Method of displaying images
The present invention relates to a method of displaying images implemented by a data processing module able to be connected to a display system comprising at least two display zones (ZA 1 , ZA 2 ), said method of displaying images comprising the following steps: —displaying of a first image ( 11 ) in a first display zone (ZA 1 ) of said display system, —displaying of at least one second image ( 12 ) obtained by applying to the first image ( 11 ) at least one image processing algorithm, each second image ( 12 ) being displayed in a second zone (ZA 2 ) of said display system, —as long as one of said second zones (ZA 2 ) displaying one of said second images ( 12 ) is hovered over by a pointer, displaying, in all or part of the first display zone (ZA 1 ), of at least one part of said first image to which is applied the at least one processing algorithm making it possible to obtain said second hovered-over image ( 12 ).
1. A method of displaying images executed by a data-processing module capable of being connected to a display system comprising at least two display areas,
said method of displaying images comprising the following steps:
displaying a first image in a first display area of said display system,
displaying at least one second image obtained by application to the first image of at least one image-processing algorithm, each second image being displayed in a second area of said display system,
said method of displaying images being characterized in that it further comprises:
as long as one of said second areas displaying one of said second images is hovered over by a pointer, displaying, in all or part of the first display area, at least one part of said first image to which the at least one processing algorithm is applied to obtain said second hovered over image,
the data-processing module using a data model implemented in the form of a graph whereof each state corresponds to an image and each transition between a first state corresponding to a first image and a second state corresponding to a second image illustrates an image-processing algorithm to be applied to the first image to obtain the second image,
the first image displayed in the first display area corresponding to a first state of the graph so-called current state,
said step of displaying at least one second image comprises displaying second images relative to a current state in which, for each second image to be displayed, the data-processing module:
calculating a second image by applying, to at least one part of the image corresponding to the current state, at least one processing algorithm illustrated by at least one transition of the graph between the current state and a second state of the graph accessible from the current state; and
displaying the second image calculated in one of said second display areas, and wherein during selection by a user of the display system of a second display area in which at least one part of an image corresponding to a second state of the graph is displayed, to apply the processing relative to the second image displayed in the second display area, the processing module:
displaying in the first display area an image obtained by applying, to at least one part of the image corresponding to the current state, the processing algorithms represented by the transitions between the current state and the second state,
displaying at least one second image in said second display areas by performing said display step of second images relative to the second state considered as new current state to update the second display areas relatively to this new current state to display new image-processing events to be applied to the image obtained displayed in the first display area.
2. The display method according to claim 1 , wherein displaying at least one second image on said display system, previously comprises determining step said second images to be displayed on said display system.
3. The display method according to claim 1 , wherein said second images to be displayed are determined as a function of user preferences and/or from a history of the image-processing algorithms used previously.
4. The display method according to claim 2 , wherein said second images to be displayed are determined by calculating a set of second images obtained by application to said first image of at least one image-processing algorithm and by selecting second images among the set of second calculated images as a function of the differences between these calculated images and, between these calculated images and the first image.
5. The display method according to claim 1 , further comprising selecting by the user of the display system a first selection area in the first image, wherein each second image displayed in one of said second display areas is obtained by application to the first selection area of the first image of at least one image-processing algorithm.
6. The display method according to claim 1 , further comprising selecting by the user of the display system a second selection area in the first display area, and wherein the at least one processing algorithm applied to obtain the second hovered over image is applied to the first image in the second selection area of the first display area.
7. The display method according to claim 1 , wherein a transformation applied to the first image by a user of the display system is also applied to each second image displayed in one of said second display areas.
8. The display method according to claim 7 , wherein said transformation comprises a zoom in the first image.
9. The display method according to claim 7 , wherein with said first image being a sub-part of an original image, said transformation comprises translation of the sub-part of the original image displayed as first image.
10. A computer program product comprising program code instructions for executing steps of the display method according to claim 1 when said program is executed on a computer.
11. A data-processing module configured to execute the steps of the method according to claim 1 .
12. A display system comprising a data-processing module according to claim 11 and at least one display system.