Web movie system

• US 20020089646A1
• Filed: 01/10/2001
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Spring House Entertainment, Inc. (Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Spring House Entertainment, Inc. (Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chang, Jung-Kuei
• Application Number:
  US09/756,710
• Publication Number:
  US 20020089646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 352/131
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/165 Centralised control of user terminal subsequent to an upstream request signal H04N7/17345; Registering at central by two-way working H04N7/17309

Abstract

A web movie system is formed through a web site, and is designed according to the characteristics of Internet. Thereby, the multimedia interaction, the user can understand all information of a movie and select the movie clips according to the time of the user connected to the network. A layer and non-linear video editing concepts are used in the web movie system, so that the movie frame is edited into a plurality of scene layers (such as a front scenery, a middle scenery, and a background) according to the captured depths of the scenery so that the editing time is reduced greatly.

Claims

1. A web movie system playing a movie through Internet, for audiences to view the movie through a browser and to be able to interact with the web movie system;

the web movie system including a network playing platform, a plurality of keys for selecting, switching and downloading, a plurality of movie clips connected nonlinearly, and electronic documents for introducing the related contents of movies wherein each clip is divided into different scenes;

each scenery is installed by a plurality of scene layers, namely, the image frames of a plurality of movie clips are editing longitudinally into different scene layers;

each scene layer is formed by a plurality of components;

each scene layer being interpreted independently;

each element being updated as desired;

thereby, the amount of data in the movie being reduced, the quality of frame being increased and the transferring speed in the network being increased.

2. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the elements includes static scene, dynamic images, animations, voices and texts, and the electronic document is formed by interactive multimedia.

4. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein electronic congratulating cards, recording boards, downloading of screen protection programs, and downloading of desktops are added in the network.

5. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the movie is necessary to perform a series of succeeding operations of digitalization, image capturing, cutting and combination of various clips, matching to a 3D and 2D animation, special visual feeling, speech aside, audio effect, music integration

6. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the resolution is 720×

486 pixels.

7. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the playing of a movie clip is confined by checking an encryption code or other requirement condition.

8. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein introduction of the multimedia may be selected an element on the movie frame directly.

9. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein a output format is manufactured in the web movie so that the plurality of movie clips are used with electronic documents so as to be formed as an output files of VCD, and DVD.

10. The web movie system as claimed in claim 1, wherein an output format is manufactured in the web movie so that the plurality of movie clips are used with electronic documents so as to be formed as an output files of a published article.

3. The web movie system as claimed in claim 3, wherein content includes an introduction of movies, an introduction of roles, an introduction of scenery and prompts of clues.