Intellimarks universal parallel processes and devices for user controlled presentation customizations of content playback intervals, skips, sequencing, loops, rates, zooms, warpings, distortions, and synchronized fusions

• US 20140186010A1
• Filed: 04/11/2013
• Published: 07/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elizabeth T. Guckenberger, Ronald J. Guckenberger, VR Rehab Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Elizabeth T. Guckenberger, Ronald J. Guckenberger
• Inventors: Guckenberger, Elizabeth T., Guckenberger, Ronald J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,715,899 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/248
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier

Abstract

Improved automated methods of dynamically customizing displayed presentation of media content playback and/or live streams with the users seeking to add, remove, change, and/or fuse displayed information. Specifically, a user or users are able to add, remove, or move IntelliMark (Intelligent Bookmarks) that are separate parallel temporal bookmarks with associate dynamic run-time display manipulations within a separate file(s) that are NOT part of the media content nor live stream, and are stored within media players, enabling customized viewings without violating copyrights or terms of use for the underlying unaltered, un-copied original media content.

In addition to an individual user customizing his own viewing experience, by sharing his IntelliMarks file(s) with others that have access to the same media content, these others can experience the customized playback as constructed by other users. Further, they can evolve their own interpretations and share back to the original user and/or others.

Claims

1. A display system method characterized by new combinations and unobvious uses of IntelliMarks to control the presentation of media content or live interactions with dynamic at run-time presentation commands which alter the viewing users media content presentation, enable skipping portions, changing the rate of presentation, splicing in additional content, or simultaneously semi-transparently superimposing additional content as a separate collection of indexes with associated commands within separate XML files that do not alter the original content, do not violate any copyright restrictions, and do not violate any terms of use restrictions, in addition to augmenting the presentation through current media players, IntelliMarks also altered the presentation of Rapid Sequential Visual Presentations, Above Real-Time Video (and below real-time), Animations, Simulations, Virtual-Reality, Augmented-Reality, Mixed-Reality Presentations, and/or Mirror Mimic Presentations (Semi-Transparent Superimposed) of information in display windows or screens comprising:

means providing said display window on an electronic image display means, the display window being used to view content of any type;

a plurality of content data sources, each of which provides digitized data representing the value of information, or graphic, or video, or other content;

means coupled to the data sources for altering the PRESENTATION of digitized data as a plurality of data items without altering or illegally copying the original content;

means including computer software means for IntelliMark pointer with associated command to alter the presentation of the data as a continually cycling sequence of independent frames of information in said display window, with the data presented in repetitive cycles, each cycle comprising a frame for each of the data items, and with a representation of the digitized data for each date item being displayed during its individual frame during each cycle.

2. The display system method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display window is embodied as a stand-alone device.

3. The display system as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display window is part of a larger integrated display means.

4. The display system as set forth in claim 1, further including means for permitting operator control of rate of frame sequencing from options for the frame duration in the range of 1 ms to 1 hour.

5. The display system as set forth in claims 2 and 3, further including means for permitting operator control of the display onset and offset.

6. The display system as set forth in claims 2 and 3, further including means for permitting operator control of the positioning of RSVP window.

7. The display system as set forth in claims 2 and 3, further including means for permitting operator control of the RSVP text or graphics size type and other characteristics within the RSVP window.

8. The display system as set forth in claims 2 and 3, further including means for permitting operator control of the semi-transparency of the RSVP text or graphics size type and other characteristics within the window.

9. The display system method as set forth in claim 1, characterized by the sequential presentation of independent or dependent frames of real-time, above-real-time, and/or below-real-time visual information in one small display window of an electric image display means, the display window being one spatial location or several which many be viewed in its entirety without scanning eye movements (saccades), said method comprising the steps:

a. periodically inputting data from a plurality of data sources, each of which provides digitized data representing the value of information form one or plurality of data points;

b. storing and analyzing the digitized data as a plurality of data items, also including semi-transparent superimposing;

c. using computer software to organize the data as a continually cycling rapid sequence of independent or dependent frames of information; and

d. displaying the data using computer software for rapid presentation of the data as said continually cycling sequence of independent frames of information in said display window, with the data presented in repetitive cycles, each cycle comprising a frame for each of the data items, and with a representation of the digitized data for each data item being display during its individual frame during each cycles;

Further data items of different types and styles can be have their own customized time cycles;

e. automating pauses for blinking, sneezing, or other breaks in attention are supported; and

f. using control pauses, resume, above real-time forward and rearward scrolling are also supported.

