| 5838313 |
Multimedia-based reporting system with recording and playback of dynamic annotation |
| Nov-17-1998 |
A multimedia-based reporting system utilizes a command interpreter and an annotation input interpreter to receive inputs from a user and forwards the inputs to an open report handler, a save report handler,... |
| 5835101 |
Image information processing apparatus having means for uniting virtual space and real space |
| Nov-10-1998 |
An image information processing apparatus includes a cross bar switch circuit receiving first image information which indicates a two-dimensional image and second image information which indicates three-dimensional... |
| 5831591 |
Information picture display device using a double-picture type screen |
| Nov-3-1998 |
In an information picture display device using a double-picture type screen, a TV microcomputer controls a double window processing unit, an information processing unit processes information data received... |
| 5831589 |
System of notification of commonly displayed content on predetermined displays using only reference numerals which are in advance attached to images |
| Nov-3-1998 |
An image control circuit of one terminal apparatus reads image data corresponding to a designated reference numeral from a display content storage circuit and displays this on a monitor device and, at... |
| 5828369 |
Method and system for displaying an animation sequence for in a frameless animation window on a computer display |
| Oct-27-1998 |
A computer animation display system and process for smoothly displaying information containing text and moving picture images is disclosed in which animations are played back smoothly by localizing the... |
| 5826102 |
Network arrangement for development delivery and presentation of multimedia applications using timelines to integrate multimedia objects and program objects |
| Oct-20-1998 |
A network arrangement for the delivery and presentation of multimedia applications includes one or more file servers, containing multimedia assets and program objects connected to the network. A user terminal... |
| 5822537 |
Multimedia networked system detecting congestion by monitoring buffers' threshold and compensating by reducing video transmittal rate then reducing audio playback rate |
| Oct-13-1998 |
Disclosed is a networked multimedia information system which may be utilized to record, store and distribute multimedia presentations together with any supplemental materials that may be referenced during... |
| 5818436 |
Apparatus and method for playing back continuous data |
| Oct-6-1998 |
An apparatus and a method for playing back selectively a desired part of continuous data by using an input event as a clue. The apparatus comprises: first storage means for storing continuous data sequentially... |
| 5818435 |
Multimedia data presentation device and editing device with automatic default selection of scenes |
| Oct-6-1998 |
The object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia presentation device which, by executing a setting process for an information block, which is an address of an automatic branch, by means of... |
| 5813865 |
Methods and apparatus for teaching science and engineering |
| Sep-29-1998 |
The apparatus for teaching science and engineering is an interactive multimedia computer system which is used to simulate the performance of scientific experiments on the computer screen. An experiment... |
| 5812865 |
Specifying and establishing communication data paths between particular media devices in multiple media device computing systems based on context of a user or users |
| Sep-22-1998 |
The present invention describes a system of multiple devices and multiple users, wherein the identity and location of each device and user may be known to the system. A method is described for establishing... |
| 5812144 |
System for performing real-time video resizing in a data processing system having multimedia capability |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A video adapter for use in multimedia computer data processing system is disclosed. The video adapter is able to perform real time video resizing, such as video downscaling and upscaling, during compression... |
| 5812110 |
Method of displaying knit fabric and stitched structure |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A method of displaying a stitching image particularly for a plating stitch. A screen of a display unit displays a stitch structure including a type of thread for each stitch of a knit fabric. The display... |
| 5810599 |
Interactive audio-visual foreign language skills maintenance system and method |
| Sep-22-1998 |
A computer, responsive to user input, controls the presentation of an audio-visual work to a user. Through the selection of several interactive learning options, support and reinforcement of the learning... |
| 5805784 |
Computer story generation system and method using network of re-usable substories |
| Sep-8-1998 |
The storyline of a dynamically generated entertainment program, such as a video game, is generated using a matrix of reusable storyline fragments called substories. A set of characters that participate... |
| 5805152 |
Video presentation system |
