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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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