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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2020
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric Youngstrom, Kirkland, WA (US);
John P. Falcone, Kirkland, WA (US);
Craig Hoffman, Sammamish, WA (US);
Hein Thu Htat, Austin, TX (US);
Scott Borton, Seattle, WA (US);
Ram Bracha, Seattle, WA (US);
Felix GTI Andrew, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments relate to efficiently viewing data items in a three-dimensional (3D) space. The 3D space includes a curved surface that is concave with respect to a user-controlled viewpoint in the 3D space. The viewpoint is for controlling the direction and location of a rendered view of the 3D space. The data items have respective values associated therewith. The data items are arranged on the surface according to their values so that a user's ease of viewing the data items varies with their values; data items with some values may be arranged to be easier to view by manipulating the view direction than others (e.g., those with lower values). Ease of viewing can stem from how the surface is oriented relative to the viewpoint, the orientation of the curvature of the surface, the orientation of a controlling reference orientation, alignment of the data items on the surface, etc.