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US 2011/0296350 A1Published application
Apparatus and method of data organisation
AssigneeSony United Kingdom Limited
InventorsMikael Carl Lang, Philip Crowhurst
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Abstract
A method of organising data items in an n-dimensional space comprises, for each of a plurality of iterations, the step of generating a relative displacement of position for each data item within the n-dimensional space in accordance with a similarity value between each data item and respective other data items, the distance between each data item and respective other data items in the n-dimensional space, and the difference in position within the n-dimensional space between each data item and at least one reference point.
Claims6
A display comprising:
- a graphical user interface being provided on the display, the interface configured to display at least part of a collection of data items within a shaped volume of 3-dimensional space, and configured such that, over a predetermined number of refreshes of the display, two data items having a dissimilar characteristic feature are displaced from one another on the display by an extent greater than two data items having a similar characteristic feature, wherein the magnitude of the displacement is determined in accordance with the amount of dissimilarity between one of the data items and each of the other displayed data items and the distance of the data item from one reference point within the shaped volume.
A display comprising:
- a graphical user interface provided on the display and configured to display a plurality of data items in 3-dimensional space, wherein the data items are organized, for each refresh of the graphical user interface on the display, by generating a relative displacement of position for each data item within the 3-dimensional space in accordance with:
- i. a similarity between each data item and respective other data items,
- ii. a distance between a position of each data item and respective other data items in the 3-dimensional space, and
- iii. a difference in position within the 3-dimensional space between each data item and at least one reference point.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.