Data retrieval and display system

Claim 1

AN INFORMATION STORAGE AND DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR STORING, RETRIEVING AND DISPLAYING A FORM OF FIXED DATA AND A FORM OF VARIABLE DATA IN COMPOSITE DISPLAY INCLUDING, A PLURALITY OF COMMON FORMS OF FIXED DATA INDIVIDUALLY CODED FOR IDENTIFICATION, MEANS FOR STORING SAID FIXED DATA FORMS, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY RETRIEVING A DESIRED FIXED DATA FORM IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS IDENTIFICATION CODE, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY VIEWING A DESIRED PORTION OF SAID FIXED DATA SO RETRIEVED, SAID VIEWING MEANS INCLUDING, MEANS FOR PROVIDING ONE OF A PLURALITY OF MAGNIFICATION LEVELS FOR MAGNIFYING THE FIXED DATA SO VIEWED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PERCENTAGE OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE TOTAL FIELD OF THE FIXED DATA AND THE PORTION THEREOF SO VIEWED, MEANS FOR PROVIDING A FIRST SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PORTION OF SAID FIXED DATA ACTUALLY VIEWED AND MAGNIFIED, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID FIRST SIGNAL FOR PROVIDING A FIRST IMAGE OF THE FIXED DATA SO VIEWED, EACH SAID IMAGE HAVING COMMON DIMENSIONS, A PLURALITY OF COMMON FORMS OF VARIABLE DATA FOR EACH FORM OF FIXED DATA OF SAID PLURALITY OF FIXED DATA FORMS, EACH VARIABLE DATA FORM BEING CODED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE IDENTIFICATION CODE OF THE FIXED DATA WITH WHICH THE VARIABLE DATA IS RELATED AND THE PORTION OF THE FIELD OF THE FIXED DATA VIEWED, MEANS FOR STORING SAID PLURALITY OF COMMON FORMS OF VARIABLE DATA, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY RETRIEVING ONE VARIABLE DATA FORM FROM SAID PLURALITY OF FORMS OF VARIABLE DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS IDENTIFICATION CODE AND THE LEVEL OF MAGNIFICATION OF THE FIXED DATA MAGNIFICATION MEANS, MEANS FOR VIEWING THE VARIABLE DATA FORM SO SELECTED, MEANS FOR PROVIDING A SECOND SIGNAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE VARIABLE DATA FORM SO VIEWED, MEANS RESPONSIVE TO SAID SECOND SIGNAL FOR PROVIDING A SECOND IMAGE OF SAID VARIABLE DATA, SAID IMAGE HAVING SAID COMMON DIMENSIONS, AND MEANS FOR DISPLAYING SAID FIRST AND SECOND IMAGES IN COMMON SOTHAT SAID FIRST AND SECOND IMAGES ARE A COMPOSITE DISPLAY.