Systems and methods for direct image manipulation

• US 6,509,915 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2001
• Issued: 01/21/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CareStream Health Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
• Inventors: Wibowo, Henky, Berman, Phillip
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cao H.
• Application Number:
  US09/892,315
• Publication Number:
  US 20020054172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 574 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/157, 345/158, 345/161, 345/162, 345/163, 345/835, 345/810, 345/840, 345/781, 345/788, 345/803, 345/747, 345/856
• US Class Current: 715/840
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04804 Transparency, e.g. transparent or translucent windows
• 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: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/026 Video wall, i.e. juxtaposition of a plurality of screens to create a display screen of bigger dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 30/40 for processing medical images, e.g. editing
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

An image manipulation system including: at least one of a plurality of display monitors for displaying at least one of a plurality of digital images, each of the display monitors including at least one of a plurality of image display windows, wherein each of the image display windows is capable of displaying at least one of the digital images. The system further includes a cursor and instructions associated with virtual spaces of the image display windows, and is capable of designating the virtual spaces of each of the image display windows as function activating; generating the instructions associated with the virtual spaces; assigning each of the virtual spaces with image manipulation functions corresponding to a position of the cursor when located within each of the virtual spaces; and executing the instructions associated with each of the virtual spaces.

Claims

1. A computerized image manipulation system comprising,

(a) a monitor;

(b) a CPU with memory;

(c) a user interface including;

(i) a cursor maneuvering tool, and

(i) user indicators associated with the cursor maneuvering tool for indicating an action associated with a location of a cursor on a display on the monitor; and

(d) a program in said memory including;

(i) programming to produce digital images on the monitor,

(ii) programming to partition the digital images into virtual spaces occupying locations shared by portions of the digital images, and

(iii) programming assigning image manipulation action to the partitioned virtual spaces under control of the cursor maneuvering tool and at least one of the user indicators upon movement of the cursor into a location on the image corresponding to one of the virtual spaces partitioned thereon, wherein the programming to partition the digital images into virtual spaces comprises programming that partitions at least substantially the entire image area into virtual spaces.