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Apparatus for displaying multidimensional information

  • US 5,408,596 A
  • Filed: 12/19/1991
  • Issued: 04/18/1995
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/20/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a system whose throughput is determined depending upon projection rates of a plurality of resources, an optimal resource allocation system, comprising:

  • a means for expressing said throughput in terms of a multivariable function such that an output variable thereof corresponds to said throughput and has a value determined depending upon a plurality of input variables which correspond to said projection rates of said plurality of resources;

    a multivariable function optimizing system which maximizes the value of said output variable of said multivariable function, comprising;

    an input means for appointing coordinates of an arbitrary point in a multidimensional space which correspond to a domain defined by said input variables;

    a storage device which stores a program for generating image data, a formula of said multivariable function, and the coordinates of said arbitrary point in said multidimensional space;

    said program serving to display a varying situation of the value of said output variable of said multivariable function at a plurality of points around said arbitrary point existent in said multidimensional space, in such a way that a display plane is divided into a plurality of regions, that said plurality of regions are brought into correspondence with a plurality of quadrants which have said arbitrary point in said multidimensional space as a common vertex thereof, respectively, and that the value of said output variable at points on each of the quadrants existent around said arbitrary point are displayed at positions on the respective region on said display plane, said positions corresponding to the points on said each of the quadrants;

    a central processing unit which executes said program to generate the image dam;

    an image output device which displays a picture on a basis of the generated image data such that the varying situation of the value of said output variable of said multidimensional space centering about said arbitrary point is displayed; and

    a means for interactively changing said arbitrary point while observing said picture changing on the display plane so as to find an optimal point on which the value of said output variable is maximum; and

    a means for outputting that allocation of said resources which maximizes said throughput, on the basis of a result of the optimization.

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