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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7412533 | Providing a presentation on a network having a plurality of synchronized media types A presentation system is disclosed for synchronizing a performance of a plurality of presentation content portions at a network node, wherein, e.g., when two such content portions are to be presented concurrently at the network node, at least one is delayed until th... | 08/12/2008 |
| RE40361 | Data conversion apparatus for data communication system A data conversion apparatus is provided as a data transmitting apparatus in a data communication system which achieves pseudo interactive communications by using one-way communications between the data transmitting apparatus and a plurality of data receiving apparat... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7371956 | Musical content utilizing apparatus A musical content utilizing apparatus has a data input portion B11, transformation process portion B13 and utilization process portion B15 implemented via programmed processes. The data input portion B11 inputs musical content data compri... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373592 | Modeless child windows for application programs A computer system that assists the user of computer drawing programs is described. The computer system runs an application that displays modeless windows by first displaying an application window that presents information associated with the application. After the a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373414 | Multi-media system and method for simultaneously delivering multi-media data to multiple destinations A multimedia system and method that provides easy universal text searching for non-technical users, is disclosed. A configuration of the multimedia system and method of the present invention also facilitates content delivery through multiple, independent, simultaneo... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373610 | Skin generating method, program, and apparatus When accessing a web page on the internet or a file on a local machine, the image file selecting unit selects a plurality of image files to be used for skin generation from a group of image files stored in the temporary storing unit of the browser. The skin image ge... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373603 | Method and system for providing data reference information Reference information related to data that is copied using computer software is provided. The data can be copied from a first computer application to a memory. Reference information related to the data can also be copied to the memory. The copied data can be pasted ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373598 | Method and apparatus for facilitating globalization of voice applications One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates voice output for an application. During operation, the system receives a symbolic representation of data to be outputted from the application, wherein the symbolic representation is locale-inde... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373599 | Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage A method and system for placement of graphical objects on a page to optimize the occurrence of an event associated with such objects. The graphical objects might include, for instance, advertisements on a webpage, and the event would include a user clicking on that ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373591 | Binary format for MPEG-7 instances An encoding and a decoding method for transmitting and storing description element(s) of an XML-like document which is an instance of an XML-like schema. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370276 | Interface for collecting user preferences Various techniques are disclosed for accepting preference information from a user, where the preference information is specific to content elements within a media asset, and the preference information is collected while the user is viewing a display of the media ass... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7370272 | Data adapter A data adapter including method and apparatus is presented. In one embodiment, the data adapter is a method. The method includes finding a set of records of a relational database matching an object instance of an object type. The method further includes updating the... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366975 | Method and apparatus for allowing a media client to obtain media data from a media server Some embodiments of the invention provide a computer system that includes a media server, a media client, and a media-server interface. The media server application produces media data, where the media data has a plurality of segments. For example, in some embodimen... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366986 | Apparatus for receiving MPEG data, system for transmitting/receiving MPEG data and method thereof An MPEG data receiving apparatus adapted to interact with a MPEG data providing apparatus. A storage unit stores scene description information (SDI) from a received MPEG stream and a command recognition unit outputs node identification information based on user-sele... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366670 | Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis Facial animation in MPEG-4 can be driven by a text stream and a Facial Animation Parameters (FAP) stream. Text input is sent to a TTS converter that drives the mouth shapes of the face. FAPs are sent from an encoder to the face over the communication channel. Disclo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366993 | Automatic graph display System and method for displaying signals. First user input requesting display of a first signal is received, e.g., to a graphical user interface (GUI) comprised in a signal analysis function development environment, and the first signal programmatically analyzed in ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366994 | Using digital objects organized according to histogram timeline A method for organizing visual digital objects into a histogram timeline having a first axis with a timeline representing a range of time organized into separate time periods and a second axis orthogonal to the timeline axis representing a number of digital multimed... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7366251 | Transmitter for transmitting a combined clock signal and a digital data signal modulated on a carrier wave A transmitter circuit for transmitting a sine wave modulated with digital data, where the sine wave includes a clock signal, and a receiver circuit for demodulating the transmitted sine wave, where the receiver circuit extracts the clock signal and the digital data ... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362323 | Method and apparatus for identifying features of multidimensional image data in hypermedia systems A method and apparatus that utilizes coordinates of a “hot spot” selected in an image map to index a location in a secondary image. An object table is indexed using data stored in the indexed location of the secondary image to link a program action to the “hot... