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6411949 Customizing database information for presentation with media selections  
Enhanced content data is supplied in association with a media selection. The enhanced content data is customized responsive to a user profile. The uncustomized enhanced content is stored as a data...
6408315 Computer-based training system using digitally compressed and streamed multimedia presentations  
The present invention provides a system by which customized quality computer-based training (“CBT”) can be presented over a global network such as the Internet with low development costs, low...
6392665 Capture mechanism for computer generated motion video images  
A motion video image capture (MVIC) process monitors interaction between an authoring process and a graphics display library and captures each frame of the motion video image created by the...
6393054 System and method for automatically detecting shot boundary and key frame from a compressed video data  
A system for detecting shot boundary in a compressed video data without decompression includes a difference detector that detects content difference between frames. When the difference detector...
6389168 Object-based parsing and indexing of compressed video streams  
A method and system for object-based video retrieval and indexing include a configuration detection processor for deriving quantitative attribute information for video frames in a compressed video...
6388669 Scheme for interactive video manipulation and display of moving object on background image  
A scheme for interactive video manipulation and display of a moving object on a background image is disclosed. In this scheme a background image stored in a background image storage unit is read...
6381399 Image information reproducing apparatus  
An image information reproducing apparatus generates a video signal carrying an original image from a read signal acquired from an image information recording medium, prepares a manually-input...
6363205 Method and apparatus for automatically editing programs in video tape copy system  
A system for automatically editing programs in an audio and video information copy system, in which programs of the same type or the same time slot among programs recorded at random can readily be...
6353461 Multiple camera video assist control system  
Video assist control systems and methods for use in film/video production environments are presented which provide a link between production and post-production by storing and managing both...
6351765 Nonlinear video editing system  
An apparatus is provided for editing video which has at least two components: a digital database system and a nonlinear video editor. The digital database system stores source video segments and...
6342904 Creating a slide presentation from full motion video  
A method and apparatus is disclosed for converting audio-video data from a full motion video format to a slide show presentation with synchronised sound. The full motion video is received from a...
6340971 Method and device for keyframe-based video displaying using a video cursor frame in a multikeyframe screen  
A method and device for keyframe-based video displaying using a video cursor frame in a multikeyframe screen. Keyframe-based displaying of a video presentation enables a user to select among...
6337710 Graphical video editing system for regeneration of bitstreams  
A graphical video editing system that allows manipulation of images for input to the video encoding and decoding process. The debugging of video encoders and decoders is aided by user controlled...
6337691 Image data transfer  
Image data (derived from film or video clips) is transferred from storage to high speed memory. After a transfer has taken place, a prediction is made as to subsequent image frames that will need...
6329984 User input routing with remote control application sharing  
A method for sharing control of a shared application with a client user. The method comprising transmitting a mouse capture indication to a client system if a host system detects a mouse capture...
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....
6327420 Image displaying method and editing apparatus to efficiently edit recorded materials on a medium  
At the start of editing, video clip icons of a temporally continuous video material are displayed in a window 31. When an icon 31-m is selected, a window 32 is opened in which icons of images are...
6327390 Methods of scene fade detection for indexing of video sequences  
A method locates scene changes in a sequence of images or frames that have been compressed without first decompressing the sequence. The sequence includes subsequences of P-frames between I-frames....
6320600 Web-based video-editing method and system using a high-performance multimedia software library  
A Web-based video-editing system using a high-performance multimedia software library having a toolkit, the toolkit being a set of reusable, high-performance primitives and abstractions that are at...
6314569 System for video, audio, and graphic presentation in tandem with video/audio play  
A method for displaying an enhanced multimedia presentation including personalized supplementary audio, video, and graphic content selectable by a user and rendered by a receiving device, comprises...
6297851 Analog video frame capture and preview  
A method and system for capturing analog video data and previewing still video images of the captured analog video data without converting the analog video data into digital image data. The system...
6295092 System for analyzing television programs  
A system that automatically captures one or more local news program broadcasts and separates the broadcasts into the individual news stories or segments. The system then compares the stories to...
6292837 Apparatus and method for non-sequential image data transmission and display  
An apparatus and method for image display and transmission, including display and transmission of data over the Internet. Image transmission is effected by non-sequential streaming of sequential...
6292184 Multimedia user interface employing components of color to indicate the values of variables  
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for use in computer display systems, and in particular, a graphical user interface for use in computer controlled multi-media editing systems....
6285361 Method and apparatus for clipping video segments from an audiovisual file  
Disclosed is a method for clipping a segment from a video file having a multiplicity of video frames. Preferably, at least some of the frames in the video file are encoded as predicted frames. The...
