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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2012
Ingwer-curt Carlsen, Hamburg, DE;
Sebastian Peter Michael Dries, Hamburg, DE;
Roland Johannes Opfer, Hamburg, DE;
Arvid Randal Nicolaas, Tilburg, NL;
Robbert Christiaan Van Ommering, Hapert, NL;
Ingwer-Curt Carlsen, Hamburg, DE;
Sebastian Peter Michael Dries, Hamburg, DE;
Roland Johannes Opfer, Hamburg, DE;
Arvid Randal Nicolaas, Tilburg, NL;
Robbert Christiaan Van Ommering, Hapert, NL;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A system for displaying a set of interrelated objects comprises an initializer () for identifying a plurality of interrelated objects, a first information filter () for selecting a first subset of the plurality of interrelated objects for display based on a first information filter setting, a first displayer () for displaying the first subset of the plurality of interrelated objects on a first display area, a user interface () for enabling a user to select a region of the first display area for enlargement by visually indicating the region in the first display area, wherein the user can select the region independently of locations of the displayed objects in the first display area, a second information filter () for selecting a second subset of the plurality of interrelated objects for display based on a second information filter setting, wherein the second information filter is arranged for selecting objects corresponding to the selected region with an increased level of information detail compared to the first information filter, and a second displayer () for displaying the second subset of the plurality of interrelated objects on a second display area.