Media editing and creating interface

• US 20080098320A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 04/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Geier, Freddie, Bauer-Schwan, Stefan
• Granted Patent: US 8,839,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/769
• 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: G11B 19/022 Control panels

Abstract

A computer readable medium containing media creating application code which implements the following procedures, generating in a user interface an application window having a window frame the window frame defining a pane, displaying a theme in the pane, displaying a plurality of buttons on the frame; and displaying a status indicator on the frame.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface on a computer-readable medium for assembling and recording media files on a removable storage medium, comprising:

at least one window that defines an area onto which a user can drag and drop one or more media files to be recorded on a removable storage medium;

a preview control element which, when activated by a user, causes the content of a selected media file in said defined area to be reproduced for user review prior to recording on a removable storage medium; and

a recording control element which, when activated by a user, causes the content of the files in said defined area to be recorded on a removable storage medium.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein said preview control element and recording control element are displayed on said window.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein said media files are displayed in said defined area as icons, and wherein said window includes a control element which, when activated by a user, causes a folder icon to be displayed in said defined area onto which the user can drag and drop data files to be recorded on a removable storage medium.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein said media files are displayed in said defined area as icons, and wherein said window includes a control element which, when activated by a user, causes a slideshow icon to be displayed in said defined area onto which the user can drag and drop image files to be recorded on a removable storage medium in the format of a slideshow to be presented on a media playback device.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said media files are displayed in said defined area as icons, and said defined area and said icons are displayed with features that correspond to a given theme, and further including a control element on said window that enables a user to select from among a plurality of different themes for the display of said defined area and icons contained therein.

6. The graphical user interface of claim 5 wherein the shape of said icons is determined by the selected theme.

7. The graphical user interface of claim 6 wherein said defined area is displayed with a background image that is determined by the selected theme.

8. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said removable storage medium is a digital versatile disk (DVD), and said recording control element causes the files in said defined area to be burned onto the disk.

9. The graphical user interface of claim 1 wherein said removable storage medium is a compact disk (CD), and said recording control element causes the files in said defined area to be burned onto the disk.

10. The graphical user interface of claim 1 further including a playback control module that is displayed when the user activates said preview control element, said control module containing control elements that enable the user to control the reproduction of said content.