SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AN INTERACTIVE 3D VISUALIZATION OF INDEXED MEDIA

• US 20080104546A1
• Filed: 01/08/2008
• Published: 05/01/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Girgensohn, Andreas, Shipman, Frank, Polak, Wolfgang, Lertsithichai, Surapong, CHIU, Patrick
• Application Number:
  US11/971,185
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104546A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/848
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04802 3D-info-object: information is displayed on the internal or external surface of a three dimensional manipulable object, e.g. on the faces of a cube that can be rotated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04815 Interaction with a metaphor-based environment or interaction object displayed as three-dimensional, e.g. changing the user viewpoint with respect to the environment or object
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/04 involving 3D image data

Abstract

A 3D graphical user interface includes a two-dimensional ground-plane layout representing the relationship between one or more leaf elements of a tree data structure The interface further includes at least one building-like structure, each of the at least one building-like structures corresponding to a respective one of the one or more leaf elements. Each of the at least one building-like structure provides a summary of media associated with the respective one of the more leaf elements corresponding to that at least one building-like structure.

Claims

1-33. -33. (canceled)

34. A 3D graphical user interface comprising:

a two-dimensional ground-plane layout representing the relationship between one or more leaf elements of a tree data structure; and

at least one building-like structure, each of the at least one building-like structures corresponding to a respective one of the one or more leaf elements, wherein each of the at least one building-like structure provides a summary of media associated with the respective one of the more leaf elements corresponding to that at least one building-like structure.

35. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 34, wherein each of the one or more leaf elements is represented by a similarly sized substantially square plot within the two-dimensional ground plane.

36. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 34, wherein each of the one or more leaf elements is represented by a differently sized substantially square plot within the two-dimensional ground plane.

37. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 36, wherein dimensions of each differently sized substantially square plot reflect one or more characteristics of the media associated with the leaf element corresponding to that differently sized square plot.

38. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 34, wherein each of the at least one building-like structure provides the summary of media associated with the respective one of the more leaf elements corresponding to that at least one building-like structure by displaying a portion of that media on at least one of the sides or on the top of the building-like structure.

39. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 38, wherein the summary of the media comprises at least one frame of a video.

40. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 38, wherein the summary of the media comprises a slide.

41. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 36, wherein the summary of the media comprises text.

42. The 3D graphical user interface of claim 38, further comprising text floating over the building-like structures.