Image database jog/shuttle search

• US 7,058,903 B1
• Filed: 10/24/2000
• Issued: 06/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Jonach, Kurt, Tree, John, Sato, Robert Jay
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Cao (Kevin)
• Application Number:
  US09/696,402
• Time in Patent Office: 2,051 Days
• Field of Search: 345/762, 345/763, 345/764, 345/751, 345/810, 345/216, 345/123, 345/115, 345/156, 345/775, 345/841, 715/810, 715/828, 715/829, 715/834, 715/840, 715/835, 715/838
• US Class Current: 715/834
• 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

Abstract

A computerized system, comprising: manipulating a dial; interacting with software, wherein the dial is interactive with the software for sequentially viewing a plurality of files.

Additionally, manipulation of the dial by rotation sequentially moves the plurality of files and further manipulation of the dial further increases the speed of file sequencing.

Claims

1. A computerized system comprising:

a processor;

a memory coupled to the processor;

a computer-readable medium coupled to the processor;

a file displaying process executed from the computer-readable medium by the processor to cause the processor to receive content and construct from the content a set of sequentially linked files; and

a dial interactive with the set of sequentially linked files, the dial is capable of being physically rotated to sequentially display the set of sequentially linked files and depressed to select a linked file currently being displayed and to flag a file location of the linked file for subsequent return to the linked file.

2. The computerized system of claim 1 further comprising an input/output device operating as a display.

3. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the set of sequentially linked files are modified by manipulating the dial.

4. The computerized system of claim 1, wherein the dial being rotated in a clockwise direction away from a dial stop position to display the set of sequentially linked files in a forward direction and rotated in a counter clockwise direction away from the dial stop position to display the set of sequentially linked files in a backward direction.

5. A networked server system comprising:

means for posting a linked set of files for display; and

means for sequentially displaying the content of the linked set of files via a physical dial that controls a sequential display of the set of files based on rotation of the dial with a speed of the sequential display being based on a rotational position of the dial from a dial stop position.

6. The networked server system of claim 5, further comprising:

means for modifying the linked set of files.

7. The networked server system of claim 5, further comprising:

means for restricting access to the linked set of files.

8. The networked server system of claim 5, further comprising:

means for viewing individual files sequentially across the content of more than one linked set of files.

9. A computerized apparatus, comprising:

a dial adapted for rotations to sequentially display a set of files, the dial adapted to be moved in a direction along an axis of rotation for selection of a file of the set of files currently being displayed; and

software interactive with the dial to control the display the files based on movement of the dial.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the dial to select and flag the file for easy return to the file when the dial is moved in the direction along the axis of rotation.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the dial is rotated in a right direction to progress the display of the set of files in a forward direction.

12. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the dial is pushed in and moved in the direction along the axis of rotation in order to remove the file from the set of files.

13. A method for presenting presentations, the method comprising:

receiving an input via an interface representing a visual dial;

determining a direction of rotation of the visual dial that causes a set of presentations to be sequentially displayed (i) in a forward linear order when the visual dial is rotated in a first direction from a stop dial position and (ii) in a reverse linear order when the visual dial is rotated in a second direction from the stop dial position; and

sequentially displaying at least one presentation from the set of presentations in response to the input.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising:

detecting a first operation of pushing-in the virtual dial; and

selecting a presentation of the set of presentations being displayed in response to the first operation of pushing-in the virtual dial.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising performing a drag and drop operation to rotate visual dial.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the selecting of the presentation includes copying the presentation into a new set of presentations.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the selecting of the presentation includes removing the presentation from the set of presentations.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the selecting of the presentation includes setting a flag associated with the presentation for retrieval of the presentation.

19. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

determining a speed of the sequential display of the set of presentations based on a radial position of the dial from the stop dial position; and

sequentially displaying the at least one presentation in a presentation rate associated with the radial position of the dial.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one presentation comprises at least file.

21. The method of claim 13, wherein the at least one presentation comprises at least one image.

22. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving a signal representing a stop of the rotation of the virtual dial, the signal indicating the stop dial position of the virtual dial;

identifying a presentation from the set of presentations in response to the signal; and

displaying the identified presentation as a still image.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein the still image is displayed larger than the sequentially displayed set of presentations.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

detecting a first operation of pushing-in the virtual dial; and

selecting the presentation corresponding to the still image in response to the first operation of pushing-in.

25. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

detecting a second operation of pushing-in the virtual dial; and

unselecting the presentation corresponding to the still image in response to the second operation of pushing-in.

26. The method of claim 13, wherein the input is received from a remote client over a network and the presentation is displayed at the remote client over the network.

27. The method of claim 13, wherein the input is received through the use of voice activated commands.

28. The method of claim 13, wherein prior to sequentially displaying the at least one presentation, the method further comprising:

determining a speed of the sequential display of the set of presentations based on a radial position of the dial from the stop dial position.

29. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions to a cause a device to perform a method comprising:

receiving an input via an interface representing a virtual dial capable of being visually rotated to sequentially display a set of presentations rotated in a forward linear order when the visual dial is rotated in a first direction from a stop dial position and rotated in a reverse linear order when the visual dial is rotated in a second direction from the stop dial position; and

sequentially displaying at least one presentation from the set of presentations in response to the input.

30. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the method further comprises performing a drag and drop operation to visually rotate the visual dial.

31. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the at least one presentation comprises at least file.

32. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the at least one presentation comprises at least one image.

33. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the first direction is a clockwise direction to cause sequential display of the at least one presentation in an advanced direction.

34. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the second direction is a counter clockwise direction to cause sequential display of the at least one presentation in a reversed direction.

35. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the method further comprises:

determining a dialing sped of the rotation of the dial; and

sequentially displaying the at least one presentation in a presentation rate associated with the dialing speed.

36. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a signal representing a stop of the dialing, the signal indicating the dial stop position of the virtual dial;

identifying a presentation from the set of presentations in response to the signal; and

displaying the identified presentation as a still image.

37. The machine-readable medium of claim 36, wherein the still image is displayed larger than the sequentially displayed presentations.

38. The machine-readable medium of claim 36, wherein the method further comprises:

detecting a first operation of pushing-in the virtual dial; and

selecting the presentation corresponding to the still image in response to the first operation of pushing-in.

39. The machine-readable medium of claim 38, wherein the method further comprises:

detecting a second operation of pushing-in the dial; and

unselecting the presentation corresponding to the still image in response to the second operation of pushing-in.

40. The machine-readable medium of claim 38, wherein the method further comprises removing the selected presentation from the preselected set of presentations.

41. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the input is received from a remote client over a network and the at least one presentation is displayed at the remote client over the network.

42. The machine-readable medium of claim 29, wherein the input is received through the use of voice activated commands.

43. An apparatus comprising:

means for receiving an input via an interface representing a user manipulable dial capable of being visually dialed through rotations to sequentially display a set of presentations; and

means for sequentially displaying at least one presentation from a preselected set of presentations in response to the input, the set of presentations being rotated in a forward linear order when the dial is rotated in a first direction from a stop dial position and rotated in a reverse linear order when the dial is rotated in a second direction from the stop dial position.

44. A system comprising:

a memory;

a processor coupled to the memory; and

a process executed by the processor from the memory to cause the processor to;

receive an input via an interface representing a dial capable of being visually rotated to sequentially display a set of presentations;

determining a direction of rotation of the dial that causes the set of presentations to be sequentially displayed (i) in a forward linear order when the dial is rotated in a first direction from a stop dial position and (ii) in a reverse linear order when the dial is rotated in a second direction from the stop dial position; and

sequentially display at least one presentation from a preselected set of presentations in response to the input.