System and method for arranging items for display
US9229939B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 28, 2010 |
| Grant date | Jan 5, 2016 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 10, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/904
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system for arranging searchable items, such as digital images or multimedia icons for presentation on a graphical user interface. The system has an optimizer module which minimizes a cost function for arranging items in a layout space and is applied to one or more predetermined characteristics of the items. The optimizer module also creates a mixture distribution by considering each item as having a spatial distribution in the layout space and controls the entropy of the mixture distribution in order to maximize the extent to which each item occupies a separate position in the layout space. A Renderer module then renders the layouts to generate a display.
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