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7421155 Archive of text captures from rendered documents  
A facility for storing a text capture data structure for a particular user is described. The data structure comprises a number of entries. Each entry corresponds to a text capture operation...
7305691 System and method for providing targeted programming outside of the home  
A system and method for providing targeted programming to a user outside of the user's home. The method of receiving at least one of a user identification and a user profile, selecting a program...
7079176 Digital interactive system for providing full interactivity with live programming events  
The present invention relates to an interactive digital system enabling viewers full and active participation in experiencing a live broadcast event. Particularly, the presentation of the live...
7075899 System and method for providing private in-band data to digital set-top boxes in a broadcast environment  
The present invention involves a system, apparatus, and method for providing private in-band data to digital set-top boxes in a broadcast environment. In one example, a digital set-top box...
7017124 Method for controlling electronic devices using digital recall tool  
In an electronic device that accepts drawn graphic entries and includes a screen display, a tool for storing and recalling elements displayed on the screen enables a user to draw a simple diagonal...
EP0657831B1 Image retrieving method and apparatus  
Abstract of EP0657831 An image-retrieving system for retrieving a desired image from a data base. A storage device in the data base stores a plurality of images, additional information for...
6581071 Surveying system and method  
A survey system and method is described wherein multiple instances or versions of a survey may be defined and data from survey instances may be retained in a cohesive data, or knowledge, base. Each...
6574638 Method and apparatus for cataloguing multimedia data using surveying data  
A method and apparatus is described wherein survey data collected from different survey versions may be retained in a cohesive data, or knowledge, base that may be used to catalogue multimedia...
6549911 Method and apparatus for cataloguing multimedia data  
The mechanism catalogues data such as multimedia data. A catalogue is a collection of one or more catalogue elements. An index is used to access a catalogue. An element of a catalogue has one or...
6484189 Methods and apparatus for a multimedia authoring and presentation system  
A multimedia authoring system uses a graphic interface display which is implemented as a part of a flow editor and is used to create and to program interactive multimedia presentations and...
6411732 Method for interpreting hand drawn diagrammatic user interface commands  
This invention discloses image analysis techniques supporting the interpretation of marks on a large drawing board for purposes of controlling a Board transcription device. In order for users to...
6332040 Method and apparatus for sorting and comparing linear configurations  
A computing device to classify, manipulate, store, search, and selectively retrieve items from image databases, using a method & apparatus including a computer processor to analyze the configured...
EP0558054B1 Image filing method  
Abstract of EP0558054 An image filing method, in which a plurality of images are registered one by one, and the registered images are retrieved by adding a retrieval condition so as to be simple...
6252586 Compressed digital-data interactive program system  
An interactive cable television system is disclosed which utilizes a standard cable television distribution network for simultaneously providing a plurality of viewers with an interactive...
6240207 Handwriting input display apparatus having improved speed in changing display of entered handwriting  
A predetermined relationship is established with respect to an arbitrary shape of a pattern, or a character, which is inputted by employing a pen on an input table, and displayed on a display unit...
6215484 Compressed digital-data interactive program system  
An interactive cable television system is disclosed which utilizes a standard cable television distribution network for simultaneously providing a plurality of viewers with an interactive...
EP0637795B1 Gestural indicators for selecting graphic objects  
Abstract of EP0637795 A graphical imaging system, wherein the rough location, size and shape of objects in the image is summarized by a first characteristic descriptor, representing a parametric...
6212527 Method and apparatus for cataloguing multimedia data  
The invention catalogues data such as multimedia data. A catalogue is a collection of one or more catalogue elements. An index is used to access a catalogue. An element of a catalogue has one or...
6204843 Compressed digital-data interactive program system  
An interactive cable television system is disclosed which utilizes a standard cable television distribution network for simultaneously providing a plurality of viewers with an interactive...
6181334 Compressed digital-data interactive program system  
An interactive cable television system is disclosed which utilizes a standard cable television distribution network for simultaneously providing a plurality of viewers with an interactive...
EP0635798B1 Data access based on human-produced images  
Abstract of EP0635798 An item of data, such as data defining an image of a document (10), and identifying image data are stored in memory. The identifying image data define a human-produced...
6111576 Method and apparatus for providing selected menu functions as an attachment menu bar on graphic user interface systems  
A method and apparatus for coupling a user-created window, or object, to menu functions of another application is accomplished once functions of another program have been selected and an attachment...
6097392 Method and system of altering an attribute of a graphic object in a pen environment  
A method and system for altering an attribute of a graphic object in a computer system is provided. An attribute, such as a line style or fill pattern, has a plurality of formats. The computer...
5970484 Method for retrieving texts which are similar to a sample text  
An information retrieval method wherein users may submit a query via a graphical bitmapping technique. The user provides an information retrieval system with a bitmap of a printed, written, or...
5893130 Image output device  
When a type of a target document is selected by an input unit from selection items displayed in a window of a display device based upon a type table, a word group of an image corresponding to the...
