Patent ID: 9230298
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: A63F,G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. An information processing device adapted to display a whole image or a part of the whole image on a display, comprising: a first receiving unit configured to receive a change command to change the displayed image, wherein said displayed image comprises a plurality of hierarchical layers, each layer comprises one or more tile images, and each layer corresponds to at least one of a different resolution and scale of said displayed image, said hierarchical layers define a virtual three-dimensional space of hierarchical image data, wherein said information processing device downloads and acquires said tile images necessary to generate said displayed image, in accordance with the scale, resolution, and movement indicated in the change command, from an image data providing server; an image processing unit configured to generate the displayed image corresponding to the whole image or the part of the whole image, in accordance with the change command to change the displayed image; a second receiving unit configured to receive a clip command; and a clipping process unit configured to clip the displayed image in accordance with the clip command, wherein the clipping process unit comprises: a clipping area identification unit configured to identify an area in the displayed image to be clipped in accordance with the clip command; a thumbnail image generation unit configured to generate a thumbnail image of a clipped image; a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information identifying the position of the identified area in the whole image; and a storage unit configured to store the thumbnail image and the positional information, mapping the thumbnail image and the positional information to each other, wherein said information processing device is configured to share image content, including said clipped image content, with another information processing device configured with identical image processing functionality.