border area of a representation, representations in the sequence belonging to the same category as the representation whose border area is selected.
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A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the selection of a representation comprises dragging the representation from the browsing area to the display area.
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A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that a speed of the scrolling of the sequence is varied in accordance with a speed of an input stroke in the browsing area.
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A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that a direction of the scrolling of the sequence is varied in accordance with a direction of an input stroke in the browsing area.
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A device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that browsing means is arranged to show interleaved in the sequence a representation of a command, and the device is arranged to execute the command when the representation of the command is selected.
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A computer program product stored on a computer-readable medium enabling a programmable device when executing said computer program product to function as a device as defined in any one of the claims 1 5
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