Image having a hierarchical structure

• US 20020089549A1
• Filed: 01/09/2001
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Zoran Corporation (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Zoran Corporation (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wang, Haishan, Munro, James A.
• Application Number:
  US09/757,741
• Publication Number:
  US 20020089549A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system in which a viewer displays and manipulates a bitmap image within a window in a network system. The bitmap image has a hierarchal system of folders associated with the bitmap image.

Claims

5-1. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the bitmap image further comprises a bitmap image having multiple levels of resolution.

9. A method, comprising:

creating a window, the window being defined by a page description language;

displaying in the window a bitmap image having a hierarchical system of folders associated with the bitmap image; and

enabling manipulation of the bitmap image in the window.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

concurrently displaying in the window multiple bitmap images.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

scaling the bitmap image to a new size with data stored in a cache until a program decodes data corresponding to the new size from an image database.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the bitmap image further comprises a bitmap image having multiple levels of resolution.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the bitmap image further comprises a bitmap image that was compressed according to a block based integer wavelet transform coding scheme.

14. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

displaying a representation of an object in the window when a value is below a predetermined setting and displaying the object in the window when the value is above the predetermined setting.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the network system is one in a group of a client server system, a World Wide Web, an Internet, a mobile phone network, a first device in communication with a second device.

17. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the hierarchical system of folders comprise the image having a folder, the folder having content, and the content being within the folder.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, further comprising a predetermined setting to cause a client to request more data for the displayed image appearing in the window.

19. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the predetermined setting is one in a group consisting of a level of zoom, a predetermined resolution level, a size of the image, a percentage of a full sized original image, or a display level.

22. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the predetermined setting comprising a value set at the time of the creation of the web page.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising:

means for concurrently displaying in the window multiple bitmap images the hierarchical system of folders associated with the bitmap image.

26. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising:

means for scaling the bitmap image to a new size with data stored in a cache until a program decodes data corresponding to the new size from an image database.

27. The apparatus of claim 24, further comprising:

means for displaying the bitmap image at different resolution levels in the window.

15. An apparatus, comprising:

an image viewer to display and to enable manipulation of a bitmap image within a window in a network system, the bitmap image having a hierarchical system of folders associated with the bitmap image.

20. The apparatus of claim15, further comprising the predetermined setting having a value, below the value of the predetermined setting a representation of an object is displayed and above the value of the predetermined setting the object is displayed.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the object is one in a group consisting of the displayed image, a folder, content associated with the displayed image, or content associated with the folder.

23. The apparatus of claim15, wherein the image viewer further comprises a module to concurrently display multiple bitmap images in a single window, each bitmap image having a separate data file.

24. An apparatus, comprising:

means for creating a window, the window being defined by a page description language;

means for displaying in the window a bitmap image having a hierarchical system of folders associated with the bitmap image; and

means for enabling manipulation of the bitmap image in the window.