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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166402 | User interface for managing master and layout relationships A user interface within a presentation program manages hierarchical relationships. A master view includes a thumbnail view that shows the hierarchical relationship between slide masters and layouts used within the presentation. In one example, the thumbnail view is ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8112712 | 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... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8086963 | Inheritance model between masters, layouts and slides An N-level inheritance model is provided to develop presentations. A hierarchical inheritance model includes master slides, custom layout slides, and slides including the material for the presentation. The inheritance model allows presentation authors to both define... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8082505 | Multiuser learning system A computer-implemented knowledge acquisition system which enables user to easily create and share electronic study material is disclosed. The system includes a content creation module which can be configured to receive question data and answer data input by a first ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8078969 | User interface for creating image collage A user interface for a computer device includes an image collage layout including a plurality of image receiving areas each configured to receive an image, a first control configured to select a number of the image receiving areas in the image collage layout, a seco... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8065616 | Multimedia presentation editor for a small-display communication terminal or computing device A method by which a multimedia presentation editor for use on a (typically handheld) communication or computing terminal (10) interfaces with a user so as to allow the user to create or edit a presentation (20), including: a step (51) in which o... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8027561 | Methods, devices and computer program products for event-based media file tagging Methods are provided for tagging digital media files. A digital media file is obtained with a digital media device. One or more event tags are associated with the digital media file on the digital media device responsive to a user prompt. The one or more event tags ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7934160 | Slide kit creation and collaboration system with multimedia interface A slide kit creation system and method allows reviewers of a slide kit to insert non-textual comments, such as audio comments, to be associated with selected slides. In one embodiment, audio comments are transmitted to a host computer by telephone, and may be posted... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7827492 | System and method for presentation of room navigation Collaboration space object model provides for a Place consisting of rooms. A room is made up of pages. Folders are used to organize pages. Members belong to rooms, and are those users authorized to access them. Place type controls the creation of a place, including ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7730407 | Systems and methods for bookmarking live and recorded multimedia documents Systems and methods for bookmarking multimedia documents include displaying multiple multimedia streams, creating bookmarks comprising time signatures and snapshots of each multimedia stream based upon single action cues from a user, associating snapshots with porti... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7721209 | Object-aware transitions Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The indiv... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7707503 | Methods and systems for supporting presentation tools using zoomable user interface Methods and systems for supporting presentation using a zoomable space. In an exemplary method, a structure, such as a hierarchy, of presentation information is provided. The presentation information may include slides, text labels and graphical elements. The presen... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7681113 | Information recording medium, information recording device and method for reproducing audio information and still picture information simulataneously An information recording medium has recorded thereon a plurality of sets of still image information to be continuously played back in the form called a slide show audio information to be played back in synchronization with the still image information. Also recorded ... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7669132 | Matching a slideshow to an audio track In a method for a matching a slideshow with an audio track, a slideshow is received. The slideshow comprises a timebase defining display times for slides of the slideshow. An audio track is received. The audio track is utilized to warp the timebase such that a displ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7577905 | Applying a design to a slide using equivalent layouts A new design is applied to a slide. A search is made within layouts associated with the new design for an equivalent layout to the slide's layout. When an equivalent layout is found, the placeholders are mapped from the slide to a new slide base on the equivalent la... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7546533 | Storage and utilization of slide presentation slides Slide presentation files may be separated into one or more individual slide files, and the one or more individual slide files may be stored in a remote or local slide library. Stored individual slide files are populated with metadata for allowing subsequent search a... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7512887 | Method to employ multiple, alternative presentations within a single presentation A method of creating multiple, alternative presentations within a single electronic presentation, by assigning one or more presentation constraint parameters to the electronic slides, and generating a sequence for presenting less than all of the electronic slides ba... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7500194 | Applying a slide layout with an arbitrary number of placeholders A new slide layout having an arbitrary number of placeholders is applied to an existing slide. Placeholders in an original slide are mapped to placeholders within a new slide layout configuration. The slide layouts may be predefined slide layouts that include a pred... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7493561 | Storage and utilization of slide presentation slides slide presentation files may be separated into one or more individual slide files, and the one or more individual slide files may be stored in a remote or local slide library. Stored individual slide files are populated with metadata for allowing subsequent search a... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7434165 | Programmed apparatus and system of dynamic display of presentation files A method of preparing and displaying a cumulative presentation and a presentation system are provided. A listing of available individual presentation files is provided through a user interface. Each of the presentation files comprises a plurality of presentation sli... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428704 | Dynamic presentation generator A computer aided workstation programmed to facilitate and enhance the process for creating complex graphics and associated presentation design through the use of multiple software tools/agents in conjunction with retail presentation products. Critical brandin... