Screen saver for exhibiting artists and artwords
First Claim
1. An educational and entertaining computer screen saver which exhibits the likeness of artists and artists'"'"' works, which provides protection against image burn-in in color computer monitors, and which provides plural transition effects between display of said works, said screen saver comprising an arrangement of files and program instructions for effecting screen saving operations, said screen saver comprising:
- (a) at least one introductory file including a likeness of an artist and/or biographic information about said artist,(b) a plurality of image files associated with said at least one introductory file which include respective digitized representations of plural works of art by said artist, and(c) a set of program instructions for effecting display of said introductory and image files after a predetermined lapse in user activity, said instructions effecting the display of an introductory file followed by the display of associated image files and for effecting plural transition effects at least between the display of said plural image files thereby facilitating learning about the works of said artist, providing protection against image burn-in and providing soothing visual transistion effects.
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Abstract
An educational and stress-relieving screen saver for exhibiting artists and their artworks on a computer monitor. The screen saver includes a plurality of compressed artist introductory files and image files of the works of art of the artists. Files are segmented or identified according to artist groups wherein different groups may be selected or deselected for display, or added or deleted from the screen saver. During operation, routines are called for decompressing files and displaying artist'"'"'s likeness and their works according to groups. A transition module is provided which includes a plurality of different effects which are called in a random or pseudo-random fashion to provide a variety of soothing and stress-relieving image transitions. Means are also provided for adjusting the time of display of image files and for providing on-demand display of detailed biographic information about each artist exhibited in the screen saver.
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20 Claims
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1. An educational and entertaining computer screen saver which exhibits the likeness of artists and artists'"'"' works, which provides protection against image burn-in in color computer monitors, and which provides plural transition effects between display of said works, said screen saver comprising an arrangement of files and program instructions for effecting screen saving operations, said screen saver comprising:
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(a) at least one introductory file including a likeness of an artist and/or biographic information about said artist, (b) a plurality of image files associated with said at least one introductory file which include respective digitized representations of plural works of art by said artist, and (c) a set of program instructions for effecting display of said introductory and image files after a predetermined lapse in user activity, said instructions effecting the display of an introductory file followed by the display of associated image files and for effecting plural transition effects at least between the display of said plural image files thereby facilitating learning about the works of said artist, providing protection against image burn-in and providing soothing visual transistion effects. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An educational and stress-relieving computer screen saver for exhibiting artists and artists'"'"' artworks on a computer monitor in a computing system that includes a user input device, wherein the screen saver is activated upon occurrence of a first event and becoming deactivated upon occurrence of a second event, said screen saver comprising:
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(a) a plurality of artist introductory and image files stored in compressed format in a storage medium, (b) an image transition module comprising a plurality of transition effects adapted to be called for effecting transitions between introductory and image files displayed on said monitor, (c) a decompression module including a set of instructions for retrieving said compressed introductory or image file from said storage medium, (d) a first set of instructions for calling said decompression module to retrieve from said storage medium and to display on said monitor a visual representation of at least one artist introductory file stored in compressed format wherein the visual representation includes a likeness or biographic information of said artist, said first set of instructions further including instructions for calling said transition module to effect transitions between display of each of said artist introductory files, and (e) a second set of instructions for calling said decompression module to retrieve from a storage medium and to display on said computer monitor a visual representation of a plurality of image files stored in compress format wherein the image files represents works of art of said artist, said second set of instructions including instructions for calling said transition module to effect random or pseudo-random transitions between the display of each of said image files. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method for exhibiting artists and artists'"'"' works in an educational environment and for visually relieving stress at a computer work station which includes a computer monitor, a plurality of files representing artists and works of art by said artist wherein said files are stored in compressed format in a storage medium, said method comprising:
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(a) providing a file decompression module for decompressing introductory and image files associated with at least one artist, (b) providing an image transition module which includes a plurality of different transition effects for effecting visual transitions of files displayed on said computer monitor, (c) sensing a triggering event to initiate rotating display of said artist introductory and image files on said computer monitor, (d) retrieving from said storage medium said artist introductory files, (e) decompressing and displaying said retrieved artist introductory files, (f) retrieving from said storage medium said artist image files representing works of art by said artists, (g) decompressing said image file and displaying said decompressed image file on said computer monitor, (h) repeating step (d) through (g) while calling said transition module to effect random transitions between successive display of said image files until sensing the occurrence of a second event, (i) upon occurrence of termination event, ceasing the display of said introductory and image files, recording an identification of the artist or image last shown on said monitor, and returning to a programming application last used at said computer work station, and (j) resuming said rotating display of said artist introductory and image files upon a next sensing of said triggering event beginning at said last shown image file. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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