Patent ID: 7137075

Claim:
A multimedia information display method for displaying a virtual three-dimensional space including a first zone plane, a second zone around said first zone plane, and a third zone, said third zone being placed above an approximately center user part, comprising the steps of: setting a user mode in response to a mode selection input by a user; reading data corresponding to a user, wherein the data is selected from data in a user profile created based on an audiovisual history for said user; displaying multi-media information as necessary until a determination is made of audiovisual contents to be displayed in said virtual three-dimensional space; in response to conditions of said user mode selected, providing a plurality of contents display zones extending horizontally in said approximately center user part on said screen, and arranging respectively a plurality of contents information, each corresponding to said plurality of contents display zones and having a size determined based on a utilization degree of said user and minimized toward a deeper place in a direction of depth on said screen; arranging a display of said first zone plane so as to rotate contents information items of said plurality of contents information selected by a cursor manipulation from said plurality of contents display zones corresponding to said conditions of said user mode selected such that said contents information items of a desired genre are displayed in a horizontally central region of said approximately center user part of said screen; receiving another input via a cursor manipulation onto a peripheral part around said first zone plane in request of another user mode; reading another data corresponding to said another mode selection input from the user profile prepared in accordance with the audiovisual history for said user thereupon; displaying contents display zones and contents information on said first zone plane in response to said another user mode; and displaying a menu board, in response to a manipulation request, for selecting from a plurality of selection methods above said approximately center user part.