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Abstract
A method of navigating, organising, browsing, searching, and selecting information objects and/or content in a ring based structure is provided wherein the relation between rings are clear and easily grasped. The method is particularly well suited for navigating in media content. The method comprises locating a number of information objects, displaying one or more of the information objects on a display in a ring based structure comprising one or more rings, and changing the size of a specific ring by selecting the specific ring. By this enlargement, the visibility of information objects comprised in the specific ring is increased, and the individual information objects visually present in the ring, may readily be selected from the enlarged ring.
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28 Claims
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16. A method of navigating information, comprising:
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locating a number of information objects;
displaying at least one of the information objects on a display in a ring based structure comprising at least one ring;
increasing the size of a specific ring by selecting the specific ring to enhance visibility of information objects comprised in the specific ring; and
decreasing the sizes of other rings with the increase of size of the specific ring. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A computer program, embedded in a computer-readable medium, which if executed performs acts comprising:
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locating a number of information objects;
displaying at least one of the information objects on a display in a ring based structure comprising at least one rings;
increasing the size of a specific ring by selecting a specific ring to enhance visibility of information objects comprised in the specific ring; and
decreasing the sizes of other rings with the increase of size of the specific ring.
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28. A computer system for media content navigation, organization, selection and browsing, the system comprising:
- a processing means, a number of information objects stored on a storage medium in communication with the processing means, a display in communication with the processing means and the information objects for displaying at least one of the information objects in a ring based structure, wherein the size of a specific ring is increased by selecting the specific ring to enhance visibility of information objects comprised in the specific ring, the sizes of other rings being decreased with the increase of size of the specific ring.
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