...that the first rickshaw was invented in 1869 by an American Baptist minister, the Rev. E. Jonathan Scobie, to transport his invalid wife around the streets of Yokohama?
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120084655 | SUMMARIZING IMAGE COLLECTION USING A SOCIAL NETWORK A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same... | 04/05/2012 |
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| 20100281377 | Condensing Graphical Representations of Media Clips in a Composite Display Area of a Media-Editing Application 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 graphical representations o... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20080313541 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERSONALIZED SEGMENTATION AND INDEXING OF MEDIA This disclosure describes systems, methods and user interfaces that allow a user to identify, annotate and share a portion of a media item with another user. Through the user interface, the user may render a media item and identify a segment of the media item. Based on ... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20060150103 | User interface screen spotlight effect An electronic program guide (EPG) having a spotlight effect to focus a user's attention upon a selectable item. The EPG includes a user interface screen for providing a plurality of television programs by time and channel in a grid format. Each television program become... | 07/06/2006 |
| 20050216840 | In-timeline trimming Disclosed herein is a graphical user interface for media file editing software designed to be used on a general purpose computer. The interface provides improved features for trimming or extending the length of media segments and time shifting the resulting segments to ... | 09/29/2005 |
| 20050166150 | Method and system for effect addition in video edition A method and system for effect addition in video edition is disclosed. Firstly, one or more video clips are selected and arranged. The selected video clips are scanned by scene scanning to generate effect marking-in points. Then effects can be added on the effect markin... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050102624 | Method of creating a customized image product A software product and method for providing a customized image product to a user. The method included the steps of providing a computer readable media having a software program that will cause a computer to perform a predefined series of steps used to create the customi... | 05/12/2005 |
| 20050097470 | Rich media event production system and method including the capturing, indexing, and synchronizing of RGB-based graphic content A rich media event production method and system including the capturing, indexing, and synchronizing of RGB-based graphic content. The method includes capturing audio and video during an event production; capturing graphical content during the event production from an R... | 05/05/2005 |
| 20050066279 | Stop motion capture tool The present disclosure therefore provides a complete software application for creating stop motion animations, including capture, sequencing, and playback of single frame images, in addition to the ability to record voice and music, and insert audio such as sound tracks... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050034076 | Combining clips of image data A computer based system (101) combines clips of image frames in which elements from selected input frames are combined to produce an output sequence derived from a plurality of clips. A display unit (105) displays spatially overlaid clips as layers (501... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050028103 | Editing device An editing device is capable of significantly simplifying editing work of sequence data. When a user operates an operating device to join existing sequence data SD1 being stored in the hard disk drive 4 and material data MD3, the CPU 2 create... | 02/03/2005 |