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5668788 |
Programmed juke box capable of calculating a continuous updated playlist
A system for playing performances recorded on disc, tape and records includes video display terminals with touch panel control for audience selection of particular performances to be played. The...
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5659792 |
Storyboard system for the simultaneous timing of multiple independent video animation clips
An automated storyboard system, which is updated for the creation of information sequences. The storyboard includes an array of cells arranged in columns, with the content of each cell indicating...
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5659790 |
System and method for globally scheduling multimedia stories
A multimedia system represents multimedia objects as ranges of time intervals, each bounded by a minimum and a maximum, and temporal relationships are given to a set of objects which are to be...
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5659793 |
Authoring tools for multimedia application development and network delivery
An apparatus for authoring multi-media assets into a final interactive multi-media application includes a storage device which stores one or more multi-media assets and one or more program objects....
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5659742 |
Method for storing multi-media information in an information retrieval system
A method for storing information in an information retrieval system having a database for retrieval of the input information in response to a query. Text information representative of text is...
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5655144 |
Audio synchronization system
A method and system for providing synchronization of the timing of various multimedia events, including an audio event is disclosed. Clock objects are defined in the storage and associated with an...
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5652714 |
Method and apparatus for capturing transient events in a multimedia product using an authoring tool on a computer system
According to the invention, a software tool such as an authoring tool provides a mechanism for manipulating transient events within a multimedia product or other content having one or more state...
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5649188 |
Electronic filing apparatus which allows information to be retrieved based on a box, a date, or a card associated with the information
A system for electronically storing and retrieving information. Information is scanned into the system and a user manually designates that the information is to be sorted using boxes which are like...
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5647058 |
Method for high-dimensionality indexing in a multi-media database
A high dimensional indexing method is disclosed which takes a set of objects that can be viewed as N-dimensional data vectors and builds an index which treats the objects like k-dimensional points....
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5642497 |
Digital disk recorder using a port clock having parallel tracks along a timeline with each track representing an independently accessible media stream
An application programming interface for a digital disk recorder uses a port to link resources together to form a multimedia recorder that emulates a tape recorder while retaining the flexibility...
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5642477 |
Method and apparatus for selectably retrieving and outputting digitally stored multimedia presentations with real-time non-interrupting, dynamically selectable introduction of output processing
Disclosed are methods and apparatus that facilitate the introduction of filters, converters and effects into an active multimedia stream without interruption of the presentation. A control module...
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5640560 |
CD-ROM content repurposing
A multimedia work stored on a CD-ROM is repurposed at run time to include changes and additions to the original work. Files required for repurposing the multimedia work are distributed on a floppy...
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5630132 |
Method and apparatus for facilitating real-time and asynchronous loading and temporally-overlapping of modular multimedia software tasks in a multimedia data processing system
A data processing system for executing multimedia applications which interface with multimedia devices that consume or produce at least one of real-time and asynchronous streamed data includes a...
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5623679 |
System and method for creating and manipulating notes each containing multiple sub-notes, and linking the sub-notes to portions of data objects
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for extracting, synchronizing, displaying, and manipulating text and image documents in electronic form for display. In the Preferred...
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5619594 |
Image processing system with on-the-fly JPEG compression
A personal imaging computer system includes an on-the-fly compression processor which operates in coordination with a document scanner to compress document image information as the document is...
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5619636 |
Multimedia publishing system
A highly integrated computer-implemented system for authoring multimedia applications is disclosed. The system includes an object-oriented database for simplifying manipulation of media resources...
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5616876 |
System and methods for selecting music on the basis of subjective content
An interactive network provides music to subscribers. A "more like" function allows a subscriber to use a seed song to identify other songs that are similar to the seed song, and to add the new...
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5613109 |
System for outputting reproduction data by judging whether a second data group is outputted after first data group is outputted by reproduction point data
A data reproduction apparatus comprising: a storage unit for storing element data, and the management data including index data dividing the element data into first and second data groups and...
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5613057 |
Method for creating a multimedia application using multimedia files stored in directories that are characteristics of display surface areas
A number of multimedia files representative of video or images information are stored in a set of directories, which are each characteristic of a predetermined surface area required to display the...
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5610822 |
Position-related multi-media presentation system
A position-related multi-media presentation system for a vehicle. A position determining system generates position information of a vehicle. The position information is transferred to a multi-media...
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5611039 |
Information processing apparatus and method for combining different media to have coinciding reproduction times
An information processing apparatus and method for the same, comprising a database part, a processing-method-determining part, and an information-processing-part. The processing-method-determining...
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5608859 |
Scenario editing apparatus
A scenario editing apparatus by which presentation positions, presentation times and presentation effects of a plurality of multi-media data scenarios can be collectively designated and edited. The...
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5602596 |
Method for navigating a complex multimedia structure at an interactive user station
A method is disclosed for navigating a complex structure at an interactive user station. The complex structure includes a plurality of nodes and each node includes at least one presentation...
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5596705 |
System and method for linking and presenting movies with their underlying source information
A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information,...
