Patent ID: 8386951

Claim:
An adjustment apparatus displayed through a graphical user interface using a computer, the interface also displaying an image of an object, wherein at least a portion of the image is coded with values from a sequence of qualitative values, the adjustment apparatus comprising: a display adjustment feature providing an overall range of selectable quantitative values using the computer, from an overall minimum selectable quantitative value to an overall maximum selectable quantitative value, and having an entirety of the sequence of qualitative values superimposed thereon according to a selected range of quantitative values from within the overall range of selectable quantitative values; a moveable marker disposed alongside the display adjustment feature and being engageable by a user, using the computer, to select, from the display adjustment feature, a quantitative value from the overall range of selectable quantitative values provided by the display adjustment feature, the selected quantitative value defining the selected range of quantitative values to be associated with the entirety of the sequence of qualitative values, such that the entirety of the sequence of qualitative values is calibrated to the selected range of quantitative values for the coding of the image displayed by the interface; a legend having the entirety of the calibrated sequence of qualitative values superimposed thereon using the computer, the legend including a first end corresponding to a minimum quantitative value of the selected range of quantitative values and a second end corresponding to a maximum quantitative value of the selected range of quantitative values; and a numerical scale corresponding to the selected range of quantitative values and extending alongside the legend; wherein a position of the moveable marker alongside the display adjustment feature corresponds to a particular qualitative value of the sequence of qualitative values, the particular qualitative value corresponding to the selected quantitative value.