Data processing apparatus and method

• US 9,448,774 B2
• Filed: 04/07/2010
• Issued: 09/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cheong, Yun Gyung
• Primary Examiner(s): Kim, Matt
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lu, Hua
• Application Number:
  US12/755,527
• Publication Number:
  US 20110066964A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,358 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/154 Tree transformation for tree-structured or markup documents, e.g. XSLT, XSL-FO or stylesheets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

A data processing and displaying apparatus and method are provided. The apparatus and method may visualize and display interactive contents to be easily recognized where a number of nodes is large or branches are complex for visualized graph-typed input data. The data processing apparatus and method may also selectively display a portion of nodes or conditions desired by a user based on a particular user input.

Claims

1. A data processing apparatus, comprising:

a data analyzer configured to analyze input data comprising a graph structure, and to verify at least one of a precondition and a post-condition of each node included in the input data;

an interface generator configured to allocate a different shaped interface for each type of the precondition and the post-condition, and to allocate a node interface for the each node; and

a display unit configured to display the input data based on the allocated interfaces,

wherein the interface generator allocates a high complexity shape in response to a frequency of a condition being high.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein:

the data analyzer is further configured to verify a predicate and a predicate object of the at least one of the precondition and the post-condition; and

the interface generator is further configured to allocate a different interface for each type of predicate and predicate object.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the interface generator is further configured to allocate a different color for each different interface.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the interface generator is further configured to allocate a color comprising a low brightness, in response to the frequency of a condition being high.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the interface generator is further configured to allocate a color comprising a low saturation, in response to the frequency of a condition being high.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein in response to a user input targeting a first node, the display unit is further configured to display a second node sharing the same condition as the first node in order to distinguish the first node and the second node from other nodes.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein in response to a user input targeting a first condition, the display unit is further configured to display a second condition comprising the same condition as the first condition in order to distinguish the first condition and the second condition from other conditions.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the user input comprises a mouse cursor approaching a portion of the displayed first condition.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein, in response to the display unit displaying a condition comprising the same condition as the first condition to be distinguishable from the other conditions, the display unit is further configured to perform a twinkling process for a displayed condition corresponding to the same condition as the first condition.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the precondition indicates a condition for a current node to be called by a previous node;

and

the post-condition indicates a condition for the current node to call a next node.

11. A data processing method of a data processing apparatus, the method comprising:

analyzing input data comprising a graph structure;

verifying at least one of a precondition and a post-condition of each node included in the input data;

allocating a different shaped interface for each type of the precondition and the post-condition, and a node interface for each node; and

displaying the input data based on the allocated interfaces,

wherein the allocating comprises allocating a high complexity shape, in response to a frequency of a condition being high.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the analyzing comprises:

verifying the at least one precondition and post-condition of each node included in the input data; and

verifying a predicate and a predicate object of the at least one of the precondition and the post-condition.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the analyzing further comprises allocating a different interface for each type of predicate and predicate object.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the allocating comprises allocating a different color for each different interface.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the allocating comprises allocating a color comprising a low brightness, in response to frequency of a condition being high.

16. The method of claim 11, wherein the displaying comprises:

displaying a second node sharing a same condition as a first node to be distinguishable from other nodes, in response to a user input targeting the first node being detected; and

displaying the same condition as a first condition to be distinguishable from conditions of the other nodes, in response to a user input targeting the first condition being detected.

17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions to cause a processor to implement a method, comprising:

analyzing input data comprising a graph structure;

verifying at least one of a precondition and a post-condition for each node included in the input data;

allocating a different shaped interface for each type of the precondition and the post-condition, and a node interface for the each node; and

displaying the input data based on the allocated interfaces,

wherein the allocating comprises allocating a high complexity shape, in response to a frequency of a condition being high.