Authoring Tool Patents (Class 715/731)
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Patent number: 8578259Abstract: Tools and techniques for media portability and compatibility for different destination platforms are provided. These tools may receive commands to launch a media portability capability, and may receive source media as input for transformation. These tools may also receive indications of profile settings for specifying how to transform the source media for enhanced portability on destination systems for playback. The source media may be transformed in response to the profile setting, with the transformed media inserted into a document. The tools may then distribute the document to the destination system for playback.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2008Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Chao-Nan Chen, Barn-Wan Li, Kai Chung Lui
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Patent number: 8578273Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for presenting digital images over a display in a slideshow presentation. The slideshow has an appearance of the images being hand-placed and for providing a more human feel to the presentation of digital images.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Mark D. MacKenzie
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Patent number: 8572490Abstract: 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.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2011Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Gunthar Hartwig, Jasson Arthur Schrock, Nikhil Chandhok, Christian Oestlien, Aaron Kwong Yue Lee
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Patent number: 8572488Abstract: Automated methods are used to augment an original script of a time-based media program that contains speech with timing metadata and an indication of a confidence level with which script portions are matched with the speech in the program audio track. An editor uses a spot dialog editor tool to produce a word-accurate spot dialog master by reviewing and editing script portions displayed next to the corresponding portions of the time-based media. The spot dialog editor tool selects for review and editing the parts of the script having a low confidence match with the speech in the program.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 29, 2013Assignee: Avid Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michael E. Phillips, Glenn Lea
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Patent number: 8560951Abstract: A production system automates the control of production devices used to produce and broadcast a show. The system automation allows a video director to pre-produce, preview, and produce the live show from a single user interface. In an embodiment, a processing unit displays graphical controls for the production devices. A video director interacts with the graphical controls to thereby remotely control the production devices from one location. In an embodiment, a video director defines a set of production commands or instructions (i.e., “transition macro”). Upon execution, each production command directs the processing unit to transmit in series and/or parallel one or more control commands to one or more of the production devices. Production commands can be included to enable the show to be broadcast live or recorded for on-demand access. Live and/or on-demand productions are distributed over traditional television mediums and/or a computer network, including the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2000Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Thomson LicensingInventors: Robert J. Snyder, Alex Holtz, David E. Buehnemann, Gilberto Fres, Harrison T. Hickenlooper, III, Charles M. Hoeppner, Kevin K. Morrow, Bradley E. Neider, Loren J. Nordin, III, Todd D. Parker
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Patent number: 8560952Abstract: A custom layout may be created that includes an arbitrary number of placeholders. Instead of having to use one of the predefined slide layouts available from a presentation program, a user may create their own set of custom layouts that may be used in zero or more presentations and applied to zero or more slides. A custom layout may include title placeholders, header/footer placeholders, as well as body placeholders. The custom layouts may contain both typed and un-typed placeholders. The placeholders on the custom layout may be positioned and formatted as desired by the user. A user may also create and include customized backgrounds on the custom layout. The custom layout may be edited in the same manner as a slide. The user may utilize the interface to copy, move, delete, and edit the custom layouts.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2005Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Nathalie S. Collins, Hoa N. Lu, Dennis Coh, Andy Chin
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Patent number: 8555169Abstract: A computer readable medium (CRM) storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a display area for displaying a composite presentation that the application creates by compositing a plurality of media clips, (2) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation, (3) an audition display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are candidates for adding to the composite presentation at a particular location, and (4) an audition tool for creating an audition set for a particular location in the composite display area, where the audition set is a user modifiable set of clips, each of which is for individual placement at the particular location for inclusion in the composite presentation.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Colleen Pendergast, Michaelle Stikich, Dave Cerf, Tom Langmacher, Anne Swenson, Gregory Niles, Jerremy Holland, Brian Meaney, Egan Schulz, Charles Lyons
