INFOSHAPE: DISPLAYING MULTIDIMENSIONAL INFORMATION
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1. An apparatus for displaying multiple data records of plural dimensions as a three dimensional shape having a surface, comprising:
- a display device displaying at least part of said three dimensional shape, wherein said shape comprises at lease one area on the surface of said shape representing at least one of said data records, and at least one visual feature of said area is responsive to a relevance factor value of its corresponding data record in relation to a non-geographic criterion,wherein said relevance factor value is determined by an approximation to said criterion.
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Abstract
Apparatus for displaying data records of plural dimensions as a three dimensional shape, wherein the shape has an area on the surface of said shape for ones of said data records, and at least one visual feature of said area is responsive to a relevance factor value of its corresponding record in relation to a reference criterion and said relevance factor value is determined by an approximation or distance to said criterion.
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20 Claims
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1. An apparatus for displaying multiple data records of plural dimensions as a three dimensional shape having a surface, comprising:
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a display device displaying at least part of said three dimensional shape, wherein said shape comprises at lease one area on the surface of said shape representing at least one of said data records, and at least one visual feature of said area is responsive to a relevance factor value of its corresponding data record in relation to a non-geographic criterion, wherein said relevance factor value is determined by an approximation to said criterion. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An apparatus for displaying data of a plurality of records as a three-dimensional shape having a surface, comprising:
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a memory for storing said data records in a table; a processor assigning a non-overlapping regular area on the surface of said shape for at least one of said data record, and assigning a surface shape information of said area in dependence of a criterion, wherein said criterion is applied to a subset of said records; and a display device displaying said area, wherein said processor sets visual feature of said area based on result of applying a function to said criterion. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An apparatus for displaying data records of plural dimensions as a three-dimensional shape, comprising:
a display device displaying at least part of said three dimensional shape, wherein said shape further comprises an area of plural positions on the surface of said shape, and the steps of deriving ones of said positions comprising the actions of; assigning at least one pixel to at least one of said records for one of said dimensions, arranging said pixels in a spiral shaped window for one of said data dimensions based on a criterion such that a data record that has a corresponding pixel whose relative distance to the center of said window is responsive to a relevance factor value, wherein said criterion is applied to a subset of said records; and mapping one of said pixels to one of said positions, wherein the distance of said position to the center of said shape is responsive to said relevance factor value of the data record corresponding to said pixel, wherein said relevance factor value is determined by the approximation to said criterion. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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