Abstract: There is provided with a video display apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a composite video image generated from a plurality of video sources; a display unit configured to display the received composite video image; an area manager configured to store area information pieces; a position specification unit configured to specify a position on the composite video image; an area selection unit configured to select an area information piece from the area information pieces; an area display unit configured to provide information indicating the area represented by the selected area information piece to the display unit so as to superpose the information on the displayed composite video image; an area change unit configured to change the information; an area information update unit configured to update the selected area information piece; and a transmission unit configured to transmit an update control signal containing the area information piece after update.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and user interfaces for presenting video search results are provided. Representations of video search results are presented to the user. Each representation may include a video preview of the video item. If desired, the preview may be dynamically executed in response to a user action, for instance, in response to a user hovering over a portion of the associated video representation for at least a predetermined period of time. Another embodiment in accordance with the present invention relates to a user interface for presenting video search results in response to an input query. The user interface includes a video item representation display area and a video item display area. The video item representation display area displays a representation of each of the video items, and if desired, the representation is dynamically executed in response to a user action. The video item display area may display the one or more video items.

Abstract: The multimedia content browsing system for small mobile devices smoothly blends three key tasks: querying the multimedia contents by keywords, exploring the search results by viewing keyframes of the multimedia contents, and playing a stream of the multimedia contents, e.g., videos or video segments. Videos can be stored in a segment-based multimedia content database, which is designed to support the browsing, retrieval, and reuse of videos. A layered imaging model is introduced where each layer may have its own transparent value set individually, continuously, and interactively, and the layers can overlap on top of each other when rendered on the screen. Since a small mobile device alone may not have enough resources to handle the entire task of multimedia content browsing, a scalable architecture can be adopted to break up the task among the small mobile device, a Hard Disk Drive (HDD), and a resource-rich computing device.

Abstract: A user interface for the adjustment of display parameters. The user interface includes a plurality of selectable icons arranged in a matrix, each icon having a visual cue indicating the display adjustment achieved by the selection of the icon. The visual cues may include level and window number values and grayscale patches. The level and window number values are calculated from a default center value obtained from a digital image file to be displayed and a predetermined gradient.

Abstract: A video data structure and a video browser for video browsing based on content is disclosed. An embodiment of the present invention allows users to easily understand relationships between characters and changes in relationships between characters in a movie or drama by displaying significant events in connection to corresponding relationships and by displaying character relationships in a tree structure.

Abstract: A system, method and various user interfaces provide an embedded web-based video player for navigating video playlists and playing video content. A website publisher can create and store a video player with customized parameters (e.g., player type, appearance, advertising options, etc.) and can associate the player with a playlist of selected videos. The stored video player is associated with a player ID in a player database and can be embedded in a website using an embed code referencing the player ID. A user interface for the embedded player provides controls for controlling video playback and for controlling the selection of a video from the playlist.

Abstract: The method of collecting a time based stream of information to generate a presentation is provided for in which a processing system is employed. In one exemplary method, the processing system communicates with an information source that contains a time based stream of information. This communication may be through an automatic detection procedure that may trigger a capture mode and the gathering of the time based stream of information. A user interface may present controls for toggling between capture mode and edit mode within a single window of the user interface. A capture output, which is often a substantially true representation of the quality of information being acquired, may be provided on a portion of the display, e.g. viewing portion, during the capture mode. An edit output that represents the edited version of clips may be provided on the same viewing portion of the display during the edit mode.

Abstract: To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in printing, the image editing method includes a step of instructing to move an arbitrary point of an image displayed in an image display area among image data; a step of calculating an image movement amount and a magnification ratio in response to the instruction to move the arbitrary point; and a step displaying a predetermined area of the image data in the image display area on the basis of the image movement amount and the magnification ratio, which are calculated in the calculating step.

Abstract: In a client-server system where a client system presents a browser for user interaction, a browser user interface includes functionality for handling dynamic interface elements received by the browser in connection with received pages, presented as part of the browser user interface and modified in response to selected user input without requiring further interaction with a server. In addition to, or in place of, dynamic interface elements such as slide sheets, the browser user interface might also include a rotation display area, tool displays that can overlay a page, opaquely or semi-transparently, menu structures, and an ability for the user to modify a page layout without requiring server interaction.

