Method and system for producing a table image having focus and context areas showing direct and indirect data representations

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method is disclosed for operating a processor-controlled system to produce from a first table image upon receipt of an image display request signal from a signal source a second table image including focal and context cell regions having output region sizes different from the regions sizes of the corresponding cells in the first table image. The output region size of each focal cell region is determined according to a "degree of interest" (DOI) function for each dimension of the table image that represents the level of interest of each cell region in that dimension. A predetermined cell size is allocated to focal cell regions and the remaining available output space is allocated to the …