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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VISUALIZING AND INTERACTIVELY MANIPULATING PROFILE DATA

  • US 20100079463A1
  • Filed: 07/31/2009
  • Published: 04/01/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. For use with a video game console of a type that is responsive to a handheld controller input to execute a video game program and provide interactive animated displays, a method of collecting and transforming profile data of performance measurements from the video game program and visualizing and interactively manipulating the transformed data to visually present a dynamic behavior of the video game program that shows correlation of impacts that functions have on performance of the executing video game program, the method comprising:

  • collecting the profile data;

    displaying a list of one or more functions of the video game program in a Functions List window of a display based on the profile data, each displayed function in the Functions List window being user selectable;

    receiving user input selecting a function from the Functions List window; and

    displaying a function graph of the selected function in a Function Graph window based on the profile data, the function graph including a data line and a highlight band tracking the data line, the data line representing a graph of instantaneous performance values of the selected function, and a thickness of the highlight band representing a margin of error.

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