Patent ID: 6812926
Filing Date: 2004-11-02
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
An automated method of graphically representing a plurality of data items, wherein each data item has a numerically quantifiable magnitude and at least one data item is an outlier, comprising:automatically determining an outlier threshold value, such that representation of both over-threshold magnitudes and under-threshold magnitudes using a single linear scale would reduce visual differences between under-threshold magnitudes below a predetermined level; comparing the magnitude of each data item with the threshold value to determine if each of the data items is an outlier; representing non-outlier data items as images sized to a common linear scale; representing each outlier data item as a modified image not sized to the common linear scale; and determining whether there are at least three data items; wherein the comparing and the representing each outlier data item steps are only performed if there are at least three data items; and wherein, if there are less than three data items, all data items are represented as images sized to the common linear scale.