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6192363 Method and apparatus for supplying multi-media data to a client by using threads  
There is provided a method of supplying multi-media data to a client through a network, including the steps of (a) requesting HTTP server to supply data to a client, (b) requesting a database...
6185573 Method and system for the integrated storage and dynamic selective retrieval of text, audio and video data  
The present invention is an automated system to input text, audio and video data, to integrate the storage of the data at a central location, to initiate queries of search criteria to the central...
6169545 Data management within a virtual environment browser  
A data browser is described for accessing data defining virtual environments via the Internet/World Wide Web. In conjunction with at least one store (44) of virtual environment assets, such as...
6169547 Method for displaying an icon of media data  
An information processing system for creating a search data for an application-specific data is proposed. An application processing section inputs or edits data on the basis of an application...
6170011 Method and apparatus for determining and initiating interaction directionality within a multimedia communication center  
A campaign module in a multimedia cal center has programmable dynamic campaign module (DCM) for facilitating and monitoring outbound campaigns. The DCM comprises an interaction-level monitoring...
6167395 Method and apparatus for creating specialized multimedia threads in a multimedia communication center  
In a multimedia call center (MMCC) supporting multiple channels and forms of communication and storing call center transactions in a data repository, a threading software application has a...
6161093 Information access system and recording medium  
A book database stores at least phonetic signal information including phoneme information and rhythm information as document data, a central system transmits phonetic signal information stored on...
6161132 System for synchronizing playback of recordings and display by networked computer systems  
Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means of a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A...
6161107 Server for serving stored information to client web browser using text and raster images  
A management system for managing information, in which information is first captured from an original source having an original format, and then converted into an information component. The...
6154218 Method for generating, managing and displaying information retrieval data on information processing system  
An information processing system includes a device for recording data, a device for generating browsing data, a device for storing the browsing data and data in association with each other, and a...
6154754 Automatic synthesis of semantic information from multimedia documents  
A system for automatically synthesizing semantic information units from raw material extracted from non-textual documents supports error detection and correction, allows mapping from pieces of raw...
6154773 Network delivery of interactive entertainment complementing audio recordings  
Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means of a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A...
6151596 Information providing system  
An information providing system is mainly configured by a terminal and an information storage equipment. The terminal is manipulated by a user to issue an information obtainment request, wherein it...
6151017 Method and system for displaying multimedia data using pointing selection of related information  
A method and a system for displaying multimedia data including video data. A display of video data and related information are controlled according to a movement of a pointing selection marker, a...
6148286 Method and apparatus for database search with spoken output, for user with limited language skills  
A method and apparatus which allows a user with minimal understanding of the orthography of a language to nevertheless use its orthography as the basis for performing a database search....
6144375 Multi-perspective viewer for content-based interactivity  
A method and apparatus for interactively viewing a real-world environment. The viewer includes a user interface having a first window for displaying a two-dimensional representation of a...
6144797 Intelligent video information management system performing multiple functions in parallel  
In an intelligent video information management (IVIM) system, a first sequence of dynamic video images is generated by a first video camera on a first occasion and is recorded on a hard disk. The...
6141001 Method of synchronizing the presentation of static and dynamic components of an interactive multimedia document  
In a method for synchronizing the presentation of static and dynamic components of an interactive multimedia document, the document and its dynamic and static components are defined in the system...
6134547 Computerized method and system for user-interactive, multimedia cataloguing, navigation and previewing of film and films on video  
The present invention relates to computerized methods and systems for user-interactive, multimedia cataloguing, navigation, the performance of data retrieval and previewing of films and videos. The...
6125428 Apparatus for reproducing multimedia data, method for reproducing multimedia data, and record media containing multimedia data reproduction program  
A multimedia data reproduction apparatus comprising an optical disk library containing a plurality of optical disks and a plurality of optical disk drives, a file management unit for managing names...
6123258 Information embedding and resolving method and apparatus  
An information processing method in which after various sorts of information such as voice, image, and moving picture are printed as embedding information on a printing medium such as paper, the...
6119944 Down-loadable hand-held optical reader  
A hand-held bar code reader, in particular a bar code wand is used by a consumer to read bar code information accompanying a product displayed at a retail outlet. The bar code information can be...
6121963 Virtual theater  
A system and method of presenting whole and/or segmented presentation files, such as graphics, multimedia and/or video files in any combination, within a combination of table or array formats to...
6118450 Graphic user interface that is usable as a PC interface and an A/V interface  
A graphic user interface for use with a multi-recording media storage apparatus includes a determiner for determining the identity of at least one of a plurality of recording media retained within...
6119133 Extensible method and apparatus for retrieving files having unique record identifiers as file names during program execution  
In an information processing system with a database for storing database records wherein each of said database records has a unique identifier, a method for naming data files comprising the steps...
6115509 High volume document image archive system and method  
High speed machine scanning of documents such as checks produces digital check images that are placed in archival storage on mass storage devices for later retrieval. Images and/or documents are...
