ANNOTATE AT MULTIPLE LEVELS

• US 20090307618A1
• Filed: 06/05/2008
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Lawler, Stephen L., Szeliski, Richard Stephen, Flake, Gary W., Drucker, Steven, Farouki, Karim, Lindsay, Donald James, Brewer, Brett D., Chor, Anthony T., Lazier, Ariel J., Arcas, Blaise Aguera y, Cohen, Michael Fredrick
• Application Number:
  US12/133,765
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307618A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/764
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• 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 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates interacting with a portion of data that includes pyramidal volumes of data. A portion of image data can represent a computer displayable multi-scale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, wherein the multi-scale image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume. An annotation component can determine a set of annotations associated with at least one of the two substantially parallel planes of view. A display engine can display at least a subset of the set of annotations on the multi-scale image based upon navigation to the parallel plane of view associated with the set of annotations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented system that facilitates interacting with a portion of viewable data, comprising:

a portion of viewable data that represents a computer displayable multi-scale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view are alternatively displayable

an annotation component that determines a set of annotations associated with at least one of the two substantially parallel planes of view; and

a display engine that displays at least a subset of the set of annotations on the multi-scale image based upon navigation to the parallel plane of view associated with the set of annotations.

2. The system of claim 1, the determined set of annotations includes annotations related to a portion of the multi-scale image depicted in the plane of view.

3. The system of claim 1, the set of annotations is at least one of portions of text, portions of handwriting, portions of graphics, portions of audio or portions of video.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a detail determination component that ascertains if a plane of view provides sufficient detail on a portion of the multi-scale image to support an associated annotation.

5. The system of claim 4, the annotation component selects the annotation when the detail determination component discovers sufficient detail is provided.

6. The system of claim 1, the at least two substantially parallel planes of view include a first plane and a second plane that are alternatively displayable based upon a zoom level, the first and second planes are related by a pyramidal volume and the multi-scale image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume.

7. The system of claim 6, the second plane of view displays a portion of the first plane of view at one of a different scale or a different resolution.

8. The system of claim 6, the second plane of view displays a portion of the multi-scale image that is graphically or visually unrelated to the first plane of view.

9. The system of claim 6, the annotation component determines a set of annotations associated with the second plane of view that is disparate to a set of annotations associated with the first plan of view.

10. The system of claim 1, image data representing the multi-scale image is a portion of viewable data that can be annotated, the portion of viewable data is associated with at least one of a web page, a web site, a document, a portion of a graphic, a portion of text, a trade card, or a portion of video.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a cloud that hosts at least one of the display engine, the annotation component, or the multi-scale image, wherein the cloud is at least one resource that is maintained by a party and accessible by an identified user over a network.

12. The system of claim 1, the display engine implements a seamless transition between annotations located on a plurality of planes of view, the seamless transition is provided by a transitioning effect that is at least one of a fade, a transparency effect, a color manipulation, a blurry-to-sharp effect, a sharp-to-blurry effect, a growing effect, or a shrinking effect.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising a powder ski streamer component that indicates to a user whether an annotation exists if a zoom in is performed on the multi-scale image, the powder ski streamer is at least one of a graphic, a portion of video, an overlay, a pop-up window, or a portion of audio.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a filter that employs at least one of a limitation of an amount of annotations or an increase of an amount of annotations, the filter is based upon at least one of a user preference, a default setting, a relationship, a relationship within a network community, a user-defined relationship, a relationship within a social network, a contact, an affiliation with an address book, a relationship within an online community, or a geographic location.

15. The system of claim 1, the annotation includes descriptive data indicative of a source of the annotation, the descriptive data is at least one of an avatar, a tag, a portion of text, a website, a web page, a time, a date, a name, a department within a business, a location, a position within a company, a portion of contact information, a portion of biographical information, or an availability status.

16. A computer-implemented method that facilitates integrating data onto a portion of viewable data, comprising:

obtaining a portion of navigation data related to the portion of viewable data;

navigating to a location and view level of the portion of viewable data based at least in part on the obtained portion of navigation data; and

displaying annotations on the portion of viewable data that are associated with the navigated location and view level on the viewable data.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising smoothly transitioning between a first annotation on a first view level on the viewable data and a second annotation on a second view level on the viewable data.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising indicating to a user that an annotation exists on the viewable data if a zoom in is performed.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

determining a set of available annotations that are associated with the portion of viewable data at the navigated location and view level;

evaluating the portion of viewable data to ascertain if sufficient detail exists to support each annotation in the set of available annotations; and

suppressing any annotations lacking sufficient detail.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates presenting annotated data within a computing environment, comprising:

means for representing a computer displayable multi-scale image with at least two substantially parallel planes of view in which a first plane and a second plane are alternatively displayable based upon a level of zoom and which are related by a pyramidal volume, the image includes a pixel at a vertex of the pyramidal volume;

means for navigating to a particular location and plane of view of the multi-scale image;

means for determining a set of available annotations associated with the particular location and plane of view;

means for analyzing the multi-scale image at the particular location and plane of view to ascertain if sufficient data is present to provide context for each annotation in the set of available annotations;

means for removing annotations from the set of annotations associated with data lacking sufficient context; and

means for displaying the set of annotations on the multi-scale image based.