AUGMENTED DATA VIEW

• US 20150356068A1
• Filed: 06/06/2014
• Published: 12/10/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Hill, Brian T., Rampson, Benjamin E., Carlson, Andrew G., Gross, Christopher J., Hanumara, Poornima
• Application Number:
  US14/297,800
• Publication Number:
  US 20150356068A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/18 of spreadsheets form-filling G06F40/174

Abstract

A view of data is captured on a mobile device. The view of data can be presented to an augmented visualization system and augmented visualizations for the data are received from the augmented visualization system. The augmented visualization is displayed on the mobile device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving an image of structured data on a mobile device;

obtaining data summary augmentations based on content of the structured data; and

generating a visual display of the data summary augmentations.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 and further comprising:

accessing supplemental data, based on the structured data, the summary augmentations being based on the content of the structured data and the supplemental data.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 wherein accessing supplemental data comprises:

accessing the supplemental data from a paired machine.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein obtaining data summary augmentations comprises:

recognizing the content in the image of the structured data;

performing analysis on the content; and

calculating the data summary augmentations based on the analysis.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein obtaining data summary augmentations comprises:

sending the structured data to a remote server; and

receiving the data summary augmentations, indicative of analysis performed at the remote server.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein receiving an image of structured data comprises:

capturing the image using a camera on the mobile device.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein generating a visual display comprises:

generating a plurality of different, user-selectable views; and

displaying a user selection mechanism for selecting, for display, one of the plurality of different, user-selectable views.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein receiving the image comprises receiving the image in a first structure and wherein generating the visual display comprises:

generating an augmented visual display that augments the first structure with the data summary augmentations.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 wherein generating the augmented visual display comprises:

displaying the visual indication of the augmented data over the first structure.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein receiving the image comprises receiving the image of structured data in a first structure and wherein generating the visual display comprises:

generating the visual display in a second structure, different from the first structure.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10 wherein receiving the image of structured data comprises receiving the image of structured data in a tabular structure, and wherein generating the visual display in a second structure comprises:

displaying a chart or graph representation of the structured data.

12. A mobile device, comprising:

an image capture component that receives an image of structured data;

a visualization component that generates a user interface display showing analysis result data indicative of analysis performed on content of the structured data;

a display device that displays the user interface display; and

a computer processor that is a functional part of the mobile device and is activated by the image capture component and the visualization component to facilitate receiving the image of structured data and generating the user interface display.

13. The mobile device of claim 12 wherein the image capture component comprises:

a camera that captures the image of structured data as tabular data.

14. The mobile device of claim 13 wherein the visualization component generates a graph or chart representation of the tabular data.

15. The mobile device of claim 12 wherein the visualization component generates the user interface display as including the image of structured data augmented with additional summary data summarizing the structured data.

16. The mobile device of claim 12 wherein the visualization component generates the user interface display to show patterns in the content of the structured data.

17. The mobile device of claim 12 wherein the visualization component generates the user interface display to show correlations in the content of the structured data.

18. The mobile device of claim 12 wherein the image capture component receives the image of structured data by capturing the image from a display device of a computing device.

19. A computer readable storage medium that stores computer executable instructions which, when executed by a mobile computing device, cause the mobile computing to perform a method, comprising:

receiving an image of tabular data;

obtaining additional information based on content of the tabular data, the additional information being indicative of patterns in the content of the tabular data; and

generating a visual display of the additional information.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 19 wherein obtaining additional information comprises:

obtaining the content of the tabular data from the image;

sending the content to a remote service for analysis; and

receiving, as the additional information, analysis results from the remote service.