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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2007
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2003
Shawn R. Neely, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lawrence Kesteloot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Margaret Novotny, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marion Buchenau, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sheila A. Foley, Sausalito, CA (US);
Michael O'neil, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shawn R. Neely, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lawrence Kesteloot, San Francisco, CA (US);
Margaret Novotny, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marion Buchenau, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sheila A. Foley, Sausalito, CA (US);
Michael O'Neil, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kaleidescope, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A UI involving selection and display from a library of videos, including a 'Mosaic' mode of operation, in which a primarily visual display is made of information about possible videos, with the effect that a user might select one such video in response to such visual display. The Mosaic includes an two-dimensional array of entries, each of which has visual information for that entry. The Mosaic collects relatively similar entries near to each other in the visual field seen by a user. The focus is centralized and emphasized, and has auxiliary information displayed for further understanding. The array is dynamically rearranged in response to change in focus and metadata about the entries. Relative weighting of that metadata is responsive to user choice. The array includes rows and columns each of which includes all possible entries, but offset by relatively prime values.