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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120131461 | DYNAMIC SYNCHRONIZATION TOOL The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for synchronizing one or more mediatations with a video timeline. A mediatation may refer to any media content displayed in a separate window from a video stream. Example mediatations include, but are not limited to,... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120054617 | Visual Presentation Composition Methods, systems and/or computer program products that help facilitate visual presentation composition may include, in one aspect, executing one or more processes executing on a computer system to present a user of a computer system with movie templates, each movie temp... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054618 | Interactive Trailers A system and method for providing at least one interactive data drive content that simultaneously displays at least one movie trailer and associated information generated utilizing a user input based on current time-frame is disclosed. The system comprises a GUI includi... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054619 | LOCALIZED MEDIA CONTENT EDITING A method, system, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a computer readable storage medium provide the ability to edit media content in a computer system. A server computer provides access to a repository of media content via a website accessible on the Internet worldw... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120042251 | TOOL FOR PRESENTING AND EDITING A STORYBOARD REPRESENTATION OF A COMPOSITE PRESENTATION Some embodiments provide a storyboard tool for displaying and editing a storyboard representation of a set of clips that forms a composite presentation in a media-editing application. For the set of clips in a composite display area, the tool displays a set of thumbnail... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120030041 | CONTENT INTERACTIVITY GATEWAY AND METHOD OF USE THEREWITH A method includes receiving, by way of a host device, a request to pause playback of content. The method further includes the host device displaying an input area. Also included is the host device accepting an annotation entered into the input area by the user and conve... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120017152 | Media-Editing Application with a Free-Form Space for Organizing or Compositing Media Clips For a media-editing application, some embodiments of the invention provide a novel two-dimensional free-form space that allows a user to both visually organize media clips and composite media clips in order to create composite presentations. To visually organize media c... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011442 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED MEDIA PERSONALIZATION A method of generating edited video, the method comprises displaying, at a user device, information related to one or more video tags, the video tags representing options for generating an edited version of an unedited video; receiving, at the user device, a selection o... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110314380 | EXTENSIBLE VIDEO INSERTION CONTROL Extensible video insertion control is described. In embodiments, a media asset is received to render as video for display. Mapped video data is also received that identifies object insertion spaces in the media asset. A selectable display object is received that conform... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110307786 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR BOOKMARKING AND RETRIEVAL OF VIDEO CONTENT A method providing for bookmarking a point within a video stream is disclosed. The method involves sampling via a microphone an audio segment from a broadcasted audio/video content received on an audio/video device, converting the sampled audio segment to digital data, ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110289413 | Fast Creation of Video Segments A computer-implemented method can include displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a media pane, and a project pane, displaying, within the media pane, a thumbnail group representing a media item, the thumbnail group comprising one or more thumbnai... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110276881 | Systems and Methods for Sharing Multimedia Editing Projects Various embodiments for sharing multimedia editing projects are described. One embodiment is a method performed at a server for sharing video editing techniques by a user. The method comprises receiving a project description file at the server, wherein the project descr... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110258546 | EDITED INFORMATION PROVISION DEVICE, EDITED INFORMATION PROVISION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM An edited section information acquisition unit generates edited section information and edited section association information based on edit history information. Pre-edit content/post-edit content correspondence relationship acquisition unit groups consecutive edited gr... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110258547 | DIGITAL MEDIA EDITING INTERFACE An editing method includes: detecting a selection of first and second clip portions of a source media depiction, generating corresponding first and second block icons and snapping hands-free the first and second block icons across the screen to a linear queue so that th... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110246892 | Navigable Content Source Identification for Multimedia Editing Systems and Methods Therefor A distributed system and methods for web-based multimedia content including a global media hub (GMH) server computer (500) and a multiplicity of remote media asset node (MAN) server computers (510, 520, 530, 540, 550) and client computer terminals (515,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110246554 | Multimedia Editing Systems and Methods Therefor A distributed system and methods for web-based multimedia content including a global media hub (GMH) server computer (500) and a multiplicity of remote media asset node (MAN) server computers (510, 520, 530, 540, 550) and client computer terminals (515,... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110231765 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VIDEO FRAME MARKING There is provided a system and method for video frame marking. It is preferable that a tagged video frame is visually perceptible in the set of chronologically ordered video frames shown in the display. The selection of each video frame preferably causes playback of an ... | 09/22/2011 |
| 20110202844 | IDENTIFICATION OF VIDEO SEGMENTS Video content, such as broadcast television, may be divided into segments, and each segment may be assigned a distinguishing Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The URL assigned to a segment allows a user to access the segment via the Internet. For example, a television new... | 08/18/2011 |
| 20110161820 | MANAGEMENT OF MULTIMEDIA SEGMENT DATA OVER A COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK A method for displaying video segment data associated with a video file can be provided. The method can include providing a graphical user interface to a user and receiving identifying information for a video file on a first server. The method can also include identifyi... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110131497 | Image-Derived User Interface Enhancements A device configured to select a portion of an image, the selecting being based at least on parameters associated with a user interface element of the device, is disclosed herein. The device is further configured to apply the selected portion of the image to the user int... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110131498 | PRESENTATION METHOD AND PRESENTATION SYSTEM USING IDENTIFICATION LABEL A presentation system includes a video supply device and a video receiver device. A presentation method is used with the presentation system and a network. The video supply device provides an image including an identification label corresponding to the video receiver de... | 06/02/2011 |
