Patent ID: 8996984
Filing Date: 2015-03-31
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for generating a visual summary of non-visual data, said method comprising: obtaining said non-visual data; obtaining metadata describing one or more data types in said obtained non-visual data suitable for a visual summary of said non-visual data, wherein said obtaining metadata comprises: selecting multiple visual metaphors for said obtained non-visual data based on said metadata and said measure of accuracy, wherein each of said multiple visual metaphors comprises a stored visual representation, and wherein said selecting comprises selecting, for each of one or more sub-sets of the non-visual data, the stored visual representation having the highest similarity measure in connection with a set of characteristics of the sub-set of the non-visual data derived from said metadata; generating said visual summary of said non-visual data by instantiating a combination of said multiple selected visual metaphors; instantiating said visual summary to allow a user to interact with said visual summary, wherein said instantiating comprises adjusting an appearance of an annotated version of said obtained non-visual data associated with a mapping confidence value below a predefined threshold, wherein said mapping confidence value estimates a confidence of said annotated version; and mapping one or more values of the obtained non-visual data to values supported by a visualization, wherein said mapping comprises calculating a semantic distance between (i) one or more values of an annotated version of the obtained non-visual data and (ii) one or more values supported by one or more visualization examples based on a statistical calculation of co-occurrence of value pairs.