Abstract
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by theinventors: “A process of storing, finding, retrieving, or g enerating one or more images stored electronicallyhas become increasingly diffi cult for a variety of reasons. For instance, when a user searches for imageson the Internet, an image generating algorithm produces sets of images in a random manner. With the production of the images in the random manner, an ability of co mputer programs to perform searching,generating, and retrieval functions in an efficient, useful, and timely manner is challenging.