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6407750 |
Broadcast and recorded music management system particularly for use in automobile
An audio system for managing broadcast and recording music and other audio works includes two principal components, an entertainment programming guide unit and a media manager unit. The programming...
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6397213 |
Search and retrieval using document decomposition
Document query and search techniques in which documents to be searched are “decomposed” into “zones,” with each zone representing a grouping of text or graphical image or a combination...
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6393430 |
Method and system for automatically recording music data files by using the hard drive of a personal computer as an intermediate storage medium
A method and system for the creation of a custom playlist of various audio/visual tracks that are to be automatically recorded to a storage medium is disclosed. The user communicates with personal...
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6381640 |
Method and apparatus for automated personalization and presentation of workload assignments to agents within a multimedia communication center
In a multimedia call center (MMCC) an agent work presentation software model (AWPM) may be programmed to an individual agent or group of agents, and set to launch automatically each time an agent...
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6381620 |
Rich text medium displaying method and picture information providing system using calculated average reformatting time for multimedia objects
A plurality of object expanding time-lengths, respectively required to expand an object of each rich text medium, are stored in a server for each output format. When a request indicating a...
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6377927 |
Voice-optimized database system and method of using same
A voice-optimized database system and method of audio vector valuation (AVV) provides means to search a database in response to a spoken query. Audio vectors (AVs) are assigned to phonemes in the...
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6377962 |
Software program for routing graphic image data between a source located in a first address space and a destination located in a second address space
A system for connecting a video object to various multimedia objects to enable an object-oriented simulation of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A plurality...
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6378132 |
Signal capture and distribution system
A system that relates annotations captured at an event and continuous signal recordings, such as video recordings, of the event in such as way that once the recordings and annotations are...
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6374260 |
Method and apparatus for uploading, indexing, analyzing, and searching media content
A method and apparatus for uploading, analyzing, searching and displaying multimedia files based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
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6370508 |
Interface engine for managing business processes within a multimedia communication-center
In an operating system (OS) for a multimedia communications center (MMCC), an interactive process module (IPM) for accomplishing a process has a plurality of code sets, each adapted to completion...
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6370543 |
Display of media previews
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
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6363395 |
Method and system for browsing data on a storage device
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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6356902 |
Method and system for storage and retrieval of multimedia objects
A method for storing and organizing multimedia objects by decomposing a multi-level tree structure into a graph map using single-link graph nodes, assigning a name or address to each node in the...
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6349303 |
Information processing apparatus and method
In a teleconference, text data and still-picture data are generated from sound data and moving-picture data that originated in a conference room A, and text data and still-picture data are...
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6349286 |
System and method for automatic synchronization for multimedia presentations
The present invention relates to a system and method for automatic synchronization in multimedia presentations. According to an embodiment of the present invention, when a data stream is...
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6343298 |
Seamless multimedia branching
Described above are methods of authoring multimedia titles and of storing and delivering multimedia content that implements guaranteed seamless branching on digital media with high seek latency and...
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6332147 |
Computer controlled display system using a graphical replay device to control playback of temporal data representing collaborative activities
A system for controlling the playback of a recorded session utilizing a window acting as a player for playing back a timestream for a shared representation media, such as an electronic whiteboard....
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6331851 |
Graphic display apparatus, synchronous reproduction method, and AV synchronous reproduction apparatus
It is an object of this invention to provide a graphic display apparatus that reduces the amount of CG data transferred from a server through a network and that allows three-dimensional characters...
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6330593 |
System for collecting use data related to playback of 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...
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6330004 |
Multimedia program editing and presenting system with flexible layout capability by simplified input operations
A multimedia program editing method enables a layout with a higher degree of freedom by simplified input operations. Available media materials and a plurality of predetermined frames are displayed....
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6317740 |
Method and apparatus for assigning keywords to media objects
A method and apparatus are defined for assigning keywords to media objects in files. The media objects include image, video and audio, for example. Various criteria are used for assigning the...
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6304523 |
Playback device having text display and communication with remote database of titles
A low-cost library management solution for consumer music selection systems. A multiple CD changer includes non-volatile storage for textual title and track information about the CDs in the...
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6301586 |
System for managing multimedia objects
A system for managing multimedia objects such as text, images, sound, and video clips. The system provides improved organization of multimedia objects, through use of albums organized into...
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6289346 |
Apparatus and method for a bookmarking system
A bookmarking system is provided that includes a user input device and a network server. A person who is viewing a program, e.g., watching a network news program on television, can bookmark an...
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6289363 |
Navigation editor framework for building mulitmedia titles
A technique for permitting the creation of multimedia titles in the form of flip books or stories comprising individual scenes includes simplified techniques for establishing navigation both...
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6282549 |
Indexing of media content on a network
A method and apparatus for searching for multimedia files in a distributed database and for displaying results of the search based on the context and content of the multimedia files.