10. The display system method as set forth in claim 1, characterized by the semi-transparency of windows, layers, and/or objects for the purposes of combining for superimposition advantages and/or adjacency advantages placing the objects of interest within a spatial location or several which many be viewed in its entirety without scanning eye movements (saccades), said method comprising the steps:

a. setting the opacity of the windows, layers, and/or objects through the operating system capacities, or graphics level capacities, or even the application level capacities to enable see-through combinations with other semi-transparent or opaque windows, layers, and/or objects;

b. manual or automated means to scale and align the items of interest within windows, layers, and/or objects to superimpose and/or adjacent advantages with other different items of interest with other different within windows, layers, and/or objects. Further superimpose and/or adjacent advantages of the same items of interest recorded at different times can be combined, and/or pre-recorded items of interest can be combined with real-time items of interest; and

c. supporting video based and motion track system driven Avatars objects as exemplar objects of interest;

Further, combining totally separate applications is possible.

11. The display system method as set forth in claim 1, characterized by altering the flow of simulated time within applications, simulations, games, and/or operating systems, etc.), said method comprising the steps:

a) identifying the software parameter reading of the hardware clock typically an operating system or graphic system service date-time parameter that is read at the ‘

tick’

level, or tied to a graphics update such as 60 Hz where a double buffered graphic system flips the buffers during the display vertical retrace delay (typically called a vertical interrupt);

b) adding a scalar multiplicative (or other arithmetic operation) under automated application control and/or user control which alters the default value read by the applications, simulations, games, and/or operating systems (preferred method);

c) brute force methods that actually increase the update rate and decoupled from real-time clock time; and

d) slower than real-time again by use of a scalar multiplicative (or other arithmetic operation) under automated application control and/or user control which alters the default value read by the applications, simulations, games, and/or operating systems (preferred method).

12. The display system method as set forth in claim 1, characterized by new, unobvious combinations and new uses where a user preference file sets the spatial, temporal, and positional information for RSVP, ARTT, and MMT for use in general, and/or for specific devices, said method comprising the steps:

a) reading in a user preference file, and/or accessing preference information by other means were as the Smith, Joe, ID-1234, Android Phone-X, RSVP-Font, Arial, RSVP-Font-Style, Bold, RSVP-Font-Size, 50 points, RSVP-Display-Time-Duration, 80 ms, ARTT-Rate, 1.5×

, MMT-Semi-Transparency-of-Camera-Layer, 0.5, MMT-Tint-of-Semi-Transparency-of-Camera-Layer, Blue, MMT-Semi-Transparency-of-Media-Layer, 0.75, MMT-Tint-of-Semi-Transparency-of-Media-Layer, Red, MMT-Semi-Transparency-of-Background-Layer, 1.0, MMT-Tint-of-Semi-Transparency-of-Background-Layer, Yellow; and

b) loading the preference application at initialization and/or providing real-time modification of the associated parameters to the applications, simulations, games, and/or operating systems,

wherein further media player, TV, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are all defined to be applications.

13. The display system method as set forth in claim 1, characterized by New unobvious combinations and new uses where a user'"'"'s IntelliMarks and/or preference file sets the spatial, temporal, and positional information for RSVP, ARTT, and MMT for use in general, and/or for specific devices, and/or user disabilities, said method comprising the steps:

a) reading in a user preference file, and/or accessing preference information by other means were as the Smith, Joe, ID-1234, Android Phone-X, RSVP-Font, Arial, RSVP-Font-Style, Bold, RSVP-Font-Size, 50 points, RSVP-Display-Time-Duration, 80 ms, ARTT-Rate, 1.5×

, MMT-Semi-Transparency-of-Camera-Layer, 0.5, MMT-Tint-of-Semi-Transparency-of-Camera-Layer, Blue, MMT-Semi-Transparency-of-Media-Layer, 0.75, MMT-Tint-of-Semi-Transparency-of-Media-Layer, Red, MMT-Semi-Transparency-of-Background-Layer, 1.0, MMT-Tint-of-Semi-Transparency-of-Background-Layer, Yellow; and

b) loading the IntelliMarks and preference application at initialization and/or providing real-time modification of the associated parameters to the applications, simulations, games, and/or operating systems. Further media player, TV, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality are all defined to be applications.

14. New unobvious combinations and new uses where a user'"'"'s IntelliMarks files to sets the defaults of the spatial, temporal, and positional information for media players, RSVP, ARTT, and MMT for use in general, and/or for specific devices, and/or to accommodate user disabilities, said User overrides and/or alters the Presentation method comprising the steps:

a. User can delete, modify existing IntelliMarks, and add his own IntelliMarks to customize the experience beyond the originally shared IntelliMarks file;

b. for example;

User #1 makes a MMT comment within the YouTube view, that asks if People like the Kung Fu Move, User #2 can add his own MMT comment right after the request, and all subsequent viewers will then be able to see User #1 ask the question and User #2 answer the question within the YouTube video playback, or they can just delete the User #1 and User #2 IntelliMarks and not be bothered by their commentary, power to the masses for their presentation control of their viewed content.

15. Methods and systems of parallel separate software objects and hyperlinks index associated with other software objects such as files, streams, and controls that enable means for new levels and types of advertisements, coupons, rebates, and legal multi-level marketing business processes.