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- the invention relates to the field of computer graphics processing, more specifically, the invention relates to a system and method for applying detail-in-context viewing techniques and elastic presentation space technologies to online and electronic presentation of viewable media, such as newspapers, telephone directories, and maps.
- Display screens are the primary visual display interface to a computer.
- One problem with these visual display screens is that they are limited in size, thus presenting a challenge to user interface design, particularly when larger amounts of information is to be displayed. This problem is normally referred to as the "screen real estate problem”.
- a representation is a formal system, or mapping, for specifying raw information or data that is stored in a computer or data processing system.
- a digital map of a city is a representation of raw data including street names and the relative geographic location of streets and utilities. Such a representation may be displayed visually on computer screen or printed on paper.
- a presentation is a spatial organization of a given representation that is appropriate for the task at hand.
- a presentation of a representation organizes such things as the point of view and the relative emphasis of different parts or regions of the representation. For example, a digital map of a city may be presented with a region magnified to reveal street names.
- Detail-in-context presentations allow for magnification of a particular region of interest (the "focal region") in a representation while preserving visibility of the surrounding representation.
- focal regions are presented with an increased level of detail without the removal of contextual information from the original representation.
- a detail-in-context presentation may be considered as a distorted view (or distortion) of a portion of the original representation where the distortion is the result of the application of a "lens” like distortion function to the original representation.
- a method for displaying visual information on a display screen of a computer comprises the steps of scaling the visual information to produce a scaled representation to fit on the display screen the scaled representation containing the entire content of the visual information; selecting a region of interest within the scaled representation; applying a transformation to the scaled representation to improve the visual detail in the region of interest; and, displaying the transformed presentation on the display screen.
- a data processing system has stored therein data representing sequences of instructions which when executed cause the above-described method to be performed.
- the data processing system generally has an input device, a central processing unit, memory, and a display.
- a computer software product contains sequences of instructions which when executed cause the above-described method to be performed.
- an integrated circuit product contains sequences of instructions which when executed cause the above-described method to be performed.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a 3D perspective viewing frustrum in accordance with known elastic presentation space graphics technology
- FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of a presentation in accordance with known elastic presentation space graphics technology
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a data processing system in accordance with the preferred embodiment
- FIG. 4 is a screen capture of two pages from a newspaper information source that have been shrunk to fit a display surface in accordance with the preferred embodiment.
- FIG. 5 is a flow chart illustrating a method for applying detail-in-context viewing techniques and elastic presentation space technologies to the online and electronic presentation of viewable media in accordance with the preferred embodiment.
- data processing system is used herein to refer to any machine for processing data, including the computer systems and network arrangements described herein.
- PliablePaperTM is used herein to refer to a computer software product that implements the method of the preferred embodiment of the invention.
- EPS Elastic Presentation Space
- EPS is used herein to refer to techniques that allow for the adjustment of a visual presentation without interfering with the information content of the representation.
- EPS graphics technology is described by Carpendale in A Framework for Elastic Presentation Space (Carpendale, Marianne S. T., A Framework for Elastic Presentation Space (Burnaby, British Columbia: Simon Fraser University, 1999)) which is incorporated herein by reference.
- EPS graphics technology a two-dimensional visual representation is placed onto a surface; this surface is placed in three-dimensional space; the surface, containing the representation, is viewed through perspective projection; and the surface is manipulated to effect the reorganization of image details.
- the presentation transformation is separated into two steps: surface manipulation or distortion and perspective projection.
- the present invention provides a method, system, computer program product, and integrated circuit product for applying detail-in-context viewing techniques and elastic presentation space technologies to the online and electronic presentation of viewable media.
- the method, system, computer program product, and integrated circuit product are applicable to detail-in-context navigation within computer graphics processing systems including EPS graphics technology and to computer graphics processing systems in general.
- FIG. 1 there is shown a perspective view 100 of a 3D perspective viewing frustrum 220 in accordance with known elastic presentation space ("EPS") graphics technology.
- EPS elastic presentation space
- detail-in-context views of 2D visual representations are created with sight-line aligned distortions of a 2D information presentation surface within a 3D perspective viewing frustum 220.
- magnification of regions of interest and the accompanying compression of the contextual region to accommodate this change in scale are produced by the movement of regions of the surface towards the viewpoint 240 located at the apex of the pyramidal shape 220 containing the frustum.
- the process of projecting these transformed layouts via a perspective projection results in a new 2D layout which includes the zoomed and compressed regions.
- the use of the third dimension and perspective distortion to provide magnification in EPS provides a meaningful metaphor for the process of distorting the information presentation surface.
- the 3D manipulation of the information presentation surface in such a system is an intermediate step in the process of creating a new 2D layout of the information.
