METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY VARYING ONE OR MORE PROPERTIES OF A DISPLAY ELEMENT IN RESPONSE TO VARIATION IN AN ASSOCIATED CHARACTERISTIC

摘要

An method and apparatus is described for the dynamic use of a property of a rendered indicator to impart information about a dynamic characteristic of an object, event or data structure through a visual, audible or tactile user interface. In the case of a visual indicator, a component of a video interface representing an object, event or data structure having a dynamic characteristic is assigned a visual property, for example a particular colour, which is varied as the dynamic characteristic changes. Thus, it becomes immediately apparent to a user in a user interface displaying a set of such components how the dynamic characteristic differs from one component relative to the others in the displayed set.