Matches 301 - 350 out of 425 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >
Match Document Document Title
5737527 Interactive entertainment apparatus  
Methods and apparatus are provided for user interaction with a branch-structured narrative entertainment, where user input influences the selection of paths at branch points. A user interface (14)...
5734915 Method and apparatus for composing digital medical imagery  
A process for translating a set of point and click operations in a window oriented environment into a set of ACR-NEMA commands for formatting film pages of medical images. In particular, the...
5717860 Method and apparatus for tracking the navigation path of a user on the world wide web  
A method and apparatus for tracking the navigation path of a user that has been directed to a second site on the World Wide Web (WWW) from a first site on the WWW. The first site has a universal...
5717438 Multimedia document using time box diagrams  
A computer-implemented method of drawing a multimedia story including at least one episode is provided which represents a plurality of multimedia fries (e.g., text, sound, video, and picture files)...
5713021 Multimedia data search system that searches for a portion of multimedia data using objects corresponding to the portion of multimedia data  
A multimedia data search system, includes a storage unit for storing features of a portion of data and data identifying the portion of data, a search unit for searching view objects stored in the...
5713031 Hypermedia database system  
An extendable hypermedia system has a hypermedia data base for storing a hypermedia data, a data processor for executing modification of the data stored in the hypermedia data base and also for...
5708845 System for mapping hot spots in media content for interactive digital media program  
A system for allowing media content to be used in an interactive digital media (IDM) program has Frame Data for the media content and object mapping data (N Data) representing the frame addresses...
5706486 Method for preprocessing multimedia presentations to generate a delivery schedule  
An apparatus and method for preprocessing multimedia presentations to be delivered to customers such that delays due to interactive response time is virtually eliminated is described. The...
5706365 System and method for portable document indexing using n-gram word decomposition  
A system and method provides for indexing and retrieval of stored documents using a decomposition of words in the documents in n-grams, or linear word subunits. The documents are indexed as pages...
5706097 Index print with a digital recording medium containing still images, motion sequences, and sound sequences  
In combination with a digital recording medium having recorded thereon individually addressable digital data files containing still images, motion sequences and sound sequences, an index print,...
5701510 Method and system for efficient designation and retrieval of particular segments within a multimedia presentation utilizing a data processing system  
A method and system utilizing a data processing system for the efficient designation and retrieval of particular segments within a multimedia presentation. Operation of the multimedia presentation...
5694592 Process for determination of text relevancy  
This is a procedure for determining text relevancy and can be used to enhance the retrieval of text documents by search queries. This system helps a user intelligently and rapidly locate...
5690496 Multimedia product for use in a computer for music instruction and use  
A multimedia product for use for use in a multimedia computer to assist a student to learn to play a given musical work previously recorded on a master recording. A method of making the product is...
5685003 Method and system for automatically indexing data in a document using a fresh index table  
A system and method for indexing words in documents, the system including a master index for storing the words and for storing associated index data. One of the documents is selected for updating...
5682326 Desktop digital video processing system  
A digital image processing system includes a microprocessor, random access memory, storage memory, input, display, and suitable logic to provide existing digital video image processing operations...
5682330 Repetitive event analysis system  
A method of observing and comparing the visual and textual record of repetitive or related events, such as behavioral activities, recorded on a viewable media, which includes converting the visual...
5680639 Multimedia control system  
A method and system for controlling various multimedia objects throughout the course of a multimedia presentation on a computer with a storage and a display utilizes a control object defined in the...
5680323 Multimedia player  
A method and apparatus for launching a multimedia player from an operating windowing application such that the multimedia player operates as a child window of the operating windowing application....
5678039 System and methods for translating software into localized versions  
A Software Translation Kit (STK) system having a shell, TShell, coupled to an Export/Import module and various Editors is described. The Export/Import module itself includes a parsing engine to...
5675753 Method and system for presenting an electronic user-interface specification  
A method is disclosed for preparing an interactive user-interface specification. The method is for use with a computer system including a processor, a memory, a display device and an input device....
5675788 Method and apparatus for generating a composite document on a selected topic from a plurality of information sources  
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for composing a composite document on a selected topic from a plurality of information sources by searching the plurality of information sources and...