- EPS graphics technology employs viewer-aligned perspective projections to produce detail-in-context presentations in a reference view plane 201 which may be viewed on a display.
- Undistorted 2D data points are located in a basal plane 210 of a 3D perspective viewing volume or frustum 220 which is defined by extreme rays 221 and 222 and the basal plane 210.
- a viewpoint (“VP") 240 is located above the centre point of the basal plane 210 and reference view plane 201. Points in the basal plane 210 are displaced upward onto a distorted surface 230 which is defined by a general 3D distortion function (i.e.
- the direction of the viewer-aligned perspective projection corresponding to the distorted surface 230 is indicated by the line FPo - FP 231 drawn from a point FPo 232 in the basal plane 210 through the point FP 233 which corresponds to the focus or focal region or focal point of the distorted surface 230.
- EPS refers to a collection of know-how and techniques for performing "detail-in-context viewing” (also known as “multi-scale viewing” and “distortion viewing”) of information such as images, maps, and text, using a projection technique summarized below.
- EPS is applicable to multidimensional data and is well suited to implementation on a computer for dynamic detail-in-context display on an electronic display surface such as a monitor.
- EPS is typically characterized by magnification of areas of an image where detail is desired, in combination with compression of a restricted range of areas of the remaining information (the "context"), the end result typically giving the appearance of a lens having been applied to the display surface.
- EPS has numerous advantages over conventional zoom, pan, and scroll technologies, including the capability of preserving the visibility of information outside the local region of interest.
- EPS performs detail-in-context presentation of n- dimensional data through the use of a procedure wherein the data is mapped into a region in an (n+1) dimensional space, manipulated through perspective projections in the (n+1) dimensional space, and then finally transformed back into n-dimensional space for presentation.
- EPS in two dimensions, can be implemented through the projection of an image onto a reference plane 201 in the following manner.
- the source image is located on a basal plane 210, and those regions of interest 233 of the image for which magnification is desired are elevated so as to move them closer to a reference plane situated between the reference viewpoint 240 and the reference view plane (RVP) 201.
- RVP reference view plane
- Magnification of the "focal region" 233 closest to the RVP varies inversely with distance from the RVP 201. As shown in FIGS.
- compression of regions outside the focal region 233 is a function of both distance from the RVP 201, and the gradient of the function describing the vertical distance from the RNP 201 with respect to horizontal distance from the focal region 233.
- the resultant combination of magnification and compression of the image as seen from the reference viewpoint 240 results in a lens-like effect similar to that of a magnifying glass applied to the image, and the resultant distorted image may be referred to as a "pliable display surface".
- the various functions used to vary the magnification and compression of the image via vertical displacement from the basal plane 210 are described as lenses, lens types, or lens functions.
- FIG. 3 there is shown a blo ⁇ k diagram of an exemplary data processing system 300 for implementing an embodiment of the invention.
- the data processing system is suitable for implementing EPS technology and for running PliablePaperTM computer software.
- the data processing system 300 includes an input device 310, a central processing unit or CPU 320, memory 330, and a display 340.
- the input device 310 may be a keyboard, mouse, trackball, or similar device.
- the CPU 320 may include dedicated coprocessors and memory devices.
- the memory 330 may include RAM, ROM, databases, or disk devices.
- the display 340 may include a computer screen or terminal device.
- the data processing system 300 has stored therein data representing sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed.
- the data processing system 300 may contain additional software and hardware a description of which is not necessary for understanding the invention.
- EPS is applied to the electronic and online (i.e. Internet) presentation of traditional printed media and printed documents including newspapers, magazines, and telephone directories. This is affected by the electronic scaling of the document content to a size that allows presentation of the full content on the display surface, with the use of specialized EPS lenses to enlarge regions of interest 233 to make them readable to the user.
- This method can be used to achieve the more effective presentation of web page content on small display surfaces including handheld computers.
- This aspect of the invention can be implemented with pre-placed EPS lenses on important content components including headlines, feature articles, tables of contents, and advertisements. Interaction with the reader is such that articles in the reader's region of interest 233 are enlarged automatically via EPS lenses of complex shape to suit the shape of the article or other area of interest.
- FIG. 4 there is shown a screen 400 capture of two pages from a newspaper representation that have been effectively shrunk to fit a display surface 340 in accordance with the preferred embodiment.
- the term "PliablePaperTM” is used herein to refer to a computer software product that implements the method of this preferred embodiment of the invention.
- a lens 410 has been used in the fifth column to increase the font size in the reader's region of interest 233.
- the top 420 and bottom 430 of the lens 410 are tapered to provide a continuous transition to the unmagnified text 440.
- Partial overwriting of neighboring columns 450 and images 460 by the lens 410 is performed to blend the lens 410 into the undistorted regions 470, and provide enough space for the lens 410 while preserving the spatial orientation of the neighboring columns.
