Displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time

Details Displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time Displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time

2006-02-01

2010-12-21

Couso, Yon (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image transformation or preprocessing

Combining image portions

C358S001180

Reexamination Certificate

active

07856153

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for displaying a long sequence of images in a short amount of time. In one embodiment, the method comprises selecting page images for display from a plurality of page images corresponding to an image-based document, the plurality of page images including merged page images and each merged page image having salient content from multiple successive page images of the image-based document merged into one image; and serially displaying the selected page images on a display.

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