Patent ID: 7287234
Filing Date: 2007-10-23
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. A method of displaying data from a data set as a tree map visualization, comprising: identifying data elements in the data set to be highlighted; and generating a tree map visualization based on the data set where the tree map visualization comprises a plurality of bounding boxes, each bounding box having a size corresponding to a first characteristic of the data set and a color corresponding to a second characteristic of the data set; and indicating a location of select bounding boxes corresponding to the identified data elements in the data set to be highlighted so as to provide a third characteristic that does not change the color of the select bounding boxes; wherein the location of the select bounding boxes is indicated by displaying the select bounding boxes as having a greater color saturation in comparison to the saturation of the remainder of the bounding boxes, even if a non-selected bounding box may otherwise have the same color as a corresponding selected bounding box so as to preserve the display of the first, second and third characteristics in the tree map visualization corresponding to the identified data elements.