公开(公告)号：US5617114A

公开(公告)日：1997-04-01

申请号：US449584

申请日：1995-05-24

申请人： Eric A. Bier ,  William A. S. Buxton ,  Maureen C. Stone

发明人： Eric A. Bier ,  William A. S. Buxton ,  Maureen C. Stone

IPC分类号： G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F13/10 ,  G09G5/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/04845 ,  G06F3/0481 ,  G06F2203/0382 ,  G06F2203/04804 ,  Y10S345/902

摘要： A user interface technique operates in the environment of a processor-controlled machine for executing a program that operates on a set of underlying data and displays a visible representation thereof. The system further provides a visual depiction of a set of tools. The tools include click-through tools that can be combined with other tools (including other click-through tools) to provide composite tools. A click-through tool includes a generally transparent delineated active area that is movable so that it can be placed over a desired portion of the visible representation. When the user interacts with the visible representation through the active area, the action takes on an attribute of the particular click-through tool. A click-through tool can be superimposed on another click-through tool, whereupon an action taken through the two click-through tools onto the visible representation takes on attributes of both tools.

摘要翻译： 用户接口技术在处理器控制的机器的环境中操作，用于执行对一组底层数据进行操作的程序，并显示其可视表示。 该系统进一步提供一组工具的视觉描绘。 这些工具包括可与其他工具（包括其他点击式工具）组合的点击工具，以提供复合工具。 点击式工具包括可移动的通常透明的划定的活动区域，使得其可以放置在可见表示的期望部分上。 当用户通过活动区域与可见表示进行交互时，该操作将采用特定点击式工具的属性。 点击式工具可以叠加在另一个点击式工具上，通过两个点击工具执行的操作到可见表示上的操作具有两个工具的属性。

公开(公告)号：US5581670A

公开(公告)日：1996-12-03

申请号：US95598

申请日：1993-07-21

申请人： Eric A. Bier ,  William A. S. Buxton

发明人： Eric A. Bier ,  William A. S. Buxton

IPC分类号： G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F13/10

CPC分类号： G06F3/0481 ,  G06F2203/04804

摘要： A user interface technique operates in the environment of a processor-controlled machine for executing a program that operates on a set of underlying data and displays a visible representation thereof. The system generates a visual depiction of a movable sheet having a number of delineated regions (active areas), responds to a first set of signals for positioning the sheet relative to the visible representation, responds to a second set of signals characterized by position information (typically cursor position) relative to the sheet and the visible representation, and generates a third set of signals to the program. The third set of signals depends on the relative position of the sheet and the visible representation and on the position information that characterizes the second set of input signals. The delineated regions may be thought of and referred to as click-through tools.

摘要翻译： 用户界面技术在处理器控制的机器的环境中操作，用于执行对一组底层数据进行操作的程序，并显示其可视表示。 系统产生具有多个描绘区域（有效区域）的可移动片材的可视描绘，响应于用于将片材相对于可见表示定位的第一组信号，响应于以位置信息为特征的第二组信号 通常是光标位置），并且生成第三组信号给程序。 第三组信号取决于纸张的相对位置和可视表示以及表征第二组输入信号的位置信息。 划定的区域可能被认为是并被称为点击式工具。

公开(公告)号：US5818455A

公开(公告)日：1998-10-06

申请号：US429376

申请日：1995-04-26

申请人： Maureen C. Stone ,  Kenneth P. Fishkin ,  Eric A. Bier

发明人： Maureen C. Stone ,  Kenneth P. Fishkin ,  Eric A. Bier

IPC分类号： G06T3/40 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06F15/62

CPC分类号： G06T3/0018 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T3/0025

摘要： A method of operating a processor control machine, and a machine having a processor for producing human perceptible output related to an image display feature presented in an original image using the model data structure (the model) from which the original image was produced. In response to the display of an output producing region displayed coextensively with the first image segment including a display feature representing a data item in the model, a human perceptible output is produced using the data item. This is done at the same time as the first image is being displayed, giving the perception to a machine user of providing information related to the display feature in the first segment. The human perceptible output is a second image displayed by the output producing region, called a viewing operation region, or VOR. The VOR consists of one or more explicit input regions and one or more explicit output regions, spatially separated from the one or more input regions. The VOR, nevertheless, functions to bind or link the second view in the output region to the original image associated with the input region.

