Multimedia data presentation device and editing device with automatic default selection of scenes
First Claim
1. A multimedia presentation device, comprising:
- information storage means for storing data in the form of information blocks and control information data for managing the information blocks, including a multi-level composition data showing how the information blocks are linked to each other, wherein;
said multi-level composition data provides linkage of a plurality of information blocks which have sibling relations and parent-child relations,some of the information blocks further have a plurality of child information blocks,among the information blocks which are parents in a parent-child relation, some are linked so that, even without a user making a selection, a display can advance to a child information block by means of an automatic default mode when a predetermined time period has elapsed, andsaid information blocks include at least one of a type one media, such as video, sound and graphics, and a type two media, which include graphic button media elements simulating user control switches which further contain link information for moving from a present information block to another information block;
reproduction control information management means for retrieving the control information data, including the multi-level composition data of the information blocks, from the information storage means;
indication input means for inputting an indication by the user;
information reproduction means for retrieving one information block from the information storage means and reproducing it, visually and aurally presenting to the user any of type one media and any of type two media included in the retrieved information block;
operation time management means for measuring a time of reproduction and presentation of a new information block and for determining whether there is an indication from the indication input means between a start of presentation by the information reproduction means and an expiration of the predetermined time period;
reproduction control means for controlling the information reproduction means so as to retrieve, when there is an indication from the indication input means within the predetermined time period after the start of presentation, an indicated information block from the information storage means, andso as to retrieve, when the operation time management means determines that there is no indication within the predetermined time period after the start of presentation, an information block which is a child information block which can be automatically replaced for an information block currently being presented; and
movement address display control means for controlling the information reproduction means, when a child information block is to be reproduced by means of the automatic default mode, so as to display, before presenting the child information block, a button media element out of the group two media which shows said child information block in a visually different display format relative to other button media elements, in a same manner as when said button is indicated by a user.
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Abstract
The object of the present invention is to provide a multimedia presentation device which, by executing a setting process for an information block, which is an address of an automatic branch, by means of an automatic discharge process for a button which stores the branch address, enables the user to understand how a branch address was selected. Command discharge condition information is stored the information block reproduction means for managing buttons which are automatically discharged at an end of a reproduction period or other such time, so that by executing a branch process by automatically selecting a button in place of a user operation, then even if there has been no user selection of a branch address before the end of the reproduction period, a branch address can be automatically selected and, by showing on the display the button which for manual selection stores a link to the same branch address, the data can be presented in a form which can readily understood by the user.
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23 Claims
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1. A multimedia presentation device, comprising:
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information storage means for storing data in the form of information blocks and control information data for managing the information blocks, including a multi-level composition data showing how the information blocks are linked to each other, wherein; said multi-level composition data provides linkage of a plurality of information blocks which have sibling relations and parent-child relations, some of the information blocks further have a plurality of child information blocks, among the information blocks which are parents in a parent-child relation, some are linked so that, even without a user making a selection, a display can advance to a child information block by means of an automatic default mode when a predetermined time period has elapsed, and said information blocks include at least one of a type one media, such as video, sound and graphics, and a type two media, which include graphic button media elements simulating user control switches which further contain link information for moving from a present information block to another information block; reproduction control information management means for retrieving the control information data, including the multi-level composition data of the information blocks, from the information storage means; indication input means for inputting an indication by the user; information reproduction means for retrieving one information block from the information storage means and reproducing it, visually and aurally presenting to the user any of type one media and any of type two media included in the retrieved information block; operation time management means for measuring a time of reproduction and presentation of a new information block and for determining whether there is an indication from the indication input means between a start of presentation by the information reproduction means and an expiration of the predetermined time period; reproduction control means for controlling the information reproduction means so as to retrieve, when there is an indication from the indication input means within the predetermined time period after the start of presentation, an indicated information block from the information storage means, and so as to retrieve, when the operation time management means determines that there is no indication within the predetermined time period after the start of presentation, an information block which is a child information block which can be automatically replaced for an information block currently being presented; and movement address display control means for controlling the information reproduction means, when a child information block is to be reproduced by means of the automatic default mode, so as to display, before presenting the child information block, a button media element out of the group two media which shows said child information block in a visually different display format relative to other button media elements, in a same manner as when said button is indicated by a user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An editing device which enables a user to interactively change a presentation order of presentation information which is made up of multimedia data, said editing device comprising:
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scene link management information storage means for storing scene link management information made up of link relation information showing which scenes are connected and link type information; editing information temporary storage means for retrieving the scene link management information from the scene link management information storage means and temporarily storing the scene link management information as edited scene link management information; input means for receiving an editing request input from an input device, such as a mouse; editing control means for converting the edited scene link management information stored by the editing information temporary storage means, based on a type two editing request input from the input means; scene link composition screen generation means for retrieving the edited scene link management information from the editing information temporary storage means, and, in addition to generating a scene figure for expressing a scene as a simplified figure and a scene link line figure for expressing a link between scenes as a line figure, for deciding, based on the edited scene link management information, a format of the scene figure and the scene link line figure and a display position of the scene figure and the scene link figure, thereby generating a scene link composition screen in which at least one scene figure is connected by a scene link line figure; and display output means for outputting the scene link composition screen generated by the scene link composition screen generation means to an output device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An editing device which enables a user to interactively change a presentation order of presentation information which is made up of multimedia data, said editing device comprising:
