End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image
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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 the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution;
defining a grid over substantially the entire first presentation data and dividing the first presentation data into a plurality of sectors defined by the grid with each sector having substantially the same size;
causing to be produced a second presentation data of one of the plurality of sectors comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second 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 an intermediate image of a portion of the image and to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third 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.
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Abstract
The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development (“authoring”) of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates 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.
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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 the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution; defining a grid over substantially the entire first presentation data and dividing the first presentation data into a plurality of sectors defined by the grid with each sector having substantially the same size; causing to be produced a second presentation data of one of the plurality of sectors comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second 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 an intermediate image of a portion of the image and to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the third 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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
- providing an image at a first resolution;
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15. A method of creating content for an interactive visual medium comprising:
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receiving an image at a first resolution; forming a first presentation data representing the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution; defining a grid over substantially the entire first presentation data and dividing the first presentation data into a plurality of sectors defined by the grid with the plurality of sectors having substantially the same size; forming a second presentation data of one of the plurality of sectors comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second 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; 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. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A computer readable storage medium being an interactive visual medium having thereon content comprising:
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a first presentation data representing an image at a first resolution; a second presentation data of one of a plurality of sections of a grid defined over substantially the entire first presentation data where the plurality of sections are substantially the same size, wherein the second presentation data comprises a representation of a portion of the image at a second resolution higher than the first resolution and one or more pan sequences from a respective initial one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the second resolution to an intermediate image of a portion of the image and to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the second resolution; and logical data linking the first and second presentation data. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A computer readable storage medium being an interactive visual medium having thereon content in a format, comprising:
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a sequence of a plurality of presentation data representing a plurality of images logically associated in the sequence, comprising first presentation data representing an image at a first resolution native to the format; data representing a grid defined over substantially the entire first presentation data dividing the first presentation data into a plurality of sections where the sections have substantially the same size; and second presentation data representing one or more pan sequences from a respective initial one of a plurality of respective portions of the image at the resolution higher than the highest resolution native to the format to a respective final one of the plurality of respective portions of the image at the resolution higher than the highest resolution native to the format. - View Dependent Claims (38)
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