Patents by Inventor Shannon Synan

Shannon Synan 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).

  • Apparatus and method for creating interactive multimedia presentation using a shoot lost to keep track of audio objects of a character
    Patent number: 6100881
    Abstract: A multimedia authoring apparatus and method that allows a multimedia author to focus solely on the content of the presentation. In its most basic form, the apparatus of the present invention includes a processor, a monitor and data storage medium, such as a magnetic or optical disk, and a multimedia database stored in a data storage medium. The processor includes means for creating and linking frames, scenes and action items, for automatically recording the action items and in an outline as the author creates them, for informing the author when a link has not been created from a given action item to another frame and for displaying a discrete portion of the presentation before all frames, scenes and action items have been created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Inventors: Hugh Gibbons, Shannon Synan