Comprehensive, multi-dimensional graphical user interface using picture metadata for navigating and retrieving pictures in a picture database
First Claim
1. A graphical user interface (GUI) adapted to browse pictures stored in a picture database, said GUI comprising:
- a main level display providing links to other display levels, said main level display comprising;
a hierarchical picture grouping iconic region indicating directories, folders and files containing pictures from said database;
at least one main display area adapted to at least display pictures, thumbnails and graphical browsers;
a picture content iconic region, comprising a plurality of selectable icons, each representing a content category and associated with a display level with pictures from said picture database having content of a selected content category and grouped according to picture metadata;
a graphical browser region comprising selectable indicia of at least two graphical browsers utilized by said GUI, each indicia associated with a display level, with one of said display levels having a geographical map with icons located at picture locations on a map and another one of said display levels having a plot representing on one axis one characteristic of the images in the database and representing on another axis another characteristic of the images in the database; and
said GUI further enabling access to the display levels linked to said main display level via one or more of the icons in said main display level upon selection of an icon or indicia thereof.
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Abstract
A comprehensive, multi-dimensional graphical user interface (GUI) using metadata provides for multiple methods and displays for browsing and retrieving pictures in a picture database. The main level display 100, which is linked to other level displays has in the preferred embodiment, a hierarchical picture grouping iconic region (104) with directories and files containing pictures in the database, a main display area (102) for displaying pictures, thumbnails and graphical browsers, a picture content iconic region (106) according to predefined content categories and picture metadata, and a graphical browser region (108) having indicia of the graphical browsers utilized by the GUI. In addition to the main level (100), the present-inventive GUI also has a number of display levels linked to the main display level (100) via one or more icons (104, 106, 108 and 110) in the main display level.
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21 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface (GUI) adapted to browse pictures stored in a picture database, said GUI comprising:
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a main level display providing links to other display levels, said main level display comprising; a hierarchical picture grouping iconic region indicating directories, folders and files containing pictures from said database; at least one main display area adapted to at least display pictures, thumbnails and graphical browsers; a picture content iconic region, comprising a plurality of selectable icons, each representing a content category and associated with a display level with pictures from said picture database having content of a selected content category and grouped according to picture metadata; a graphical browser region comprising selectable indicia of at least two graphical browsers utilized by said GUI, each indicia associated with a display level, with one of said display levels having a geographical map with icons located at picture locations on a map and another one of said display levels having a plot representing on one axis one characteristic of the images in the database and representing on another axis another characteristic of the images in the database; and said GUI further enabling access to the display levels linked to said main display level via one or more of the icons in said main display level upon selection of an icon or indicia thereof. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method for presenting pictures from a picture database in an organized graphical user interface, the method comprising:
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generating a main display level on a display, with the main display level having a picture content iconic region, and a graphical browser region and a hierarchical picture grouping iconic region; with said hierarchical picture grouping iconic region indicating directories, folders and files containing pictures from said database, with said picture content iconic region providing a plurality of icons each icon representing a content category and associated with a display level that is linked to the main display level, said linked display level having a group of pictures therein said group of pictures comprising a portion of pictures from the database having content associated with a selected category and having related metadata, and with said graphical browser region comprising selectable indicia of at least two graphical browsers utilized by said GUI each indicia associated with a display level, with one of said display levels having a geographical map with icons located at picture locations on a map and with another one of said display levels having a plot representing on one axis one characteristic of the images in the database and on another axis another characteristic of images in the database, detecting a selection of an icon or indicia; and presenting a display level associated with the selected icon or indicia.
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