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...
6260194 Information handling for interactive apparatus  
An interactive entertainment apparatus and a method for controlling the same are described, in which the apparatus presents to the user a branch structured narrative (90), and user input determines...
6256625 Video acquisition system including objects with dynamic communication capabilities  
A video capture system and method which includes improved software control of image acquisition and processing. The method comprises first creating an image application using one or more objects....
6249280 Media composition system with enhanced user interface features  
Media composer for editing source material. The media composer includes apparatus for receiving digitizing, storing and editing video and audio source material. Computing apparatus manipulates the...
6249293 Virtual world animation using status and response for interference and time schedule  
A computer graphics animation editing system includes a memory for storing a status switch data unit including a starting data block and a response data block, the starting data block indicating a...
6246402 Reproduction control data generating apparatus and method of same  
A reproduction control data generating apparatus for generating reproduction control data containing control commands indicating a method of reproduction of audio and/or video data and menu screen...
6243662 Data relay device, information terminal equipment, computer-readable recording medium storing data relay program, and computer-readable recording medium storing information browsing program  
Information consisting of a plurality of pieces of data can be reproduced in the same state it was browsed previously. On receiving a data acquisition request from a data use unit, a request...
6239793 Method and apparatus for synchronizing the broadcast content of interactive internet-based programs  
A method and system for synchronizing broadcast program content and corresponding program commands of an Internet-Based broadcast. The method (and system) generates a plurality of time-indicative...
6239801 Method and system for indexing and controlling the playback of multimedia documents  
An electronic multimedia document system provides temporal icons that provide indices into a recording of a meeting or presentation. The temporal icons index the times of occurrence of events and...
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...
6229524 User interface for interaction with video  
A user interface is presented for the interaction, by a viewer, with the content of a multi media presentation and functions related to this content. The user interface enables the navigation, by a...
6222532 Method and device for navigating through video matter by means of displaying a plurality of key-frames in parallel  
A method for navigating through video matter by means of displaying a plurality of key-frames in parallel, whilst allowing selective accessing of displayed keyframes for thereupon controlling...
6222925 Interactive entertainment content control  
Methods and apparatus are provided for control access to, and user interaction with, a branch structured narrative entertainment (70). Selected paths (parallel lined portions BC, DE, GY) are locked...
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...
6204840 Non-timeline, non-linear digital multimedia composition method and system  
A method for digital multimedia composition including selecting multimedia data segments, arranging the selected multimedia data segments on a single storyline strip, inserting transitions between...
6195458 Method for content-based temporal segmentation of video  
A method for performing content-based temporal segmentation of video sequences, the method comprises the steps of transmitting the video sequence to a processor, identifying within the video...
6191784 User interface system and method for controlling playback time-based temporal digital media  
A system and method that maps temporal control functions into a six degree of freedom pointing device. The six degree of freedom pointing device controls both transport and view modes within a...
6192183 Video editing scheme using icons directly obtained from coded video data  
A video editing scheme for enabling a video editing operation on the coded video data efficiently. In a system in which the coded video data are decoded and displayed on a video display device,...
6188399 Multiple theme engine graphical user interface architecture  
Systems and methods for providing a user with increased flexibility and control over the appearance and behavior of objects on a user interface are described. Sets of objects can be grouped into...
6184879 Multi-media title editing apparatus and a style creation device employed therefor  
The present invention aims to easily create multi-media title without requiring a high technique. A multi-media editing apparatus comprises: style creation 101 for creating a style that defines...
6181335 Card for a set top terminal  
An apparatus for upgrading a viewer interface for a television program delivery system (200) is described. The invention relates to methods and devices for viewer pathways to television programs...
6172672 Method and system for providing snapshots from a compressed digital video stream  
A method and system are provided for delivering video from a client to a server over a communication medium with a limited bandwidth. An initial image quality that allows the video to be displayed...
6172675 Indirect manipulation of data using temporally related data, with particular application to manipulation of audio or audiovisual data  
The invention enables a body of information to be easily manipulated (e.g., summarized, rearranged, edited, selectively accessed or searched) to facilitate use of the information by a user. The...
6173317 Streaming and displaying a video stream with synchronized annotations over a computer network  
Client computer(s) retrieve and display synchronized annotated multimedia streams from servers dispersed over a diverse computer network which includes local area networks (LANs) and/or wide area...
6169544 Image edit device  
An image edit device is used to lay out a plurality of images in one field having a plurality of layout areas with a good balance. The image edit device includes an image input means for reading an...