Patent ID: 8122356

Claim:
A method for image presentation comprising the steps of: acquiring at least one set of images for presentation; generating a presentation area image for presentation on a display having a plurality of separate presentation objects in the presentation area; determining an image value for each of the acquired images by analyzing the images according to an image value metric; presenting the presentation area image with one of the acquired images in each of the presentation objects with the presented images being selected such that there will be at least a range of different image values for the images presented at any one moment in time; animating the presentation objects within the presentation area image by moving the presentation objects relative to each other in a manner that attracts more attention to presentation objects that are used to present images having a higher image value than presentation objects that are used to simultaneously present images having a lower image value; and extracting salient shapes from the images and wherein the salient shapes are used as shapes to form the presentation objects for the presentation images that are used to present portions of the images.