Motion-based visualization
AssigneeBBN Technologies Corp.
InventorsRobert J. Bobrow, R. Bruce Roberts, Colin Ware, Ronald Pickett
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Abstract
A data-display system employs a display in which the representations of data objects are caused to move on the display in order to convey information about the represented data objects. In one example, icons in a link-analysis display that represent data objects satisfying a selection criterion are made to execute distinctive motion. In another example, three-dimensional models of moving bodies in whose features components of respective data objects are encoded are projected onto a screen plane, and the resultant values are used to generate the display.
Claims16
A method for performing link analysis comprising:
- A) providing data that include data objects and representations of relationships between the data objects;
- B) placing on a display a plurality of nodes associated with the data objects;
- C) applying a selection criterion to the data objects, said selection criterion indicative of a relationship between the data objects;
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- D) causing a repetitive predetermined form of motion to be executed by all of the nodes that satisfy the selection criterion, but not by any of the nodes that do not satisfy the selection criterion.
A link-analysis-display system comprising:
- A) a storage device containing data that include data objects and representations of relationships between the data objects;
- B) a display device operable by application of display signals thereto to produce a visual display;
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- C) display-signal-generating circuitry that applies a selection criterion to each of a plurality of the data objects and generates and applies to the display device display signals that so control the display device as to:
- i) place on the display a node for each of a plurality of those data objects;
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- ii) cause a repetitive predetermined form of motion to be executed by each of the nodes that represents a data object that satisfies the selection criterion but not by any of the nodes that represents a data object that does not satisfy the selection criterion.
A storage medium containing computer instructions readable, by a computer system that includes a display device operable by application of display signals thereto to produce a visual display and further includes display-signal-generating circuitry that generates and applies display signals to the display device, to configure the computer as a link-analysis-display system that:
- A) applies a selection criterion to each of a plurality of data objects in a data set that includes data objects and representations of relationships between the data objects;
- and
- B) causes a repetitive predetermined form of motion to be executed by each of the nodes that represents a data object that satisfies the selection criterion but not by any of the nodes that represents a data object that does not satisfy the selection criterion.
An electromagnetic signal representing computer instructions readable, by a computer system that includes a display device operable by application of display signals thereto to produce a visual display and further includes display-signal-generating circuitry that generates and applies display signals to the display device, to configure the computer as a link-analysis-display system that:
- A) applies a selection criterion to each of a plurality of data objects in a data set that includes data objects and representations of relationships between the data objects;
- and
- B) causes a repetitive predetermined form of motion to be executed by each of the nodes that represents a data object that satisfies the selection criterion but not by any of the nodes that represents a data object that does not satisfy the selection criterion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.