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Publication number: 20130254666Abstract: Over the past few years there has been a dramatic proliferation of digital cameras, and it has become increasingly easy to share large numbers of photographs with many other people. These trends have contributed to the availability of large databases of photographs. Effectively organizing, browsing, and visualizing such .scas. of images, as well as finding a particular image, can be difficult tasks. In this paper, we demonstrate that knowledge of where images were taken and where they were pointed makes it possible to visualize large sets of photographs in powerful, intuitive new ways. We present and evaluate a set of novel tools that use location and orientation information, derived semi-automatically using structure from motion, to enhance the experience of exploring such large collections of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2013Publication date: September 26, 2013Applicants: University of Washington, Microsoft CorporationInventors: Keith Noah Snavely, Steven Maxwell Seitz, Richard Szeliski
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Patent number: 8540520Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for delivering instructional information and include displaying instructional information on several visual displays prior to a triggering event and displaying the instructional information in an instructional varying display pattern on the at least three visual displays after the triggering event so a person viewing the instructional varying display pattern is unable to detect a repeatable pattern. Also included is displaying background information on each display not displaying instructional information. The background information is displayed with a background varying display pattern so a person is unable to detect a repeatable pattern.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Life Success AcademyInventor: Bernhard Dohrmann
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Patent number: 8533598Abstract: Some embodiments provide a computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating multimedia presentations. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes a composite display area for displaying a portion of a timeline to which multimedia clips are assigned to create a composite media presentation. The GUI includes a user interface tool for dividing the timeline into segments. The GUI includes an editing tool for applying an effect to each of a plurality of clips in a particular segment of the timeline. The GUI includes a user interface tool for modifying a duration of at least one segment. Different versions of the segments may be created.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian Meaney, Melissa Breglio, Mike Stern, Jerremy Holland, Dave Cerf, Colleen Pendergast, Peter A. Steinauer, Michaelle Stikich, Charles Lyons
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Patent number: 8527879Abstract: An editing method includes: detecting a selection of first and second clip portions of a source media depiction, generating corresponding first and second block icons and snapping hands-free the first and second block icons across the screen to a linear queue so that the blocks are snugly adjacent, detecting a move of the first or second block icon relative to one another substantially along the queue, and if the first or second block icon overlaps the other by substantially one half of the other block icon, reversing displayed positions in the queue of the first and second block icons.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: Vericorder Technology Inc.Inventors: Gary Mark Symons, Kirk David Symons
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Patent number: 8510657Abstract: The present invention includes a graphics software program that automatically creates graphical content when a user creates or modifies a hierarchical list of content data and chooses from one of a plurality of graphical definition choices for the graphical elements. In addition, the present invention includes a user interface with three different displays. The first display presents the user with one or more galleries including a gallery with a plurality of graphical definitions. The second display is a content entry area. The final display is a drawing canvas.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2004Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brent Gilbert, Cynthia C. Shelly, Gary A. Pritting, Kim Tapia St. Amant, Matthew J. Kotler, Richard J. Wolf
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Patent number: 8510656Abstract: An interactive storybook system and method are provided that allow a user with or without the assistance of an operator to make a storybook their own by replacing markers with their own selection from a listing of provisional words and provisional images. The computer-based interactive storybook application may be used by teachers, parents, therapists, and other adults for teaching or therapy applications which assist children in learning and growing.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Inventor: Margery Kravitz Schwarz
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Patent number: 8484578Abstract: An out-space actuator is selected to access an out-space user interface for a document editor program. An out-space actuator is associated with an in-space user interface having a displayed document. When the out-space actuator is selected, an out-space user interface is displayed that includes an expanded feature selection surface. The out-space user interface may be used to display one or more status panes for providing status information about a document being edited in the in-space user interface. Application features for affecting changes to a given document's status may be exposed in the out-space interface in proximity to associated status information. An out-space communication user interface (UI) component may be temporarily displayed in the document in-space user interface to communicate document status information that is presently available in the out-space user interface. A message bar may be displayed in the in-space user interface for communicating information from the out-space user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jonathan Ian Gordner, Marina Dukhon, Jesse Clay Satterfield, Navjot Singh, Maria Fernandez Trevino, Amy E. Alberts, Paula Guntaur