| Sep-8-1998 |
A video presentation system which easily and economically realizes subject-service linkage in a video image displayed on its screen. The system includes a video display for displaying video data containing... |
| 5803738 |
Apparatus for robotic force simulation |
| Sep-8-1998 |
A system for simulating the forces associated with touching objects in a virtual reality simulator system includes a panel that contains an example of the various types of switches, knobs and any other... |
| 5801687 |
Authoring tool comprising nested state machines for use in a computer system |
| Sep-1-1998 |
According to the invention, an authoring tool comprises at least one nestable graphic state and transition machine, hereinafter referred to as a "state machine", each state machine comprising one or more... |
| 5801686 |
Computer display systems |
| Sep-1-1998 |
A computer display system and method for displaying a sequence of video images in a portion of a graphic display. The video images are provided to the system along with a first set commands that define... |
| 5801685 |
Automatic editing of recorded video elements sychronized with a script text read or displayed |
| Sep-1-1998 |
The present invention provides a video editing system that provides dynamic synchronization of recorded video elements of a presentation with a script text that is to be read by an announcer or displayed... |
| 5790854 |
Efficient stack utilization for compiling and executing nested if-else constructs in a vector data processing system |
| Aug-4-1998 |
A computer-implemented method is provided for compiling software code that performs nested conditional constructs in vector data processors (10). A vector bit stack (128) to record which processing elements... |
| 5790129 |
Multi-media computer-based method and device for self-improvement by metal stimulation |
| Aug-4-1998 |
A device and method for use in a multimedia computer for providing self improvement by mental stimulation. The device provides selectable visual imagery and audio presentation to guide the user into mental... |
| 5784568 |
Multi-party audio chat system which allows individual user utterances to be staged separately to render received utterances in order |
| Jul-21-1998 |
A method of communicating among participants at participant stations 1-N, the participant stations 1-N connected to a data communications network. A number of audio packet queues 1-N are assigned to each... |
| 5784546 |
Integrated virtual networks |
| Jul-21-1998 |
A virtual workstation includes a virtual environment controller for creating a display of a virtual representation of a work area and tools and assets therein. A virtual interface processes inputs from... |
| 5781730 |
System and method for enabling the creation of personalized movie presentations and personalized movie collections |
| Jul-14-1998 |
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... |
| 5781188 |
Indicating activeness of clips and applying effects to clips and tracks in a timeline of a multimedia work |
| Jul-14-1998 |
For use in composing and/or editing a multimedia work that include one or more clips, a technique for indicating an active state of the clip or portion thereof, indicating effects applied to a track or... |
| 5781186 |
Arrangement for specifying presentation of multimedia message components |
| Jul-14-1998 |
A new type of message component (204, 205) enables message creators to specify, inside of a message (200), how the body components (202-203) of the message are to be presented to message recipients; multiple... |
| 5777612 |
Multimedia dynamic synchronization system |
| Jul-7-1998 |
A multimedia dynamic synchronization system which flexibly adapts to a change of conditions for synchronization of multimedia elements with each other according to the passage of time. The system stores... |
| 5767846 |
Multi-media document reproducing system, multi-media document editing system, and multi-media document editing/reproducing system |
| Jun-16-1998 |
In a multi-media document editing and reproducing system, a multi-media document is created and edited, using scene data as structurization units of the document, by an editor which edits a reproduction... |
| 5767845 |
Multi-media information record device, and a multi-media information playback device |
| Jun-16-1998 |
A CD-ROM 201 for recording multi-media information of at least one page stream. Contents of each page stream are successively recorded in the storage areas in the CD-ROM 201. The following three items... |
| 5761525 |
Method and system for scheduling the playback of a multimedia presentation |
| Jun-2-1998 |
A method and apparatus are provided for scheduling an isochronous playback event to an electronic calendar. In one embodiment, the invention determines the time interval, determines whether the user has... |
| 5760771 |
System and method for providing structured tours of hypertext files |
| Jun-2-1998 |
A system and method for providing structured tours of hypertext files. A server controls the presentation of hypertext files to a user. Accompanying information to the hypertext files in the form of an... |
| 5758180 |
