| 7039857 |
Method and apparatus for building multimedia applications using interactive multimedia viewers |
| May-2-2006 |
A programming application for creating an Interactive Multimedia Application (IMA) which includes access to and rendering of multimedia files stored in a data repository has first selectable software modules... |
| 7032177 |
Method and system for distributing personalized editions of media programs using bookmarks |
| Apr-18-2006 |
An editing device accesses a media program and a user of the editing device designates excerpts within the media program. Bookmarks are generated for the designated excerpts. The bookmarks are transmitted... |
| 7030872 |
Image data editing |
| Apr-18-2006 |
A computer based image data processing system reads image data from a framestore and processes this data in response to user commands. In order to effect these commands the user is provided with a graphical... |
| 7028324 |
Digital broadcasting system and event message transmission method |
| Apr-11-2006 |
A digital broadcasting system includes an authoring apparatus and a transmission apparatus. The authoring apparatus generates event information, which defines an event message that should be transmitted... |
| 7024677 |
System and method for real time video production and multicasting |
| Apr-4-2006 |
An integrated, fully automated video production system provides a video director with total control over all of the video production devices used to produce and broadcast a show. Such devices include,... |
| 7023452 |
Image generation system, image generating method, and storage medium storing image generation program |
| Apr-4-2006 |
An image division unit divides an original image. Each divided image is assigned an identifier, and additional information for generating an image corresponding to each divided image. An image distribution... |
| 7020381 |
Video editing apparatus and editing method for combining a plurality of image data to generate a series of edited motion video image data |
| Mar-28-2006 |
A video editing apparatus for editing electronic motion video image data utilizes an effect setting table that specifies mapping of editing effect names arbitrarily registered by the user to editing effects... |
| 7003212 |
Data editing apparatus, data editing method and data recording/reproducing apparatus for re-editing formerly edited data |
| Feb-21-2006 |
Provided are a data editing apparatus, a data editing method and a data recording/reproducing apparatus which can easily reedit edited data recorded on a nonlinear-accessible recording medium. When a start... |
| 7003154 |
Adaptively processing a video based on content characteristics of frames in a video |
| Feb-21-2006 |
A system and method for temporally processing an input video including input frames. Each frame has an associated frame play time, and the input video has a total input video play time that is a sum of... |
| 7000200 |
Gesture recognition system recognizing gestures within a specified timing |
| Feb-14-2006 |
Gesture recognition in which timing data is used to temporally segment video data into video clips. The timing data can be beat data extracted from an audio signal. |
| 6988245 |
System and method for providing videomarks for a video program |
| Jan-17-2006 |
A system and method is disclosed comprising a videomark controller and videomark computer software for creating videomarks for a video program. When a user desires to mark an event in a video program the... |
| 6988244 |
Image generating apparatus and method |
| Jan-17-2006 |
An index picture as a still picture obtained by summarizing the contents of a moving picture, which is generated by using a video browser technique can be formed in various modes. A plurality of kinds... |
| 6983420 |
Motion picture information displaying method and apparatus |
| Jan-3-2006 |
An image information displaying method and apparatus for the edition of a motion picture are disclosed in which representative image representing a series of frame images forming the motion picture are... |
| 6982764 |
Image enhancement |
| Jan-3-2006 |
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of enhancing a video image. A sequence of video frames is extracted. Each of the video frames is upsampled. The upsampled video frames are interpolated. The interpolated... |
| 6976229 |
Method and apparatus for storytelling with digital photographs |
| Dec-13-2005 |
A display showing an imported story track, an authored story track, and a story-in-progress track. Each story contains one or more objects. The display also shows a large photo corresponding to a selected... |
| 6964021 |
Method and apparatus for skimming video data |
| Nov-8-2005 |
The present invention relates to a system for searching and browsing multimedia, and more particularly, to a video skimming method and apparatus which is capable of summarizing the full content of a subject... |
| 6961446 |
Method and device for media editing |
| Nov-1-2005 |
