| 5577258 |
Apparatus and method for preprocessing multimedia presentations to generate a delivery schedule |
| Nov-19-1996 |
An apparatus and method for preprocessing multimedia presentations to be delivered to customers such that delays due to interactive response time is virtually eliminated is described. The preprocessor... |
| 5577208 |
"Multimedia" intercommunication between workstations having auxiliary unit directly connected to output of workstation and input to display wherein local and remote image data are combined |
| Nov-19-1996 |
A multimedia intercommunications installation suitable for conveying animated images between a plurality of users each provided with a microcomputer type of workstation. Each user is provided with a new... |
| 5577192 |
Frame register switching for a video processor |
| Nov-19-1996 |
A video register interface for a video processor in which each frame register has a first storage element which is written by a microprocessor interface independently from a second storage element which... |
| 5577186 |
Apparatus and method for providing a generic computerized multimedia tutorial interface for training a user on multiple applications |
| Nov-19-1996 |
A computerized, multimedia tutorial interface system (10) and method for training a user to use computer application software. The system incorporates the training techniques of video segments, on-line... |
| 5572728 |
Conference multimedia summary support system and method |
| Nov-5-1996 |
A system and a user interface make it possible to easily edit important items of a program, such as a conference, in a short time using multimedia information. A retrieving file is generated by extracting... |
| 5568602 |
Method and apparatus for game development using correlation of time sequences and digital video data |
| Oct-22-1996 |
The invention provides a method and apparatus for game development. On a first display, a branched time line structure including decision nodes is developed. On a second display, video images are viewed.... |
| 5566290 |
Multi-media device |
| Oct-15-1996 |
The present invention relates to multi-media products and, in particular, discloses a device (1) which permits both audio and video editing, storage, production and reproduction as well as a computer interface.... |
| 5564001 |
Method and system for interactively transmitting multimedia information over a network which requires a reduced bandwidth |
| Oct-8-1996 |
A system and device is provided that enhances the interactivity of multimedia information across a communications network or in combination with other networks including telecommunication and cable broadcasting.... |
| 5561791 |
Method and apparatus for conditioning timed program independent of transport timing |
| Oct-1-1996 |
In an interactive video-on-demand system, real-time programs are encoded as a transport stream including a plurality of transport stream packets. Some of the transport stream packets include timing signals... |
| 5559949 |
Computer program product and program storage device for linking and presenting movies with their underlying source information |
| Sep-24-1996 |
A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information, are... |
| 5557538 |
MPEG decoder |
| Sep-17-1996 |
An MPEG decoder which distributes the processing load to a plurality of processors and units including an external memory and a bus interface unit, a de-multiplexing data processor, an image data processor,... |
| 5553222 |
Multimedia synchronization system |
| Sep-3-1996 |
A method and system for providing synchronization of the timing of various multimedia events. Clock objects are defined in the storage and associated with an internal or external source of current time.... |
| 5553221 |
System and method for enabling the creation of personalized movie presentations and personalized movie collections |
| Sep-3-1996 |
A system and method for providing on demand access to information related to a movie while the movie is being presented to a user, where the movie was generated from the movie related information. The... |
| 5544305 |
System and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations |
| Aug-6-1996 |
A system and method for creating and executing interactive interpersonal computer simulations comprises an authoring editor. The authoring editor presents an authoring user interface with a comic book... |
| 5544297 |
Object-oriented audio record/playback system |
| Aug-6-1996 |
A technique for providing routing of various multimedia events throughout the course of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A processor with an attached display, storage... |
| 5542023 |
Multi-media reproduction processing apparatus |
| Jul-30-1996 |
A storage medium stores image data, audio data and processing programs having different reproduction modes, such as recording systems or data format are stored as stream data. When a specific data is to... |
| 5541662 |
Content programmer control of video and data display using associated data |
| Jul-30-1996 |