5889506 Video user's environment  
The user communicates through a digitizing writing surface with the audio/video control apparatus. An on-screen display is generated, providing the user with a user environment in which a wide...
5877743 Line smoothing techniques  
Improved curve plotting techniques are disclosed for drawing a substantially smooth curve in real time, from a plurality of sampled points, as the points are sampled, on a point-by-point basis. The...
5861881 Interactive computer system for providing an interactive presentation with personalized video, audio and graphics responses for multiple viewers  
The present invention is an interactive computer system which may operate on a computer network. Subscribers interact with a fully interactive programthrough the use of input devices and a personal...
5805162 Method and apparatus for changing superposed drawing with window changes  
A scheme for controlling a screen display capable of allowing the addition of new functions such as the note entry and the pointing according to the input events not requested by the application...
5745610 Data access based on human-produced images  
An item of data, such as data defining an image of a document, and identifying image data are stored in memory. The identifying image data define a human-produced identifying image for the item of...
5742283 Hyperstories: organizing multimedia episodes in temporal and spatial displays  
The design, creation, organization, and playing of multimedia stories is accomplished by first defining a story with episodes scheduled on a temporal layout. The organization of the story episodes...
5734805 Apparatus and method for controlling navigation in 3-D space  
An apparatus and method for virtual navigation includes a control which controls the dimensional appearance of a first image on a display. The control comprises a second image associated with the...
5724091 Compressed digital data interactive program system  
An interactive cable television system is disclosed which utilizes a standard cable television distribution network for simultaneously providing a plurality of viewers with an interactive...
5699360 Method of and system for distributing digital audio image data  
Digitally-compressed audio and image data of a plurality of programs (logical channels) are distributed and superimposed for every horizontal synchronizing signal period together with...
5684715 Interactive video system with dynamic video object descriptors  
An interactive video system by which an operator is able to select an object moving in a video sequence and by which the interactive video system is notified which object was selected so as to take...
5682196 Three-dimensional (3D) video presentation system providing interactive 3D presentation with personalized audio responses for multiple viewers  
The system of the present invention provides actual interactive choices to members of an audience in the form of three dimensional (3D) objects in space, and after each member of the audience...
5644765 Image retrieving method and apparatus that calculates characteristic amounts of data correlated with and identifying an image  
An image-retrieving system for retrieving a desired image from a data base. A storage device in the data base stores a plurality of images, additional information for identifying each of the...
5638092 Cursor control system  
A cursor control system and method for moving a cursor on a computer screen in response to movement of a ring over a keyboard. A ring contains a transmitter circuit which is activated by a switch...
5632007 Interactive system and method for offering expert based interactive programs  
A method of programming an interactive scenario on a multi-track storage media is disclosed. The interactive scenario includes a number of time-synchronized frames on separable data streams which...
5630121 Archiving and retrieving multimedia objects using structured indexes  
To archive information, a phrase or sentence describing the information, typically expressed in a natural language and conforming to the rules of a grammar (like a natural language grammar) is used...
5594810 Method and apparatus for recognizing gestures on a computer system  
A method and apparatus for recognizing a gesture input on a display screen of a computer system. A stroke is input by a user on the screen, and the stroke is smoothed by reducing the number of...
5586244 Display and manipulation of window's border and slide-up title bar  
A technique for the display and manipulation of windows resembling real-word objects in an object-oriented graphical interface displays windows without substantial borders, continuously displayed...
5585858 Simulcast of interactive signals with a conventional video signal  
A system for simulcasting a fully interactive program with a normal conventional program in the same standard video signal bandwidth. It allows active participation by subscribers who have...
5581637 System for registering component image tiles in a camera-based scanner device transcribing scene images  
A device for registering component image tiles in a scanning system for transcribing, into electronic form, markings on a two-dimensional surface such as a whiteboard. A registration light pattern...
5574843 Methods and apparatus providing for a presentation system for multimedia applications  
A data processing system has a central processing unit, a memory for storing a plurality of data structures corresponding to a presentantion, and a display device. The display device has a display...
5537529 Apparatus and method for creating versions of computer models and creating communications incorporating created versions therefrom  
A method and apparatus for providing communication in a computer system. The present invention includes a method and apparatus for modifying a first version of a computer model in a live...
5537141 Distance learning system providing individual television participation, audio responses and memory for every student  
An interactive distance learning system which provides individualized and meaningful interactive responses to each student, as if the student is receiving instruction directly from a private tutor...
5533186 Image filing method based on symbol retrieval condition  
An image filing method, in which a plurality of images are registered one by one, and the registered images are retrieved by adding a retrieval condition so as to be simple and not require time and...
5528290 Device for transcribing images on a board using a camera based board scanner  
A device for transcribing, into electronic form, markings drawn on a whiteboard or blackboard. An electronic camera such as an ordinary video camera is mounted on a computer-controlled pan/tilt...
5454043 Dynamic and static hand gesture recognition through low-level image analysis  
A low-level model-free dynamic and static hand gesture recognition system utilizes either a 1-D histogram of frequency of occurrence vs. spatial orientation angle for static gestures or a 2-D...
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