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...that to encourage use of his new invention, the shopping cart, market owner Sylvan Goldman hired fake shoppers to push the carts around his store in Oklahoma City? Seems his customers were reluctant to give up their hand-carried baskets.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7945857 | Interactive presentation viewing system employing multi-media components An interactive, multi-media presentation viewing system and process for viewing educational or business presentations integrating presentation graphics in the form of presentation slides, video, audio, text, and other streaming media into a powerfully coordinated vi... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7904814 | System for presenting audio-video content A system for presenting a summarization of audio and/or visual content having a plurality of segments to a user together with a graphical user interface that preferably indicates to the viewer the relative temporal position of video segments viewed in the summary wi... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7603623 | User interface to automatically correct timing in playback for audio recordings Methods to automatically correct timing of recorded audio in GUI are summarized here. One or more controls to adjust resolution of timing and degree of correction for the audio are displayed. The resolution of timing relates to beats on a grid and is affected by the... | 10/13/2009 |
| 7454707 | Image editing method, image editing apparatus, program for implementing image editing method, and recording medium recording program To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in printing, the image editing method includes a step of instructing to move... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444593 | Disk space management and clip remainder during edit operations The method of storing a time based stream of information to generate a presentation is provided for in which a processing system is used. The methods provide for deleting a selected time based stream of information from the storage medium. In one embodiment, a proce... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437673 | System and method for using a standard composition environment as the composition space for video image editing A method of generating an image or a video stream is disclosed, in which a composition space within a standard display tool is utilized. In an embodiment, a video editor is configured to control a timer and a frame grabber of the standard display tool, which is conf... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7426549 | Mechanism for sharing web-based imaging information from a mainframe computing environment A method of providing distributed imaging capability to a user of a client device. Document creation, manipulation, editing, and output may be provided. Document design and image data may be associated with the originating user. Generic access instructions cause ass... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7395514 | System and method for accessing, manipulating and viewing internet and non-internet related information and for controlling networked devices A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the Internet. The system is also capable of controlling operatively connected... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7383508 | Computer user interface for interacting with video cliplets generated from digital video The present invention includes a computer user interface system and a method for displaying short segments of video each representing a single theme or event (called video cliplets or “cliplets”). The computer user interface displays the cliplets and information... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7362804 | Graphical symbols for H.264 bitstream syntax elements An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate a decoded video signal and syntax elements in response to an encoded bitstream. The second circuit may be configured to generate one or more overlay images ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7356250 | Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles. Systems inc... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352965 | Digital photographic device This device includes a camera, a host module, an interface part, and a chassis, wherein the host module has a host CPU that is connected to the interface, the camera module has a register that is provided with a first area and a second area distinguished from the fi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7343558 | Configurable automatic-test-equipment system A method and system for measuring a device under test includes connecting a first test instrument and a second test instrument to a programmable logic device. The programmable logic device is configured to comply with interface specifications of the first test instr... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7263660 | System and method for producing a video skim A video skim is assembled by identifying one or more key frames from a video shot. Certain lengths of frames to the left and right of the key frame are measured for visual content variety. Depending upon the measured visual content variety to the left and right of t... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7246360 | Plug-in API for protocol and payload transformation Systems and methods for using plug-in modules to process transactions in a proxy, wherein portions of the transaction information such as client requests and corresponding server responses may be transformed before delivery to their destinations. One embodiment comp... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7207007 | Editing system, editing method, clip management device, and clip management method The relation between the edit resultant clip and the clip to be edited is managed with the hierarchical structure by managing means, so that the complicate editing works can be easily performed if the editing works are performed based on the information stored in th... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7197713 | System and method for controlling networked devices and accessing, manipulating and viewing internet and non-internet related information through multiple sessions A system and method are disclosed for accessing, generating, presenting and manipulating Internet and non-Internet related information, data and content, including information netcast over the Internet. The system is also capable of controlling operatively connected... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7185283 | Screen control method A feature video image vdt and a thumbnail picture sdt read from a receiving section C10 are recorded onto a mass storage medium M1, and meta information mdt is recorded into a high-speed storage unit C12. Semantic browser means C1 extract... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7146574 | Systems and methods for interfacing with digital history data Systems and methods for accessing historical data are provided. Based upon user interaction, a time period of interest and historical data, the systems and methods perform cross-correlation algorithms and interpret which items are to be accessed and displayed to the... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7143354 | Summarization of baseball video content Summarization of video content that includes the identification of a plurality of segments from a Video including baseball. In some embodiments the system does not use a model sequence of frames. ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7039879 | Method and apparatus for scrollable cross-point navigation in a user interface Method and apparatus for controlling an electronic device by navigating through a hierarchy of groups of commands while continuously providing the current location and path in the hierarchical structure. A displayed scrollable cross-point navigation image has two ba... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6985966 | Resynchronizing globally unsynchronized multimedia streams Media streams are provided from a server computer to client computers in a network system. The media streams are monitored and the streams becoming globally unsynchronized is detected. When the streams become unsynchronized, action is taken to resynchronize the stre... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6950989 | Timeline-based graphical user interface for efficient image database browsing and retrieval A multi-layer graphical user interface (GUI) using metadata, provides for timeline metaphoric representations (100A, 100B, 200A, 200B, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900) of pictures in a digital picture database. Icons (104A... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6925602 | Facilitating access to digital video A digital video editing system uses a graphical user interface which facilitates the selection of a video sequence of interest and its representation in a conveniently visualized form. Through the graphical user interface, the user may select a starting frame, a tim... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6675352 | Method of and apparatus for editing annotation command data An annotation command data for annotating a displayed image is in the form of an original data block having a first data area holding an initial state for the displayed image and a second data area holding one or more commands and a starting time point of... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6670966 | Edit data creating device and edit data creating method An edit data creation apparatus and method creates edit data specifying editing contents to arbitrarily combine edit materials. Positions of the edit materials are moved on the edit data. Adjustments are made to an end point of a first adjacent edit mater... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6633309 | Interactive video object processing environment having concurrently active subordinate windows A video processing environment includes a user interface and processing shell from which various video processing `plug-in` programs are accessed. The shell insulates the plug-ins from the intricacies of reading various file formats. The user interface al... | 10/14/2003 |
| 6630943 | Method and system for controlling a complementary user interface on a display surface An alternate display content controller provides a technique for controlling a video display separately from and in addition to the content displayed on the operating system display surface. Where the display is a computer monitor, the alternate display c... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6628303 | Graphical user interface for a motion video planning and editing system for a computer A graphical user interface for a computer-assisted motion video editing system directs a user through the process of editing a video program. The graphical user interface may also enable a user to plan a video program. Alternatively selectable interfaces ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6281945 | VSB--dependent automatic gain control A HDTV automatic gain control system includes a VSB mode detector and adjusts the gain according to the detected VSB mode to maximize the efficiency of the equalizer. Moreover, the HDTV automatic gain control system controls the input gain signal to be gr... | 08/28/2001 |
