Method and apparatus for creating and displaying navigators for guiding to related image information.

摘要

Image information units, related with one another in a direction of their magnitudes defined for each of a plurality of properties of each image, are prestored in an image information storage and management device. All image information units adjoiningly related by their properties with a main image being displayed on a display (60) are read out of the image information storage and management device, and contracted images of the read-out image information units are displayed as navigators on the display screen, together with the main image.