Computer user interface for audio and/or video auto-summarization
First Claim
1. In a computerized system having a computer, storage means for information represented by a sequence of displayable objects, a display for displaying such objects, and a user control device for said computer, said computer having means for accessing the storage means and for causing the display to display certain of the objects under control of the control device, the improvement comprising:
- (a) first means in the computer responsive to the user control device for selectively visibly marking on the display a first portion of the objects displayed for subsequent retrieval or emphasis.
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Abstract
A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies with the density of the document salience (as indicated by different kinds of annotations or marks). It also provides a way to zoom between perspectives. This is usable on many different data types: including sound, video, graphics, calendars and word processors.
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18 Claims
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1. In a computerized system having a computer, storage means for information represented by a sequence of displayable objects, a display for displaying such objects, and a user control device for said computer, said computer having means for accessing the storage means and for causing the display to display certain of the objects under control of the control device, the improvement comprising:
(a) first means in the computer responsive to the user control device for selectively visibly marking on the display a first portion of the objects displayed for subsequent retrieval or emphasis. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. In a computerized system having a computer, storage means for information represented by a sequence of displayable objects, a display for displaying such objects, and a user control device for said computer, said computer having means for accessing the storage means and for causing the display to display certain of the objects under control of the control device, the improvement comprising:
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(a) first means in the computer for displaying alongside the displayed objects a scroll bar as part of the control device, (b) second means in the computer responsive to the user control device for selectively marking on the scroll bar an area corresponding to a first segment of the objects displayed for future retrieval or emphasis. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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5. In a computerized system having a computer, storage means for information represented by a sequence of displayable objects, a display for displaying such objects, and a user control device for said computer, said computer having means for accessing the storage means and for causing the display to display certain of the objects under control of the control device, the improvement comprising:
(a) first means in the computer responsive to the user control device for selectively shrinking the display of a first segment of the objects displayed to emphasize the display of a second segment of the displayed objects. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of changing the display of related objects in a computerized system having a relativity controller to magnify selected ones of the objects, comprising the steps:
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(a) forming a normal display of a succession of the objects in which each object displayed occupies a part of the display in proportion to its size, (b) forming on the display alongside the succession of objects a scroll bar having an elongated area representing the beginning to the end of the succession of objects, a scroll thumb on the elongated area and whose location therein corresponds to a selected object of the succession of objects, and means associated with the scroll bar for activating a means for changing perspective scaling of the objects, (c) providing for a user an interactive cursor control device having user-activated switches, (d) providing on the display a cursor whose location is controlled by the control device, (e) actuating the control device to mark a first segment of successive objects and to display on the scroll bar elongated area a first indication of the marked segment, (f) activating the control device to activate the perspective scaling means to select a level of magnification of the marked segment thereby to cause objects not in the marked segment to occupy a smaller region of the display than they originally occupied to form additional regions adjacent the marked segment of objects and to cause the objects in the marked segment to expand to fill the additional regions. - View Dependent Claims (18)
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