公开(公告)号：US20100169809A1

公开(公告)日：2010-07-01

申请号：US12347152

申请日：2008-12-31

申请人： Ann Lerene McCarthy ,  Mark James Owens

发明人： Ann Lerene McCarthy ,  Mark James Owens

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F16/44

摘要： Disclosed are a method and a system for managing visually related multimedia information. The visually related multimedia information comprises a plurality of information elements; each information element of the plurality of visually related multimedia information elements is associated with one or more characteristics. Each characteristic of the visually related multimedia information is associated with a dimension of an information volume. A user input is received for positioning the one or more information elements along at least one dimension of the one or more dimensions of the information volume. Each information element of the plurality of visually related multimedia information elements is positioned along the one or more dimensions of the information volume. Positioning a visually related multimedia information element classifies the information element. One or more information elements of the plurality of dimensionally positioned visually related multimedia information elements is retained as an information volume of at least one dimension. One or more information elements of the plurality of dimensionally positioned visually related multimedia information elements is displayed to the user distributed over a spatial region according to a dimensional display representation in which spatial proximity among the one or more visually related multimedia information elements along each of the at least one dimensions of the dimensional display representation represents the aspects of similarity and dissimilarity in the characteristic identified with each said dimension. A user input is received to determine the dimensional display representation from the dimensions of the information volume and to determine the orientation and viewpoint of the dimensional display representation.

摘要翻译： 公开了用于管理视觉相关多媒体信息的方法和系统。 视觉相关的多媒体信息包括多个信息元素; 多个视觉相关的多媒体信息元素中的每个信息元素与一个或多个特征相关联。 视觉相关多媒体信息的每个特征与信息量的维度相关联。 接收用户输入用于沿着信息量的一个或多个维度的至少一个维度定位一个或多个信息元素。 多个视觉相关多媒体信息元素中的每个信息元素沿信息量的一个或多个维度定位。 定位视觉相关的多媒体信息元素对信息元素进行分类。 多个尺寸定位的视觉相关多媒体信息元素中的一个或多个信息元素被保留为至少一个维度的信息量。 多个尺寸定位的视觉相关多媒体信息元素中的一个或多个信息元素根据维度显示表示被显示给分布在空间区域上的用户，其中沿着每个视点相关的多个视觉相关多媒体信息元素之间的空间接近度 维度显示表示的至少一个维度表示在每个所述维度识别的特征中的相似性和不相似性的方面。 接收用户输入以根据信息量的尺寸确定尺寸显示表示，并确定尺寸显示表示的方向和视点。