An interactive video system is disclosed that processes a video data stream and an associated data stream corresponding to the video data stream. The interactive video system displays a video image defined... |
| 5539869 |
Method and system for processing and presenting on-line, multimedia information in a tree structure |
| Jul-23-1996 |
Method and system are provided for processing and presenting on-line, multimedia information such as diagnostic information for a machine tool. The system uses multimedia information tools (i.e. graphics,... |
| 5535063 |
Real time user indexing of random access time stamp correlated databases |
| Jul-9-1996 |
A note-taking system based on a notepad computer with an integrated audio/video-recorder is described. A document is created or retrieved. As the user types on the keyboard or writes with the stylus or... |
| 5533903 |
Method and system for music training |
| Jul-9-1996 |
A method of and computer system for training a student to play a musical work having an identifiable rhythm structure, the musical work being decomposable into a plurality of variations each maintaining... |
| 5528746 |
Apparatus for controlling cassette auto changer |
| Jun-18-1996 |
An apparatus for controlling a cassette auto changer selectively takes out a plurality of cassettes accommodated within a predetermined cassette accommodating unit to load the cassette into a recording... |
| 5526480 |
Time domain scroll bar for multimedia presentations in a data processing system |
| Jun-11-1996 |
A method and system in a data processing system for efficiently managing the selection and/or presentation of a multimedia data set comprised of multiple topics. A display is provided for presenting a... |
| 5526407 |
Method and apparatus for managing information |
| Jun-11-1996 |
A method and apparatus for recording, categorizing, organizing, managing and retrieving speech information obtains a speech stream; stores the speech stream in at least a temporary storage; provides a... |
| 5524195 |
Graphical user interface for interactive television with an animated agent |
| Jun-4-1996 |
A graphical user interface for displaying and selecting video programs, such as video on demand, includes a video on demand server coupled to a communication medium. A plurality of settop box receivers... |
| 5519435 |
Multi-user, on-demand video storage and retrieval system including video signature computation for preventing excessive instantaneous server data rate |
| May-21-1996 |
A plurality of movies are distributively stored in digitally encoded form on a mass storage unit such as a Redundant Array of Inexpensive Drives (RAID) disk drive array such that they can be viewed on... |
| 5515490 |
Method and system for temporally formatting data presentation in time-dependent documents |
| May-7-1996 |
A method and system automatically produce a temporal layout for controlling the presentation of a multimedia document. A partial temporal layout, or schedule, is produced during a compiletime phase of... |
| 5511002 |
Multimedia player component object system |
| Apr-23-1996 |
A technique for providing routing of various multimedia events throughout the course of a multimedia presentation using a computer with a storage and a display. A processor with an attached display, storage... |
| 5508940 |
Random access audio/video processor with multiple outputs |
| Apr-16-1996 |
A random access audio/video processor having multiple outputs is disclosed. The random access audio/video processor includes a main control unit having an analog video back panel, an analog audio back... |
| 5506932 |
Synchronizing digital audio to digital video |
| Apr-9-1996 |
An audio/video input/output (I/O) port apparatus for acquiring digital audio samples from one or multiple channels of input audio and synthesizing digital audio samples into one or multiple channels of... |
| 5500933 |
Display system which displays motion video objects combined with other visual objects |
| Mar-19-1996 |
A system for displaying motion video objects on a display screen together with other visual objects such as bit map image objects, text objects, and the like. An autonomous screen drawing process is provided... |
| 5499373 |
Apparatus and methods for designing, analyzing or simulating signal processing functions |
| Mar-12-1996 |
Data to be processed is stored within data files 20. Associated with each data file 20 is a header file 18. The header files 18 store data specifying a wide range of attributes of the data within the data... |
| 5497373 |
Multi-media interface |
| Mar-5-1996 |
A multi-media interface universally and flexibly supports present (and contemplated) messaging applications including voice mail, facsimile mail, electronic mail, interactive voice response, automated... |
| 5487167 |
Personal computer with generalized data streaming apparatus for multimedia devices |
| Jan-23-1996 |
A multimedia data processing system includes a memory for storing multimedia application programs and a multitasking operating system. Extensions to the operating system control data streaming from source... |
| 5481664 |
Method of controlling information in multimedia system |
| Jan-2-1996 |
