Data processing system and method
First Claim
1. An authoring method for use in creating an audiovisual product, comprising the steps of:
- defining a plurality of components, the components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content with respect to one or more raw content objects, and a plurality of transitions that represent movements between the plurality of components;
expanding the plurality of components and the plurality of transitions to provide a set of explicitly realised AV assets (set of scrolling image data) and an expanded intermediate data structure of nodes and links (links to the set of scrolling image data and to images of each scrolling set—
that is the video sequences within each set showing the scrolling), where each node is associated with an AV asset of the set and the links represent movement from one node to another; and
creating an audiovisual product in a predetermined output format, using the AV assets and the expanded intermediate data structure of the nodes and the links, wherein the audiovisual product comprises data to produce scrolling image data.
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Abstract
An authoring method for creating an audiovisual product. The method has three main stages. The first stage defines components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content and transitions that represent movements between components. The second stage expands the components and transitions to provide a set of explicitly realised AV assets and an expanded intermediate data structure of nodes and links. Each node is associated with one of the AV assets and the links represent movement from one node to another. The third stage creates the audiovisual product in a predetermined output format, using the AV assets and the expanded intermediate data structure of the nodes and the links, wherein the audiovisual product comprises data to produce, or at least emulate, scrolling image data.
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78 Claims
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1. An authoring method for use in creating an audiovisual product, comprising the steps of:
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defining a plurality of components, the components implicitly representing functional sections of audiovisual content with respect to one or more raw content objects, and a plurality of transitions that represent movements between the plurality of components;
expanding the plurality of components and the plurality of transitions to provide a set of explicitly realised AV assets (set of scrolling image data) and an expanded intermediate data structure of nodes and links (links to the set of scrolling image data and to images of each scrolling set—
that is the video sequences within each set showing the scrolling), where each node is associated with an AV asset of the set and the links represent movement from one node to another; and
creating an audiovisual product in a predetermined output format, using the AV assets and the expanded intermediate data structure of the nodes and the links, wherein the audiovisual product comprises data to produce scrolling image data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 67, 68, 69, 70, 77, 78)
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35. An authoring method for use in creating a DVD-video product, comprising the steps of:
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creating a plurality of components representing parameterized sections of audiovisual content, and a plurality of transitions representing movements between components;
expanding the plurality of components and the plurality of transitions to provide a set of AV assets and an expanded data structure of nodes and links, where each node is associated with an AV asset of the set and the links represent movement from one node to another; and
creating a DVD-video format data structure from the AV assets, using the nodes and links, wherein the DVD-video format data structure comprises data arranged to produce scrolling image data. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. An authoring method for use in creating an audiovisual product according to a DVD-video specification, comprising the steps of:
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generating a set of AV assets each comprising a video object, zero or more audio objects and zero or more sub-picture objects, and an expanded data structure of nodes and links, where each node is associated with one AV asset of the set and the links represent navigational movement from one node to another; and
creating a DVD-video format data structure from the set of AV assets, using the nodes and links;
the method further characterized by the steps of;
creating a plurality of components and a plurality of transitions, where a component implicitly defines a plurality of AV assets by referring to a presentation template and to items of raw content substitutable in the presentation template, and the plurality of transitions represent navigational movements between components; and
expanding the plurality of components and the plurality of transitions to generate the set of AV assets and the expanded data structure of nodes and links, wherein the set of AV assets and the expanded data structure comprises data for producing, or at least emulating, scrolling image data. - View Dependent Claims (49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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58. A data processing system for authoring optical medium data comprising:
means for producing, from data representing a static visual asset, a set of visual assets in which each visual asset of the set comprises data unique to that asset and data common to that asset and at least one other visual asset of the set;
each visual asset of the set having respective defined dimensions.- View Dependent Claims (59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66)
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71. A DVD product comprising data representing a set of visual assets, the visual assets having been derived from a static visual asset such that at least a pair of successive visual assets of the set of visual assets comprise respective unique data and data common to the pair of successive visual assets thereby allowing a scrolling effect to be emulated when the pair of assets are successively displayed.
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