Patent Document ID: 5553277
Application ID: 07997930
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image search method which comprises the steps of: forming one unit of image/text information composed of N--number of images and associated text information; forming a data base by storing a number of items of the image/text information in a memory device; retrieving one or more items of image/text information, which satisfy search conditions, from the data base by referring to text information when the search conditions have been inputted; reducing and juxtaposing each of the images in the items of image/text information retrieved and displaying the reduced and juxtaposed images that have been thus obtained on a display device; selecting a desired item of image/text information from the reduced and juxtaposed images; displaying only a first image of N--number of images and first item of text information in the selected item of image/text information on the display device; displaying N--number of page-turning indices in the proximity of a displayed image; making the sizes of the indices larger the smaller N becomes; and displaying only one of the N--number of images which is selected by the page-turning index corresponding thereto with the N--number of page-turning indices.