For each media information element constituting a display screen image in a multimedia system, main data and attribute data are stored in a storage. After the user copies a media information element from... |
| 5479597 |
Imaging system for producing a sequence of composite images which combine superimposed real images and synthetic images |
| Dec-26-1995 |
A method of producing images comprising a free combination of real images obtained by a filming system containing a real camera and of synthetic images obtained through a graphics computer equipped with... |
| 5475811 |
Rewinding time-based script sequences |
| Dec-12-1995 |
The system of the present invention provides a mechanism for executing a script sequence containing a plurality of commands and associated time for executing the commands. The system allows a user of the... |
| 5473744 |
Computer-assisted interactive method and apparatus for making a multi-media presentation |
| Dec-5-1995 |
A computer-assisted method for presenting a multi-media plurality of elements. Each element, including, for example, video images, still images and documents, is stored by assigned index number in an appropriate... |
| 5471576 |
Audio/video synchronization for application programs |
| Nov-28-1995 |
A synchronization process in an application program records audio fields with video synchronization counts, and plays back the audio and video fields in synchronism by tracking the video fields against... |
| 5469540 |
Method and apparatus for generating and displaying multiple simultaneously-active windows |
| Nov-21-1995 |
The display system includes at least one central processing unit (CPU) which is coupled through appropriate input/output (I/O) circuitry to input devices, such as a keyboard, digital pad, mouse and/or... |
| 5467288 |
Digital audio workstations providing digital storage and display of video information |
| Nov-14-1995 |
The invention disclosed herein is a digital audio workstation for the audio portions of video programs. It combines audio editing capability with the ability to immediately display video images associated... |
| 5455910 |
Method and system for creating a synchronized presentation from different types of media presentations |
| Oct-3-1995 |
A presentation made up of plural descriptions is provided. Each description specifies the data that is to be played by selected output devices, as well as parametrical values for playing the data on the... |
| 5442744 |
Methods and apparatus for displaying and editing multimedia information |
| Aug-15-1995 |
A multimedia display and editing system for editing multimedia projects on a display screen. A computer display screen is presented to the user which provides three different views of multimedia information.... |
| 5440677 |
Method and apparatus for processing audio and graphic images to create an interleaved file suitable for use as a CD-ROM product |
| Aug-8-1995 |
A system and method for use as an authoring system for the development of CD-ROM products containing interleaved digitized audio and graphic images and other information which may be read and displayed... |
| 5434592 |
Multimedia expansion unit |
| Jul-18-1995 |
A multimedia solution is presented which allows a multimedia architecture to be implemented on an existing computer system. According to the invention, an expansion unit which incorporates a multimedia... |
| 5432900 |
Integrated graphics and video computer display system |
| Jul-11-1995 |
Graphical, video, and audio dam is integrated into a single processing environment. The present invention employs an integrated graphics/video controller (IVC) which interfaces with application software... |
| 5430835 |
Method and means for computer sychronization of actions and sounds |
| Jul-4-1995 |
The invention includes a method of synchronizing actions and sounds for display on the visual display in a computer-system. The invention also includes a simulation including synchronized actions and sounds.... |
| 5428774 |
System of updating an index file of frame sequences so that it indexes non-overlapping motion image frame sequences |
| Jun-27-1995 |
In the creation of the index file, one index record is allocated to each set consisting of one retrieval key and the initial and final positions in the motion image of one frame to which the retrieval... |
| 5428732 |
Playlist mechanism for specification of complex memory objects |
| Jun-27-1995 |
Multimedia data objects in memory need not be processed serially from beginning to end but may instead be defined as algorithmically generated data streams. This functionality is provided through an architected... |
| 5414805 |
Visual display transition effects using sorted table of display cells |
| May-9-1995 |
A computer system generates transition effects for use on a visual display. The system includes a binary table for describing a transition effect and a method for ordering the rows in the table to produce... |
| 5414644 |
Repetitive event analysis system |
| May-9-1995 |
A method of observing and comparing the visual record of repetitive or related events in nature, such as behavioral activities, recorded on a viewable media, which includes converting the visual record... |
