Patent ID: 7870507

Claim:
A system for providing a dynamic user interface for a dense three-dimensional scene with a navigation assistance panel, comprising: a database to store a three-dimensional scene to logically hold clusters of semantically scored documents, each cluster comprising one or more concepts extracted from the documents and arranged proximal to each other such cluster to form a cluster spine; a two-dimensional display to display each cluster spine projected relative to a stationary perspective; and a user interface provided by a heads-up display generator executed by a processor, comprising: controls to operate on a view of the cluster spines in the two-dimensional display; a plurality of compasses configured to frame the cluster spines within the two-dimensional display, wherein the compasses operate independently of each other in response to user input to the controls; a label to identify one such concept in one or more of the cluster spines appearing within at least one of the compasses; a plurality of slots in the two-dimensional display positioned circumferentially around the compasses, wherein each label is assigned to the slot outside of the compasses for the cluster spine having a closest angularity to the slot; and a navigation assistance panel to provide a perspective-altered rendition of the two-dimensional display.