Patents by Inventor T. Winton Crofton

T. Winton Crofton has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Authoring system for combining temporal and nontemporal digital media
    Patent number: 7725812
    Abstract: An authoring tool has a graphical user interface enabling interactive authoring of a multimedia presentation including temporal and nontemporal media. The graphical user interface enables specification of the temporal and spatial relationships among the media and playback of the presentation with the specified temporal and spatial relationships. The spatial and temporal relationships among the media may be changed independently of each other. The presentation may be viewed interactively under the control of the author during the authoring process without encoding the audio and video data into a streaming media data file for combination with the other media, simulating behavior of a browser that would receive a streaming media data file. The multimedia presentation may include elements that initiate playback of the presentation from a specified point in time. After authoring of the presentation is completed, the authoring tool assists in encoding and transferring the presentation for distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter A. Balkus, Glenn McElhoe, T. Winton Crofton, Thomas C. Purcell
  • Authoring system for combining temporal and nontemporal digital media
    Publication number: 20040268224
    Abstract: An authoring tool has a graphical user interface enabling interactive authoring of a multimedia presentation including temporal and nontemporal media. The graphical user interface enables specification of the temporal and spatial relationships among the media and playback of the presentation with the specified temporal and spatial relationships. The spatial and temporal relationships among the media may be changed independently of each other. The presentation may be viewed interactively under the control of the author during the authoring process without encoding the audio and video data into a streaming media data file for combination with the other media, simulating behavior of a browser that would receive a streaming media data file. The multimedia presentation may include elements that initiate playback of the presentation from a specified point in time. After authoring of the presentation is completed, the authoring tool assists in encoding and transferring the presentation for distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2004
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Inventors: Peter A. Balkus, Glenn McElhoe, T. Winton Crofton, Thomas C. Purcell