Patents by Inventor Xinping Yang

Xinping Yang 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).

  • System for managing multimedia objects
    Patent number: 6301586
    Abstract: A system for managing multimedia objects such as text, images, sound, and video clips. The system provides improved organization of multimedia objects, through use of albums organized into collections of albums. In addition, improved printout of multimedia objects through user-activateable selection of particular fields from a multimedia database to accompany printouts of multimedia objects. A user interface is defined for allowing a user to obtain a thumbnail view of images in multimedia objects, simply by sliding a mouse cursor over database entry pointing of the image. In addition, a unique architecture of a system for managing multimedia objects is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Xinping Yang, Andrew H. Tomat, Timothy L. Kohler, Laurence Lavendel