Patent ID: 7453479

Claim:
A data file browsing system for displaying image data composed of an array of pixel data, comprising: an image data dividing mechanism for dividing said image data in a direction perpendicular to the direction of reading said pixel data items to generate a plurality of divided image data items; a storing means for storing said divided image data items; a means for reading a desired portion from said divided image data items; said storing means; and an image displaying mechanism for combining and displaying said portion, wherein said image data is data obtained by converting, to image data, a plurality of markup language files having a hierarchical structure in terms of tag data, the image data as converted being arranged in the lateral direction in accordance with said hierarchical structure; and wherein said image displaying mechanism is used to scroll the image data in the lateral direction in accordance with said tag data; and wherein said markup language files are provided through the Internet as Web pages, wherein each of said image data arranged in the form of a two dimensional array is associated with a link to an address in the Internet where is provided the original markup language file before conversion, and wherein said Web page can be accessed by clicking the respective image data as arranged in the form of the two dimensional array.