TY - PAT T1 - Methods for the electronic annotation, retrieval, and use of electronic images Y1 - 2006 A1 - Shneiderman, Ben ED - University of Maryland, College Park AB - The present invention provides software for electronically annotating electronic images, such as drawings, photographs, video, etc., through the drag-and-drop of annotations from a pre-defined, but extendable, list. The annotations are placed at a user-selected X, Y location on the image, and stored in a searchable database. Thus, they can be searched in order to retrieve, organize, group, or display desired electronic images or collections of such images. The annotations may be text, images, sounds, etc. The invention provides a flexible, easy to learn, rapid, low error rate and satisfying interface for accomplishing such tasks. VL - 09/976,362 UR - http://www.google.com/patents?id=iBt4AAAAEBAJ CP - 7010751 ER -