- pre-placed lenses can be achieved as follows.
- items of interest such as article headlines, whole articles, or advertisements can have lenses 410 in place when the document is first viewed.
- This can be implemented, for example, through the use of special lens locating information (i.e. locating tags) embedded within the source document or in a separate data layer, indicating the characteristics, location and/or bounds of the lens.
- asymmetric, tapered lenses 410, 420, 430 providing blending into the column of interest can be achieved as follows.
- the use of such tapering of the lenses provides a direct visual connection and a smooth transition from magnified 410 to unmagnified 440 areas to facilitate the user's navigation of the document.
- the sides of the lens, which are unnecessary, are not drawn so as to improve performance and preserve the visibility of neighbouring columns 450, 460, 470 where possible.
- boundary conditions are supported by the inward folding of lenses, as described by Carpendale, when a boundary such as a page border is encountered allowing for the magnification of a column immediately adjacent to the border by effectively shifting the lens contents inward.
- the newspaper industry is provided with a complete electronic delivery solution for creating and delivering the newspaper, in its current format, to readers who will read the newspaper on-line using their existing hardware technology combined with PliablePaperTM software.
- PliablePaperTM software can license the software and provide it to their readers via on-line downloading.
- the reader can download a copy of the newspaper, or, the newspaper can be delivered each day via the Internet by the newspaper publisher.
- PliablePaperTM software the reader can see each page of the newspaper shrunk down to fit their monitor 340.
- each article heading and each advertisement will be easily readable with a pre-placed EPS lens.
- Turning pages can be performed more easily; searching for information on a specific company can be performed more easily; printing a specific article or advertisement can be performed more easily; and, navigation can be performed more easily because it combines two already possessed skills of the reader, namely, the almost innate sense of how a newspaper is structured and the ability to navigate using a mouse.
- the method of the preferred embodiment facilitates the above advantages and features while requiring no new skills on the part of the reader.
- lens shapes may be selected by evaluating the content and context of the region to be viewed. For example in newspapers information is layed out in columns, thus the present invention will select an appropriate lens to just fit a particular column width, thus avoiding spill-over into adjacent columns. Further, a snapping action may be used to center a lens on a column. In this case the invention evaluates the information to determine boundaries within the region of interest and places the lens within these boundaries. A similar technique may be used for viewing regions on a map.
- pliable display surfaces for EPS are directly generated by sampling the distorted layout space and deriving a polygonal surface from sampled points.
- This technique has important advantages over approximation techniques such as the use of non-uniform rational b-splines ("NURBS") to implement the surface as described by Watt, et al. (Watt, A. and M. Watt, Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1992, p.106-108), and incorporated herein by reference.
- NURBS non-uniform rational b-splines
- the sample points are selected in such a man-ner as to provide a sufficient representation of the important features of the data space, including the undistorted regions at original magnification/compression levels, the regions that are within the focal areas of lenses, and finally the boundaries between these regions.
- the accurate sampling of boundaries is important for achieving correct magnification and can be used in the eventual illumination of the surface to provide a perceptual cue to the user through shading.
- the sample points are connected to form a grid via an appropriate triangulation algorithm, for example Delauney triangulation as described by Boots (Boots, B.N., Delauney triangles: An Alternative approach to point pattern analysis, Proc. Assoc. Am. Geogr.
- This surface is employed as a medium for the presentation of raster data via texture- mapping as well as to provide the perceptual shading cues revealing the topology of the distorted data space.
- It is an advantage of the present invention is that the direct generation of the surface from a set of sample points is superior to alternate methods such as the use of a NURBS surface for the following reasons: direct control over the triangulation of the surface in the regions where lenses pose distinct boundaries; full and accurate control over final magnification where approximated surfaces would result in areas of the surface that are over and under-magnified; and, computing performance enhancements that result from decreasing the number of sample points in regions where additional detail is unnecessary.
- Use of a more dense grid pattern near the region of interest 233 or where the magnification or the slope of the lens function is large can be used to enhance the smoothness of the visible transition from context into the region of interest 233.
- Use of a less dense grid pattern elsewhere achievers improved computing performance through the use of an optimized grid pattern.
- magnification factors can be easily and accurately determined, as they are proportional to this height.
- other techniques such as splines, which are themselves approximations, lack the accuracy present in the techniques of the present invention. Polygons are also more efficient when displaying large raster files.
- EPS technology is applied to multilayer or composite information through blending and filtering techniques as will be described in the following.
- Blending between multiple sets of data within an EPS lens can be used to compare coincident regions of interest 233 from different data sets or layers, for example, to show detailed precipitation, population, and disease data in detail only in a particular region of interest 233 of a geographic map.
