SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING AND PLAYBACK

• US 20100146393A1
• Filed: 02/17/2010
• Published: 06/10/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Resource Consortium Limited, LLC
• Original Assignee: Sparkpoint Software Incorporated
• Inventors: McMahon, Michael J., Land, Michael Z., McConnell, Peter N.
• Granted Patent: US 10,127,944 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/00 Control arrangements or circuits for visual indicators common to cathode-ray tube indicators and other visual indicators image data processing or generation, in general G06T
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission

Abstract

A multimedia authoring and playback system and method in which the playback of multimedia content is presented in one or more windows or displays called “playback displays,” and in which additional windows or displays called “control displays” are included in some embodiments to provide various management and control functions. Included are features for creating, editing and distributing multimedia content, which may be viewed by recipients who play the content (and in some cases may be allowed to modify it); also included are features for programming playback behavior of multimedia content, interconnecting multimedia content, and exploring and navigating through multimedia content.

Claims

1. An authoring method comprising the steps of:

storing presentation data including at least one container object containing at least two media objects containing media data, the media data including at least one of text data, picture data and video data;

playing back the presentation data by presenting the media data in a playback display, wherein the display color of the media data can be specified by a user of the system; and

adjusting the display color of media data being displayed in the playback display by performing four actions consisting of (1) selecting via a graphical user interface (GUI) a command for adjusting color, (2) selecting a piece of media data displayed in the playback display, (3) moving a pointing device in a two dimensional plane wherein the color hue is mapped to one axis of the plane and the color brightness is mapped to another axis of the plane and the color of the displayed media data changes in real time in response to the movement of the pointing device, and (4) accepting the new display color of the media data.