Matching digital information flow to a human perception system

• US 7,173,619 B2
• Filed: 07/08/2004
• Issued: 02/06/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hitchcock, Gregory C., Hill, William, Larson, Kevin
• Primary Examiner(s): Zimmerman; Mark
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHU, DAVID H
• Application Number:
  US10/886,879
• Publication Number:
  US 20060007242A1
• Time in Patent Office: 943 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 345/428
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1423 controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1446 display composed of modules, e.g. video walls
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/0407 Resolution change, inclusive of the use of different resolutions for different screen areas
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports

Abstract

A method and system for matching digital information flow to the human perception system. In various embodiments, multi-monitor (multimon) support is leveraged to take advantage of multiple windowing and window positioning to separate elements of different tasks into information planes (which are based on a concept of “triage and focus”). Triage watches the flow of incoming information and determines the nature of the information. Based on the nature of the information and principles of human perception, Focus (or defocus) displays the information where the information is best viewed.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates matching of digital information to the human perception system, comprising:

a triage component that determines a characteristic of the digital information; and

a viewing component that presents the digital information according to the characteristic thereof, the viewing component presents the digital information in a focused mode on a first computing device and a peripheral mode on a second computing device, the first computing device is a tablet personal computer.

2. The system of claim 1, the viewing component presents the digital information in at least one of a focused mode and a peripheral mode.

3. The system of claim 1, the digital information is presented in different viewing planes.

4. The system of claim 1, the digital information is presented in different viewing resolutions.

5. The system of claim 1, the triage component determines the characteristic based on human perception data.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising an audio component that presents audio information according to the characteristic.

7. The system of claim 1, the digital information is delivered to the viewing component according to just-in-time video data transfer.

8. A computer that employs the system of claim 1.

9. A system that facilitates matching of digital information to human perception system, comprising:

a triage component that determines a characteristic of the digital information and processes the characteristic in accordance with human perception data;

a viewing component that presents the digital information in at least one of a focused mode and a defocused mode according to the characteristic thereof, the viewing component presents the digital information in a focused mode on a first computing device and a peripheral mode on a second computing device, the first computing device is a tablet personal computer; and

an audio component that outputs audio information according to the characteristic.

10. The system of claim 9, the digital information is presented in different viewing planes and at different viewing resolutions.

11. The system of claim 9, the digital information is delivered to the viewing component according to just-in-time video data transfer.

12. The system of claim 9, further comprising a classifier that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

13. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of matching digital information to a human perception system, comprising:

determining a characteristic of the digital information; and

presenting the digital information according to a characteristic thereof to match the human perception information, the digital information is presented in a focused mode on a first computing device and a peripheral mode on a second computing device, the first computing device is a tablet personal computer.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising presenting the digital information in at least one of a focused mode and a peripheral mode.

15. The method of claim 13, the digital information is presented in different viewing planes.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising presenting the digital information at different viewing resolutions.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising determining the characteristic based on human perception data.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising a classifier that employs a probabilistic and/or statistical-based analysis to prognose or infer an action that a user desires to be automatically performed.

19. The method of claim 13, further comprising presenting a peripheral plane according to a plurality of display devices.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising presenting audio information according to the characteristic.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising delivering the digital information according to just-in-time video data transfer.

22. The method of claim 19, the peripheral plane is communicated wirelessly.

23. The method of claim 13, further comprising processing graphics data local to a peripheral display.

24. The method of claim 13, further comprising processing audio signals at least one of separate from video signals and in combination with the video signals.

25. A method of matching digital information to a human perception system, comprising:

determining a characteristic of the digital information; and

presenting the digital information in at least one of a focused mode and a peripheral mode according to a characteristic thereof to match the human perception system, the digital information is presented in a focused mode on a first computing device and a peripheral mode on a second computing device, the first computing device is a tablet personal computer.

26. The method of claim 25, further comprising presenting the digital information in a single plane that facilitates both the focused mode and the peripheral mode.

27. The method of claim 25, further comprising presenting peripheral information of the peripheral in multiple peripheral planes positioned about a computing device that drives the peripheral planes.

28. The method of claim 25, the focused mode is presented on a laptop computer.

29. The method of claim 25, further comprising providing a virtual bookshelf that facilitates reading a virtual book.

30. The method of claim 25, further comprising providing just-in-time pixels according to multiple peripheral planes positioned around a room.

31. The method of claim 25, further comprising providing an audio signal in response to moving a document or object between a focal plane and a peripheral plane.