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Patent number: 8473847Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for comparing two slide decks using a compare service. The compare service generates a comparison analysis for the two slide decks based on a comparison theme selected by the user. The result of the analysis is displayed in a comparison display that includes a slide selector section, a slide pair viewer section, and a navigable change summary section. In one embodiment, the compare service allows the user to select preferred slides from the two slide decks displayed in the comparison display, and subsequently generates a new slide deck that contains only the preferred slides selected by the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Workshare Technology, Inc.Inventor: Robin Wallace Glover
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Publication number: 20130151973Abstract: A method, data processing system and computer program product for customizing a presentation. A set of individual preferences for each individual of a plurality of individuals to form a set of audience preferences is determined, wherein each preference in the set of individual preferences is associated with one of a plurality of versions of the presentation. A set of versions of the presentation from the plurality of versions of the presentation is selected based on the set of audience preferences. The set of versions of the presentation selected from the plurality of versions of the presentation is presented.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2011Publication date: June 13, 2013Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Kulvir S. Bhogal, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II, Anne R. Sand
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Publication number: 20130132847Abstract: A method for producing a photo album includes providing a library of page layouts, selecting a first group of one or more images to be placed in the first page of the photo album, selecting a second group of one or more images to be placed in the second page of the photo album, graphically displaying the first group of one or more images within a first border that represents a first page, graphically displaying the second group of one or more images within a second border that represents a second page, automatically selecting a first page layout from the library of page layouts, and automatically placing the first group of one or more images into the one or more image receiving areas in the first page layout to produce the first page in the photo album.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2013Publication date: May 23, 2013Applicant: Shutterfly, Inc.Inventor: Shutterfly, Inc.
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Publication number: 20130125002Abstract: Automatic stacking based on time proximity and visual similarity is described, including a method, comprising analyzing a time proximity of a plurality of electronic images, performing a visual similarity analysis on the plurality of electronic images, and stacking the plurality of electronic images based on a result of the time proximity analysis and the visual similarity analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2006Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: Adobe Systems IncorporatedInventors: Radford Spaeth, Michael Slater
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Patent number: 8434028Abstract: System and method for integrating media objects for viewing on and manipulation via a computing device such as a personal computer. The system and method may be provided via an application program interface (API) which provides functions that allow an application program to create a scene and add media objects to the scene. The method includes preparing a translation vector and a rotation matrix for each of the media objects to define an orientation and a location of each of the media objects in the scene. The scene including the media objects is displayed. An interface is provided so that a user may manipulate the scene and the objects therein. The system and method may be implemented on a personal computer or other computing device.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xiaochun Nie, Christopher L. Flick
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Patent number: 8418061Abstract: A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to perform a series of steps in a graphics drawing application. A drawing is opened and a series of two or more drawing operations is performed. Subsequent to the performing, the series of the two or more drawing operations is displayed in a history list of drawing operations. An arbitrary subset of the two or more drawing operations is selected from anywhere in the history list. The selecting provides for the recording of the arbitrary selected subset. The recorded arbitrary subset of drawing operations is dynamically performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.Inventors: Randy A. Kintzley, Hans-Frederick Brown
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Patent number: 8418082Abstract: A method of defining a media editing application for creating media presentations. The method provides a composite display area for displaying a set of clip shapes that represent media clips. It also provides a consolidated editing tool for (1) identifying clip-shape edit points that are near a cursor's location as the cursor moves from track to track in the composite display area and (2) collectively selecting the identified clip-shape edit points along multiple track in order to receive an edit operation to collectively perform on said the clip-shapes of the identified edit points.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian Meaney, Colleen Pendergast, Charles Lyons, Douglas DeVore
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Patent number: 8418063Abstract: A request acknowledging unit in a scenario creation unit of a content creation aiding device acknowledges a user request related to scenario configuration. A displayed image processing unit displays an image on a display device to assist the user to set up a key frame. A key frame interpolation unit inserts a key frame that triggers switching of the display to a link destination image when the display area reaches an area in which a link is set up. A coordinate converting unit represents the key frame using frame parameters in a coordinate system of a post-switching image. A correction unit corrects the key frame by applying, to the key frame set up, correction that is opposite to the correction applied to a frame when the frame is displayed. A scenario file output unit creates an ultimate scenario file and stores the file in a storage device.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2010Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.Inventor: Aritoki Kawai
