Patent ID: 9672299
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method for determining the credibility of a visualization, the method comprising: receiving visualization data for a visualization; determining a type of visualization of the received visualization data, wherein the type of visualization is a technique to communicate a message using images, diagrams, or animations; determining whether the visualization data is in a machine-readable format; responsive to determining the visualization data is not in a machine-readable format, converting the visualization data to a machine-readable format appropriate for processing, including both the visualization data and a structure of the visualization, wherein converting includes use of at least one application of feature matching, shape recognition, and a neural network; responsive to determining the visualization data is in a machine-readable format, comparing the visualization data to one or more of a plurality of visualization credibility criteria for the type of visualization to determine, by one or more computer systems, one or more credibility evaluation results for each of the one or more of the plurality of visualization credibility criteria, wherein the plurality of visualization credibility criteria is based on information provided by one or more experts specializing in visualizations; and determining a credibility rating of the visualization, by one or more computer systems, based on the one or more credibility evaluation results for each of the one or more of the plurality of visualization credibility criteria.