Abstract: To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the user with an indication of where the user is within that resource. The system of the present invention achieves this goal with the use of a novel system of icon label placement for that resource icon. Specifically, the system of the present invention uses the position of a label on an iconic resource representation that extends beyond at least one edge of a window to convey a proportional position within than iconic resource representation. Thus, a user is given an understanding of the current proportional location within an iconic resource representation from where the graphical interface system renders the label on the iconic resource representation.

Abstract: In this editing and mixing environment, the graphical form is a direct and exact model of the audio recording. Thus, there is a one-to-one relationship between the manipulation of an audio recording, via manipulation of the graphical form, and the resulting edited audio recording. The audio editing system relates audio to a visual graphical form by providing a tactile dimensionality and functionality to translate the form into an edit and/or mixing audio process and result. In this manner, a user may not only hear the representation of the music that has been edited or mixed, but may also see the representation of the audio in representative graphical form. The form may be manipulated by a user in logical scale to the sound so that the user may learn the traits and tools of the editing system.

Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for enhancing color bars utilized in color rendering applications. One or more primary color bars are associated with an electronic document in response to at least one input by a user, wherein the primary color bar(s) is based on a plurality of input color spaces utilized by the electronic document. Additionally, a dynamic color bar can be automatically configured that includes a plurality of spot colors associated with the electronic document, wherein the dynamic color bar permits the user to determine all spot colors defined for the electronic document. The primary color bar(s) permits a single set of rules for color bar content and placement to be governed by the primary color bar, thereby enhancing the use of color bars in color rendering applications.

Abstract: A user interface for controlling an ultrasound system comprises a display for displaying ultrasound data and a plurality of physical controls. At least one of the physical controls is configured to control multiple functions of the ultrasound system and has a user operable member providing physical actions that are associated with system parameters. The physical actions comprise rotational and translational movements, and each of the system parameters is associated with an ultrasound system action.

Abstract: A Graphical User Interface is provided that presents multi-level configurable parameter values for an item in a condensed and scannable format. The GUI enables a user to clearly and quickly discern the relationship between the parameters. The GUI can also reflect modifications to parameters that result from a selection of a parameter value. The GUI can be used to define options and related settings on a form or client GUI, such as a job ticket.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for handling special windows in a display comprises a window manager in an operating system that is called by application programs to create special windows. The window manager embeds static key signals including encoded special window information, such as the coordinates of a window area to be specially processed, into a video RAM. An existing video interface scans the video RAM and transmits display information, including the key signals, to the display. The present invention further comprises a window decoder in the display, that detects the key signals, extracts the encoded special window information, and controls display circuitry performing the desired special processing. The key signal encoding scheme does not create visually discernible display aberrations that could distract the user or interfere with normal window management.

Abstract: A video processing apparatus, for use in a video receiver, includes a decoder configured to decode encoded video information into decoded video information and to output the decoded information, and a configuration module coupled to the decoder and configured to a provide a control signal to the decoder indicative of a reduced-image portion of the video frames to be displayed, where the decoder is configured to respond to the control signal by decoding first macroblocks of the video information within the reduced-image portion and second macroblocks of the video information, in a reference section, adjacent the first macroblocks to account for motion of the images in the reduced-image portion without decoding third macroblocks lying outside of the reduced-image portion and the reference section.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the Internet. The system is also capable of controlling operatively connected, privately networked devices. A number of graphical user interfaces are utilized to facilitate user access, manipulation and control of information, data and content and networked devices. Some of the graphical user interfaces are time and topic oriented, are customizable by the user, and allow for the manipulation of information, data, content and operatively connected networked devices from the graphical interfaces themselves. The system is preferably enhanced through the use of an intelligent, dynamically updated user profile that is fully integrated with the system.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for the generation of visual effects according to the elapsed time for real time display. One embodiment of the present invention provides an automated mechanism for displaying visual effects (e.g., fade to or from a target color) through adjusting color correction parameters (e.g., the look up table for gamma correction) without disturbing display color calibration settings for the current display device. Time-based adjustments are made in small steps in the beginning and end and large steps in the middle of the transition to provide perceptually smooth transition effect. In one embodiment, a operating system resource is provided to manage, synchronously or asynchronously, the visual effect on behalf of requesting applications, simplifying the coding of the application programs and providing consistency across application programs. In one embodiment, the operating system resource uses a reservation system to prevent conflict and interference between application programs.