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7380211 | System and method to manage speaker notes in a computer implemented slide show A system and method for managing speaker notes in a slide presentation is disclosed. Preferably, the invention operates in a computer implemented slide presentation product. Particularly, a system for creating a plurality of speaker notes files to be used in support... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7376932 | XML-based textual specification for rich-media content creation—methods Video, stills, panorama, sound and all forms of media as Rich Media in a Multimedia Vehicle Repository (MVR) file editable with a Rich Media Content description file. The Rich Media Content description file enables users to specify a vocabulary that defines the medi... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372536 | Photostory 3—automated motion generation A system and/or a method facilitates creating an image-based video by automatically applying a motion to an image. A motion component can receive the image and generate a corresponding motion, which can mitigate complications involved with authoring the image-based ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370274 | System and method for formatting objects on a page of an electronic document by reference A method and system can format objects on a first page of an electronic document being created by applying the formatting from corresponding objects contained in a separate formatting source where these objects have been formatted using the existing tools of the app... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366987 | Interrupt processing in display control The present invention provides a display control system suitable to flexible and smooth presentation. The invention can include a projector that stores page data included in projector display data in a stack area by a stack system in which the page data correspondin... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7360159 | System for creating media presentations of computer software application programs A system for producing presentations of computer application programs that also allows the inclusion of advertising, or other information, into a presentation and which can be updated by a central ad server. When the presentation is viewed offline, default ads are k... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7355606 | Methods and apparatuses for the automated display of visual effects Methods and apparatuses for the generation of visual effects according to the elapsed time for real time display. One embodiment of the present invention provides an automated mechanism for displaying visual effects (e.g., fade to or from a target color) through adj... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356763 | Real-time slide presentation multimedia data object and system and method of recording and browsing a multimedia data object A system for recording a real-time slide presentation to generate a low bit-rate multimedia data object including a plurality of synchronized overlayed replayable bitstreams including at least a bitstream corresponding to an image of each of a plurality of slides of... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353272 | Method and system for internet performance monitoring and analysis including user interface and periodic information measurement and collection A method for Internet performance monitoring and analysis includes, by at least one data collection agent (DCA), a DCA being a computer operating on the Internet and configured with software that is controlled remotely from another location on the Internet, responsi... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7340676 | System and method for automatic layout of images in digital albums A system and method for automatic creation of digital image albums. A Page Creator Module utilizes a genetic engine and a layout evaluation module. The genetic engine evolves a group of images to a plurality of album pages, based on certain layout criteria. The eval... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7327347 | Image classifying systems and methods Methods and systems for classifying images, such as photographs, allow a user to incorporate subjective judgments regarding photograph qualities when making classification decisions. A slide-show interface allows a user to classify and advance photographs with a one... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310671 | System and method for a trouble shooting portal to allow temporary management access to a communication device A troubleshooting portal method for providing connectivity between a first communication device and a second communication device. The second communication device resides in an access provider communication system. One embodiment comprises receiving a specification ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7304664 | Digital camera having a display unit to display the print status of a connected printer A digital camera and a printer are directly connected to each other, and a printing progress situation is displayed on a display unit of the digital camera while an image taken by the digital camera is being printed. Further, when a printing mode is changed to a pho... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302113 | Displaying digital images A method of displaying digital images comprises the steps of using a processor to determine an extent of similarity between a first image part and a second image part, displaying a first image part from a viewpoint and transitioning to displaying a second image part... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299418 | Navigation method for visual presentations A navigation tool permits a presenter to navigate through a presentation, while easily introducing supplemental material into the presentation. Presentation slides are represented as thumbnails on the screen of the presenter's monitor, and are preferably arranged in... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296239 | System GUI for identification and synchronized display of object-correspondence in CT volume image sets Disclosed is a graphical user interface, comprising a plurality of main displays, each for displaying an image set, a user interactive system for receiving from a user a first location of an object-of-interest in one of said image sets, and a correlation system for ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7290204 | Remote slide show system using a browser A plurality of uniform resource locators are automatically notified from a local side computer to one or more remote side computers in a predetermined sequence and at predetermined intervals, and the browser of each of the remote side computers displays the correspo... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7281199 | Methods and systems for selection of multimedia presentations A variety of techniques for both (1) viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for speed and direction of the multimedia presentation and in accordance with a user selection device being in a particular location and (2) presenting multime... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272780 | System and method for media stream indexing and synchronization An indexing method for allowing a viewer to control the mode of delivery of program material. By mapping from time to data position, data delivery can begin at any selected time in the program material. The indexing method also provides for controlling data delivery... | 09/18/2007 |
