SPATIAL LINKING VISUAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME

摘要

A spatial linking visual navigation system interfacing with multiple data sources to create a layered image includes a display and interface apparatus. The interface apparatus has a content receiver configured to acquire a first primary file from any one of the data sources where the primary file has at least an image of one object thereon. An overlay generator generates a transparent layer to be overlaid over the primary file which spatially corresponds to the primary file. A link generator generates an icon on the transparent layer over the at least one object such that the icon represents a link to data contained in the data sources related to the object in the primary file. The overlay generator, without modifying the primary file, prepares the layered image, which is a combined view of the primary file, the transparent layer, and icons on the transparent layer.