The present media editing device generates media including messages in an easy manner in a communication terminal such as a mobile terminal. Therein, a moving image data storage part stores moving image... |
| 6957388 |
Scenario editing device capable of automatically supplementing scenario on the basis of received additional data |
| Oct-18-2005 |
A scenario editing device comprises a scenario supplementing unit supplements a scenario memorized in a scenario memory according to a scenario basic rule memorized in a scenario rule memory when it receives... |
| 6957386 |
Apparatus and method for controlling display of electrical program guide |
| Oct-18-2005 |
An improved apparatus is provided to attain enhanced convenience in controlling display of an electrical program guide with a smaller number of manipulating keys. An EPN mode for displaying the electrical... |
| 6954900 |
Method for summarizing news video stream using synthetic key frame based upon video text |
| Oct-11-2005 |
The present invention relates to a method for summarizing a news video stream using a synthetic key frame based upon news video text. The method according to the invention generates the synthetic key frame... |
| 6954894 |
Method and apparatus for multimedia editing |
| Oct-11-2005 |
A method for production and post-production processing of multi-media input data where the method comprises the steps of inputting one or more multi-media input data sets inputting one or more templates... |
| 6952804 |
Video supply device and video supply method |
| Oct-4-2005 |
A video providing device (30) comprises network I/Fs (37), (38) for transmitting/receiving a video to an external network, a high-quality video server (32) for storing the video... |
| 6948128 |
Nonlinear editing system and method of constructing an edit therein |
| Sep-20-2005 |
A nonlinear editing system for audio, video and/or other source materials comprises a system to define at least one time line representing the edit, the time line being represented in the editing system... |
| 6941517 |
Low bandwidth television |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The present invention is concerned with client-side production in a personal computer environment of low bandwidth images and audio. A series of low bandwidth still images along with a "script" and audio... |
| 6941516 |
Object movie exporter |
| Sep-6-2005 |
Methods and apparatuses for compressing and/or transmitting and/or receiving data representing different views of an object. In one method according to the present invention, the method stores a plurality... |
| 6941515 |
Method and apparatus for controlling a graphics engine |
| Sep-6-2005 |
The invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling a graphics engine, the graphics engine being suitable for creating graphics in a broadcast system. The apparatus generates a user interface... |
| 6941508 |
System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization |
| Sep-6-2005 |
An indexing method for allowing a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material. By mapping from time to data position, data delivery can begin at any selected time in the program material.... |
| 6931595 |
Method for automatic extraction of semantically significant events from video |
| Aug-16-2005 |
A method of determining the boundary of a slow motion replay of an event in a video includes determining a statistical measure of different portions of the video. The video may include the event and the... |
| 6928613 |
Organization, selection, and application of video effects according to zones |
| Aug-9-2005 |
A storyboard of video clips is divided into zones, or segments. The user selects a zone, and the invention presents a list of effects that are applicable to the selected zone. The user can select among... |
| 6925602 |
Facilitating access to digital video |
| Aug-2-2005 |
A digital video editing system uses a graphical user interface which facilitates the selection of a video sequence of interest and its representation in a conveniently visualized form. Through the graphical... |
| 6892352 |
Computer-based method for conveying interrelated textual narrative and image information |
| May-10-2005 |
A computer-based method and device for conveying interrelated image and narrative information is disclosed, suitable for use with a variety of types of information ranging from product information and... |
| 6892351 |
Creating a multimedia presentation from full motion video using significance measures |
| May-10-2005 |
Methods apparatus and computer programs products for creating a multimedia presentation having video frames and video segments with synchronized audio are disclosed. Audio-video data is separated into... |
| 6851091 |
Image display apparatus and method |
| Feb-1-2005 |
An imaging device capable of displaying an outline of a moving picture as a still picture is realized. Further, reproduction of a moving picture that is started from any desired scene by using an index... |
| 6820238 |
