| 6763523 |
Intelligent transfer of multimedia data files from an editing system to a playback device |
| Jul-13-2004 |
A method and system is provided to avoid the duplicate storage and transfer of multimedia data in a playback device, thereby increasing system bandwidth and available playback memory. A multimedia composition... |
| 6762766 |
Image processing computer system for photogrammetric analytical measurement |
| Jul-13-2004 |
In an image processing computer system for a photogrammetric analytical measurement in which a survey map is formed by successively connecting survey map sections to each other, each survey map section... |
| 6760916 |
Method, system and computer program product for producing and distributing enhanced media downstreams |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A multimedia production and distribution system collects or assembles a media production (such as, a news program, television programming, or radio broadcast) from a variety of sources, including television... |
| 6760885 |
System and method for using a standard composition environment as the composition space for video image editing |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method of generating an image or a video stream in which the composition space in a standard display tool is used as the composition space. One example of a standard display tool is an HTML-compliant... |
| 6760042 |
System and method of processing MPEG streams for storyboard and rights metadata insertion |
| Jul-6-2004 |
A method, apparatus and article of manufacture for storyboard thumbnail and video rights metadata insertion is provided for preventing unauthorized use of restricted video frames of a previously encoded... |
| 6751776 |
Method and apparatus for personalized multimedia summarization based upon user specified theme |
| Jun-15-2004 |
An automatic video content summarization system that is able to create personalized multimedia summary based on the user-specified theme. The invention employs both natural language processing and video... |
| 6747674 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and information providing medium |
| Jun-8-2004 |
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information providing medium that allow a user to check the still pictures of a moving picture to be searched at desired points... |
| 6747673 |
Method, software product and system for reproducing video/audio data |
| Jun-8-2004 |
A memory in a video/audio-processing unit retains data of video and audio received from a video mail system and data of new input video and audio. According to user operations, a video/audio-processing... |
| 6745252 |
Network control system, controller, and device |
| Jun-1-2004 |
When a plurality of display parts, or icons, such as "play" or "stop" are displayed on a screen, information about the positional relationship in which these icons will be laid out on the screen is first... |
| 6744968 |
Method and system for processing clips |
| Jun-1-2004 |
An editing system for editing a plurality of clips recorded on a random-accessible recording medium includes a clip processing device having a plurality of clip processing layers to execute a predetermined... |
| 5956026 |
Method for hierarchical summarization and browsing of digital video |
| Sep-21-1999 |
A method of hierarchical digital video summarization and browsing includes inputting a digital video signal for a digital video sequence and generating a hierarchical summary based on keyframes of the... |