Method of displaying, a method of processing, an apparatus for processing, and a system for processing multimedia information
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Abstract
A screen in which icons of a plurality of information items are arranged is displayed as a information selecting screen to display information selected from the screen by the user. In the operation, icons of information items of different kinds are horizontally displayed, and a degree of details of the information is changed in the vertical direction and a degree of recommendation of the information to the user is changed in a direction of depth. The user can easily select desired information from a large amount of various contents supplied and the information can be optimally displayed for the user.
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23 Claims
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21. A multimedia information display method for displaying a data of a virtual three-dimensional space including an approximately center user part and a peripheral part around said approximately center user part on a screen for selection of contents to be displayed, comprising the steps of:
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setting a user mode in response to a mode selection input by a user;
reading data corresponding to said mode selection input from a user profile prepared in accordance with an audiovisual history for said user thereupon to display a virtual three-dimensional space for said user;
in response to conditions of said user mode selected, providing a plurality of contents display zones extending horizontally in said approximately center user part on said screen, and arranging respectively a plurality of contents information each corresponding to said plurality of contents display zones and having a size determined based on a utilization degree of said user and minimized toward a deeper place in a direction of depth on said screen;
arranging to display contents information items of said plurality of contents information in said plurality of contents display zones corresponding to said conditions of said user mode selected to rotate such that said contents information items of desired genre are displayed in a horizontally central region of said approximately center user part of said screen;
displaying, in addition to said contents information items of desired genre, a menu board for manipulation of said contents information items of desired genre above said contents information items of desired genre on said screen in response to another input for said menu board;
displaying, in addition to said detailed items of contents and said contents information items of desired genre, detailed items of contents regarding said contents information items of desired genre under said contents information items of desired genre on said screen in response to an input for said detailed items of contents;
receiving another input via a cursor manipulation onto said peripheral part in request of another user mode;
setting another user mode in response to another mode selection input by a user; and
reading another data corresponding to said another mode selection input from a user profile prepared in accordance with an audiovisual history for said user thereupon to display another virtual three-dimensional space for said user. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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