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Patent number: 8407596Abstract: Media timeline interaction may be provided. An electronic presentation may comprise a media object. A user may select the media object within a presentation application and use an on-object user interface in conjunction with the application's user interface to modify the media object. The user may also display the modified media object within the presentation application.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2009Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sandy Yu, Barn-Wan Li, Jeffrey Chao-Nan Chen, Allen Pin-Shiu Huang, Jason Xiaobo Zhao, Mark Pearson
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Patent number: 8407595Abstract: An imaging service creates a visual presentation. The imaging service accesses images of a location, arranges them such that they create a desired visual effect when displayed, and combines them in a visual presentation. The imaging service may employ a client/server system, in which case images and information are uploaded from a client, and the visual presentation is downloaded to the client. The imaging service may also receive compensation from a computer user for using the imaging service.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2000Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Eric Edwards, Kurt Jonach, John Tree
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Patent number: 8397166Abstract: With a map displayed on a displaying apparatus 6, a user touches a touch panel 16 with his or her finger to draw an operation trajectory passing through his or her desired area on the map. A user's designated area is specified based on the operation trajectory. Images shot in the designated area are automatically selected to be displayed and the order of displaying the images is set in accordance with a drawing operation of the operation trajectory such that the image shot at a shooting spot closest to the start point of the operation trajectory is displayed first and the image shot at a shooting spot closest to the end point of the operation trajectory is displayed last. The image selecting operation and the image displaying order setting operation can be easily performed at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Casio Computer Co., Ltd.Inventor: Kosuke Matsumoto
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Patent number: 8381136Abstract: A method for independently supporting at least two display mechanisms in a handheld electronic device and a handheld electronic device implementing the method includes a primary display window, a secondary display window and a display manager coupled to the primary and secondary display windows. According to the present invention, the display manager allows the primary display window to display a first set of objects and allows the secondary display window to display a second set of objects independently, whereby the first set and second set of objects include at least one common object.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Scenera Technologies, LLCInventor: Robert P. Morris
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Patent number: 8375303Abstract: A system for selecting, managing, sharing and displaying content data files in a manner that takes into the account the contextual significance of said content data files to a narrative, an author(s) and an audience. A system that is able to place an absolute and relative value upon the significance of a media object is able to assist in stimulating the recollection of the author and audience, thus making every aspect more memorable and enhancing by improving the ease of use and the quality of the final result of the use of the system of this invention.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Edward Covannon, Joseph A. Manico, Loretta E. Allen, Patrick A. Cosgrove
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Publication number: 20130019178Abstract: A presentation system includes the following: a reception unit that receives a start instruction to start a presentation, a detection unit that starts detecting a gesture of a presenter in response to the start instruction, and a control unit that controls an operation for distributing presentation material, based on a detail of detection of the gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Takeshi MORIKAWA, Kaitaku OZAWA, Takeshi MINAMI, Daisuke SAKIYAMA, Kazuya ANEZAKI
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Patent number: 8356071Abstract: A system and method for providing a presentation to a display client. In one illustrative embodiment, the display client can be an IP phone. The presentation can be provided over a network from a central location without requiring end user action at the IP phone. The presentation can be modified for optimal display based on the capabilities of the specific IP phone without affecting the quality of the presentation for other device types. The devices capable of viewing the presentation can include desk display telephones, cellular telephones, smart phones, portable computers, PCs, and possibly other appropriate network-enabled devices. Centrally controlled presentations can be pushed to an individual device, group of devices, and/or all devices site-wide. In some applications, the display client can be used to provide user selections in response to the provided presentation.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2010Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Mitel Networks CorporationInventor: Jacob Schmier
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Patent number: 8356253Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Impact Engine, Inc.Inventors: Neil Greer, Bennett Blank, Bryan Depew
