Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Patent
1996-11-06
1998-09-15
Nguyen, Phu K.
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
G06F 1500
Patent
active
058086099
ABSTRACT:
Methods, apparatus and computer program products adjust display attributes of hierarchically arranged objects to simulate the user navigating through the objects in three dimensions. Objects in the same level of the hierarchy are displayed in a size different from objects on other levels of the hierarchy to simulate the objects on each level being on a different plane, one behind another. Each object's child objects are displayed clustered around the projection of the object into the plane of the child objects to graphically display the parent-child relationship. As the user navigates into the objects, the objects grow in size to simulate the user moving closer to them. The cluster of child objects spreads out from the projection of the parent at a different rate than the objects grow in size to allow for easier navigation among the objects and to allow additional objects that are descended from the child objects to be displayed clustered around their respective parent objects.
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patent: 5680562 (1997-10-01), Conrad et al.
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Apple Computer Inc.
Nguyen Phu K.
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