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scene information storage means for storing scene information including source data, made up of video, audio, graphics, text and suchlike, and scene composition information for composing a scene out of the source data; scene link management information storage means for storing scene link management information made up of link relation information showing which scenes are connected and link type information, as well as scene level information for describing an inter-level relationship for scenes linked on different levels; editing information temporary storage means for retrieving the scene link management information from the scene link management information storage means and temporarily storing the scene link management information as edited scene link management information; input means for receiving an editing request input from an input device, such as one of a mouse and a keyboard; editing control means for converting the edited scene link management information stored by the editing information temporary storage means based on a type one editing request input from the input means, and for converting the scene link management information stored by the storage means to the edited scene link management information stored by editing information temporary storage means, based a type two editing request input from the input means; scene information retrieval means for retrieving the scene information from the scene information storage means and the scene link management information from the editing information temporary storage means; scene reproduction screen generation means for generating a scene reproduction screen for reproducing a scene, based on the scene information retrieved by scene information retrieval means; scene link composition screen generation means for generating a scene figure for expressing a scene as a simplified figure and a scene link line figure for expressing a link between scenes as a line figure, based on the scene link management information retrieved by the scene information retrieval means and for deciding, based on the scene link management information, a format of the scene figure and the scene link line figure and a display position of the scene figure and the scene link line figure, as well as expressing any scenes which have a sub level as scene representation figures and storing a display status for each of the scenes which have a sub level, so that when a same scene with a sub level is simultaneously displayed several times, sub levels belonging to one of the same scenes are displayed and remaining same scenes have their sub levels represented by scene representation figures, thereby generating a scene link composition screen in which at least one scene figure is connected by a scene link line figure, at a same time retrieving information for a scene to be reproduced from the scene information retrieval means and, based on the scene link composition screen, visually changing a scene figure and a scene link line figure corresponding to the scene to be reproduced by the scene reproduction screen generation means; and display output means for outputting the scene link composition screen generated by the scene link composition screen generation means and the scene reproduction screen generated by the scene reproduction screen generation device to an output device.
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20. An editing device for editing a combination of multimedia data, such as video, static images, text and sound, to be reproduced simultaneously, the editing device comprising:
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data storage means for storing the multimedia data and data related information; data retrieval means for retrieving one of the multimedia data and data related information, such as reproduction time, from the data storage means; period information storage means for storing time period information specifying a reproduction time for each reproduction of multimedia data; data information storage means for storing a channel number, a period number and an address showing a position where a piece of data is stored in the data storage means; data indication means for indicating a portion of data, out of the multimedia data stored by the data storage means, which is to be used as editing object data; time period indication means for indicating a reproduction time period of the newly indicated editing object data; channel indication means for indicating a channel for reproduction of the newly indicated editing object data; editing information control means for storing in the data information storage means the reproduction time period indicated by the time period indication means, the channel indicated by the channel indication means and an address of the editing object data indicated by the data indication means, for retrieving a data reproduction time for the editing object data indicated by the data indication means from the data retrieval means and a period time of a time period indicated by the period indication means from the period information storage means, before comparing the data reproduction time and the period time, and for converting, when the data reproduction time is longer than the period time, an appropriate period time in the period information storage means to a value of the data reproduction time, in other cases leaving the period time as it is; editing information display means for processing information for visually displaying editing information for the multimedia data, based on a content of the period information storage means and on a content of the data information storage means, when a content of one of the period information storage means and the data information storage means is updated by the editing information management means; reproduction indication input means for inputting an indication for reproducing edited multimedia data; reproduction control means for retrieving, once a reproduction indication is inputted into the reproduction indication input means, appropriate data from the data storage means based on an address stored by the data information storage means, in accordance with the period information stored by the period information storage means; image data display means for processing image data to be displayed in the data retrieved by the reproduction control means; and audio data output means for processing audio data to be outputted in the data retrieved by the reproduction control means. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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23. A multimedia data presentation device that successively reproduces information blocks which are composed of multimedia data that is made up of a combination of at least image information, audio information, and at least two button media which are used to receive a user indication,
the multimedia data presentation device comprising: -
information storage means for storing the information blocks and sets of information block reproduction control information, wherein each set of information block reproduction control information corresponds to a different information block, and each set of information block reproduction control information showing a next information block to be reproduced corresponding to each of button media in a present information block, button media reproduction time period information showing a reproduction time period for all of the button media in the present information block during which a user indication can be received, and an automatic discharge condition for automatically selecting one of the button media in the present information block that is determined when the reproduction time period for the button media has elapsed; information retrieval means for retrieving an information block to be reproduced and a corresponding set of information block reproduction control information from the information storage means; indication input means for receiving a user indication; operation time management means for determining whether the indication input means has received a user indication within the reproduction time period for a button medium corresponding to a next information block, in accordance with the button media reproduction control information corresponding to the present information block; automatic button selection means for automatically selecting a button medium corresponding to an information block to be reproduced next in accordance with the automatic discharge condition in the set of information block reproduction control information corresponding to the present information block; information block reproduction means for determining, when the user indication has been given within the reproduction time period for the button media, an information block corresponding to a button medium indicated by the user indication as a next information block to be reproduced, and determining, when no user indication has been given within the reproduction period for the button media, an information block corresponding to the button medium automatically selected by the automatic button selection means as a next information block to be reproduced; and information output means for decoding an information block and outputting decoded data.
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