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362475 | Image forming device for processing a file containing raster data and vector data An image forming device for forming images based on a file configured of a first data area for storing raster data and a header for storing vector data. The image forming device includes a raster data image displaying function for forming images on a display screen ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362955 | Video recording and reproducing apparatus A video recording and reproducing apparatus for simultaneously displaying a plurality of image contents recorded at given time points or images at a plurality of given portions within the same image contents is disclosed. A plurality of images read from a randomly a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7360209 | Object process graph application controller-viewer A computer software system is provided, namely, An Object Process Graph Application Controller-Viewer (OPGACV) system. The OPGACV controls a running Object Process Graph (OPG) application by inducing a Dynamic Graph Interpreter (DGI) to transition applications from ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360152 | Universal media player A universal media player designed to improve a user's online media experience that is preferably embedded in an Internet browser is disclosed. The universal media player allows a user to navigate between different sources of media without requiring the downloading o... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7360155 | Structured datatype expansion framework One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that expands a symbolic representation of a data item into a locale-specific textual representation of the data item. The system operates by first receiving a locale-independent symbolic representation of the... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359616 | Service providing apparatus, service providing method, receiving terminal apparatus, receiving method, and service providing system A service providing apparatus for providing an editing environment for video data recorded on a record medium that is sent is disclosed, that includes a part for creating index pictures using the video data that is sent and transmitting the created index pictures fr... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359438 | Optical communications imager Described are a method and optical communications processor for receiving communications data in an image formed on a plurality of pixels. The method includes receiving active pixel information identifying which of the pixels are receiving communications data and re... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356766 | Method and system for adding content to a content object stored in a data repository A web-based system, method and program product are provided for adding content to a content object stored (e.g., a custom compilation or prepublished work) in a data repository as a group of hierarchically related content entities. Each noncontainer content object i... | 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 |
| 7356409 | Manipulating a telephony media stream Systems, methods, and data structures for pluggable terminals are provided. Pluggable terminals are part of client and server TAPI communications systems. Pluggable terminal allow third parties to provide their own media processing devices and implement control meth... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7356611 | Method and apparatus for permissions based active document workflow Techniques for designing and processing a workflow that can be refined or modified based upon information associated with a document processed by the workflow. Since the author of the document may configure the information associated with a document that is used to ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356823 | Method for displaying single monitor applications on multiple monitors driven by a personal computer A direct access driver solves limitations of DirectX operation under the Microsoft architecture when using multiple monitors. The direct access driver allows applications employing DirectX application program interfaces to use hardware acceleration without display e... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7353225 | Mechanism for comparing content in data structures A mechanism is provided for automatically comparing content in a plurality of data structures. In one embodiment, this mechanism does not perform a literal, line-by-line comparison of the data structures. Instead, the mechanism first extracts the content from the da... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353229 | Post-session internet advertising system The present invention is directed to a post-session advertising system that may be used in media such as computers, personal digital assistants, telephones, televisions, radios, and similar devices. In one preferred embodiment, a first display is viewed in a first p... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353267 | Targeted network video download interface A system provides a user with free Internet network access, in which an access control system sends video advertising files to a user who gains access to the Internet through a network connection that includes a viewer program that operates independently of the user... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353451 | Meta data creation apparatus and meta data creation method The present invention is intended to detect, when a meta data author inputs a viewpoint and viewpoint score to contents having time information, time information of the contents corresponding to the input time of the viewpoint and viewpoint score input, assign corre... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352952 | System and method for improved video editing There is provided herein an invention that utilizes a themed template which is designed to assist novice video editors quickly compose a complete video work which memorializes a particular familiar occasion, such as, for example, a birthday, a wedding, a trip to the... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353520 | Method of sharing a parcer A method and apparatus for processing media content is presented comprising a video processing subsystem to process video content, and an audio processing subsystem to process audio content. Each of the audio processing subsystem and the video processing subsystem i... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353460 | Web site navigation under a hierarchical menu structure A method, system, and computer display device that uses a hierarchical menu structure to enable a user navigate through a linked web-page system. A computer code and a display screen of the computer display device enables the user to navigate through the linked web-... | 04/01/2008 |
