MATCHING DIGITAL INFORMATION FLOW TO A HUMAN PERCEPTION SYSTEM

• US 20060290714A1
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hitchcock, Gregory C., Hill, William, Larson, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 7,548,239 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system. In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multimon) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks into information planes (which are based on a concept of “triage and focus”). Triage watches the flow of incoming information and determines the nature of the information. Based on the nature of the information and principles of human perception, Focus (or defocus) displays the information where the information is best viewed.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A system that facilitates matching of digital information to a human perception system, comprising:

a triage component that determines a characteristic of the digital information; and

a viewing component that presents the digital information according to the characteristic thereof in a focused mode on a first viewing plane and a peripheral mode on a second viewing plane.

22. The system of claim 21, the digital information is presented in different viewing resolutions.

23. The system of claim 22, the focused mode is displayed in a higher resolution than the peripheral mode.

24. The system of claim 21, the digital information is presented in different viewing sizes.

25. The system of claim 21, the triage component determines the characteristic based on human perception data.

26. The system of claim 21, wherein the first viewing plane is on a first display device and the second viewing plane is on a second display device.

27. The system of claim 21, wherein objects within the viewing planes are automatically resized when moved from one plane to another plane.

28. The system of claim 21, further comprising an audio component that presents audio information according to the characteristic.

29. The system of claim 21, the digital information is delivered to the viewing component according to just-in-time video data transfer.

30. The system of claim 21, further comprising a classifier that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

31. A method of matching of digital information to a human perception system, comprising:

determining a characteristic of the digital information; and

presenting the digital information in at least one of a focused mode on a first viewing plane and a peripheral mode on at least one other viewing plane according to a characteristic thereof to match the human perception information.

32. The method of claim 31, further comprising presenting the digital information in a single plane that facilitates both the focal mode and the peripheral mode.

33. The method of claim 31, further comprising presenting the peripheral information at one or more resolutions different from the resolution of the focused mode in multiple peripheral viewing planes positioned about a computing device that drives the peripheral viewing planes.

34. The method of claim 31, the focused mode is presented in at least one of a laptop computer and a table computer.

35. The method of claim 31, further comprising providing a virtual bookshelf that facilitates reading a virtual book.

36. The method of claim 31, further comprising providing just-in-time pixels according to multiple peripheral planes positioned around a room.

37. The method of claim 31, further comprising providing an audio signal in response to moving a document or object between the focal plane and the peripheral plane.

38. A system that facilitates the matching of digital information to the human perception system, comprising:

means for determining a characteristic of the digital information and processing the characteristic in accordance with human perception data;

means for presenting the digital information in a focused mode on a focused viewing plane and a defocused mode in peripheral viewing planes according to the characteristic thereof, and

means for outputting audio information according to the characteristic.

39. The system of claim 38, the digital information is presented in different viewing planes at different viewing resolutions.

40. The system of claim 38, the digital information is delivered to the viewing component according to just-in-time video data transfer.