System and Method for Arranging Items for Display

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 minimises 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 maximise 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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Patents:
WO 2,010,086,610

Inventor(s): MCKENNA STEPHEN [GB]; WANG RUIXUAN [GB]

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