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5596695 |
Interactive multi-media event-driven inheritable object oriented programming apparatus and method
Stored data denotes a plurality of objects each composed of a pair of a data part containing presentation information of at least one of text, graphics, image, video and sound and a processing...
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5594661 |
Method for interfacing with a multi-media information system
A method for processing selections identified by a user in an interactive multi-media information system. The interactive multi-media information system includes a processor, a memory, a display...
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5592602 |
User interface and method for controlling and displaying multimedia motion, visual, and sound effects of an object on a display
A multimedia authoring program includes a multimedia effect tool for applying and controlling direction of motion, visual, and sound effects for multimedia objects, including text, graphics, and...
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5592511 |
Digital customized audio products with user created data and associated distribution and production system
A system for creation of user-selected customized audio products, defined as a plurality of songs from different recording artists recorded on a single compact disc (CD) or digital audio tape (DAT)...
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5586316 |
System and method for information retrieval with scaled down image
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...
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5586235 |
Interactive multimedia system and method
A multimedia system contains documents which are made up of pages. Each page has at least one asset, page execution script which indicates the actions be performed on the assets, and a set of exit...
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5583980 |
Time-synchronized annotation method
A method enables an image to be displayed along with annotations in synchronization with separate, time-based program material as might be found in a computer-based multimedia system. The...
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5584006 |
Media storage and retrieval system including determination of media data associated with requests based on source identifiers and ranges within the media data
A system for the management of media data based on user instructions. A system for the management of of relational information between media sources is provided as is a method for determining media...
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5574905 |
Method and apparatus for multimedia editing and data recovery
A specialized linked-list editing structure is used to order multimedia file segments in a multimedia file to be edited. Each multimedia file segment is comprised of a number of contiguous data...
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5574911 |
Multimedia group resource allocation using an internal graph
An intelligent system for the efficient selection and allocation of the various types of resources available in a multimedia environment. The system interrelates a combination of user input...
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5574909 |
Apparatus and method for data search using selected or representative data sample
The invention relates to searching for a desired data item within a group of data. Representative samples among a group of data to be searched are displayed, and two representative samples in...
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5572728 |
Conference multimedia summary support system and method
A system and a user interface make it possible to easily edit important items of a program, such as a conference, in a short time using multimedia information. A retrieving file is generated by...
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5559936 |
Data retrieval system, display apparatus and method of recording and displaying
An interactive data retrieval system based on a personal computer is provided which comprises a database and a CD-ROM which is arranged to select and display visual images of product literature of...
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5559949 |
Computer program product and program storage device for linking and presenting movies with their underlying source information
A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information,...
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5557785 |
Object oriented multimedia information system using information and multiple classes to manage data having various structure and dedicated data managers
A multimedia information system (1) for managing heterogeneous data having various structures and divided between dedicated data managers (2, 3, 4) in which said data is represented by an...
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5557790 |
Facility for the generic storage and management of multimedia objects
A computer server for storing and managing a digitized generic form of multiple heterogeneously formatted data objects (e.g. multi-media files). The system uniquely identifies both the generic form...
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5553222 |
Multimedia synchronization system
A method and system for providing synchronization of the timing of various multimedia events. Clock objects are defined in the storage and associated with an internal or external source of current...
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5553281 |
Method for computer-assisted media processing
A system for computer-assisted processing of media by an end-user is disclosed. The system preferably includes a relational database management system (RDBMS) containing media content. The RDBMS...
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5550966 |
Automated presentation capture, storage and playback system
A video input device senses a visual portion of a presentation and produces video signal information corresponding to the visual portion. A user interface is provided for inputting presentation...
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5550965 |
Method and system for operating a data processor to index primary data in real time with iconic table of contents
A method and processing system for the indexing of data for one or more users involving the steps of receiving primary data, delineating episode data from the primary data, generating media...
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5548666 |
Image forming apparatus with filing function which can store image data and can efficiently perform document filing
An apparatus for printing an image which is stored on an optical disk is read by a scanner. A plurality of images read out from the optical disk are edited to form an abstract image on the basis of...
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5544297 |
Object-oriented audio record/playback system
A technique for providing routing of various multimedia events throughout the course of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A processor with an attached...
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5539869 |
Method and system for processing and presenting on-line, multimedia information in a tree structure
Method and system are provided for processing and presenting on-line, multimedia information such as diagnostic information for a machine tool. The system uses multimedia information tools (i.e....
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5539871 |
Method and system for accessing associated data sets in a multimedia environment in a data processing system
A method and system in a data processing system for selectively associating stored data with an animated element within a multimedia presentation in a data processing system. At least one data set...
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5535322 |
Data processing system with improved work flow system and method
A Work Flow Manager (WFM), or process manager, is the software to manage and control the flow of work items from one function to the next in a well-defined application process to achieve the...
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5530859 |
System for synchronizing a midi presentation with presentations generated by other multimedia streams by means of clock objects
A method and system for providing synchronization of the timing of various multimedia events, including MIDI data events. Clock objects are defined in the storage and associated with an internal or...
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