157 results about "Interactive visualization" patented technology

Interactive geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques are disclosed that provide users with a greater degree of flexibility, utility, and information. A markup language is provided that facilitates communication between servers and clients of the interactive GIS, which enables a number of GIS features, such as network links (time-based and/or view-dependent dynamic data layers), ground overlays, screen overlays, placemarks, 3D models, and stylized GIS elements, such as geometry, icons, description balloons, polygons, and labels in the viewer by which the user sees the target area. Also, “virtual tours” of user-defined paths in the context of distributed geospatial visualization is enabled. Streaming and interactive visualization of filled polygon data are also enabled thereby allowing buildings and other such features to be provided in 3D. Also, techniques for enabling ambiguous search requests in a GIS are provided.

An interactive visualization of stored data includes a representation of a three-dimensional generally helical path extending between spaced apart ends of the path. Selected parts of the stored data are mapped to corresponding parts of the helical path to facilitate visualization of the stored data. The stored data may include an unbounded dimension (e.g., time) that is mapped along the helical path. One or more user interface elements may be associated with the helical path to effect display of additional information associated with a selected part of the path.

A method and system are provided for the visual display of anatomical forces, that system having: a motion capture system; a computer, receiving data from said motion capture system; and a computational pipeline disposed on said computer; that computational pipeline being configured to calculate muscle forces and joint torques in real time and visually display those forces and torques.

Systems and methods are described that facilitate exploration and mining of a corpus of documents using concepts and knowledge, rather than keywords and enable interactive visualization, management, monetization, and personalization of knowledge search results on a user interface. Underlying documents can be mapped into overlapping clusters of knowledge dimensions and the documents can be further partitioned into narrower knowledge dimensions, resulting in a hierarchical structure. Content of knowledge dimensions may be filtered using a knowledge dimension map. Knowledge may be personalized by a user and shared in collaborative and social networks. Knowledge-based advertisement systems and methods are described that associate products and services with knowledge dimensions and concepts. Advertisers can bid on concepts and KDs. Systems and methods are described that distribute a percentage of CPC revenue among content owners and provide revenue to content providers based on relevancy scores.

This application relates to information analysis and more particularly to a system and method for interactive visual representation of information content and relationships using layouts and gestures. A visualization tool is provided which facilitates both ad-hoc and more formal analytical tasks as a flexible and expressive thinking environment. The tool provides a space focused on ‘Human Interaction with Information’ and enabling evidence marshalling. Capabilities of the tool include put-this-there cognition, automatic analysis templates, and gestures for the fluid expression of thought and scalability mechanisms to support large analysis tasks.

Methods for displaying results of a spreading activation algorithm and for defining an activation input vector for the spreading activation algorithm are disclosed. A planar disk tree is used to represent the generalized graph structure being modeled in a spreading activation algorithm. Activation bars on some or all nodes of the planar disk tree in the dimension perpendicular to the disk tree encode the final activation level resulting at the end of N iterations of the spreading activation algorithm. The number of nodes for which activation bars are displayed may be a predetermined number, a predetermine fraction of all nodes, or a determined by a predetermined activation level threshold. The final activation levels resulting from activation spread through more than one flow network corresponding to the same generalized graph are displayed as color encoded segments on the activation bars. Content, usage, topology, or recommendation flow networks may be used for spreading activation. The difference between spreading activation through different flow networks corresponding to the same generalized graph may be displayed by subtracting the resulting activation patterns from each network and displaying the difference. The spreading activation input vector is determined by continually measuring the dwell time that the user's cursor spends on a displayed node. Activation vectors at various intermediate steps of the N-step spreading activation algorithm are color encoded onto nodes of disk trees within time tubes. The activation input vector and the activation vectors resulting from all N steps are displayed in a time tube having N+1 planar disk trees. Alternatively, a periodic subset of all N activation vectors are displayed, or a subset showing planar disk trees representing large changes in activation levels or phase shifts are displayed while planar disk trees representing smaller changes in activation levels are not displayed.

A method and system to evaluate data efficacy across an enterprise is disclosed. The method includes the step of indexing a set of data sources that include at least one of structured and unstructured data artifacts. The method further includes accessing the indexing on the one or more data sources with a computer. The method further includes the step of generating a plurality of analytics about the data sources based on the indexing, wherein the analytics include a plurality of: a document originality analytic, a corpus storage volume analytic, a data source ingest analytic, a document type analytic, and an analysis analytic. The method further includes displaying, on a display device, an interactive visualization of results based on the analytics, wherein the visualization comprises at least one of: a histogram, a graph, a timeline, a panel, a list, a chart, a popup, and a table.

An embodiment of the invention uses the message sequence chart (MSC) and various visual cues to provide an interactive visualization of threaded electronic conversations (e.g., in email, bulletin board, instant message, or social network) by presenting to users various information about a particular conversation or the conjunction of separate conversations, such as sequences of messages, conversation participants, time in transit, time send/received, and other message attributes.

In one embodiment, a visual reporting system generates a 3-dimensional (3D) interactive vehicle inspection report comprising 3D model data and inspection data for a particular vehicle. The inspection data, such as recommended repair items, are associated with graphical vehicle sections in the 3D model. Further, additional inspection data, such as instructional videos or inspection photographs, can be provided to a user desiring additional detail. By providing an interactive visual representation of inspection data, the 3D inspection report provides a report that can be customized to provide different levels of detail to different users. In addition, the 3D model can provide a visually compact summary of the inspection data by marking on the 3D model the repair items for the vehicle. Use of the 3D inspection report can raise the likelihood that the vehicle owner understands the need for repair, leading to more repair orders for repair facilities.