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Patent number: 8352863Abstract: A system and method for online product design. An electronic product template having a number of pre-defined text fields and template editing tools for allowing the user to incorporate user text into the text fields are downloaded to a user computer. The current state of the product design is retained at the user computer. When the user has entered text for incorporation into a text field, the text for that text field and the associated font information are uploaded to the server. The server creates an image of the text field and downloads the text image to the user computer for incorporation into the displayed product design according to text positioning information retained at the user computer. Each text field in the design is a separate image that can be individually and independently edited and positioned within the product design.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2007Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Vistaprint Technologies LimitedInventor: Laban D. Eilers
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Patent number: 8352864Abstract: A method of generating a customized image includes forming a first design including a first pattern having a first color and a second color. The method also includes receiving input from a user using a design modification element. The method further includes forming a second design including a second pattern including a third color and a fourth color. A change from the first design to the second design is proportional to the input received from the user using the design modification element.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: CISCO Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Kaplan, Ariel Braunstein
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Patent number: 8341528Abstract: Systems, methods, and software applications for managing slide presentation content are described in the present disclosure. According to one embodiment, among many, a computer readable medium is configured to store instructions that are executable by a processing device. The computer readable medium comprises logic adapted to disassemble a plurality of slide presentations into a plurality of individual files, wherein each individual file corresponds to a single slide of a respective slide presentation. The computer readable medium also includes logic adapted to extract information from each slide and logic adapted to compare the extracted information from each slide and consolidate groups of slides that are substantially similar.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Dhananjay R. Chaudhary, Tara U. Roberts, Joseph E. Keslin, Philip Boutros
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Patent number: 8327272Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable multifunction device with a touch screen display. The touch screen display includes a long axis, a short axis, a portrait view and a landscape view. The computer-implemented method includes executing a calendar application. In response to detecting the portable multifunction device in a first orientation that comprises a substantially vertical orientation of the long axis, a calendar is displayed for a first time period in the portrait view. In response to detecting the portable multifunction device in a second orientation that comprises the substantially vertical orientation of the short axis, a calendar is displayed for a second time period in the landscape view. The second time period is longer than and includes the first time period.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Freddy Allen Anzures, Marcel Van Os, Stephen O. Lemay, Michael Matas
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Patent number: 8307284Abstract: An audio and video production system and method, including a video production control switcher; and one or more computers connected through a network and configured for controlling the video production control switcher. The system is further configured for at least one of defining looks, including shot templates, that correspond to particular settings on the production control switcher or settings of parts of the production control switcher; defining sequences of the looks or assigning individual looks to control elements on a computer of the computers; transmitting the looks across the network; and translating of a single look into one or more standard editor commands, and transmitting the commands to the production control switcher.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2005Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Ross Video LimitedInventors: David Allan Ross, Jeffrey Derek Moore, Troy David English, Gerald D. Kuch, Charles Allan Pepper, Christopher M. Rude, Jonathan Douglas Laurie Pile, Alun John Fryer
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Patent number: 8296658Abstract: A graphical user interface includes a primary color palette including a first plurality of colors and a secondary color palette including a second plurality of colors. A first color is defined as a primary color and a second color is defined as a secondary color. The secondary color is different from the primary color. The graphical user interface also includes a plurality of styles, with a style defined as an initial style. The graphical user interface further includes an intensity scale ranging from a minimum intensity value to a maximum intensity value. An indicator is positioned in association with an initial intensity value. Moreover, the graphical user interface includes a display tile including an initial pattern that is displayed based on the primary color, the secondary color, and the initial style and a subsequent pattern that is modified from the initial pattern based on the initial intensity value.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Kaplan, Ariel Braunstein
