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Visualization and navigation of knowledge domains

  • US 10,055,541 B2
  • Filed: 10/30/2014
  • Issued: 08/21/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer readable storage device comprising instructions that when executed by a processor execute a process comprising:

  • storing visual content in a computer storage device;

    displaying the visual content on a display unit in an undistorted, overview projection;

    receiving input from a user to focus on a topic in the undistorted, overview projection;

    transforming the undistorted, overview projection into a focused display showing the topic selected by the user and content related to the topic selected by the user in a continuous sequence of increasingly distorted projections;

    determining a relation among displayed topics;

    fading out topics that are not related to the topic selected by the user during the transforming from the undistorted, overview projection to the focused display; and

    moving content that is related to the topic selected by the user towards the selected topic on the focused display such that at a commencement of the transforming, movement of the content that is related to the topic selected by the user obeys a cambering hyperboloid projection, and in a course of the transforming, paths of the content that is related to the topic selected by the user are increasingly decoupled from the projected plane;

    wherein content that is unrelated to the topic selected by the user becomes invisible at the end of the transformation irrespective of a location of the unrelated content on the undistorted, overview projection;

    wherein content that is related to the topic selected by the user moves towards the topic selected by the user on the focused display; and

    wherein the decoupling from the projected plane comprises a changing of a size of content that is related to the topic selected by the user and a distance of content that is related to the topic selected by the user from the selected topic as follows;

    calculating a projected distance as follows;

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