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Abstract

A method of displaying overlapping images of an object or space, each of which might be from different angles or perspectives on that object or space, which preserves the value of the detail of the individual images but yet juxtaposes them into a montage to provide a more complete view of the whole. Controls allow the entire montage to be scrolled or manipulated, but within the main part of the screen, the images are overlaid in sorted order where the image on the top is the one whose center is closest to the cursor from the overall perspective of the viewport. As the user moves the cursor or shifts the viewport, this order changes and new images are brought up while others get shuffled beneath them. By actuating a 'bring-to-center' control, the montage is shifted so as to center a selected image free from perspective distortions, and a 'locking' mechanism for this control enables it to repeat this shift with each frame of a movie thus selected in order to maintain the movie at center screen while the montage is repositioned behind in sync with the movement of the camera which took the movie.

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