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7617454 Accelerator handles  
A method and apparatus is described to control velocity of object movement in a display device. A path is provided that the object will follow in the display. A plurality of handles are provided...
7614012 Methods and apparatus for graphical object implementation  
A system displays a graphical element in a graphical user interface, and receives a command to display the at least one graphical sub-element associated with the graphical element. The system...
7613999 Navigable telepresence method and systems utilizing an array of cameras  
A telepresence system for providing first and second users with displays of an environment. The system includes an array of cameras, and the array includes multiple camera paths. A first user...
7606462 Video processing device and method for producing digest video data  
The video processing device calculates evaluation levels of frame images in video data. Scene evaluation levels are then calculated from the frame evaluation levels in each scene. The playback...
7596755 Multimedia visualization and integration environment  
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for retrieving and displaying multimedia information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a graphical user interface (GUI)...
7594177 System and method for video browsing using a cluster index  
A “Video Browser” provides an intuitive user interface for indexing, and interactive visual browsing, of particular elements within a video recording. In general, the Video Browser operates by...
7593618 Image processing for analyzing video content  
A sequence of intensity measures is determined corresponding to each of a sequence of video frames. Such can be used for selection of videos according to user preferences and for providing...
7587674 Method and system for marking one or more parts of a recorded data sequence  
An apparatus and method for marking one or more parts of a recorded data sequence including displaying a representation of the recorded data sequence, selecting a range of data by positioning a...
7587673 Information processing apparatus, method and program  
An information processing apparatus which allows a user to select information on a predetermined program as programs interesting to the user and current topics of conversation. The information...
7584428 Apparatus and method for detecting highlights of media stream  
An apparatus for detecting highlights of a media stream, the apparatus including: a video processing module, an audio processing module, a shot change detector, and a post processor. The video...
7581185 Interface and related methods for reducing source accesses in a development system  
A method of generating a filter graph of a development project is presented comprising identifying a plurality of source clips comprising the development project, wherein each source clip...
7571386 Recording medium having a data structure for managing reproduction of text subtitle data and methods and apparatuses associated therewith  
A recording area of an example recording medium stores a text subtitle stream that includes a dialog style segment and at least one dialog presentation segment associated with the dialog style...
7571385 Methods and systems for processing media content  
Methods and systems for processing media content are described and in at least some embodiments utilize a composite or composition, which can be considered as a representation of an editing project...
7565608 Animation on object user interface  
A system and method for graphically showing the animation order of animated elements in a presentation program or other software. The invention consists of a User Interface (UI) widget which shows...
7562308 Providing user input values in input controls  
A method of providing user input values for input controls includes receiving, in a graphical user interface wherein input controls are associated with predefined alternative input values, a first...
7559015 Data processing device and method for selecting media segments on the basis of a score  
A context of media content is represented by hierarchical context description data for describing a plurality of segments. Each of the segments represents a scene of media content. Scores that are...
7557813 Picture displaying method, picture displaying program, and editing apparatus  
A picture displaying apparatus and method of arranging mapping corresponding to the whole or a part of a material that has a time concept in time series on a screen. Gradation is set to the mapping...
7555718 System and method for presenting video search results  
The invention displays video search results in a form that makes it easy for users to determine which results are truly relevant. Each story returned as a search result is visualized as a collage...
7555557 Review and approval system  
The review and Approval system of the present invention advantageously provides computer implemented access for a reviewer to digital content for the purpose of reviewing and approving the digital...
7552388 Information providing device, information providing method, and program storage medium  
In the present invention, image data is edited in response to a demand transmitted from a data-processing apparatus through a network. A moving-picture server ( 3 ) acquires a scenario consisting...
7551843 Authoring system, program, and authoring method  
In an authoring system of the invention, generation of volume configuration information for a DVD-Video is performed in parallel with generation of volume configuration information for a BD-ROM....
