Image viewer
First Claim
1. An image viewer comprising:
- an image database having image data files registered therein, wherein positional data indicating a camera location of capturing an image is attached to image data of said image in each of said image data files;
a display data producer for producing display data from said image data;
a display device for displaying images based on said display data; and
an image arrangement deciding device for deciding an arrangement of said images to display on said display device, wherein said image arrangement deciding device gets said positional data of a plural number of images from said image database, and determines based on said positional data which images are the nearest to a particular image with respect to their camera locations and where the nearest images adjoin the particular image, to decide an arrangement of said images in an array, and wherein said display data producer produces display data for displaying said images in the array arranged adjacently to one another according to the decided arrangement.
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Abstract
In an image viewer, a lot of image data files are registered in a database. In each image data file, positional data is attached to image data, indicating a camera location at which the image data is captured. An image arrangement decider gets the positional data from the image data files, and decides a lattice arrangement of registered images based on the positional data, so that the relative positions of the images in the lattice correspond to the correlations between the camera locations of these images. A control device controls a display device to display the images tightly in the decided arrangement on a screen. Information relating to the camera locations of the images, e.g. borders, place names or a map, may be retrieved based on the attached positional data from another database, and displayed in addition to the images.
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1. An image viewer comprising:
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an image database having image data files registered therein, wherein positional data indicating a camera location of capturing an image is attached to image data of said image in each of said image data files; a display data producer for producing display data from said image data; a display device for displaying images based on said display data; and an image arrangement deciding device for deciding an arrangement of said images to display on said display device, wherein said image arrangement deciding device gets said positional data of a plural number of images from said image database, and determines based on said positional data which images are the nearest to a particular image with respect to their camera locations and where the nearest images adjoin the particular image, to decide an arrangement of said images in an array, and wherein said display data producer produces display data for displaying said images in the array arranged adjacently to one another according to the decided arrangement. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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