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  Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3d visualization of indexed mediaRelated Patent Categories: Data Processing: Presentation Processing Of Document, Operator Interface Processing, And Screen Saver Display Processing, Operator Interface (e.g., Graphical User Interface), On-screen Workspace Or Object, Interface Represented By 3d SpaceThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20080104546. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0001] 1. Field of Invention [0002] This invention relates to systems and methods for creating an interactive 3D visualization that indexes media and summarizes the indexed media. [0003] 2. Description of Related Art [0004] Based on increases in conventional computing speed and resource management, three-dimensional media indices are just recently becoming viable means for indexing a large amount of related media. However, the complexity of the index and information about the indexed media conveyed by the three-dimensional indices is rather limited. [0005] For instance, SGI FSN is a file system navigator with a 3D landscape visualization. Directories are placed in a hierarchical tree layout in the landscape. Each directory in SGI FSN is represented by a pedestal. The size of the files in the directory is proportional to the pedestal height and the file age is shown by color. Files are placed on top of the directory pedestals. Each file is represented by a box. [0006] U.S. patent application [Attorney Docket 114890] describes a method for creating and updating interactive 3D visualizations of media indices wherein separate indices are located above and below a ground plane. The indices are organized in a table structure defined by two axes and provide links to the media that is indexed. Various visual characteristics of the indices reflect characteristics of the media that is indexed as well as various user defined or group defined information relating to the indexed media. [0007] Perspective Wall is a 3D visualization that indexes files. It utilizes a 3D wall with three sections and displays card icons for the files. 3D/Rooms is a 3D index that has a 3D multi-level building floor plan in which users can select a research group and retrieve photos of members and their offices. [0008] Finally, There are many visualizations of the World Wide Web using 3D landscapes. Most of these such as WWW3D, WebPath, and VR-VIBE use abstract geometric objects to represent documents. The Web Forager, utilizes a space that contains 3D bookcases and 3D books, that when opened, display the indexed Web pages. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0009] Each of the above-described systems for indexing media within a three-dimensional space shares a similar shortcoming. Particularly, a user is only able to discern very general, if any, qualities of the indexed media from the visualization itself. For example, according to U.S. patent application [Attorney Docket 114890] a user can determine how the media is classified within two axes or determine whether or not the media indexed is one of or a combination of graphics, text, video, etc. However, none of the above-described systems summarize the indexed media within the summary itself, such that a user can view a summary of the indexed media simply by viewing the 3D visualization of the indexed media. [0010] Therefore, various exemplary embodiments of the systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces according to this invention provide an interactive 3D visualization wherein the surfaces of 3D objects representing indexed media provide visual summaries of the indexed media. [0011] Various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods according to this invention provide a 3D graphical user interface including a two-dimensional ground-plane layout representing the relationship between one or more leaf elements of a tree data structure; and at least one building-like structure, each of the at least one building-like structures corresponding to a respective one of the one or more leaf elements, wherein each of the at least one building-like structure provides a summary of media associated with the respective one of the more leaf elements corresponding to that at least one building-like structure. [0012] Various exemplary embodiments of the systems and methods according to this invention provide a layout for a 3D visualization including inputting a tree data structure, each leaf of the tree associated with one or more forms of media; determining a plurality of candidate layouts; comparing the plurality of candidate layouts; selecting a solution layout; and constructing a 3D visualization based on the layout, wherein the representation of each leaf within the 3D visualization provides a summary of the media contained by that leaf within the input tree data structure. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0013] Various exemplary embodiments of systems and methods according to this invention will be described in detail, with reference to the following figures, wherein: [0014] FIGS. 1 and 2 show an exemplary embodiment of a 3D visualization that utilizes substantially square and similarly sized building-like structure plots; [0015] FIGS. 3-6 show a number of variations of the 3D visualization shown in FIGS. 1 and 2; [0016] FIGS. 7 and 8 show an exemplary embodiment of a 3D visualization according to this invention that utilizes differently sized building-like structure plots; [0017] FIG. 9 shows a graphical user interface for use with the 3D visualizations of FIGS. 1-6; [0018] FIG. 10 shows a graphical user interface for use with the 3D visualization of FIGS. 7 and 8; [0019] FIGS. 11 and 12 are a flowchart outlining an exemplary embodiment of a grid layout method for the type of 3D visualizations shown in FIGS. 1-6. [0020] FIG. 13 shows an example of leaf nodes layouts and branch nodes layouts; [0021] FIG. 14 shows the layouts of FIG. 13 in which the leaf node layouts are combined into a single layout; Continue reading... Full patent description for Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3d visualization of indexed media Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Systems and methods for creating an interactive 3d visualization of indexed media patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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