Tool-tip for multimedia files

• US 9,971,471 B2
• Filed: 03/09/2016
• Issued: 05/15/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Haynes, Thomas R., Lam, Hung V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Sax, Steven
• Application Number:
  US15/064,598
• Publication Number:
  US 20160188158A1
• Time in Patent Office: 797 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor
• 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: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback

Abstract

A tool-tip presentation system for multimedia files. The tool-tip presentation system can be configured to respond to proximity events associated with a selected entry in a list of multimedia files such as screen captured images or complete audio files. Based upon the selected entry, a corresponding multimedia sample such as a thumbnail image of a screen captured image or an audio sample of the audio file can be retrieved and presented as a tool-tip. In particular, the tool-tip can be displayed in a position which is proximate to the selected entry. In this way, one who interacts with the list of multimedia files need not load each complete multimedia file in the list in order to determine the contents of the multimedia file. Rather, the multimedia sample in the tool-tip can suffice.

Claims

1. A tool-tip presentation system, comprising:

a modifiable coupling to an index of multimedia samples, each multimedia sample corresponding to a particular screen captured image of a terminal display of a text based legacy host application;

a data member of the system configured to store a reference to an entry in a list of screen captured images; and

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presentation logic programmed to present as a tool-tip a selected multimedia sample specified in said index in response to detecting a placement of a user interface input device proximate to a referenced entry in said list of screen captured images stored in said data member,

wherein said multiple samples are audio samples providing an audible summary corresponding to said screen captured images.

2. A tool-tip display method comprising the steps of:

detecting a proximity event of a placement of a user interface input device proximate to an entry of a particular screen captured image in a list of screen captured images of terminal displays of a text based legacy host application;

responsive to said detection, locating in a store of multimedia samples, each multimedia sample corresponding to the particular screen captured image, an audible summary which corresponds to said particular screen captured image and playing said located audible summary.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said proximity event is a mouse-over event.

4. A non-transitory machine readable storage having stored thereon a computer program for displaying a tool-tip, said computer program comprising a routine set of instructions which when executed by the machine cause the machine to perform the steps of:

detecting a proximity event of a placement of a user interface input device proximate to an entry of a particular screen captured image in a list of screen captured images of terminal displays of a text based legacy host application;

responsive to said detection, locating an audible summary which corresponds to said particular screen captured image and playing said located audible summary.

5. The machine readable storage of claim 4, wherein said proximity event is a mouse-over event.