Abstract: A display system for adjusting video parameters of a user-selected area is disclosed. The display system includes a level detector detecting a line pattern included in one of a plurality of image lines representative of a complete image being displayed, and a pattern receiver coupled to the level detector for receiving the detected pattern, where the received pattern includes a position indicator whose ends are vertically aligned with vertical edges of the user-selected area. In addition, the display system further includes a pixel counter coupled to the pattern receiver for measuring a set of horizontal positions of the indicator ends with respect to a reference point, a pattern analyzer calculating a set of horizontal positions of vertical edges of a video control area on the basis of the positions of the indicator ends, and a video preamplifier adjusting at least one of video parameters of the video control area.

Abstract: Image-based products are obtained from a digital motion picture source by utilizing a content playing and display system for (a) displaying a sequence of motion picture image frames from a digital motion picture image source containing motion picture contents, and (b) selecting one or more of the image frames for an image-based product and obtaining a unique frame identification for said one or more selected frames; a content management system that (a) utilizes the unique frame identification and determines whether at least one permissible image-based product can be made from said one or more selected frames, and (b), if a permissible image-based product may be made as determined, obtains file data corresponding to said one or more selected frames from a digital source file containing source information corresponding to the motion picture contents; an order management system for preparing order information for the permissible image-based product from the file data; and an order fulfillment system for generati

Abstract: An information display device and an information processor for performing, in the case where an image is delivered to information terminals such as a mobile phone varied in display, optimum image processing in accordance with performance of the display of each of the information terminals and content information including a material and an object distance contained in the image in addition to a framework of a color conversion by a color management technology. The information display device and the information processor are also capable of changing parameters of the image processing in accordance with a user image preference and an image texture input by the user.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to navigate, view, and manipulate a collection of digital images utilizing a GUI that has the familiar context of a calendar. Graphical objects representative of digital images are displayed within a particular day displayed in a calendar-based GUI. A user may group digital images into groups, modify the date with which a digital image is associated and perform various other manipulations using embodiments of a calendar-based GUI.

Abstract: An MPEG compressed bit stream representing video information is associated with supplemental information such as motion, audio, scene cut, and editorial information. The motion information is identified and processed to determine characteristics of the video information. Motion information is processed to determine magnitude, coherence, and correlation with known motion information templates. MPEG motion vectors are used to determine motion information. Audio, scene cut, and editorial information is similarly identified and processed. The motion information along with other types of information is provided to a client by using color bars or other techniques to allow a client to interact with the video information using supplemental information.

Abstract: A computer and Internet-based system and method for providing television and radio programming information to users, through a multi-tabbed viewing screen, where at least one of the tabs is individualized to a particular viewer's preferences.

Abstract: The relation between the edit resultant clip and the clip to be edited is managed with the hierarchical structure by managing means, so that the complicate editing works can be easily performed if the editing works are performed based on the information stored in the managing means.

Abstract: In a method or system for operation of at least one electrophotographic printing or copying system, at least one setting value of a parameter of a printing unit of the printing or copying system is displayed via a graphical user interface with a graphical representation. At least the setting value is input via the user interface.

Abstract: A master movie and player are created on the fly. The master movie is created based on characteristics of a movie or other asset to be viewed by the player. The player is constructed from a template having rudimentary player capabilities for a predetermined connection speed. Tracks selected by suppliers and user/e-tailers are added to customize the player. Different players are constructed for various predetermined connection speeds. When an asset is to be viewed, a server downloads the master movie matching a content viewer's request to the content viewer's machine. The master movie determines the connection speed and send a message back to the server. The server then downloads the player for the asset requested by the content viewer and matching the content viewer's connection speed. The requested asset is then streamed to the content viewer.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for creating, using and modifying multifunctional website hot spots including software that identifies, programs and activates hot spots with a plurality of functions wherein the functions include a shopping mode for selecting and purchasing items on a website or in a video, a digital call mode for facilitating videoconferencing and telephone calls over a globally accessible network, a digital storage area for selecting, retrieving and playing selected digital media files, a bid mode that facilitates audio and video communication during multi-task communication interface for conducting an auction and/or accepting bids, an interact mode for communicating a user with a live streamed digital media file, a link mode for directly linking to pre-identified URL addresses and an entertain mode for retrieving and activating digital media files, wherein the functions are selected based on user inputs or predetermined parameters and are activated by clicking a predetermined hot spot.

