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7478327 Unified capture and process interface  
The method of collecting a time based stream of information to generate a presentation is provided for in which a processing system is employed. In one exemplary method, the processing system...
7460130 Method and system for generation, storage and distribution of omni-directional object views  
Image acquisition refers to the taking of digital images of multiple views of the object of interest. In the processing step, the constituent images collected in the image acquisition step are...
7454707 Image editing method, image editing apparatus, program for implementing image editing method, and recording medium recording program  
To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in...
7444593 Disk space management and clip remainder during edit operations  
The method of storing a time based stream of information to generate a presentation is provided for in which a processing system is used. The methods provide for deleting a selected time based...
7437682 Icon label placement in a graphical user interface  
To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the...
7437672 Computer-based method for conveying interrelated textual narrative and image information  
A computer-based method and device for conveying interrelated image and narrative information, suitable for use with a variety of types of information ranging from product information and...
7437674 Video processing methods  
A video processing method. A display region is provided according to a timeline, comprising at least one first sub-region with higher time resolution and one second sub-region with lower time...
7437673 System and method for using a standard composition environment as the composition space for video image editing  
A method of generating an image or a video stream is disclosed, in which a composition space within a standard display tool is utilized. In an embodiment, a video editor is configured to control a...
7433574 Audio-video stream data recording, replaying, and editing system  
A stream data recording apparatus records stream data in such a manner that the head of each video coding unit and the head of a series of audio coding unit corresponding to each video coding unit...
7432983 Moving-picture processing method and moving-picture processing apparatus with metadata processing  
A moving-picture processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire metadata including information about each temporal region in an input moving picture with a plurality of...
7418662 Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, image pickup system, information processing apparatus, program and storage medium  
An image pickup apparatus in which when a decision button is depressed, a transfer confirmation screen is displayed without recording a selection record, and, when a shortcut button is depressed, a...
7400747 Method and apparatus for representing moving objects in a sequence of images  
A method of representing motion of an object appearing in a sequence of images comprises deriving for each image a set of representative points representing the location of the object, deriving an...
7397931 Human identification apparatus and human searching/tracking apparatus  
A human identification apparatus, which can judge for identification of human images even in temporally-distant frames or frames shot with different cameras, judges whether or not persons...
7382973 Data processing apparatus, information processing system and computer-readable recording medium recording selecting program  
The present invention provides a data processing apparatus comprising a first additional information acquisition unit for acquiring the first additional information with regard to a first...
7383509 Automatic generation of multimedia presentation  
The present invention provides a system and method for automatically combining image and audio data to create a multimedia presentation. In one embodiment, audio and image data are received by the...
7383508 Computer user interface for interacting with video cliplets generated from digital video  
The present invention includes a computer user interface system and a method for displaying short segments of video each representing a single theme or event (called video cliplets or...
7383504 Method for representing and comparing multimedia content according to rank  
A method for generating a representation of multimedia content by first segmenting the multimedia content spatially and temporally to extract objects. Feature extraction is applied to the objects...
7375768 System and method for automatic creation of device specific high definition material  
There is provided herein a system and method for adapting high resolution input material to display specifications of a particular display device, thereby ensuring that the high quality of the...
7373604 Automatically scalable presentation of video demonstration content  
A system and method are disclosed for creating an electronic demonstration. The method includes capturing video of a demonstrated process that includes a plurality of steps. Each of the steps are...
7362944 Combination system using set-up value commonly, and method for setting up value of the same  
A combination system commonly using a set-up value with regard to plural devices. The combination system has an input unit to input the set-up value, plural set-up value storage units to store the...
7356250 Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points  
Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating...
7352952 System and method for improved video editing  
There is provided herein an invention that utilizes a themed template which is designed to assist novice video editors quickly compose a complete video work which memorializes a particular familiar...
7350216 Systems and methods for generating and managing filter strings in a filter graph utilizing a matrix switch  
Systems and methods load one or more source processing chains to support execution of a development project and determine whether each of the one or more processing chains will be subsequently...
7350148 Split edits  
A method and apparatus is described that is related to split editing. An indicia of a first time based stream of information is displayed at a source media. An indicia of a second time based stream...
7337403 Method and apparatus for editing heterogeneous media objects in a digital imaging device  
A method and apparatus for editing heterogeneous media objects in a digital imaging device having a display screen, where each one of the media objects has one or more media types associated...
7334191 Segmentation and detection of representative frames in video sequences  
A method for organizing a sequence of video frames includes selecting one of the frames in the sequence as an initial frame in a first portion of a segment of the sequence and adding further frames...
