Icon display apparatus and method used therein
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsChikako Tada, Masaru Tochishita, Kunio Yamada, Tetsuji Abe
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Abstract
An icon display apparatus reduces data to icons and displays those icons. The data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data. A storage stores the data; a graphic generator produces a graphic data for visualizing those data as icons each representing an object in a multi-dimensional space; and a display displays those icons arranged in respective groups corresponding to attributes of data in the multi-dimensional space.
Claims9
An icon display apparatus for reducing data to icons and displaying the icons, wherein the data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data, said icon display apparatus comprising:
- storage means for storing the data;
- visualization means for visualizing the data as icons each representing an object in a multi-dimensional space;
- and
- display means for displaying said icons arranged in respective groups corresponding to attributes of the data in said multi-dimensional space;
- wherein said groups include a group having an attribute representing a transmission, and a group having an attribute representing a receiving.
An icon display method for reducing data to icons and displaying the icons, wherein the data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data, said method comprising:
- storing data;
- visualizing the data as icons each representing an object in a multi-dimensional space;
- and
- displaying said icons arranged in respective groups corresponding to attributes of the data in said multi-dimensional space;
- wherein said groups include a group having an attribute representing a transmission, and a group having an attribute representing a receiving.
A storage medium containing thereon a computer program for controlling an icon display apparatus (IDA) for reducing data to icons and displaying the icons, wherein the data corresponds to items classified into a plurality of groups and to apparatus for processing the data, said computer program being for use with a computer for causing the computer to realize an operational environment comprising:
- storing data;
- visualizing the data as icons each representing an object in a multi-dimensional space;
- and
- displaying said icons arranged in respective groups corresponding to attributes of the data in said multi-dimensional space;
- wherein said groups include a group having an attribute representing a transmission, and a group having an attribute representing a receiving.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.