Abstract: A circuit has been shown to illustrate how a vertical indicator can be generated in logic for a simplified OSD generator. The vertical visual indicator generated uses little microcontroller firmware overhead allowing a less powerful microcontroller to be used in the specific application, thus lowering system cost. A single byte is written to a counter to indicate the position of the vertical indicator. The OSD video coming from the OSD logic is overridden with a pixel overwrite signal when the location of the vertical indicator is located. The pixels overwrite whatever is located below the position of the vertical indicator. The pixel overwrite occurs for a predetermined time to fill a predetermined number of pixels. For example, if the vertical indicator is three pixels wide then the pixel overwrite signal occurs until three pixels have been overwritten.

Abstract: The present invention describes a method of validating parameters defining an image, each parameter being represented by one of the tops of a polygon and being able to be associated with one or more functionalities. A point, being able to move in the polygon, makes it possible to validate the parameters and the associated functionalities according to the position of this point with respect to the tops of the polygon. The present invention also describes a search method including at least one parameter validation step as described above.

Abstract: A method of conceptually magnifying video browser data, the data being organised hierarchically in one or more levels (304, 312) is disclosed. The method comprises firstly selecting a parent level (304), the parent level selection making visible a first key frame (340) associated with the parent level (304). A magnification mode is also selected, being either a parent-only, or a parent-children magnification mode. Conceptual magnification is then performed, which displays, in the parent-only mode, the first key frame (340) associated with the parent level (304), and other frames (300, 302) which are also associated with the parent level. The conceptual magnification displays, in the parent-children mode, the first key frame (340) associated with the parent level (304), and second key frames (324) associated with an associated child level (312).

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for editing the content of a broadcast programming signal to provide a proprietary program signal that has been tailored to the preferences of an individual monitoring the broadcast programming signal. Accordingly, the systems and methods of the invention offer computer-integrated television monitoring.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for reducing power consumption within a video processing portion of a system based on display content. Display content is monitored to determine whether the display content is changing. New display content is compared to old display content to determine if the display content is changing. If the display content has not changed, a frame rate used to output display data is reduced. A color depth associated with the display data is also reduced. Power consumption can be reduced when it is determined that display content is not changing.

Abstract: A setup process for a video system enables various operational settings of the video system to be selected and input to the video system using a personal computer. According to an exemplary embodiment, a video system, comprises an interface operatively coupled to a remote computing device through a data communications network for transmitting and receiving setup data representing at least one user selected operational setting of the video system, and a memory operative to store the received setup data.

Abstract: A feature-rich transport multiplexer and a number of associated methods, systems, subsystems, software features, graphical user interfaces and control systems are disclosed. The disclosure includes GUI's that enable operators to easily monitor and manipulate content streams flowing through a transport multiplexer in real-time. The disclosed interfaces include screens that supply operators with identity, structure, configuration, bandwidth utilization and/or status information for system hardware and software. The disclosed features also provide computer assisted routing configuration for present and future routing events through simple manipulation, such as drag and drop operations, of graphical objects. Routing control is further simplified by permitting operators to configure routing control of individual content stream components as well as groups of such components simultaneously.

Abstract: Disclosed is a display device including a display section for displaying a video signal, comprising: an OSD generating section adapted to generate a menu matrix having a plurality of menu icons arranged in a plurality of rows and columns forming a matrix shape to display the generated menu matrix on the display section, the plurality of menu icons being adapted to adjust the display state of the display section; a key inputting section adapted to allow a user to select any desired one of the plurality of menu icons; and a control section adapted to control a pointer so that the pointer is positioned at a menu icon in the central region of the menu matrix upon the initial display of the menu matrix, the pointer indicating a menu icon selected through the key inputting section, and the control section adapted to vary the display state of the display section according to an input signal from the key inputting section.