7546554 Systems and methods for browsing multimedia content on small mobile devices  
The multimedia content browsing system for small mobile devices smoothly blends three key tasks: querying the multimedia contents by keywords, exploring the search results by viewing keyframes of...
7546537 Gradual image display  
Systems and techniques for displaying an image sent between subscribers of a communications system by receiving electronic data corresponding to the image; displaying a blurred view of the image;...
7546532 Methods and apparatus for editing content  
A respective user modifies (e.g., selects, drags, and drops) either one or both of a first visual representation of a first video clip segment and second visual representation of a second video...
7532217 Methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events  
The methods and systems for scoring multiple time-based assets and events include declaratively playing a first media sequence; and declaratively initiating a second media sequence at a...
7526725 Context aware video conversion method and playback system  
A computer implemented method converts and displays a video. An input video acquired of a scene is segmented into shots. Similar shots are combined sequentially into corresponding chains. Each...
7526724 Data processing apparatus and data processing method  
A data processing apparatus is disclosed which processes audio visual (AV) data made up of video or audio data, the apparatus including: receiving means for receiving an edit command specifying how...
7526723 System and method for emulating enhanced and interactive streaming media delivery  
A media player, as may be employed in conjunction with a streaming media enhancement authoring application, is embedded in a browser window. A software program, operable to detect and extract...
7526086 Editing apparatus and editing method  
An editing apparatus and method for dividing or combining a data file(s) that is segmented into blocks of a predetermined data length and recorded in a non-volatile memory. An attribute file having...
7525601 Image switching apparatus, image switching method, and program recording medium  
The present invention provides an image switching apparatus allowing a operator to easily operate a plurality of special effect apparatuses through different interfaces by using a common operation....
7519907 System and method for image editing using an image stack  
A system and method for editing images. A simple but powerful image stack is employed in creating an enhanced image from a stack of registered images. This paradigm combines pixels using...
7515811 Method of maintaining edit summary information on a rewritable storage medium  
The present method of maintaining edit summary information on a rewritable storage medium maintains edit summary information (TableOfFastEditInfo) about real play list files, virtual play list...
7512886 System and method of automatically aligning video scenes with an audio track  
There is provided herein a system and method for automatically aligning audio and video tracks of a multimedia work, wherein in one preferred embodiment change points or “markers” are located...
7512885 Graphical user interface for navigating and displaying relationships among media data and metadata  
An editing system has a graphical user interface that shows media/metadata and metadata/metadata relationships and allows a user to navigate a graph defined by these relationships. Using this...
7512313 System and method for automatically capturing user edits in a digital recording  
A method and system for automatically capturing user edits in a digital recording are described. The method involves determining a beginning time stamp for an edit segment in a digital recording...
7508940 Video information recording apparatus and method, video information reproducing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program  
A video information recording apparatus includes a first obtaining unit operable to obtain video information to be recorded; a second obtaining unit operable to obtain thumbnail picture information...
7502547 Signal recording/reproducing apparatus and recording/reproducing method, signal reproducing apparatus and reproducing method, and program  
This invention is a signal recording/reproducing apparatus ( 1 ) for searching for a reproduction position desired by a user from a recorded video signal and/or audio signal and reproducing the...
7500191 Systems and methods for using media upon insertion into a data processing system  
Methods and apparatuses for operating with writeable media. In one aspect of the invention, an exemplary method includes inserting a writeable media into a drive system which is coupled to a data...
7493561 Storage and utilization of slide presentation slides  
slide presentation files may be separated into one or more individual slide files, and the one or more individual slide files may be stored in a remote or local slide library. Stored individual...
7484201 Nonlinear editing while freely selecting information specific to a clip or a track  
A nonlinear editing method for performing editing by displaying an editing window having a area for displaying a track on a display device and disposing a clip representing a selected material on...
7480864 Zoom editor  
A method and apparatus for processing media items is disclosed. The method involves selecting a sub-set ( 106 ) of the media items ( 102 ), and concurrently displaying a spatial representation (...
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...
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...
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...
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...