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6269394 |
System and method for delivery of video data over a computer network
A video clip storage and retrieval system whereby video clips, stored locally and/or at a more remote location, can be requested and retrieved by a user at the user's multimedia terminal. When the...
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6269238 |
Printed book augmented with associated electronic data
A printed book has associated therewith certain electronically stored data in the form of images, sounds and/or supplemental text. Visual cues are provided to the reader of the book in the vicinity...
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6262723 |
System for use in multimedia editor for displaying only available media resources to facilitate selection
A multimedia editing system for editing a scenario that defines the details of a multimedia application. The system presents to a user only media materials permitted to situations at a current time...
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6260011 |
Methods and apparatus for automatically synchronizing electronic audio files with electronic text files
Automated methods and apparatus for synchronizing audio and text data, e.g., in the form of electronic files, representing audio and text expressions of the same work or information are described....
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6256061 |
Method and apparatus for providing perceived video viewing experiences using still images
A method and apparatus for sequencing views retrieved from a spherical still image file provide the viewer with the perception of a video performance with a low bandwidth transmission. The method...
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6247011 |
Computerized prepress authoring for document creation
Computerized prepress is disclosed. In one embodiment, a computerized prepress system includes three components: a server, a client and a printer. The server has stored thereon an authoring program...
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6243131 |
Method for directly scanning a rectilinear imaging element using a non-linear scan
A method for capturing and directly scanning a rectilinear imaging element using a non-linear scan is incorporated into a single chip comprising at least a sensor array and an MSD. The method...
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6243713 |
Multimedia document retrieval by application of multimedia queries to a unified index of multimedia data for a plurality of multimedia data types
A system, method and software product provides for true multimedia document retrieval by receiving multimedia queries containing various types of data, such as text keywords, images, audio or other...
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6241609 |
Virtual environment viewpoint control
A multi-user interactive virtual environment system wherein each user is provided with data to generate a respective image of the virtual environment and characters therein, including an assigned...
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6243676 |
Searching and retrieving multimedia information
A method retrieves a multi-media segment from a signal stream having an audio component and a closed caption component. This includes separating the audio component and the closed caption text...
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6240459 |
Network delivery of interactive entertainment synchronized to playback of 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...
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6236395 |
Audiovisual information management system
Providing at least one description scheme. For audio and/or video programs a program description scheme provides information regarding the associated program. For the user a user description scheme...
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6232539 |
Music organizer and entertainment center
A music organizer and entertainment center provides a center having a microprocessor, sound card functions and high-volume data storage and retrieval units for playing back music according to a...
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6230192 |
Method and system for accessing remote data based on playback of 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...
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6230209 |
Multimedia computer system
Full-motion video data with a sub-picture and sound is recorded in a DVD-ROM drive. The DVD-ROM drive is connected to an ATAPI interface. Using a data buffer of the ATAPI interface, an MPEG stream...
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RE37156 |
Rewinding time-based script sequences
The system of the present invention provides a mechanism for executing a script sequence containing a plurality of commands and associated time for executing the commands. The system allows a user...
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6223183 |
System and method for describing views in space, time, frequency, and resolution
A system and method for uniformly describing space and frequency views of multi-dimensional lattice data, including regions, tilings and hierarchical decompositions of image, video, audio content,...
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6223206 |
Method and system for load balancing by replicating a portion of a file being read by a first stream onto second device and reading portion with a second stream capable of accessing
A method and system for improving load balancing in a file server is disclosed. The method includes determining the existence of an overload condition on a storage device, the storage device having...
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6223211 |
Apparatus and computer-implemented process for providing real-time multimedia data transport in a distributed computing system
The problems of latency, flow control and data loss, and data movement within a client system memory are solved in a distributed multimedia system so as to enable real-time transmission of...
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6209787 |
Global access system of multi-media related information
A system for purchasing a personal recording media includes a first entering unit for entering an identification information in order to identify a customer, a unit connected to the first entering...
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6211869 |
Simultaneous storage and network transmission of multimedia data with video host that requests stored data according to response time from a server
A digital multimedia newsroom production system allows users of the system to create, browse and catalog multimedia assets. The system includes a multimedia capture and encoding system that...
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6201574 |
Motionless camera orientation system distortion correcting sensing element
A device for omnidirectional image viewing providing pan-and-tilt orientation, rotation, and magnification within a hemispherical field-of-view that utilizes no moving parts. The imaging device is...
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6195693 |
Method and system for network delivery of content associated with physical audio media
A method and system in a multimedia computer system for automatically retrieving and presenting data associated with an audio recording having unique identifying indicia therein. In response to...
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6195701 |
Method and apparatus for synchronization and scheduling of multiple data streams and real time tasks
The present invention concerns a method and an apparatus for the synchronization and the scheduling of multiple data streams and real time tasks. In accordance with the present invention, pointers...
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