摘要翻译： 一种操作处理器控制机器的方法，以及具有处理器的机器，该处理器用于使用从其生成原始图像的模型数据结构（模型）产生与原始图像中呈现的图像显示特征相关的人类可感知输出。 响应于与包括表示模型中的数据项的显示特征的第一图像段共同显示的输出产生区域的显示，使用该数据项产生人类可感知的输出。 这是在显示第一个图像的同时完成的，给机器用户提供了在第一段中提供与显示特征相关的信息的感知。 人的可感知输出是由输出产生区显示的第二个图像，称为观察操作区域，或VOR。 VOR由一个或多个显式输入区域和一个或多个显式输出区域组成，空间上与一个或多个输入区域分离。 然而，VOR用于将输出区域中的第二视图绑定或链接到与输入区域相关联的原始图像。

公开(公告)号：US5729704A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-17

申请号：US587890

申请日：1996-01-16

申请人： Maureen C. Stone ,  Eric A. Bier ,  Anthony DeRose

发明人： Maureen C. Stone ,  Eric A. Bier ,  Anthony DeRose

IPC分类号： G06T11/00

CPC分类号： G06T11/00

摘要： A user-directed method for operating a processor-controlled machine permits a user to operate on an object-based model data structure from which a first image has been produced in order to produce a second image for display in the spatial context of the first image, and then to interact with objects in the displayed second image. The method is cooperates as cooperating with the functionality of an application program, such as a graphical object editor. The user requests the display of a viewing operation region (VOR) coextensively with a first image segment of the first displayed image. In response to the user's request signal, a viewing operation associated with the VOR operates on the object-based model data structure that produced the first image to produce an output model data structure from which is produced a second view, or image, of the portion of the first image coextensively positioned with the VOR, displaying the second view in the VOR. The second image includes an output object that represents data item in the output model that is mapped from and linked to a first object data item in the original object-based model. Then, the user is permitted to access the first object data item in the original model data by interacting directly with the output display object in the second image via the functionality of the application program that produced the first image. The method provides spatially defined access to information in a complex model in an intuitive and easy to use manner.

摘要翻译： 用于操作处理器控制的机器的用户导向的方法允许用户对已经从其生成第一图像的基于对象的模型数据结构进行操作，以便产生用于在第一图像的空间上下文中显示的第二图像 ，然后与所显示的第二个图像中的对象进行交互。 该方法与诸如图形对象编辑器之类的应用程序的功能协作。 用户请求与第一显示图像的第一图像片段共同显示观看操作区域（VOR）。 响应于用户的请求信号，与VOR相关联的观看操作对产生第一图像的基于对象的模型数据结构进行操作以产生输出模型数据结构，从该产生模型数据结构生成该部分的第二视图或图像 的第一图像与VOR共同定位，在VOR中显示第二视图。 第二图像包括表示在原始基于对象的模型中映射并链接到第一对象数据项的输出模型中的数据项的输出对象。 然后，允许用户通过与产生第一图像的应用程序的功能性直接与第二图像中的输出显示对象交互来访问原始模型数据中的第一对象数据项。 该方法以直观且易于使用的方式在复杂模型中提供空间定义的信息访问。

公开(公告)号：US5479603A

公开(公告)日：1995-12-26

申请号：US96193

申请日：1993-07-21

申请人： Maureen C. Stone ,  Eric A. Bier ,  Kenneth P. Fishkin ,  Anthony DeRose

发明人： Maureen C. Stone ,  Eric A. Bier ,  Kenneth P. Fishkin ,  Anthony DeRose

IPC分类号： G09G5/00 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T11/80

CPC分类号： G06T11/00 ,  Y10S707/99933

摘要： A method is disclosed for operating a processor-controlled machine to produce a composite view of an original, or first, image by combining the functions of multiple viewing operations and using the model data structure from which the first image was produced (called the "FIMDS".) A first viewing operation region (1VOR) in a first viewing position in the display area of the display device has displayed in the 1VOR a second image produced according to a first viewing operation (VO1), associated with the 1VOR, that maps the FIMDS to image definition data defining the second image. Request signal data is received from a signal source to present a second viewing operation region (2VOR) in the display area coextensive with at least a portion of the 1VOR, forming a composite viewing operation region in the overlapping region. The 2VOR has a second viewing operation (VO2) associated with it for mapping an input model data structure, typically but not necessarily the FIMDS, to image definition data defining a second image for display in the 2VOR (2VOR-SI), providing an alternate view of the FIMDS that is different from that provided by the VO1 associated with the 1VOR. In response to the request signal data, a composite viewing operation, composed from the functions of the VO1 and the VO2, maps the FIMDS to image definition data defining a composite image for display in the composite viewing operation region substantially at the same time as the first image is being displayed in the display area. This gives the perception to the machine user of applying composed viewing operations to information presented in the original image.

摘要翻译： 公开了一种用于操作处理器控制的机器以通过组合多个观看操作的功能并使用从其生成第一图像的模型数据结构（称为“FIMDS”）来产生原始或第一图像的复合视图的方法 “）在显示装置的显示区域中的第一观看位置中的第一观看操作区域（1VOR）在1VOR中显示根据与1VOR相关联的第一观看操作（VO1）产生的第二图像，其映射 FIMDS以定义第二图像的图像定义数据。 从信号源接收请求信号数据，以在与所述1VOR的至少一部分共同延伸的显示区域中呈现第二观看操作区域（2VOR），从而在重叠区域中形成复合观看操作区域。 2VOR具有与其相关联的用于将输入模型数据结构（通常但不一定是FIMDS）映射到定义用于在2VOR（2VOR-SI）中显示的第二图像的图像定义数据的第二观察操作（VO2），提供替代 FIMDS的视图不同于与1VOR相关联的VO1提供的。 响应于请求信号数据，由VO1和VO2的功能组成的复合观看操作将FIMDS映射到定义合成图像的图像定义数据，以在复合观看操作区域中基本上与 第一个图像正在显示在显示区域。 这给机器用户提供了对原始图像中呈现的信息应用组合观看操作的感觉。