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Patent number: 8296649Abstract: A method, graphical interface and computer-readable medium for generating a preview of a reformatted preview segment of a selected input file. A preview pane is displayed in a single window and includes preview controls including a file timeline indicator configured to graphically depict a length of a selected input file. Preview in and out markers are displayed and configured to define a preview segment of the selected input file. The preview segment is reformatted into a reformatted preview segment according to the reformatting process associated with the selected input file. The reformatted preview segment is displayed in the preview pane.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2005Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Sorenson Media, Inc.Inventors: Randon Morford, Matthew D. Cupal, Joseph Romriell, Mitchell Holyoak, Carlo Johannes Bos
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Patent number: 8266540Abstract: Methods and systems for integrating manufacturing equipment with factory automation software. In one embodiment, an equipment integrator (EI) has a user interface to facilitate user input of configuration information to provide an adaptable interface between a manufacturing tool and a manufacturing execution system (MES) that is operable over a plurality of manufacturing tools. The user configurable interface of the EI is adaptable so that tool-independent MES data collection requests may be satisfied by tool-specific data publication through the EI. In a further embodiment, data collected by the EI from a particular manufacturing tool is mapped to the MES without tool-specific interface coding. During processing, the configurable EI may fill a request from the MES for manufacturing data by collecting a data from the manufacturing tool, identifying data based on the configuration information and returning data satisfying a data keying criterion defined in the MES.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2008Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: M'hamed Farid Bakli, Parris C. M. Hawkins
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Patent number: 8261188Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for preparing a document for editing. The document includes a first graphical object and at least one variable field or property in a second graphical object that is associated with a property of the first graphical object. The first graphical object has a plurality of properties. A user interface display screen is provided that allows a user to design a document that includes a plurality of graphical objects. Then, a document is created on the user interface display screen. A first graphical object and a second graphical object are added to the document. At least one variable field or property in the second graphical object is identified. The identified field or property in the second graphical object is associated with a property of the first graphical object. In this manner, a document is prepared for editing.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: ColorQuick, L.L.C.Inventors: Mark A. Weiss, Daniel J. Freiman
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Patent number: 8225376Abstract: A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided. The present invention provides a system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary. A profile for a user is generated. One or more privacy setting selections are received from the user associated with the profile. The profile associated with the user is updated to incorporate the one or more privacy setting selections. A privacy summary is then generated for the profile based on the one or more privacy setting selections.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Kelly
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Patent number: 8219513Abstract: A system for selecting, managing, sharing and displaying narrative data files in a manner that takes into the account the contextual significance of said narrative data files to a narrative, an author(s) and an audience. A system that is able to place an absolute and relative value upon the significance of a media object is able to assist in stimulating the recollection of the author and audience, thus making every aspect more memorable and enhancing by improving the ease of use and the quality of the final result of the use of the system of this invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2008Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Edward Covannon, Kevin M. Gobeyn, Stacie L. Hibino
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Patent number: 8214742Abstract: A computer implemented method for capturing and enhancing illustrating pane content for use as sequential slides in a presentation includes illustrating a static image on an illustrating pane in a plurality of colors. Each color used to illustrate the static image representing a single element of the static image. The method further includes digitally capturing a single finished image of the illustrated static image and enhancing the background, geometry and colors comprising the finished image. The single finished image is separated into a plurality of single color images with each single color image comprising only a portion of the single finished image comprising that specific color. A ordered presentation is built from the single colored images and the presentation is displayed.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Allan K. Pratt
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Patent number: 8205160Abstract: A computing device configured to execute computer code to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for creating a multi-frame presentation is provided. The generated GUI may include a canvas pane configured to display a main frame and supporting frame icons representing a plurality of supporting frames of the presentation. The generated GUI may further include a connector tool operable within the canvas pane for creating a link between a source element and a target element, the source element being the main frame or an element of the main frame, the target element being a supporting frame or an element of a supporting frame, the link being defined by an associated linking script, the connector tool being operable to create the link via a click-and-drag action from the source element to the target element.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Cheryl S. White, Douglas W. Herman, Casey A. Anderson, Bartosz Gulik, Patrick Schreiber, Ravipal Soin, Robert S. Dietz, Hana Kim, David Matthew Snow
