Patent ID: 8255802
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G11B

Abstract:
1. A method of facilitating navigation of a sequence of source images, via a display device and under computer control, the method comprising: generating a plurality of token images, each being a digitized representation of a scaled down version of a respective source image, by transforming said source images into token images for display on said display device; creating an arrangement of said token images on the display device in a continuous band of token images arranged adjacently; and responding to a computer controlled pointer device pointing to a token image on the display device by identifying the corresponding image for further processing, the method further comprising, transforming the continuous band of token images, each token image having a multi pixel width and a multi-pixel height into at least one new squashed band by squashing the token images in a continuous band of token images in the longitudinal direction only, by one or more factors using pixel averaging, to create said at least one new squashed band of squashed token images, whereby each individual squashed token image can be reduced to a maximum of a single pixel width and a multi-pixel height.