Method and apparatus for retrieving a media file of interest

摘要

A method for retrieving a media file from a media rendering device with an initial set of media files stored in the device. Each media file has attributed feature values stored in the device and is associated to a graphical element displayed on a display. The position of each graphical element on the display depends on a multitude of the feature values of the associated media file.

主权项

1. A method for retrieving a media file from a media rendering device with an initial set of media files stored in the device, each media file having attributed feature values stored in the device and being associated to a graphical element displayed on a display, wherein the position of each graphical element on the display depends on a multitude of the feature values of the associated media file, the method comprising:
receiving and storing a new set of media files in the media rendering device; calculating the position of graphical elements associated with media files of the new set of media files based on a subset of the multitude of associated feature values; displaying the graphical elements associated with the media files of the new set of media files on the display at the calculated positions; re-calculating a position of each graphical element associated with the media files of the new set of media files based on an intermediate set of feature values, wherein the intermediate set contains an amount of feature values greater than an amount of feature values in the subset and less than an amount of feature values in the multitude of the feature values; re-displaying each of the graphical elements associated with the media files of the new set of media files on the display according to the re-calculated positions; and selecting a displayed graphical element to retrieve the associated media file.