7324166 Live actor integration in pre-recorded well known video  
The apparatus inserts a participant realistically into familiar background media to provide similar results to a completely original movie with multi-camera studio production and editing. An...
7324069 Animation review methods and apparatus  
A system comprises a source providing video in a first format, a video converter for converting video from the first to a second format, a server storing a video image from the video, and combining...
7325199 Integrated time line for editing  
A method of manipulating a time based stream of information through use of a user interface to generate a presentation is provided in which a processing system is employed. The methods use...
7319493 Apparatus and program for setting video processing parameters  
A video signal processing apparatus 1 and a video processing parameter setting apparatus 2 comprise a video processing apparatus (visual mixer). A parameter value collectively specifying...
7320137 Method and system for distributing personalized editions of media programs using bookmarks  
An editing device accesses a media program and a user of the editing device designates points of interest within the media program. Bookmarks are generated for the designated points of interest....
7302644 Real time production system and method  
An integrated, fully automated video production system that provides a video director with total control over all of the video production devices used in producing a show. Such devices include, but...
7299416 Metro for creating and using linear time line and play rectangle  
Methods and controls for playing media include a Blackspace Timeline (BTL), and the Play Rectangle (PR). Both of these structures exist as graphic objects and they permit users to both navigate and...
7296276 Methods and systems for implementing dynamic properties on objects that support only static properties  
Methods and systems of simulating dynamic properties on computer-implemented objects that do not support dynamic properties are described. In one embodiment, one or more first objects that do not...
7296231 Video structuring by probabilistic merging of video segments  
A method for structuring video by probabilistic merging of video segments includes the steps of obtaining a plurality of frames of unstructured video; generating video segments from the...
7287226 Methods and systems for effecting video transitions represented by bitmaps  
Multi-media project editing methods and systems are described. In one embodiment, a project editing system comprises a multi-media editing application that is configured to enable a user to combine...
7284187 Encapsulated document and format system  
Methods for producing and multiplexing a file format, as well as structures for a hierarchical file format and data file, are provided. The data file may include data that is divided in a...
7272780 System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization  
An indexing method for allowing a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material. By mapping from time to data position, data delivery can begin at any selected time in the program...
7269785 Digital manipulation of video in digital video player  
According to the invention, a technique for operating a digital versatile disk (DVD) system is disclosed. First digital information is read from a DVD player. The first digital information is...
RE39830 Method for apparatus for recording and playback of multidimensional walkthrough narratives  
A method and apparatus for recording and playback of multidimensional walkthrough narratives. A three dimensional modeling language is used to automatically create a simple three-dimensional...
7266835 Method and apparatus for secure transactions in an interactive television ticker  
A user can perform secure transactions via an interactive television ticker. While viewing an advertisement scrolling in the ticker, the user can select that advertisement to initiate an on-line...
7263660 System and method for producing a video skim  
A video skim is assembled by identifying one or more key frames from a video shot. Certain lengths of frames to the left and right of the key frame are measured for visual content variety....
7246314 Methods and apparatuses for interactive similarity searching, retrieval and browsing of video  
Methods for interactive selecting video queries consisting of training images from a video for a video similarity search and for displaying the results of the similarity search are disclosed. The...
7242847 Systems and methods for editing video streams using a grid-based representation  
In some embodiments, the invention includes a method of editing a video stream. The method includes storing segment frame icons representing segments of the video stream, the segment frame icons...
7239328 Lossless manipulation of media objects  
An original media object, such as an image, is edited without loss of the data comprising the media object. Changes applied to the media object are defined by metadata associated with the media...
7239320 System and method for transmitting interactive synchronized graphics  
A method and system for compact representation of interactive data and transmitting the data via a computer network is disclosed. The system and method provide for logically separating the data...
7240286 Content editing apparatus, content editing method, content editing program, and computer-readable storage medium  
A content editing apparatus that edits digital broadcast content that is composed of a plurality of data carousels for realizing pseudo-interaction is provided. An operation reception unit receives...
7237244 System and related methods for reducing memory requirements of a media processing system  
Various embodiments pertain to generating a development project including at least a matrix switch and one or more adjacent objects. In one or more embodiments, an initial rendering of the...
7231100 Method of and apparatus for processing zoomed sequential images  
Zoomed sequential images including a first image at a first magnification, a later image at a second magnification, and at least one intermediate image at a magnification between the first and...
7228502 Method and device for temporal segmentation of a video sequence  
According to this method of temporal segmentation of a video sequence ( 200 ) containing one or more markers, the analysis of the content of these markers makes it possible to segment the video...