Display apparatus
First Claim
1. A display for identifying trends in a financial market having a number of analogous components with at least two corresponding characteristics and a corresponding variable element comprising:
- a plurality of complementary geometrically shaped fields, each representative of one of the components, displayed side by side in a graphical array bordered on two sides by a first and second intersecting axis, the first axis representative of a first characteristic of the components and the second axis representative of a second characteristic of the components, the respective fields being positioned in an area between the axes in order of priority, to be conveyed to a display observer, of the impact each characteristic for each component has on a process common to each of the components; and
means for independently varying a visual pattern within each field according to a common code which incrementally changes between a first pattern representative of a first extreme, a second pattern representative of a second extreme and an intermediate pattern representative of a reference value which is a monitored value of the variable element associated with the corresponding component, at a first common point in time for all fields, and the first and second extremes are predetermined numerical deviations from the reference value, wherein the pattern displayed in each field corresponds to the deviation of the variable element from the variable element'"'"'s corresponding reference value for the respective component at the last point in time that the variable element was monitored.
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Abstract
A display for presenting trends in financial commodities such as stocks. The display is made up of an array of rectangular boxes each representing an individual stock. Each display is dedicated to a different sector of the market. The color of the individual boxes is representative of the degree of fractional deviation of the most recent trading price of that stock from an assigned selected reference value, e.g., the price at the end of the previous trading session. Preferably, the location of each individual stock within the display is determined by the degree of influence that the user is to perceive that stock has upon one characteristic of the market, e.g., the volatility on one axis and perceived source of volatility on another axis, or the stocks can be located in accordance with decreasing market share on one axis and decreasing capitalization on the other. The result is a color display in which the current behavior of stock prices with respect to a selective set of reference stock prices in a selected sector of the economy is summarized in a checkerboard-like collection of visual boxes whose individual colors show the current trend in trading prices. The overall display shows sector trends and those individual stocks deviating from those trends. The individual boxes can also be designed to show trend information about the stocks that they respectively represent.
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44 Claims
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1. A display for identifying trends in a financial market having a number of analogous components with at least two corresponding characteristics and a corresponding variable element comprising:
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a plurality of complementary geometrically shaped fields, each representative of one of the components, displayed side by side in a graphical array bordered on two sides by a first and second intersecting axis, the first axis representative of a first characteristic of the components and the second axis representative of a second characteristic of the components, the respective fields being positioned in an area between the axes in order of priority, to be conveyed to a display observer, of the impact each characteristic for each component has on a process common to each of the components; and
means for independently varying a visual pattern within each field according to a common code which incrementally changes between a first pattern representative of a first extreme, a second pattern representative of a second extreme and an intermediate pattern representative of a reference value which is a monitored value of the variable element associated with the corresponding component, at a first common point in time for all fields, and the first and second extremes are predetermined numerical deviations from the reference value, wherein the pattern displayed in each field corresponds to the deviation of the variable element from the variable element'"'"'s corresponding reference value for the respective component at the last point in time that the variable element was monitored. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A display for identifying trends in a commercial market having a plurality of sectors each including a plurality of components, comprising:
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a plurality of complimentary geometrically shaped fields, each representative of one of the components, with the fields representative of components of a given sector displayed side by side in a graphical array bordered on two sides by a first and second intersecting axis, the first axis representative of a first characteristic of the components and the second axis representative of a second characteristic of the components, the respective fields being positioned in an area between the axes in order of priority, to be conveyed to a display observer, of the impact each characteristic for each component has on the market; and
means for independently varying the color of each field according to a common color code which incrementally changes between a first color representative of a first extreme, a second color representative of a second extreme and an intermediate color representative of a reference value which is a monitored value of a selected variable associated with each component, at a common first preselected point in time for all fields, and the first and second extremes are predetermined numerical deviations from the reference value, wherein the color displayed in each field corresponds to the deviation of the selected variable from the variable element'"'"'s corresponding reference value for the respective component at the last point in time that the selected variable was monitored. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A display for identifying trends in a commercial market having a number of analogous components with at least one corresponding, variable element comprising:
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a plurality of complimentary geometrically shaped fields, each representative of the corresponding, variable element of one of the components, displayed side by side in a graphical array; and
means for independently varying a visual pattern within each field according to a common code which incrementally changes between a first pattern representative of a first extreme, a second pattern representative of a second extreme and an intermediate pattern representative of a reference value which is the value of the corresponding variable element associated with each component, at a first common point in time for all fields, and the first and second extremes are predetermined numerical deviations from the reference value, wherein the pattern displayed in each field corresponds to the deviation of the variable element from the variable element'"'"'s corresponding reference value for the respective component at the last point in time that the variable element was monitored.
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