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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2011
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2008
Dan Gallivan, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Dan Gallivan, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
FTI Technology LLC, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A system and method for reorienting clusters within a display is provided. Clusters are maintained within a display. Each cluster includes a center located at a distance relative to a common origin for the display and a radius measured from the center. A pair of the clusters is selected and a bounding region is determined for each cluster in the pair by forming a pair of tangent vectors about the cluster and originating at the common origin. The bounding regions of the clusters in the pair are compared. The distance from the common origin of one of the clusters in the pair is increased upon overlap of the bounding regions as a perspective-corrected distance, which is determined as a function of the distances, the radii, and an angle between tangent vectors. The one cluster is moved to reorient the cluster's center at the perspective-corrected distance in the display.