- Filtering of specific data characteristics or data layers within a lens can also be performed.
- the data shown within a lens can be filtered such that only data within the desired range or from a specific data layer is drawn. This has application as a data inspection aid, for example, to quickly reveal areas in a geographic map having particularly high populations or disease frequencies.
- lens characteristics including magnification control, shape, and size can be modified by specific user input via pointing devices 310 or via a pointing device and keyboard keystroke operations as will be described in the following.
- Magnification control is provided by a combination of either a keystroke or a single "tap" on a pointing device 310, such as a stylus, to indicate an imminent magnification change request, followed by a straight line stroke of the pointing device to actually set the new magnification in proportion to the distance traveled or the velocity of the pointing device.
- Control of lens shape is provided by "dragging" a lens border with a pointing device 310.
- the result is that the lens border distorts elastically to include the new pointing device position in the set of points within the region of interest 233.
- the user can directly specify changes in the shape of the lens using just a pointing device. This allows the user to specify arbitrary lens shapes. Actual implementation of complex lens shapes is achieved by appending new lenses onto the original lens.
- Control of lens size is provided by dragging the lens borders using a pointing device 310 to adjust the lens size.
- EPS lenses can be implemented in software (e.g. PliablePaperTM) within an interactive client-server application over a network.
- the client software can be self-contained or could exist within an Internet browser as a "plug-in" or accessory.
- the software can detect the presence of one or more data elements such as images within a web page and allow application of EPS lenses to these elements.
- the application components residing on the server computer would make multiple resolutions of the data available to the client on demand such that additional detail of the source data can be shown in the lens.
- “detail-on-demand” functionality is provided as follows.
- the client software displays the focal region 233 of the EPS lens in low resolution until the pointing device 310 has paused or "hovered” over a particular region of interest. If the lens remains in the same position for a period of time, then additional data will be retrieved from the server to fill in additional detail in the magnified region and neighbouring regions.
- High resolution is beneficial in the neighbouring regions for blending the lens border into the context if the slope of the lens borders is large. This minimizes network traffic while the user is navigating over a region of the data rather than examining it in detail.
- adaptive pre-fetching functionality is provided as follows.
- This technique is used to improve response time (i.e. performance) of lenses to input from a pointing device 310 by retrieving data from the server in advance of the need for it; it is a predictive technique.
- a pointing device 310 controls the lens position, and the acceleration, velocity and position of the device can be used to predict the next position of the lens. In this manner, an estimate can be made of the next required high-resolution data, and it can be retrieved from the server over the network in advance of it being needed.
- EPS lens locations and/or parameters are controlled by an external data source su ⁇ h as a GPS receiver or cell phone.
- an EPS lens location on a map shown on a display surface can be determined by physical location information provided by a GPS receiver or cell phone.
- GPS receiver coupled to the data processing system 300.
- location information provided automatically by a cellular phone system or network can be used to locate the device user and position a lens appropriately.
- This aspect of the invention can be implemented in enhanced automobile dashboard, marine, and aircraft navigation systems, as well as personal navigational aids on handheld computing devices.
- a lens shaped to the intended path of the user from a current location to a destination on a map can be implemented.
- timed motion of an EPS lens over data such as text 400 to allow reading of text or scanning of images or maps without the need for intervention by the user is provided.
- This aspect of the invention can be implemented in multimedia, PliablePaperTM, reading aids for the disabled, as well as in advertising.
- E S as a Solution to the "Labeling Problem".
- EPS provides a solution to this problem in the case of electronic display surfaces through capabilities such as detail-in-context viewing and folding (as described by Carpendale) that allow the user to dynamically adjust the displayed level of detail and move undesired labels out of the line of sight of the user.
- FIG. 5 there is shown a flow chart 500 illustrating a general method for displaying data representations of printed media on a display screen of a computer according to one embodiment of the invention.
- the method starts.
- the data representation is scaled to produce a scaled data representation wherein the scaled data representation contains the entire content of the data representation and wherein the scaled data representation fits on the display screen.
- a region of interest in the scaled data representation is deformed with a lens to produce a data presentation.
- the data presentation is displayed on the display screen, thereby improving the legibility of the region of interest within the context of the scaled data representation.
- the method ends.
- Computer Software Product The sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed by the exemplary data processing system of FIG. 3 can be contained in a computer software product according to one embodiment of the invention. This computer software product can be loaded into and run by the exemplary data processing system of FIG. 3.
- Integrated Circuit Product The sequences of instructions which when executed cause the method described herein to be performed by the exemplary data processing system of FIG. 3 can be contained in an integrated circuit product including a coprocessor or memory according to one embodiment of the invention.
- This integrated circuit product can be installed in the exemplary data processing system of FIG. 3.
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