End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image

• US 20080166067A1
• Filed: 03/10/2008
• Published: 07/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/09/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Sonic Solutions (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Oetzel, Kenneth G., Roth, James M.
• Application Number:
  US12/045,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20080166067A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/299
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/0125 one of the standards being a high definition standard

Abstract

The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates in some embodiments to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing “zoomed-in” sections of a master high-resolution image file, and (b) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of the logical data required to allow navigation of the generated files by an end-user of an interactive visual medium, including but not limited to such optical disc formats as DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Video CD, and Super Video CD, as well as media hosted by a server and delivered over a network.

Claims

1. A method of creating an interactive visual medium comprising:

providing an image at a first resolution;

causing to be produced a first presentation data representing of the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution;

causing to be produced a second presentation data comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second resolution;

causing to be produced logical data linking the first and second presentation data; and

causing the logical data and the first and second presentation data to be placed on the interactive visual medium.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said providing an image at a first resolution comprises rendering an analog image into digital form.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second presentation data further comprises a zoom sequence from the image at the second resolution to a portion of the image at the third resolution.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the logical data allows a user to select the portion of the image.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second presentation data further comprises a plurality of zoom sequences from the image at the second resolution to a plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution and one or more pan sequences from a respective initial one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the logical data allows a user to select the initial one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution to the final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein interactive visual medium is an optical disc format.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the logical data and first and second presentation data are placed on the optical disc in a format that does not support presentation of an image at multiple resolutions.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said optical disc format is a DVD-Audio format.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein said optical disc format is a DVD-Video format.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein said optical disc format is a Video CD format.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein said optical disc format is a Super Video CD format.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein said causing to be produced the first and second presentation data and the logical data and causing the logical data and the first and second presentation data to be placed on the interactive visual medium are performed in a automated process.

14. A method of creating content for an interactive visual medium comprising:

receiving an image at a first resolution;

forming a first presentation data representing of the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution;

forming a second presentation data comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second resolution; and

forming logical data linking the first and second presentation data, wherein the logical data and first and second presentation data are encoded in the format of the interactive visual medium.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the second presentation data further comprises a zoom sequence from the image at the second resolution to a portion of the image at the third resolution.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the logical data allows a user to select the portion of the image.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the second presentation data further comprises a plurality of zoom sequences from the image at the second resolution to a plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution and one or more pan sequences from a respective initial one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the logical data allows a user to select the initial one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution to the final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third resolution.

19. The method of claim 14, wherein interactive visual medium is in an optical disc format.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein said optical disc format is a DVD-Audio format.