Visual display of categorical information through visual factors such as scale and location
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Corporation of America
InventorsEduardo A. Sciammarella, Franklin Servan-Schreiber
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Abstract
A method and structure for the display of categorical information on a display screen utilizes visual factors such as scale and location to express the degree of importance of a particular category over other categories of categorical information with respect to a selected measurement value. Categorical information is displayed primarily based on the selected measurement value of volume of programming or frequency of use at any given time.
Claims46
A method for visually displaying the relative importance of categorical programming information on a display screen, said method comprising:
- receiving a selection of a measuring value;
- and
- displaying titles of a plurality of programming categories on a display screen in a manner that visually indicates to a viewer of the display screen through one or more visual factors the relative importance of each of the programming categories of the plurality of programming categories as measured by the measuring value, said one or more visual factors being size and location.
A semantic category display system, comprising:
- a display screen;
- and
- a computer system, having a computer program, that is operatively coupled to the display screen, wherein titles of a plurality of programming categories are displayed on the display screen in a manner that visually indicates to a viewer of the display screen through one or more visual factors the relative importance of each of the programming categories of the plurality of programming categories as measured by a measuring value and as determined by the computer program, said one or more visual factors being size and location.
A storage media containing a computer program for visually displaying the relative importance of categorical programming information on a display screen, comprising:
- instructions for setting a measuring value;
- and
- instructions for displaying titles of a plurality of programming categories on a display screen in a manner that visually indicates to a viewer of the display screen through one or more visual factors the relative importance of each of the programming categories of the plurality of programming categories as measured by the measuring value, said one or more visual factors being size and location.
A method for visually displaying the relative importance of categorical programming information on a display screen of an audio/visual (AV) system, said method comprising:
- receiving a selection of a measuring value from a remote controller of the AV system in communication with a computer program that sets the measuring value;
- and
- displaying titles of a plurality of programming categories on the display screen of the AV system in a manner that visually indicates to a viewer of the display screen through one or more visual factors the relative importance of each of the programming categories of the plurality of programming categories as measured by the measuring value and determined by the computer program, said one or more visual factors being size and location.
A storage media containing a computer program for visually displaying the relative importance of categorical programming information on a display screen of an audio/visual (AV) system, comprising:
- instructions for receiving a selection of a measuring value from a remote controller of the AV system in communication with a computer program that sets the measuring value;
- and
- instructions for displaying titles of a plurality of programming categories on the display screen of the AV system in a manner that visually indicates to a viewer of the display screen through one or more visual factors the relative importance of each of the programming categories of the plurality of programming categories as measured by the measuring value and determined by the computer program, said one or more visual factors being size and location.
A audio/visual (AV) semantic category display system, comprising:
- a display screen;
- an antenna for receiving one or more channel to be displayed on the display screen;
- an integrated receiver/decoder (IRD) having a computer program that is operatively coupled to the display screen and the antenna;
- and
- a remote control device operatively coupled to the computer program of the IRD to communicate to the computer program how titles of a plurality of programming categories are to be displayed on the display screen in a manner that visually indicates to a viewer of the display screen through one or more visual factors the relative importance of each of the programming categories of the plurality of programming categories as measured by a measuring value, said one or more visual factors being size and location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.