Patent Document ID: 8799811
Application ID: 12335573
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for browsing individual medical thumbnail objects of fixed proportions on a monitor wherein the thumbnail objects displayed in an original size window are to be displayed in a changed size window on the monitor in a non-overlapping non-obscuring manner, comprising the steps of: providing a computer with software for displaying the thumbnail objects on said monitor as a graphical user interface; with said software determining window display dimensions of the original size window, determining said fixed proportions for each of the individual thumbnail objects, determining a display pattern of said thumbnail objects displayed in said original size window, determining a number of the thumbnail objects in said pattern, determining an amount of space between the individual thumbnail objects, and determining a margin between the displayed pattern and edges of the original size window; automatically calculating with said software respective thumbnail object display dimensions of each of the individual thumbnail objects based on said fixed proportions of the thumbnail objects, based on said dimensions of the original size window, based on said pattern, based on said number of thumbnail objects within said pattern, based on said amount of space between the thumbnail objects, and based on said margin; upon receipt of a user input, with said software scaling window display dimensions for said changed size window, automatically resizing the thumbnail objects while retaining said fixed proportions of the thumbnail objects, retaining said same display pattern, and retaining the same number of original thumbnail objects in said display pattern; and displaying, in said changed size window in said non-overlapping and non-obscured manner, the resized thumbnail objects with the same display pattern, with the same number of individual thumbnail objects in said display pattern, and with said same fixed proportions of the individual thumbnail objects.