Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system – Display driving control circuitry – Controlling the condition of display elements
Reexamination Certificate
1999-08-31
2002-10-29
Huynh, Ba (Department: 2173)
Computer graphics processing and selective visual display system
Display driving control circuitry
Controlling the condition of display elements
C345S215000, C345S215000, C345S215000, C707S793000, C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06473096
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a device and a method for generating a scenario suitable for use as presentation materials, and particularly to a device and a method of generating a scenario used for presentation materials, wherein a reproduced scenario of a multimedia title, which has described layout information of respective contents and the relationship of synchronism and reproduction between the contents in multimedia contents including text data, image data, motion picture data, voice data, programs, etc., i.e., a reproduced scenario intended for a title, which is suitable for use as materials at the time that a presentation is done asynchronously and on a non-facing basis through a network, is generated.
2. Description of the Related Art
Upon a general presentation used for the descriptions or the like of the presentation of research work, and a planned proposal, the descriptions have heretofore been made based on various materials on the spot where the persons concerned have gathered in a hall room. When conferences or the like are held at a conference room in which various audio visual devices such as a plurality of OHP (Overhead Projectors), a video device, are installed, the style is general that the presentation is done by explaining materials on hand in front of participants while an explainer is displaying the materials on the screen or a video monitor through the use of these devices.
There has recently been a particular increase in example in which a presentation is done while a multimedia title generated by a multimedia authoring system using a computer connected to a projector is being reproduced by the computer.
As to the presentation executed while such a multimedia title is being reproduced by the computer, there is known “Multimedia Processing Device” disclosed in Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application No. Hei 8-115335, for example. A command bar acts as an important role when the presentation is performed in real time. In the present example, however, information about the multimedia title is described in a work in advance to utilize a pointing device as the effective command bar upon reproduction of the multimedia title, and a display image of the pointing device is controlled synchronously with the contents of the work upon reproduction, whereby screen operations under the presentation are made more effective. Further, a progress control command such as form feed or the like is associated with voice data of an explainer and recognized and executed from the voice of the explainer, thereby making it possible to smoothly perform a screen operation of the presentation.
When such a presentation using the computer is performed, it is necessary to create the multimedia title in advance by using the multimedia authoring system. However, the creation of such a multimedia tile needs a special technique such as general highly-developed programming.
On the other hand, an attempt has been made to simplify authoring requiring an advanced speciality to some extent. As an example thereof, there is known, for example, “Multimedia Presentation Edit Execution Device” described in Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application No. Hei 8-147264. In the present example, a multimedia title can be created without programming in accordance with a system for inputting and setting reproduce/display timings of respective multimedia contents utilizing an interface having minimized a keyboard input and a human sense of time elapse, i.e., each scene changeover operating timing actually done by a human without a special sense of authoring.
Meanwhile, in the current network community in which an Internet and an Intranet have been rapidly penetrated, work has been done in work styles different from the conventional ones. Persons to be on duty at remote sites are now at work in cooperation with one another through communications via a network in particular. It is considered that when the presentation is taken into consideration in such a work style, there is an increase in the opportunity of a presentation done asynchronously and on a non-facing basis through a network, rather than the presentation performed synchronously and on a facing basis at the conference room or the like where the persons concerned have gathered in a hall room as in the conventional example.
When the presentation using the computer is carried out, it is necessary to create the multimedia title in advance by using the multimedia authoring system as described above. Thus, the special technique such as the highly-developed programming or the like has been required for its purposes. However, when the presentation done asynchronously and on the non-facing basis is taken into consideration, the situation becomes further complex. Namely, it is necessary to contain the description conventionally done by the explainer upon the presentation in the created multimedia title for the presentation as information in advance. To this end, further complex authoring work is needed. However, when presentation materials are supposed to be created as a part of the general office work without creating commercial movies, it is desirable to use a creating method having no concept of authoring.
As to the authoring which imagines such a presentation done asynchronously and on the non-facing basis, there is known “Method for Constituting Multimedia Presentation Materials and System therefor” described in Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application No. Hei 8-180036, for example. The present example provides an authoring system wherein presented conditions such as presented magnifications, presented time, etc. for all the presented materials used as a base are set and registered, and attached materials for processing the presented materials every present materials are next created, set and registered, and scenario files in which the contents of processing of the presented conditions and presented time are edited in time sequence every materials presented from the registered data, are then set and registered, whereby the daily-created materials can be utilized as they are and the special technique becomes unnecessary.
In Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application No. Hei 8-115335 referred to above, when a multimedia title is reproduced by using a computer connected to a projector and a presentation is done while its description is being performed, information is described in a work in advance so that a mouse cursor exhibits an effective function as a command bar, and a display image of the cursor is controlled upon reproduction to thereby set the presentation more effectively. The extraction of a keyword related to the operation of the computer from voice recognition of an explainer allows an improvement in screen operation during the presentation. However, this relates to the presentation done synchronously and in the facing form at a conference room or the like where the persons concerned have gathered in a hall room. This is not related to the presentation done asynchronously and on the non-facing basis through the network. It is also necessary to describe various mouse cursor control information in the multimedia title upon authoring in advance so that the mouse cursor exerts the effective function of command bar upon reproduction of the multimedia title. The authoring work difficult in addition to the general fatigue leads to further difficulties and labor.
In Japanese Published Unexamined Patent Application No. Hei 8-147264 as well, a multimedia title can be created without viewing a cumbersome timing chart and performing programming owing to, for example, the layout of objects using a graphical user interface and the definition of their reproduction sequence, and the input and setting of the timing provided to start the reproduction of the next object while the related objects are being reproduced and confirmed. However, these are limited to an improvement in the user interface with respect to the conventional authoring system. Thus, this is essentially nothi
Ishigaki Tooru
Kobayashi Yuji
Suzuki Nobuo
Fuji 'Xerox Co., Ltd.
Huynh Ba
Oliff & Berridg,e PLC
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