User interface for viewing images

• US 20070209025A1
• Filed: 01/25/2006
• Published: 09/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Ma, Wei-Ying, Zhang, Lei, Jing, Feng, Deng, Kefeng
• Application Number:
  US11/339,328
• Publication Number:
  US 20070209025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/54 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9038 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

A method and system for ranking content and providing a user interface for viewing the content is provided. The content system ranks content in a search result based on a combination of relevance of the content to a query and quality of the content. The content system may derive the quality of content by analyzing ratings provided by various content forums. The content system may use metadata provided by a content forum when searching for content that matches a query. The content system generates a rank score that combines the relevance and quality of the content and ranks the content according to the rank scores.

Claims

1. A computing system for displaying images, comprising:

a component that provides indications of images to be displayed; and

a component that displays a modified fisheye view of the images based on a selected image.

2. The computing system of claim 1 including a component that displays a non-fisheye view of the thumbnails of the images and, upon selection of an image by a user, displays the modified fisheye view of the images.

3. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the modified fisheye view is generated based on a force transfer algorithm.

4. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the modified fisheye view is generated based on a force scan algorithm.

5. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the modified fisheye view does not change the aspect ratio of the images.

6. The computing system of claim 1 wherein the component that provides the indications of images identifies images that match a query.

7. A computing system for generating a collection of images, comprising:

a search engine that inputs a query and provides indications of images of a query result of images that match the query;

a component that displays the images of the query result; and

a component that, upon selection of a displayed image by a user, adds the selected image to a slideshow and stores an indication of the images of the slideshow at a server.

8. The computing system of claim 7 wherein the component that adds the image to the slideshow adds the selected image when a user drags and drops the image to be added from a result area to a slideshow area.

9. The computing system of claim 7 including a component that presents a slideshow of images in the slideshow.

10. The computing system of claim 7 including a slideshow store that contains for multiple slideshows an indication of each image of each slideshow.

11. The computing system of claim 10 including a component that generates a slideshow package that includes each image of the slideshow and instructions for presenting the slideshow.

12. The computing system of claim 7 including a component that allows a user to provide a name for a slideshow.

13. The computing system of claim 7 wherein the component that displays the images of the query result orders the images based on the relevance of the image to the query and the quality of the image.

14. The computing system of claim 13 wherein the quality of the image is derived from ratings collected from image forums.

15. A computing system for recommending images to a user, the system comprising:

a slideshow store that contains indications of slideshows of images;

a component that displays images to a user; and

a component that identifies slideshows that contain a designated image and recommends another image of an identified slideshow to the user.

16. The system of claim 15 including a component that inputs a query and provides indications of images of a query result of images that match the query.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the component that provides the images of the query result orders the images based on relevance of the image to the query and quality of the image.

18. The system of claim 15 wherein the slideshow store includes an index of images that maps images to slideshows that contain the image.

19. The system of claim 15 wherein the component that recommends another image gives priority to recommending images that tend to be in the same slideshow as the designated image.

20. The system of claim 15 including a component that, upon selection of a displayed image by a user, adds the selected image to a slideshow.