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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 21, 1997
Eduardo Sciammarella, New York, NY (US);
Kenneth Herndon, Suffern, NY (US);
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Electronics, Inc., Park Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
Images representing search results are displayed on a screen of a computer system. The search results are responsive to a search in a database initiated by a user by entering a keyword or keywords via an input device. The images are displayed in such a way that an image corresponding to the highest match value is the largest in size, while remaining matches are represented by images which are smaller in size, in direct proportion to their relevance to the keyword. In addition, the relevance of an image is indicated by its proximity to the keyword displayed on the screen: the closer the displayed image to the keyword, the more relevant the match represented by that image is to that keyword. This display operation is equivalent to two simultaneous searches with boolean operators 'OR' and 'AND', such as 'keyword1 OR keyword2' and 'keyword1 AND keyword2'.