Abstract: A communication apparatus which receives image data taken by an imaging apparatus connected through a network, comprises a storage for storing control information to control the imaging apparatus, and an output for outputting to a display unit a synthetic image which is obtained by synthesizing a symbol representing a state of the imaging apparatus to image information indicating a setting location of the imaging apparatus in accordance with the control information stored in storage. Accordingly, a stored state of the imaging apparatus can be easily grasped.

Abstract: According to the invention, a method for customizing a video service in a content distribution system is disclosed. In one step, preference information entered by a user of the content distribution system is received and influences a profile for that user. Interaction of the user with the video service is observed to influence the profile. The video service is customized based, at least in part, on the profile. A program guide is generated and customized according to the profile. The profile is modified to remove older interaction information.

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing an information signal stored on a first storage medium (4). The apparatus comprises a reading unit (2) for reading the information signal from the first storage medium, an output unit (6) for supplying the information signal to a display unit, an user controllable input unit (8) for receiving commands to enable an user to access the information signal. The user controllable input unit is adapted to receive a first command at an instant. The apparatus further comprises a unit (10) for controlling the reading unit to start reading the information signal from said storage medium at a second position in the information signal in response to said first command, the information signal at said second position having features showing a similarity with features of the information signal at a first position read at said instant of receiving said first command, or a features of an information signal read prior to said instant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for summarizing a news video stream using a synthetic key frame based upon news video text. The method according to the invention generates the synthetic key frame by allocating different importance measures according to an icon text region and a general text region.

Abstract: A multi-layer graphical user interface (GUI) using metadata, provides for timeline metaphoric representations (100A, 100B, 200A, 200B, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900) of pictures in a digital picture database. Icons (104A, 106B, 204A, 208B, 304, 404, 504, 604, 704, 804, 904) representing the points of time by which all of the pictures are categorized are sized according to the relative number of corresponding pictures. The most general view is in the form of a timeline (102A, 102B, 202A, 206B, 302, 402, 502, 602, 702, 802, 902) using either years or decades (when the pictures were taken) as the measuring units. Views linked to the general view further refine the general view with icons (104A, 106B, 204A, 208B, 304, 404, 504, 604, 704, 804, 904) proportionately sized according to the number of pictures corresponding to the categorization represented by the particular icon.

Abstract: The invention relates to method and apparatus for controlling a graphics engine, the graphics engine being suitable for creating graphics in a broadcast system. The apparatus generates a user interface allowing a user to control a graphics engine. The apparatus has a first input for receiving at least one template data element, the template data element including a graphics component and a data field component suitable for receiving an information unit. The apparatus further comprises a second input coupled to an information unit source. A processing unit coupled to the first input and second input processes the template data element and the information unit source to enter in the data field component is selected information unit to form a representation of a graphics page that results from a combination of the template data element and the selected information unit.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for compressing and/or transmitting and/or receiving data representing different views of an object. In one method according to the present invention, the method stores a plurality of frames of an object wherein each of these frames represents a view of the object. The method then assigns a reference number to each of these frames, arranges these frames in a preferred layout, divides the preferred layout into a plurality of blocks having frames sharing spatial similarities, and compresses each of these blocks separately.

Abstract: A method of selecting and editing a plurality of digitally represented still images in a computer environment is provided. The method includes the use of a graphical user interface having a display and a user interface selection device, and includes the steps of opening the data files of the images to be edited, displaying the images, and displaying a task pane including at least one editing task entry having a specified multiple-image editing task command. A group of all or some of the images is formed by the user selecting the images to be edited, and an editing task execution signal is received which is indicative of the user selecting the desired editing task entry on the task pane. In response to receipt of the editing task execution signal, the specified editing task command is performed on the group of selected still images.

Abstract: An imaging device capable of displaying an outline of a moving picture as a still picture is realized. Further, reproduction of a moving picture that is started from any desired scene by using an index picture can be realized. When VD index pictures displayed on a browser screen are selected, a corresponding index representative still picture is displayed. Therefore, a moving picture such as a moving picture of a quick motion whose contents cannot be easily grasped only by the VD index picture, can be easily recognized with the addition of the corresponding index representative still picture. By selecting the VD index pictures displayed on the browser screen, display of the corresponding moving picture is started from a portion corresponding to the selected VD index picture.