5675752 Interactive applications generator for an interactive presentation environment  
An interactive applications generator is utilized to generate an interactive application environment for use on a single server multi-client network computer system. The interactive applications...
5673205 Accessing a video message via video snapshots  
A multi-media messaging system (101) allows message recipients who lack full-motion video message-retrieval capability to retrieve at least some image content of video messages via video...
5669006 Method for automatically obtaining spatial layout for multimedia presentations  
A computer implemented method reduces the complexities of obtaining a spatial design in a multimedia presentation. The method is an interactive process which assists an author in readily arriving...
5661396 Method for detecting digital carrier signals on twisted pair transmission lines  
An improved method and apparatus for detecting signals on a twisted pair of transmission lines includes a sensor for nonintrusively coupling a portion of the signal to the apparatus. A filter is...
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...
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...
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....
5657462 Method and apparatus for displaying animated characters upon a computer screen in which a composite video display is merged into a static background such that the border between the background and the video is indiscernible  
A method and apparatus is provided for displaying upon a monitor having a graphical user interface a movie-type window having a Digital Help Agent that has the appearance of moving between one...
5657091 Video display controller, user interface and programming structure for such interface  
The use of video/audio signal streams such as in the past have been distributed by broadcast over radio frequency bands or by cable distribution, or made available from video recorder/player...
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...
5654886 Multimedia outdoor information system  
Multimedia presentations of outdoor information, such as weather information and ski reports, are provided on information transmission networks, such as Internet, on-line services and interactive...
5644336 Mixed format video ram  
The invention concerns the simultaneous display of video data and text data on a computer display. The invention stores both types of data in display memory. Transition codes mark the separation...
5641288 Shooting simulating process and training device using a virtual reality display screen  
A user friendly shooting simulating process and training system are provided to more accurately and reliably detect the impact time and location in which a projectile shot from a shotgun, rifle,...
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...
5638504 System and method of processing documents with document proxies  
An object-oriented document architecture provides system level support for document processing features from within an active document utilizing a novel technique termed a proxy. A proxy integrates...
5630104 Apparatus and method for providing multimedia data  
A disk drive stores multimedia data in long spiral data tracks. The tracks on opposite surfaces of the disk spiral in opposite directions, so that a track on one surface can be read as the actuator...
5630060 Method and apparatus for delivering multi-media messages over different transmission media  
Method and apparatus for delivering multi-media messages which may include text components, image components, sound components or binary components to multiple recipients over different...
5623589 Method and apparatus for incrementally browsing levels of stories  
A method and apparatus for displaying information in a computer system. The computer system includes a processor coupled to a memory. The computer system includes a display coupled to the...
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...
5615316 Printing control method and apparatus  
A printing control method and apparatus for combining forms data and printing data to produce and output printing images. Forms data are handled as a group of forms data including a plurality of...
5615401 Video and audio data presentation interface  
Presentation of digital video and audio data in a computer system. Am application program may call upon a driver program to manipulate streams of video and audio data, including commands to present...
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...
5611038 Audio/video transceiver provided with a device for reconfiguration of incompatibly received or transmitted video and audio information  
A general purpose architecture and process for multimedia communications in which a number of video and audio information production devices are connected to a telecommunications network. Each of...
5606344 Information display apparatus  
An information display apparatus, such as a lectern (6), is disclosed which is usable when giving a presentation or speech. The lectern includes a screen (2) for the display of text and a memory...
5604857 Render system for the rendering of storyboard structures on a real time animated system  
Video and other forms of animation are traditionally manually laid out on storyboards which set out the nature and timings of the events for which animation is desired. The storyboard then forms a...
5594911 System and method for preprocessing and delivering multimedia presentations  
A system and method for preprocessing and delivering multimedia presentations to customers such that delays due to interactive response time is virtually eliminated include a preprocessor, mass...
5594859 Graphical user interface for video teleconferencing  
A video teleconferencing workstation includes a video teleconference session window displayed on the workstation display. The session window includes a video image area for displaying video...
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...
5581676 Drawing processor and machining program processor for generating a machining program and method therefor  
A machining program processor and a machining program processing method which includes a drawing processor that allows a plurality of modified shapes to be generated easily from one parametric...
Matches 301 - 350 out of 425 < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 >