IMAGING PRODUCT SELECTION METHOD

• US 20120297301A1
• Filed: 05/20/2011
• Published: 11/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mahoney, Kathleen A., Cok, Ronald S.
• Granted Patent: US 9,524,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/716
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A method for displaying a collage of digital images on a display, receiving a selection for one of the digital images to be presented on a separate area of the display together with any associated multimedia, wherein one of the digital images has a portion overlapped by another digital image.

Claims

1. A method of displaying images in a multi-media display apparatus, comprising the steps of:

providing a display having a graphic user interface (GUI) including a user-interactive GUI pointing device;

displaying a plurality of multi-media elements having images on the GUI, one or more of the displayed images of the plurality of multi-media elements apparently overlapping another so that only a portion of the overlapped image is visible;

receiving a selection from a pointing device in association with one of the displayed images for selecting the display image; and

modifying the display of the selected image to display the entire associated image so that it is not overlapped by any other of displayed images.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of modifying the display of the entire selected image to display a larger view of the entire selected image.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of displaying the displayed images in the form of a photo-collage.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of displaying the images as a page.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of locating the pointing device in association with one of the displayed images by locating the pointing device over the associated image.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of locating the pointing device in association with one of the displayed images by selecting the associated image.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of providing the pointing device as a mouse cursor.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of obscuring other images in the plurality of images with the entire selected image display.

9. Method comprising:

displaying a collage of digital multimedia elements on a display;

receiving a selection for one of the multimedia elements to be presented on the display, said one of the multimedia elements having a portion overlapped by another one of the multimedia elements; and

presenting the selected one of the multimedia elements on the display such that no portion of the selected multimedia element is overlapped.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of presenting includes the step of presenting the selected one of the multimedia elements in a display area separated from the collage.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of presenting includes the step of playing an audio track associated with the selected one of the multimedia elements.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the selected one of the multimedia elements comprises a video and the step of presenting includes playing the video on the display.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of displaying the collage includes the step of displaying indicia indicating which ones of the multimedia elements include and audio track for presentation.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the step of displaying the collage includes the step of displaying indicia indicating which ones of the multimedia elements include a video for presentation.

15. Method comprising:

displaying a collage of digital images on a display;

receiving a selection for one of the digital images to be presented on a separate area of the display together with any associated multimedia, said one of the digital images having a portion overlapped by another one of the digital images; and

presenting the selected one of the digital images on the separate area of the display together with said any associated multimedia.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein said any associated multimedia includes an audio track.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the selected one of the digital images comprises a still image derived from a video, and wherein the step of receiving its selection includes the step of playing the video as part of a presentation on the separate area of the display.