A visual analyzing and predicting method based on a virtual geological model is finished by depending on an interactive visual tool. The method mainly comprises steps of searching a multi-dimensional geological data model from a database and a file system; arranging or resetting a virtual geological scene by setting or regulating corresponding parameters and models; regulating coordinate, scale, data format and the like, of the geological model; sending results of visual calculating, analyzing, predicting and searching into a dual-display cache region; and integrally displaying geological data in a visual platform at real time. The method meets requirements of earth science application, enhances representability of geological data, improves comprehension and application environment of geological data, converts logical thinking of geologists into a trial ground having an imagery thinking of time and space in a virtual environment, helps strengthen deep recognition to complex geological phenomena, uncovers deep information and internal relation in geological data, digs out and extract knowledge unable to be obtained in a traditional mode, improves utilization rate and geospatial analytics of information, and provides a brand-new method for geologists to observe, explain, analyze and imitate geological phenomena in a three-dimensional space, predict and know geospatial distribution of geological structure in a studied area through known data, and obtain mine position, mine reserves and other important information. Furthermore, the human-computer interactive tool is simple and easy to learn to operate, saves cost, reduces blindness in application, reduces risk, conducts and makes decision for production and environment analysis and has significant economic and social benefits.

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for access, interaction, and/or visualization of spatial and/or spatio-temporal information associated with a variety of data sources and/or locations. In some embodiments, systems and methods described herein allow for interactive visualization of information included in one or more spatial and/or spatio-temporal data streams and/or other related information using an interface of a visual explorer system. In certain embodiments, the interface of the visual explorer system may allow a user to, among other things, visualize certain temporal and/or spatial aspects of spatial and/or spatio-temporal data through interaction with one or more temporal and/or spatial visualization controls.

Visualization systems for rendering images from a multi-dimensional data set, include an interactive visualization system configured to accept user input to define at least one explicit prioritized feature in an image rendered from a multi-dimensional image data set. The at least one prioritized feature is automatically electronically rendered with high or full quality in different interactively requested rendered images of the image data while other non-prioritized features are rendered at lower quality. The visualization system may optionally include a rendering system configured to render images by electronically assigning a level of detail for different tiles associated with an image, each level of detail having a number of pixel samples to be calculated to thereby accelerate image processing.

An automated system and method of performing electronic design rule checking on the netlist of an integrated circuit composed of a plurality of subgraphs. The electronic design rule is embodied as a two part template with a target subgraph specification and a design rule compliance check specification. The target subgraph specification often is at least partially defined by an interactive visual programming section that allows the user to construct a graphic specification of the target netlist. The method first searches the netlist for target subgraphs that match the target subgraph specification, and the user can verify proper target selection. The method then performs rule checks on these search targets, and non compliant subnets identified. Flexibility is enhanced by use of search wildcards, attribute ranges, and various short user scripts which may contain various Boolean logical operations.

The invention discloses a heterogeneous network interactive visualization method. The method comprises the steps that (1) nodes in a heterogeneous network are clustered according to node attribute values, and a corresponding clustering network visualization map is generated; (2) as for each node in selected clustering results, a neighbor node set of the node is calculated; then according to the node attribute values of the adjacent node sets, the nodes in the clustering results are clustered; a clustering visualization map is generated as a next-level visualization map; (3) the clustering results obtained in the step (2) are selected, the nodes in the clustering results are clustered according to the adjacent node sets of the nodes, and the nodes with the same adjacent node set fall into the same cluster; then the clustering results are used for generating a clustering visualization map which is used as a next-level visualization map of the clustering network visualization map generated in the step (2). According to the heterogeneous network interactive visualization method, topological information and attribute information are combined, and a user can check the lower level with the finer granularity.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a faceted browser for decision-making that enables interactive visualization of a decision space as choices are made. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a selection of a first choice from a user. The first choice is displayed in a user interface that includes a plurality of facets, each facet including a plurality of choices. The method further comprises disabling at least one second choice in response to the selection of the first choice, and determining a first result set in response to the selection of the first choice. The user interface is then updated in real-time to display the selected status of the first choice, the disabled status of the second choice, and the first result set to the user.

There is provided a visual music classification and management system. Each music item in a user's collection will be analyzed to identify its musical characteristics along with some estimate of the degree of confidence associated with that characteristic. By using characteristics, so-called music aspects, it will be possible to efficiently categorize the contents of a music database. Each music item will be stored in a database with the calculated values as will the characterizing aspect. The database contents will be displayed by drawing icons representing the music items on a user's screen, with the size (or other visual aspect) of the icon reflecting the degree of confidence with that categorization. Searches of the database will be performed by on-screen manipulations of the aspect cluster-positioned music items.

System, method and computer program product for generating a GUI that facilitates the management of real and/or virtual images on computing machines in a computing environment. The system and method provides for an interactive visualization of virtual images (machines) and the software components included in each virtual image or real image. According to a consolidating and clustering processes, the images are bundled and displayed in a dendogram to show a hierarchy of the similarity between images. Further, software components are represented by small coded cells and organized into logical groupings. The system and method provides for user interactive functionality that facilitates the gathering of details on certain aspects of the images and/or components. The end result is a software program that facilitates user's ability to consolidate and manage real and virtual images.