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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082494 | Rendering markup language macro data for display in a graphical user interface Embodiments are provided for rendering markup language data representing a macro as macro objects in a graphical user interface on a display device and for converting macro objects to markup language data. In one embodiment, markup language data representing the mac... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8020101 | User specified transfer of data between applications A method, information processing system and computer readable medium for transferring data between applications on a computer is disclosed. The method includes selecting data from a first application and selecting a copy-to command for copying the data selected from... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7992088 | Method and system for copy and paste technology for stylesheet editing A method (and structure) for editing elements of a first document based on elements of a second document, wherein the elements of the first have a template structure with each template including at least one match condition, the match condition being an expression i... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7757165 | Method and system for deriving and matching local formatting in an electronic document Determining and applying format attributes associated with content in an electronic document that is cut or copied from an electronic document and pasted into the same or different electronic document. The determination may be based on the format attributes of the c... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7516398 | Apparatus and method of executing multi-clipboard Provided are an apparatus and method of executing a multi-clipboard. In order to execute the multi-clipboard, it is determined whether a predetermined amount of time has passed after a paste is activated. Then data stored in a basic clipboard is pasted if a signal i... | 04/07/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7437682 | Icon label placement in a graphical user interface To improve the art of graphical user interfaces, the present invention introduces a system that displays iconic resource representations having a salient dimension in a manner that provides the user with an indication of where the user is within that resource. The s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7356242 | Editing device, editing system and editing method Program configuration is carried out by using the screen of a display section 17 and an input operating section 18 of a video editing device 10, and data of this program configuration is recorded in a RAM 19. In accordance with the data o... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7325199 | Integrated time line for editing A method of manipulating a time based stream of information through use of a user interface to generate a presentation is provided in which a processing system is employed. The methods use references to a selected time based stream of information as editing tools. T... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7305696 | Three part architecture for digital television data broadcasting This invention provides technology (including apparatus, method, software, and/or data structures) to broadcast data from one or more content providers via one or more broadcast channels to one or more content recipients. This technology meets the different needs of... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7293242 | Facilitated source to target object editing functions A method for editing software objects can include identifying at least one user selection of at least a portion of an electronic document displayed within an application and prompting a user for a target destination to which the user selection is to be posted. A use... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287220 | Methods and systems for displaying media in a scaled manner and/or orientation The invention relates to methods, systems, and programming for displaying media in a scaled manner and/or in an orientation other than an operating system displays its graphical user interface. Some embodiments lay out digital content at a virtual pixel resolution a... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7278152 | Video pedestal network An architecture for distributing digital information to subscriber units wherein selection from among multiple digital services is accomplished by transmitting a tuning command from a subscriber unit to an intermediate interface. The intermediate interface selects t... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7271932 | Digital image processing apparatus, digital image processing method, digital image processing program product, and digital image printing system Digital image processing apparatus is provided with a monitor for displaying an image, a moving picture reader for reading moving picture data, a memory for storing still image data obtained from the moving picture data, a display controller for displaying on the mo... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7257641 | Multipoint processing unit A system to provide a multipoint processing terminal and a multicast bridging terminal to provide mixing, switching, and other processing of media streams under the control of H.323 components. Application Programming Interfaces defined for the multipoint processing... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7240286 | Content editing apparatus, content editing method, content editing program, and computer-readable storage medium A content editing apparatus that edits digital broadcast content that is composed of a plurality of data carousels for realizing pseudo-interaction is provided. An operation reception unit receives identification information and a transmission start time and a trans... | 07/03/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7207006 | Run-time hypervideo hyperlink indicator options in hypervideo players A hypervideo player for playing hypervideos containing both video and hypervideo hyperlinks provides user selectable run-time options for the form of hypervideo hyperlink emphasis region display attributes displayed at the time of viewing. The hypervideo player may ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7170509 | Information processing apparatus, program for product assembly process display, and method for product assembly process display A hard disk stores a CAD file having 3-D data that relates to an assembly product comprised of a plurality of parts. Based on this 3-D data of an assembly product, a parts data retriever retrieves 3-D data for each part. According to this 3-D data for each part, a b... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7171621 | Reformatting messages introduced into a user interface Inbound messages are reformatted so that they are compatible with a user interface and database found in a local area network. Local software provides a user interface with a message display area. The format of the area includes parameters such as line length and di... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7159186 | User interface for transferring data with a communications terminal An aspect of the present invention provides methods and apparatus for supporting a user interface of a terminal. The user interface enables the user to manipulate display objects on a display of the user interface in order to download software objects of other users... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7152237 | Delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top-box A system and a method for delivering targeted advertisements to the set-top box (STB). The targeted advertisements may be delivered to the STB in a low bandwidth channel or in a high bandwidth channel as an ad channel. The ad channel may be an analog channel wherein... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7113523 | Data multiplexing device, program distribution system, program transmission system, pay broadcast system, program transmission method, conditional access system, and data reception device In a data multiplexing device which multiplexes and transmits the transport stream packets of program data consisting of a plurality of data elements constructed in the form of transport stream packets, a program distribution system, a program transmission system, a... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7103677 | Methods and systems for efficiently processing compressed and uncompressed media content Methods and systems are described that permit efficient processing of user-defined multi-media editing projects that combine multiple different source data streams into a single compressed data stream that represents the project. The described approaches are directe... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7085995 | Information processing apparatus and processing method and program storage medium An information processing apparatus for suitably corresponding a plurality of images as an editing object to each of a plurality of scenes constituting scenario data. In the apparatus, when a read button (211) is operated, a material clip (212) as an e... | 08/01/2006 |
| 7073127 | Video editing GUI with layer view A graphical user interface for editing a video story includes a storyboard pane, a timeline pane, and a layer pane. The storyboard pane displays video clips of the video story and their transitions. The timeline pane displays tracks including a video track, a video ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069506 | Methods and systems for generating enhanced thumbnails An enhanced thumbnail apparatus produces thumbnails in which one or more elements, such as a document header, or keywords specified by a user, are modified to facilitate review by the user. The enhanced thumbnails are produced by generating a reduced-size representa... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7062713 | Displaying control points over a timeline On a display monitor (102) the first region is displayed representing a first timeline (601) showing transitions between a first set of image clips. A second region is displayed representing a second timeline (602) showing transitions between a ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7055100 | Editing system, editing method, clip management apparatus, and clip management method An editing system for producing a resultant clip from a plurality of clips. Information indicating relations between the clips is stored and managed in a database according to a hierarchical structure. The content of a first resultant clip can be updated at any time... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7031594 | Recording and/or reproducing apparatus for detecting and displaying audio signal levels of input and output and ports A data recording and/or reproducing apparatus having actuating buttons or adjustment volumes which enable a wide variety of processing operations despite a limited operating space, and which is able to display levels of plural audio data or to display various other ... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7013028 | Advanced schematic editor An editor in a computer system for editing an schematic having a number of pages. The editor may cut a selected portion of the schematic from any one of the schematic pages, paste the cut portion of the schematic onto any one of the schematic pages, and connect nets... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6954900 | Method for summarizing news video stream using synthetic key frame based upon video text The present invention relates to a method for summarizing a news video stream using a synthetic key frame based upon news video text. The method according to the invention generates the synthetic key frame by allocating different importance measures according to an ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6941517 | Low bandwidth television The present invention is concerned with client-side production in a personal computer environment of low bandwidth images and audio. A series of low bandwidth still images along with a “script” and audio data is sent over a network in a client/server architectur... | 09/06/2005 |
| 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 |
