Imaging product selection system

• US 9,524,086 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2011
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc (KPP (no. 2) Trustees Ltd.)
• Inventors: Mahoney, Kathleen A., Cok, Ronald S.
• Primary Examiner(s): TANK, ANDREW L
• Application Number:
  US13/112,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20120297300A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,041 Days
• Field of Search: 715/704, 715/711, 715/766, 715/790, 715/794, 715/796, 715/797, 715/838, 715/862
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04803 Split screen, i.e. subdividing the display area or the window area into separate subareas
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text

Abstract

A display system for a collage of digital multimedia elements. A display is used to display the collage and a pointing device selects one of the collage elements for activating a multimedia presentation of the selected element.

Claims

1. A multi-media display system for emphasizing and displaying images, comprising:

a server computer providing graphical user interface display elements and functions to a remote client computer connected to the server computer through a computer network, the remote client computer including a display having a graphic user interface (GUI) and a user-interactive pointer controlled by a pointing device;

a plurality of multi-media elements stored on the server computer, communicated to the remote client computer, and displayed on the GUI in a variety of shapes and sizes at locations specified according to a customizable photo-collage template, wherein;

(a) one or more of the displayed multi-media elements appears to overlap another of the plurality of one or more displayed multi-media elements so that only portions of the overlapped multi-media elements appear visible,

(b) the shapes and sizes associated with the photo-collage template are customizable by the user, and

(c) the multi-media elements are adaptively located within the photo-collage template according to visual attributes of the multi-media elements; and

a tool for controlling the display of each multi-media element displayed on the GUI so that when the pointer is located in association with a selected one of the displayed multi-media elements, and without further manipulation of the pointing device by the user, the display of the multimedia elements is modified to present the entire selected multi-media element in a different location separate from the photo-collage template simultaneously with the photo-collage template in such a way that the selected multi-media element is not overlapped by any other of the plurality of multi-media elements, the selected multi-media element comprising a non-rectangular shape when presented in the different location, and so that when the pointer is removed from association with the selected overlapped multi-media element, and without further manipulation of the pointing device by the user, the presentation of the selected multi-media element is stopped, and the selected multi-media element returns to its originally specified location according to the photo-collage template.

2. The multi-media display system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the displayed multi-media elements includes an audio element and wherein the tool includes is configured for playing the audio element when the pointer is located in association with the selected overlapped multi-media element.

3. The multi-media display system of claim 1 wherein the plurality of multimedia elements forms a page of images.

4. The multi-media display system of claim 1 wherein the pointer is located in association with one of the plurality of multi-media elements by locating the pointer over a multi-media element.

5. The multi-image display system of claim 1 wherein the pointer is located in association with one of the multi-media elements by selecting an image that is a part of the multi-media element.

6. The multi-media display system of claim 1 wherein the pointing device is a mouse pointer.

7. The multi-media display system of claim 1 wherein the pointing device is a touch screen.

8. A multi-media display apparatus for emphasizing and displaying images, comprising:

a display having a graphic user interface (GUI) and a user-interactive pointer controlled by a pointing device;

a plurality of multi-media elements displayed on the GUI in a variety of shapes and sizes at locations specified according to a customizable photo-collage template, wherein;

(a) one or more of the displayed multi-media elements appears to overlap another one or more displayed multi-media elements so that only portions of the overlapped multi-media elements appear visible,

(b) the shapes and sizes associated with the photo-collage template are customizable by the user, and

(c) the multi-media elements are adaptively located within the photo-collage template according to visual attributes of the multi-media elements; and

a computer executing software for controlling the display of each multi-media elements displayed on the GUI so that when the pointer is located in association with a selected one of the displayed overlapped multi-media elements, and without further manipulation of the pointing device by the user, the display of the multimedia elements is modified to display and play back the entire selected multi-media element in a different location separate from the photo-collage template simultaneously with the photo-collage template in such a way that the selected multi-media element is not overlapped by any other of the plurality of multi-media elements, the selected multi-media element comprising a non-rectangular shape when displayed in the different location, and so that when the pointer is removed from association with the selected multi-media element, and without further manipulation of the pointing device by the user, the play back of the multi-media element in the foreground is stopped, and the selected multi-media element returns to its originally specified location according to the photo-collage template.