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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1999
Lira Nikolovska, Eindhoven, NL;
Jacquelyn Annette Martino, Cold Spring, NY (US);
Alison Camplin, London, GB;
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A user interface for querying and displaying records form a database employs a physical metaphor for the process of constructing queries and viewing results. In one embodiment, the search criteria are shown as strings of beads in a three-dimensional scene, each bead representing a criterion and each string representing a different category. For example the criteria, drama, action, suspense, and horror may be included in a category of genre. Criteria are selected to form a query by moving corresponding beads to a query string. User preference profiles can be constructed in the same way. Profiles can be saved and represented as bead strings that can be used in further interactions in the same manner as criteria beads. Results are displayed in a three-dimensional scene also. The accuracy of the match between retrieved records and the query correspond to the placement of results, also represented as beads, along the Z-axis of the scene.
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