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Patent number: 8205159Abstract: A system, method and medium organizing a template, which enables a user to easily create moving images, are provided. The system includes a template controller to generate a time tab indicating when to display the moving image and to identify one or more scenes of the moving image by parsing a script in response to a user command, a scene controller to identify one or more objects included in each of the scenes and an execution module to define dynamic effects for each of the objects and to load the identified objects and the identified execution module, an object controller to create a control code for each of the identified objects based on the loaded objects and the loaded execution module, the control code controlling the identified objects according to the time tab, and a template storage unit to store the template that includes the script, the execution module, the objects, and the control code.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2007Date of Patent: June 19, 2012Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hye-jeong Lee, Min-kyu Park, Ji-hye Chung, Yong-beom Lee
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Patent number: 8201074Abstract: A range of unified software authoring tools for creating a talking paper application for integration in an end user platform are described herein. The authoring tools are easy to use and are interoperable to provide an easy and cost-effective method of creating a talking paper application. The authoring tools provide a framework for creating audio content and image content and interactively linking the audio content and the image content. The authoring tools also provide for verifying the interactively linked audio and image content, reviewing the audio content, the image content and the interactive linking on a display device. Finally, the authoring tools provide for saving the audio content, the video content and the interactive linking for publication to a manufacturer for integration in an end user platform or talking paper platform.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Kentaro Toyama, Gerald Chu, Ravin Balakrishnan
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Patent number: 8196058Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes an image data storage unit, an operation unit, a generation unit, a display unit and a control unit. The image data storage unit stores plural pieces of image data. The operation unit allows a user to input an instruction. The generation unit outputs one of a first list of the stored image data in a first display form and a second list of the stored image data in a second display form according to the instruction. The control unit controls the display unit to display the one. When the generation unit switches from outputting the one to outputting the other in accordance with the input instruction, the control unit controls the display unit to display the other so that image data, which is displayed at a particular position in a previous display form, is displayed at a particular position in a current display form.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2006Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tatsuhiko Saitoh
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Patent number: 8176426Abstract: An image reproduction apparatus that sequentially reproduces and displays a plurality of images, includes: a display effect setting unit that sets a display effect for each image based upon image data of the image stored in a storage means; and a display unit that reproduces and displays the image with the display effect set by the display effect setting unit when sequentially reproducing and displaying the plurality of images.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: Nikon CorporationInventor: Setsu Mitsuhashi
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Patent number: 8175640Abstract: A mobile terminal and method of generating a content therein are disclosed, by which a video file can be created using an image captured by a camera and playback music. The present invention includes a camera for capturing a picture, an audio output module outputting a played music, a display unit displaying the captured picture, a controller controlling the camera to capture a plurality of pictures in the course of playing the music, the controller creating a video file by inserting a plurality of the captured pictures in a specific playtime of the music matching a capture timing point of the picture, and a memory storing the created video file.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventor: Won Sik Choi
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Patent number: 8166404Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to authenticating an identity of users desiring access to an application program and determining whether an authenticated user is authorized to access one or more aspects of the application program.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2005Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventor: Doron Grinstein
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Patent number: 8166401Abstract: A method for providing computer readable instructions for a presentation in a remote location is disclosed. In the method non-editable computer readable instructions for a presentation at a remote location are received from a central data storage via a data network. A user at the remote location then provides at least one set of computer readable instructions that are associated with the presentation. A modified presentation is presented at the remote location based on the non-editable set of computer readable instructions and the associated computer readable instructions. The associated computer readable instructions can then be sent to the central data storage for use in at least one subsequent execution of the presentation.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: PHM Associates LimitedInventor: Peter Hookham-Miller