Block resizing function for multi-media editing which moves other blocks in response to the resize only as necessary |
| May-26-1998 |
A computer controlled video re-editing system with a "Domino" re-edit function. An edited video comprises a set of ordered video segments. In a video re-editing system a user can re-edit an edited video... |
| 5758093 |
Method and system for a multimedia application development sequence editor using time event specifiers |
| May-26-1998 |
A unique event may be generated for a particular part at a particular time that is synchronized with an arbitrary event raised by an arbitrary part for a multimedia title using an interface tool. The particular... |
| 5758049 |
Method of and apparatus for providing automatic detection and processing of an empty multimedia data object |
| May-26-1998 |
Automatic detection and processing of an empty multimedia data object is used to determine the data type of a multimedia data object. The system also detects whether the multimedia data object, or a component... |
| 5754801 |
Computer system having a multimedia bus and comprising a centralized I/O processor which performs intelligent data transfers |
| May-19-1998 |
A computer system optimized for real-time applications which provides increased performance over current computer architectures. The system includes a standard local system bus or expansion bus, such as... |
| 5754172 |
Information display method |
| May-19-1998 |
An information display method of transmitting predetermined information through a transmission path, receiving the transmitted information by a receiving apparatus, recording the information received by... |
| 5752029 |
Method and apparatus for representing and editing multimedia compositions using references to tracks in the composition to define components of the composition |
| May-12-1998 |
A system for editing and representing multimedia compositions in which the representation of a composition enables a composition to be an arbitrarily deep nesting of assemblies of components. In this representation,... |
| 5751445 |
Image transmission system and terminal device |
| May-12-1998 |
A clear print image is obtained from a moving image. A switch (66) for selectively supplying an output from a moving image input camera (60) or a still image input picture/image camera (64) to a still... |
| 5751281 |
Apparatus and method for storing a movie within a movie |
| May-12-1998 |
A hierarchical movie is provided. A hierarchical movie is a movie that contains one or more embedded movies. Embedded movies may themselves contain embedded movies. Each movie contains zero or more media... |
| 5751280 |
System and method for media stream synchronization with a base atom index file and an auxiliary atom index file |
| May-12-1998 |
An indexing method allows a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material while minimizing the time offset between audio and video data so that the viewer does not perceive a time delay between... |
| 5748842 |
Synchronizing digital audio to digital video |
| May-5-1998 |
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... |
| 5748468 |
Prioritized co-processor resource manager and method |
| May-5-1998 |
A co-processor resource manager allocates resources of a co-processor platform to nodes implementing operations requested by applications running on a host processor according to a user-modifiable prioritization... |
| 5748187 |
Synchronization control of multimedia objects in an MHEG engine |
| May-5-1998 |
A method and apparatus for synchronization control of multimedia objects in an MHEG engine are specified. The present system overcomes the shortcomings in the conventional apparatus, which is the fact... |
| 5748186 |
Multimodal information presentation system |
| May-5-1998 |
In a computer system, a method is implemented for interactively presenting electronically encoded multi-media information. The information including marks to indicate a structure of the information. The... |
| 5746605 |
Method and system for music training |
| May-5-1998 |
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... |
| 5745782 |
Method and system for organizing and presenting audio/visual information |
| Apr-28-1998 |
A method and system is disclosed for storing media identification data in a file using a digital computer in communication with a media presentation system. The method includes the step of receiving at... |
| 5745713 |
Movie-based facility for launching application programs or services |
| Apr-28-1998 |
A movie-based facility for launching applications or services. A launchpad or pallet of icons is provided to a user. The launchpad is part of a graphical user interface. Each icon has a display region.... |
| 5742283 |
Hyperstories: organizing multimedia episodes in temporal and spatial displays |
| Apr-21-1998 |
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 is then... |
| 5739806 |
Method of entering and displaying the adjustment parameters of an apparatus for coating objects |
| Apr-14-1998 |
A process for introducing or displaying the adjustment parameters of a device for coating objects, particularly vehicles and vehicle bodies. The parameters are introduced on or off-line by a personal computer... |
