Methods and systems for transitioning between thumbnails and documents based upon thumbnail appearance

• US 20040205628A1
• Filed: 08/08/2001
• Published: 10/14/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 08/08/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Xerox Corporation (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Woodruff, Allison G., Rosenholtz, Ruth E., Faulring, Andrew R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,337,396 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/526
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• 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: Y10S 707/99935 Query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access

Abstract

A thumbnail of an original document has at least one appearance characteristic that is different from a corresponding appearance characteristic in an original document. When retrieving a document associated with the thumbnail, a document version is displayed that is more similar in appearance to the thumbnail than the original document. If desired, one or more further versions of the document, closer to or identical to the first version, may be subsequently displayed.

Claims

1. A method of displaying a document associated with a thumbnail generated based on an original document, comprising:

displaying the thumbnail;

receiving a request to display a document associated with the thumbnail;

displaying a first version of the document, at least a portion of the first version being more similar in appearance to a corresponding portion of the thumbnail than a corresponding portion of the original document.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying a second version of the document in which a portion corresponding to the at least a portion of the first version is more similar to the corresponding portion of the original document.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the second version is substantially identical to the original document.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding portion of the thumbnail comprises an element modified during generation of the thumbnail.

5. An information storage medium on which is recorded a program for implementing the steps of claim 1.

6. An apparatus for displaying a document associated with a thumbnail image created based on an original document, comprising:

a display device; and

a controller that;

displays the thumbnail image via the display device;

receives a request to display a document associated with the thumbnail image;

displays a first version of the document via the display device, at least a portion of the first version being more similar in appearance to a corresponding portion of the thumbnail than a corresponding portion of the original document.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the controller further displays, via the display device, a second version of the document in which a portion corresponding to the at least a portion of the first version is more similar to the corresponding portion of the original document.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the second version is substantially identical to the original document.