Patent ID: 8832593

Claim:
A method for efficient spatial feature data analysis, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a user input for selecting a feature contained in an area of interest within a first image via a user-software interaction directly with the first image displayed in a display area of an application window, the first image comprising a plurality of features where the feature selected by the user input and at least one other feature of the plurality of features comprise multi-dimensional representations of objects which have at least one attribute in common; in response to the user-software interaction, simultaneously and dynamically generating, by the computing device, a plurality of chip images using image data defining the first image and data specifying at least one attribute of the feature selected by the user input, each of the chip images comprising at least one of a panned-only view, a zoomed-only view, and a panned-and-zoomed view of the first image including at least one first feature of the plurality of features that is different from second features of the plurality of features which are contained in all other chip images, where the first and second features have at least one attribute in common; and concurrently displaying, by the computing device, an array comprising the plurality of chip images in a plug-in window.