Patents by Inventor Stephan D. Schaem
Stephan D. Schaem 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).
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Patent number: 9672646Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for performing a visual rewind operation in an image editing application may include capturing, compressing, and storing image data and interaction logs and correlations between them. The stored information may be used in a visual rewind operation, during which a sequence of frames (e.g., an animation) depicting changes in an image during image editing operations is displayed in reverse order. In response to navigating to a point in the animation, data representing the image state at that point may be reconstructed from the stored data and stored as a modified image or a variation thereof. The methods may be employed in an image editing application to provide a partial undo operation, image editing variation previewing, and/or visually-driven editing script creation. The methods may be implemented as stand-alone applications or as program instructions implementing components of a graphics application, executable by a CPU and/or GPU.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2009Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Jerry G. Harris, Scott L. Byer, Stephan D. Schaem
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Publication number: 20130120439Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for performing a visual rewind operation in an image editing application may include capturing, compressing, and storing image data and interaction logs and correlations between them. The stored information may be used in a visual rewind operation, during which a sequence of frames (e.g., an animation) depicting changes in an image during image editing operations is displayed in reverse order. In response to navigating to a point in the animation, data representing the image state at that point may be reconstructed from the stored data and stored as a modified image or a variation thereof. The methods may be employed in an image editing application to provide a partial undo operation, image editing variation previewing, and/or visually-driven editing script creation. The methods may be implemented as stand-alone applications or as program instructions implementing components of a graphics application, executable by a CPU and/or GPU.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2009Publication date: May 16, 2013Inventors: Jerry G. Harris, Scott L. Byer, Stephan D. Schaem
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Publication number: 20110200305Abstract: 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 data is sent over a network in a client/server architecture or is read from a compact disk or other memory. A “director” module residing in a client personal computer uses the “script” to tell the computer how to execute a sequence of “moves” on the still images. These moves include cuts, dissolves, fades, wipes, focuses, flying planes and digital video effects such as push and pull. Moves within a still image occur in real time, and are relatively smooth and continuous as compared to prior art network video. Low bandwidth is achieved because most of the production is done at the client location without relying upon slow, bandwidth-limited downloading of conventional network video formats.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2011Publication date: August 18, 2011Inventors: Joseph Paul Montgomery, Michael Richard Young Moore, Stephen A. Hartford, Mark R. Mooneyham, Daniel A. Kaye, Kenneth A. Turcotte, Steven R. Kell, Stephan D. Schaem
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Patent number: 6941517Abstract: 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 data is sent over a network in a client/server architecture or is read from a compact disk or other memory. A “director” module residing in a client personal computer uses the “script” to tell the computer how to execute a sequence of “moves” on the still images. These moves include cuts, dissolves, fades, wipes, focuses, flying planes and digital video effects such as push and pull. Moves within a still image occur in real time, and are relatively smooth and continuous as compared to prior art network video. Low bandwidth is achieved because most of the production is done at the client location without relying upon slow, bandwidth-limited downloading of conventional network video formats.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2001Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Vibe Solutions Group, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Paul Montgomery, Michael Richard Young Moore, Stephen A. Hartford, Mark R. Mooneyham, Daniel A. Kaye, Kenneth A. Turcotte, Steven R. Kell, Stephan D. Schaem
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Patent number: 6535634Abstract: A method of compressing a video image comprising a two-dimensional array of pixels, the image being divided into an array of contiguous blocks, the method comprising the steps of: (1) calculating, for each pixel within a block, a difference between a predicted luminance and an actual luminance; (2) assigning a frequency characteristic to the block based on a magnitude of the differences of the pixels within the block; (3) determining, for each pixel within the block, a quantized difference code based on the calculated difference and the assigned frequency characteristic; and (4) storing the frequency characteristic of the block and the quantized difference codes for each pixel within the block; and wherein the step of assigning comprises calculating a sum of the squares of the differences of all pixels within the block, and selecting the frequency characteristic from a set of predetermined frequency characteristics based on the calculated sum.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 1999Date of Patent: March 18, 2003Assignee: GlobalStreams, Inc.Inventor: Stephan D. Schaem
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Publication number: 20020080159Abstract: 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 data is sent over a network in a client/server architecture or is read from a compact disk or other memory. A “director” module residing in a client personal computer uses the “script” to tell the computer how to execute a sequence of “moves” on the still images. These moves include cuts, dissolves, fades, wipes, focuses, flying planes and digital video effects such as push and pull. Moves within a still image occur in real time, and are relatively smooth and continuous as compared to prior art network video. Low bandwidth is achieved because most of the production is done at the client location without relying upon slow, bandwidth-limited downloading of conventional network video formats.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2001Publication date: June 27, 2002Inventors: Joseph Paul Montgomery, Michael Richard Young Moore, Stephen A. Hartford, Mark R. Mooneyham, Daniel A. Kaye, Kenneth A. Turcotte, Steven R. Kell, Stephan D. Schaem
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Patent number: 6380950Abstract: 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 data is sent over a network in a client/server architecture or is read from a compact disk or other memory. A “director” module residing in a client personal computer uses the “script” to tell the computer how to execute a sequence of “moves” on the still images. These moves include cuts, dissolves, fades, wipes, focuses, flying planes and digital video effects such as push and pull. Moves within a still image occur in real time, and are relatively smooth and continuous as compared to prior art network video. Low bandwidth is achieved because most of the production is done at the client location without relying upon slow, bandwidth-limited downloading of conventional network video formats.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 1999Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Assignee: GlobalStreams, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Paul Montgomery, Michael Richard Young Moore, Stephen A. Hartford, Mark R. Mooneyham, Daniel A. Kaye, Kenneth A. Turcotte, Steven R. Kell, Stephan D. Schaem