Rotary control for quick playlist navigation in a vehicular multimedia player |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A multimedia player having a limited user interface achieves quick and easy navigation within a large playlist of stored digital audio files by employing the rotary volume control knob in a separate mode... |
| 6819394 |
Time-varying image editing method and time-varying image editing device |
| Nov-16-2004 |
A time-varying image editing device is provided on a recording medium (101) and used for editing time-varying image data reproduced from a time-varying image file containing time-varying image data body... |
| 6810503 |
Method and apparatus for controlling the timing of the invocation of events within a computer runtime environment |
| Oct-26-2004 |
An invention for specifying and synchronously executing an extensible set of events along a single timeline is disclosed. More specifically, an invention for specifying an extensible set of multimedia... |
| 6806888 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating, from first information for a first image, second information for a second image corresponding to a portion of the first image |
| Oct-19-2004 |
In one aspect and form of the invention, a converter receives first visual information from a computer system. The first visual information is conventionally used for generating an image for a first display... |
| 6801708 |
Data recording and reproducing apparatus and data displaying method |
| Oct-5-2004 |
A data recording and reproducing apparatus having a recording and reproducing means for recording and reproducing data containing video data and/or audio data to and from a record medium that is non-linearly... |
| 6801294 |
Recording and/or reproducing apparatus and method using key frame |
| Oct-5-2004 |
There is provided an apparatus for recording and/or reproducing a moving picture using key frames by which the overall scenario of moving picture contents can be ascertained during a trick-play mode, and... |
| 6795092 |
Data processing apparatus and method, and storage medium |
| Sep-21-2004 |
A conventional partial data reproduction method proposed can be applied to a document constituted of a single media data type, but cannot be applied to a document constituted of plural types of media data... |
| 6792573 |
Method for playing media based upon user feedback |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A method for playing media based upon feedback from a user using a media system for the selective playing of media clips based upon feedback collected from a user includes a storage device electronically... |
| 6791578 |
16:9 aspect ratio and anamorphic image processing |
| Sep-14-2004 |
A method and apparatus is described for receiving a first data stream comprising a graphic image having an aspect ratio of 16:9 into a computer system, capturing the image within a storage device of the... |
| 6789105 |
Multiple-editor authoring of multimedia documents including real-time video and time-insensitive media |
| Sep-7-2004 |
A system and method for employing multiple editors in the creation of self-presenting multimedia documents that include real-time video and time-insensitive media such as graphics and text. The real-time... |
| 6785429 |
Multimedia data retrieval device and method |
| Aug-31-2004 |
The multimedia data retrieval device of this invention includes: a content storage section for storing a plurality of compressed contents; a client terminal for inputting feature data, a feature data storage... |
| 6785409 |
Segmentation method and apparatus for medical images using diffusion propagation, pixel classification, and mathematical morphology |
| Aug-31-2004 |
A method of digital imaging includes receiving image data and fitting a curve to boundaries within the image data. The curve is fit to the boundaries within the image data by extracting a region of interest... |
| 6778224 |
Adaptive overlay element placement in video |
| Aug-17-2004 |
A method for placing overlay elements in images of a digital video so that desirable viewing areas of the images are not occluded by the overlay element, the method includes extracting frames from the... |
| 6774919 |
Interface and related methods for reducing source accesses in a development system |
| Aug-10-2004 |
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 represents an... |
| 6774767 |
Visual messaging system for high-speed networks |
| Aug-10-2004 |
The present invention provides a visual messaging device for use with a high speed network. The message data is communicated to the network by a remote device, such as a computer or server. The visual... |
| 6771285 |
Editing device and method |
| Aug-3-2004 |
Editing apparatus for controlling editing of source audio and/or video material stored as one or more source files on a storage medium to generate an edited material series of clips from the source material... |
| 6768499 |
Methods and systems for processing media content |
| Jul-27-2004 |
Methods and systems for processing media content are described. In one embodiment, a software-implemented matrix switch is used in connection with multi-media editing software that enables users build... |