6112172 Interactive searching  
A user searches searchable information representing underlying information using an interactive user interface, which indicates to the user which parts of the searchable information represent...
6088026 Method and apparatus for multimedia information association to an electronic calendar event  
A method and system which permits a user to selectively capture video and audio information from a multimedia presentation within a data processing system and associate the audio and video...
6085256 Cyber space system for providing a virtual reality space formed of three dimensional pictures from a server to a user via a service provider  
A cyber-space system comprising one or more cyber-spaces for providing predetermined information, and user terminals for receiving provision of the predetermined information by accessing the...
6085185 Retrieval method and system of multimedia database  
A multimedia database system effectively retrieves the contents in an optional storage position of an optional medium among a large amount of video and audio media. When a user puts an annotation...
6081262 Method and apparatus for generating multi-media presentations  
The multi-media presentation generation system combines media objects of multiple diverse types into an integrated multi-media presentation. The resultant multi-media presentation can be defined in...
6079566 System and method for processing object-based audiovisual information  
The invention provides a system and method for processing object-based audiovisual information which is capable of flexibly encoding, storing and accessing a variety of data objects. Audiovisual...
6081585 Interactive control electronic directory  
Electronic directory comprising: a data base (16) with at least one file (18a, 18b, 18c), each file having informations corresponding to alphanumeric characters and respectively associated with...
6072480 Method and apparatus for controlling composition and performance of soundtracks to accompany a slide show  
A computer-based system and method of creating and performing a soundtrack to accompany an electronic slide show presentation is disclosed. The method includes receiving input from a slide...
6072479 Multimedia scenario editor calculating estimated size and cost  
A scenario editing system comprises a drawing input module drawing graphic media objects or inputting existing media objects; a scene management module storing and managing said media objects; a...
6064380 Bookmark for multi-media content  
A method and implementing network computer system is provided in which completion point file positions of multimedia file presentations may be saved in persistent memory devices when a user desires...
6065010 Computer implemented method of generating virtual files for sharing information of physical information file  
A computer implemented method for generating virtual files to provide more flexibility and efficiency in the sharing of data within a physical information file. In a computer system, a large...
6061680 Method and system for finding approximate matches in database  
Entertainment content complementary to a musical recording is delivered to a user's computer by means of a computer network link. The user employs a browser to access the computer network. A...
6061054 Method for multimedia presentation development based on importing appearance, function, navigation, and content multimedia characteristics from external files  
A single-frame multimedia title contains all of the multimedia elements required for a given multimedia title or type of multimedia title. External Data Files, External Content Files, and External...
6058498 Dot code and information recording/reproducing system for recording/reproducing the same  
A long time optical recording and repeated reproduction of multimedia information is possible. Using a printer system or printing process system, on a recording medium such as a sheet, the...
6058397 3D virtual environment creation management and delivery system  
A virtual reality environment creation, modification and delivery system stores information representing the virtual reality environment in a database where portions of it may be created, modified...
6055530 Document information management system, method and memory  
A document is read as an image file and stored. At this time, a table is updated. On the table, each of words included in text information obtained by character-recognizing image information output...
6052494 Image filing apparatus and method for displaying a retrieval result list representing the retrieval of a stored document image or for displaying the index of a document image retrieved by retrieval means  
An image filing apparatus includes a read unit to read an image of an original, a judgment unit to judge whether the original read by the read unit is a specific original or not, an extraction unit...
6052813 Dot code including a plurality of blocks wherein each of the blocks has a block address pattern representing an address of each of the blocks  
A long time optical recording and repeated reproduction of multimedia information is possible. Using a printer system or printing process system, on a recording medium such as a sheet, the so-caled...
6052514 Distributed publication system with simultaneous separate access to publication data and publication status information  
A publication system is disclosed for coordinating access to publication data and related information. The publication data typically includes text, image data and layout data. The related...
6046750 Method and apparatus for controlling presentations of objects on a user interface of a data processing system  
Objects on a data processing system are provided to a multimedia presentation device for presentation purposes. Each object is provided with one or more attributes. These attributes are registered...
6047292 Digitally encoded recording medium  
A digital rotary recording medium includes at least an audio component, an audio video component, and an application. The application component contains at least a browser or application program...
6044365 System for indexing and retrieving graphic and sound data  
A system for indexing and retrieving graphic and sound data ("entity data") employs a thesaurus of descriptors and equivalent words (e.g., synonyms, metonyms, foreign language equivalents, and...
6044197 Recording of time code in a database  
A method of recording time code in a database is disclosed which makes it easy to search for video segments on a target medium while making the original source time code available on playback. As a...
6041025 Data disk including supplementary information enabling retrieval of related information from another storage medium  
An information reproduction method uses a first storage medium and a second storage medium. For the method a plurality of pieces of information and retrieval information are recorded in one of the...