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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2018
Sas Institute Inc., Cary, NC (US);
Claude Edward Summers, II, Cary, NC (US);
Julianna Elizabeth Langston, Durham, NC (US);
Jesse Daniel Sookne, Durham, NC (US);
Jesse Benjamin Olley, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Kerry Leanne Smith Trout, Cary, NC (US);
Cleester Daniel Heath, IV, Clayton, NC (US);
Samuel Edward Kalat, Cary, NC (US);
Paul William Layne, Cary, NC (US);
SAS INSTITUTE INC., Cary, NC (US);
Abstract
Graphical data-visualizations can be converted into sonified output. For example, a computing device can detect metadata that describes data points for a graphical visualization. The computing device can generate an interactive interface that is different from the graphical visualization based on the metadata. The interactive interface may include a matrix of cells corresponding to the data points in the metadata. The computing device can detect an interaction with a cell in the matrix. The interaction can indicate that a sonified representation of a data point corresponding to the cell is to be output. The computing device can responsively determine at least two sound characteristics for the sonified representation of the data point using a portion of the metadata describing the data point. The at least two sound characteristics can each audibly represent different aspects of the data point. The computing device can then cause the sonified representation to be output.