Patent ID: 6792434
Filing Date: 2004-09-14
Classification: G06F,G06T,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for visualizing a plurality of stored multimedia objects on a display device:placing a set of user selected multimedia objects at user selected locations on the display device; assigning a feature vector to each user selected multimedia object and stored multimedia object; reducing the feature vector to a location vector to a location vector having a dimensionality of the display device; evaluating a cost function to determine an optimal location vector for each multimedia object, and an optimal size for each multimedia object, wherein the cost function maximizes a total visibility of the plurality of stored multimedia objects and minimizes a total deviation between the location vectors and the optimal location vectors, and wherein the cost function J is a linear combination J of a first function F(p) and second cost function G(p) J=F(p)+&lgr;Â·SÂ·G(p) â€ƒwhere the first cost function maximizes the total visibility, and the second cost function minimizes the total deviation, S is a scaling factor, and &lgr; is a weight; and displaying each stored multimedia object on a display device according to the optimal location vector and the optimal size and a similarity to the user selected multimedia objects placed on the display device.