Patent Document ID: 9268455
Application ID: 12280619

Base Claim:
1. A method for user controlled multi-dimensional navigation of multimedia data, comprising: generating or extracting a multiplicity of node elements out of multimedia data to be registered, a node element comprising one or more extracted search terms, generated search terms or weighting terms that can be logically combined; determining a relevance index parameter for each multimedia data element to be registered for each paired combination of node elements and that is allocated to the respective pair of node elements; determining, in dependence on the relevance index parameters, one- or multi-dimensional distance factors, the absolute value of the corresponding distance factor becoming smaller with increasing relevance of two paired multimedia data elements with respect to one another; generating and graphically displaying, on the basis of at least one of the registered multimedia data elements or node elements, a topological navigation map in dependence on the respective one- or multi-dimensional distance factors; and wherein the topological navigation map is navigable through use of an input device to permit user access to at least one of desired multimedia data elements and node elements, wherein following user-specific selection of at least one of an initiating node element and multimedia data element and produced clusters of node elements and multimedia data elements, the topological navigation map is corrected in a perspective of at least three-dimensions with respect to at least one of the initiating node element and multimedia data element and clusters, and displayed accessible to the user, the topological navigation map displays a dynamic and moveable at least three-dimensional perspective for user navigation therethrough in order to respond in real-time by displaying changes in the distance factors of the relevance index parameters indicative of changes in said relevance of two paired multimedia data elements with respect to one another.

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Claim 7:
7. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein relevance index parameters are determined in accordance with the frequency of the search terms in a paired combination of node elements.