Patent ID: 6473080
Filing Date: 2002-10-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
An apparatus for presentation of an image in three or less dimensions of numerical data from a domain having more dimensions than the image, the apparatus comprising:a processor for executing instructions; a memory device operably connected to the processor to store data structures of both executable and non-executable, operational, types for use by the processor, the data structures comprising: raw data comprising values of points in a multi-dimensional space defined by more than three dimensions, each dimension defined by a corresponding raw dimensional variable, a compilation module configured to automatically restructure the raw data from the raw dimensional variables into formatted data represented by a plurality of sets of orthogonal axes, each set of the plurality of orthogonal axes having no more than three dimensions, and each axis of each set created as a linear combination of the raw dimensional variables; a navigation engine configured to present to a user the plurality of sets, receive from a user a selection of a selected set from the plurality of sets, and display to a user the formatted data as a three-dimensional object in the space defined by the selected set.