Patents by Inventor Chris P. Demiris

Chris P. Demiris 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).

  • Media editing system and method with linked storyboard and timeline
    Patent number: 10504561
    Abstract: A time-based media composition application simultaneously displays both a storyboard and a timeline representation of a media composition in a graphical user interface. The correspondence between a given storyboard element and its one or more corresponding timeline elements is shown by means of a graphical indication within the GUI, such as by displaying a spotlight from the given storyboard element to the corresponding timeline element. The user is able to scroll the displayed portions of each of the storyboard and the timeline forward or backward in time independently, while maintaining the graphical indication of correspondence between a selected storyboard element and timeline element pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Corel Corporation
    Inventor: Chris P. Demiris
  • MEDIA EDITING SYSTEM AND METHOD WITH LINKED STORYBOARD AND TIMELINE
    Publication number: 20130151965
    Abstract: A time-based media composition application simultaneously displays both a storyboard and a timeline representation of a media composition in a graphical user interface. The correspondence between a given storyboard element and its one or more corresponding timeline elements is shown by means of a graphical indication within the GUI, such as by displaying a spotlight from the given storyboard element to the corresponding timeline element. The user is able to scroll the displayed portions of each of the storyboard and the timeline forward or backward in time independently, while maintaining the graphical indication of correspondence between a selected storyboard element and timeline element pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Inventor: Chris P. Demiris