| 20110126107 | CLOSED CAPTION TAGGING SYSTEM A closed caption tagging system provides a mechanism for inserting tags into an audio or video television broadcast stream prior to or at the time of transmission. The tags contain command and control information that the receiver translates and acts upon. The receiver ... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110126106 | SYSTEM FOR GENERATING AN INTERACTIVE OR NON-INTERACTIVE BRANCHING MOVIE SEGMENT BY SEGMENT AND METHODS USEFUL IN CONJUNCTION THEREWITH A system and method for generating an interactive or non-interactive filmed branching narrative, the method comprising receiving a plurality of narrative segments, receiving and storing ordered links between individual ones of the plurality of narrative segments and gen... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119588 | Video storage and retrieval system and method A video image storage and retrieval system providing computer displays of timelines for video sequences, in which a first timeline shows time divisions for segments for the longer sequences, and the other timelines each provide for locating images within the segments. T... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110113335 | Systems and Methods for Replacing Audio Segments in an Audio Track for a Video Asset Various embodiments of the present invention generally relate to systems and methods for replacing audio segments in an audio track for a video asset. In particular embodiments, the systems and methods replace audio segments in an audio track for the video asset by defi... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110113336 | VIDEO PREVIEW MODULE TO ENHANCE ONLINE VIDEO EXPERIENCE A Video Preview Module, a fast and adaptable software module designed to generate an on-the-fly video storyboard that enhances the online video browsing experience of the user. The VP module is a client-side implementation. This allows the module to be scalable and adap... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110081075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDEXING PRESENTATION VIDEOS A system and method for identifying key frames of a presentation video that include stationary informational content. A sequence of frames is obtained from a presentation video and differences of pixel values between consecutive frames of the sequence of frames are comp... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20110055702 | Document revisions in a collaborative computing environment In a collaborative computing environment, a method and system for displaying revisions associated with a hosted electronic document are disclosed. In accordance with the disclosed method and system, select revisions of an electronic document may be displayed to a user a... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110047463 | KIOSK-BASED AUTOMATIC UPDATE OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES Systems and methods identify a current location of a user based on a known location of an electronic device including kiosk, beacon, or location-aware camera when the user interacts with the electronic device. The systems and methods automatically create a user status d... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110030031 | Systems and Methods for Receiving, Processing and Organizing of Content Including Video Methods and systems for receiving, processing and organizing video. Organizational tools are provided that allow users the capacity to solicit, mine, clip, aggregate, organize, and search submitted footage. These tools include: a set of electronic folders, a media clipp... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100325547 | Systems and Methods for Sharing Multimedia Editing Projects The sharing of video editing techniques is performed by receiving a project description file, thumbnail graphics, and a location identifier at a first server, wherein the project description file is generated during editing of multimedia content by the user, and wherein... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100318915 | MORPHING BETWEEN VIEWS OF DATA A method, apparatus, system, and signal-bearing medium are provided that in an embodiment morph between two graphical views of related content that share a common frame of reference. In an embodiment, the two views depict the same data at different resolutions. The morp... | 12/16/2010 |
| 20100306656 | Digital media asset management This invention comprises a system and a method for managing a plurality of video assets via code executing in a processor. The system and method include a user interface, a controller configured to receive metadata associated with the plurality of video assets through t... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100293467 | METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING INFORMATION ON ASSOCIATE MEANINGS BETWEEN SEGMENTS OF MULTIMEDIA STREAM AND METHOD OF BROWSING VIDEO USING THE SAME Disclosed are a method of constructing information on associate meanings between segments of a multimedia stream, which can describe the cause/effect or abstract/detail relationship between segments of the video streams to efficiently browse the video stream and a metho... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100293466 | OPERATIONAL SYSTEM AND ARCHTECTURAL MODEL FOR IMPROVED MANIPULATION OF VIDEO AND TIME MEDIA DATA FROM NETWORKED TIME-BASED MEDIA The present invention provides a novel operational system and electronic architectural model for organizing and improving viewing and editing of time-based video media and for overcoming the detriments required by the previous film and video industry based editing techn... | 11/18/2010 |
| 20100287476 | SYSTEM AND INTERFACE FOR MIXING MEDIA CONTENT A visual display interface involving an associated display icon. The display icon is dragged across the visual display interface in a movement so as to cause the mixing of media streams. The output is a new mix of the various media streams.... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100287475 | CONTENT SUMMARY AND SEGMENT CREATION Disclosed herein is an ability to create segments of content, such as video, audio, multimedia, image, animation, interactive, etc. content, to associate metadata to each segment created, and to generate a summary of content comprising one or more segments using the met... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100281381 | Graphical User Interface for a Media-Editing Application With a Segmented Timeline Some embodiments provide a computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating multimedia presentations. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes a composite display area for displaying a portion of a timeline to ... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281384 | Tool for Tracking Versions of Media Sections in a Composite Presentation A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media c... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100281383 | Segmented Timeline for a Media-Editing Application Some embodiments provide a method that receives a timeline that includes several pieces of content. The method receives user input to divide the timeline into hierarchical segments of varying duration. The method defines associations between the pieces of content and at... | 11/04/2010 |
