Rotatable object system for visual communication and analysis

• US 9,201,561 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2012
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Roland Wescott Montague
• Original Assignee: Roland Wescott Montague
• Inventors: Montague, Roland Wescott
• Primary Examiner(s): ENTEZARI, MICHELLE M
• Application Number:
  US13/470,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20130301953A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,298 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

Visually defining terminology in a paragraph by invoking a multi-media viewer to rotate a subject-object and zoom-in on the associated feature in response to clicking on the terminology; higher resolution, or a different image capture technique is then overlaid. Viewer re-positions near terminology clicked. Clicking on a feature answers a question. Two viewers are synchronized to display the same pose to facilitate a phone conversation; synchronization session is initiated by a pattern of sounds transmitted over the phone. Viewer analytics information is a heat map indicating angles seen, paused, zoomed-in, or terminology clicked; ranks different marketing message wording. After webpage loads, an image having a special pattern within its filename is replaced with multi-media viewer. Upon loading or providing additional subject-object data, advertisements are shown if a subscription fee is not paid. Clipboard data is copied to another computer by a pattern of sounds transmitted over the phone.

Claims

1. A first computer system comprising one or more processors and a display screen and an input device, configured to:

a. display a document on said display screen, wherein said document comprises a paragraph, wherein said paragraph comprises a terminology; and

b. provide a subject object viewer region on said display screen; and

c. display a subject object within said viewer region; and

d. update said viewer region to display a predetermined pose of said subject object in response to a user input associated with said terminology; and

e. receive a user-interface input for manipulation of said subject object to an arbitrary pose;

further configured to calculate viewer analytics data comprising pose properties; and

configured to transmit the calculated viewer analytics data to a viewer analytics server executing on another computer system through a communication network such that the transmitted viewer analytics data are utilized to generate a viewer analytics information that describes properties of poses displayed in said viewer region;

wherein said viewer analytics server further configured to receive the transmitted viewer analytics data;

add the viewer analytics data to said viewer analytics information, wherein said viewer analytics information is a heat map of possible pose angles, the heat map comprising at least one pose angle rank that a user had rotated to;

where releasing the mouse button on a pose angle is a first color, and zooming in while on that pose angle is another color, with the shading of color to indicate the frequency of that characteristic occurring over a specified time period.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said viewer region is embedded within said document.

3. The system of claim 2, further configured to reposition said viewer region nearer to said terminology in response to a user input associated with said terminology.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said predetermined pose comprises an additional detail graphic.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said additional detail graphic comprises a second imaging technique of said subject object.

6. The system of claim 1, further configured to first search said document for said terminology, if found then configure said terminology to accept user input and associate with said predetermined pose.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said subject object is rotatable by a user interface, whereby the back-part of the subject object can be seen.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said subject object is captured imagery of one from the group of animal, plantae, and movable manufactured physical object.

9. The system of claim 1, further configured to first search said document for a predetermined phrase comprising said terminology, if found then configure that terminology occurrence to accept user input and associate with said predetermined pose;

wherein said predetermined phrase comprises a plurality of words;

whereby typically one occurrence of the terminology is associated with the predetermined pose.

10. The system of claim 1, further configured to wait for a first occurrence of said user input associated with said terminology before providing said viewer region and displaying said subject object.

11. The system of claim 1, further configured to search said document for a holding image before providing said viewer region and displaying said subject object related to said holding image;

whereby a simple html IMG tag with a specially crafted filename can hold the location for and will be replaced by a multimedia player of substantially the same size and position.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the filename of said holding image comprises a predetermined pattern.

13. The system of claim 1, further configured to:

receive user-interface input for manipulation of said subject object to a new pose; and

detect a user selection of a new terminology, thereby said new terminology is associated with said new pose.

14. The system of claim 1, further configured to:

receive user-interface input for manipulation of said subject object to a new pose; and

detect a user selection of a new terminology; and

detect a user input for create-an-association, thereby said new terminology is associated with said new pose.

15. The system of claim 14, further configured to provide a user with an encoding for associating said new terminology with said new pose;

whereby the user can manually modify the document file with the encoding.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein said encoding comprises said new terminology sandwiched between starting and ending tags.

17. The system of claim 9, further configured to:

a. receive user-interface input for manipulation of said subject object to a new pose;

b. detect a user selection of a new terminology;

c. detect a user input for create-an-association then expand a new phrase comprising said new terminology until only one occurrence of said new phrase is found in said document and associate said new phrase and said new terminology with said new pose.

18. The first computer system of claim 1, further configured to:

communicate bilaterally with a second computer system; and

wherein said second computer system is operable by a second user and said first computer system is operable by a first user; and

wherein said second computer system configured to display a first user invoked pose displayed on said first computer system and said first computer system configured to display a second user invoked pose displayed on said second computer system;

whereby both users can show each other different features of the subject object in the viewer region and discuss over the phone more effectively.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein said first computer system configured to communicate pose attributes bilaterally with said second computer system via a synchronization server computer system;

and wherein said synchronization server configured to receive a first pairing indicium from said first computer system and a second pairing indicium from said second computer system.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein at least one pairing indicium is communicated via a computer generated audible signal, whereby users already engaged in a phone conversation can easily initiate a synchronized session between their computers by holding the phone up to the computer speaker and or microphone and clicking a button.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein said audible signal comprises variable durations of a plurality of tones and variable durations of silences between said tones.

22. The system of claim 20, wherein said audible signal comprises tones of more than one pitch.

23. The system of claim 19, wherein said first pairing indicium is equivalent to said second pairing indicium.

24. The system of claim 1, wherein said viewer analytics information further comprises at least one frequency density indicium of pose properties for said at least one pose angle rank;

whereby a user can move a pointer over a sorted histogram to invoke the viewer to display the most frequent zoom and pan combination for the current pose angle displayed.

25. The system of claim 24, further configured to display pose angles in response to user input within the respective region of said heat map;

whereby a user can move a pointer over an angle rank in the heat map to see that angle displayed in the viewer region.

26. The system of claim 1, further configured to calculate viewer analytics data comprising pose properties and a message version number;

and configured to transmit the calculated viewer analytics data to a viewer analytics server executing on another computer system through a communication network such that the transmitted viewer analytics data are utilized to generate a message analytics information that describes the effectiveness of a message text.

27. The system of claim 26, further configured to replace said message text with a different version of message text.

28. The system of claim 26, wherein said message analytics information is a metric representing the message ranking based on frequency of user input with said terminology.

29. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one pose angle rank based on one or more of a plurality of characteristics selectable by a user.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein one said characteristic is zooming in while at the respective angle.

31. The system of claim 29, wherein one said characteristic is panning while at the respective angle.

32. The system of claim 29, wherein one said characteristic is completing a rotation by releasing a drag at the respective angle.

33. The system of claim 29, wherein said angle rank is based on input associated with said terminology for the respective angle.

34. The system of claim 32, wherein at least one of said characteristic having a weighting selectable by a user.

35. The system of claim 18, wherein the received pose is communicated back to the computer system invoking the pose and indicated to the user invoking the pose;

whereby the invoking user can be assured by color change or other indicium that the other user is now seeing the same intended pose.

36. The system of claim 18, further configured to;

a. communicate a plurality of current pointer positions within said viewer region to each computer system;

b. communicate a pointer confirmation position back to the respective owner of said current pointer; and

c. display said pointer confirmation position to the respective owner of said current pointer;

whereby each user can be assured that other users are now seeing the intended pointer position by way of a colored arrow that follows the current pointer of the owner.