公开(公告)号：US20130155068A1

公开(公告)日：2013-06-20

申请号：US13328989

申请日：2011-12-16

申请人： Eric A. Bier ,  Oliver Brdiczka

发明人： Eric A. Bier ,  Oliver Brdiczka

IPC分类号： G06T11/20

CPC分类号： G06F17/30946 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q10/10

摘要： A relationship visualization system displays contextual information for a relationship between two entities of a document management system, such as for a user and a document. The system can receive a request for a relationship visualization from a user, such that the request indicates the user and a document. Then, the system determines, from a multipartite graph, a set of relationship paths coupling entity nodes corresponding to the user and the document. A relationship path can include one or more entity nodes indicating contextual information for the relationship between the user and the document. Then, the system selects a first group of entity nodes from the set of relationship paths to represent the relationship between the user and the document. The system then provides a relationship visualization that displays contextual information from the first group of entity nodes to illustrate the relationship between the user and the document.

摘要翻译： 关系可视化系统显示文档管理系统的两个实体（例如用户和文档）之间的关系的上下文信息。 系统可以接收来自用户的关系可视化的请求，使得该请求指示用户和文档。 然后，系统从多部分图中确定耦合与用户和文档对应的实体节点的一组关系路径。 关系路径可以包括指示用户和文档之间的关系的上下文信息的一个或多个实体节点。 然后，系统从该组关系路径中选择第一组实体节点，以表示用户与文档之间的关系。 然后，系统提供关系可视化，其显示来自第一组实体节点的上下文信息以说明用户和文档之间的关系。

公开(公告)号：US07904807B2

公开(公告)日：2011-03-08

申请号：US10289531

申请日：2002-11-05

申请人： David G. Bell ,  Eric A. Bier ,  Bay-Wei Chang

发明人： David G. Bell ,  Eric A. Bier ,  Bay-Wei Chang

IPC分类号： G06F17/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/30893 ,  G06F2216/17

摘要： A system and method for copying formatting information between group editable Web pages is provided. The system includes a web server and devices, such as computers, which can communicate via a network. Users at the computers can access one or more of the Web pages and request that the accessed page's formatting information be copied over to one or more specified target Web pages. The Web server is configured to extract a first set of formatting information, such as HTML formatting templates, from a source web page displayed on one or more computers in the network. Further, the Web server replaces a corresponding second set of formatting information in the target Web page(s) with the first set of extracted formatting information.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种用于在组可编辑网页之间复制格式化信息的系统和方法。 该系统包括web服务器和可以经由网络通信的诸如计算机的设备。 计算机上的用户可以访问一个或多个网页，并请求将访问的页面的格式化信息复制到一个或多个指定的目标网页。 Web服务器被配置为从网络中的一个或多个计算机上显示的源网页中提取第一组格式化信息，例如HTML格式化模板。 此外，Web服务器用第一组提取的格式化信息替换目标网页中的对应的第二组格式化信息。

公开(公告)号：US20070300170A1

公开(公告)日：2007-12-27

申请号：US11426925

申请日：2006-06-27

申请人： Eric A. Bier ,  Edward W. Ishak

发明人： Eric A. Bier ,  Edward W. Ishak

IPC分类号： G06F3/048

CPC分类号： G06F17/30696

摘要： Aspects of the disclosed technology present a workspace window responsive to a belief graph and a relationship data structure that represents a comprehension state by presenting an instance-representation of a first separately-movable instance object that represents a first entity/relationship object in the relationship data structure wherein the instance-representation of the first separately-movable instance object can be selected.

摘要翻译： 所公开的技术的方面通过呈现代表关系数据中的第一实体/关系对象的第一可单独移动的实例对象的实例表示来呈现响应于信念图和表示理解状态的关系数据结构的工作空间窗口 结构，其中可以选择第一可单独移动的实例对象的实例表示。

公开(公告)号：USD396709S

公开(公告)日：1998-08-04

申请号：US17700

申请日：1994-01-21

申请人： Eric A. Bier

设计人： Eric A. Bier

公开(公告)号：US10685234B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-16

申请号：US13436857

申请日：2012-03-31

申请人： Robert Roy Buckley ,  Eric A. Bier

发明人： Robert Roy Buckley ,  Eric A. Bier

IPC分类号： G06K9/00 ,  G06F16/583 ,  G06F16/51

摘要： A method and system are provided that analyze a first digital asset to identify a set of attributes of the first digital asset. Search criteria are then formulated, and a search is conducted. Once search results are obtained, at least one second digital asset that is substantially identical to the first digital asset is identified. Then, metadata between the first digital asset and the second digital asset is shared.