Patent ID: 6549222
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A man-machine interface for analyzing image-mosaics, the image-mosaics being scaled and aligned to a sample coordinate space, the man-machine interface comprising:a) a display area defining a display coordinate space; b) a system pointer having a position in the display coordinate space; c) a plurality of mosaic-views having respective view-boundaries in the display coordinate space, each mosaic-view displaying at least a portion of one of the image-mosaics, and d) a plurality of lock-step cursors sharing positional coordinates with respect to the sample coordinate space; whereby the system pointer, upon crossing view-boundary into a-one of the plurality of mosaic-views, is displayed as a master-cursor that controls cursor events and the lock-step cursors are displayed within other mosaic-views at a relative position of the master-cursor with respect to the sample coordinate space, provided that the relative position is within the respective display coordinate space of respective one of the other mosaic-views.