Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130097508 | REAL-TIME SCRUBBING OF ONLINE VIDEOS - A method for traversing a streaming video file includes receiving a representative streaming video file that includes less information than a higher-resolution streaming video file and spans the entire streaming video file. Based on navigation information associated with the representative streaming video file, a playback engine navigates to a different portion of the streaming video file. The navigation information may be based on input information received from a viewer of the streaming video file. One advantage of the disclosed method is that it enables fast and accurate navigation of a streaming video. | 04-18-2013 |
20130159822 | WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND SHARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL FOR A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A system and technique for capturing a workflow history and video of an electronic document are disclosed. Events generated by an application while modifying an electronic document are stored on a web server as metadata. In addition, a captured digital image or frames of captured digital video that reflect the state of the document at the time the event was generated are also stored on the web server. The metadata is associated with one or more portions of the document and with the captured digital image or frames of captured digital video. | 06-20-2013 |
20130174028 | WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND SHARING INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL FOR A SOFTWARE APPLICATION - A system and technique for capturing a workflow history and video of an electronic document are disclosed. Events generated by an application while modifying an electronic document are stored on a web server as metadata. In addition, a captured digital image or frames of captured digital video that reflect the state of the document at the time the event was generated are also stored on the web server. The metadata is associated with one or more portions of the document and with the captured digital image or frames of captured digital video. | 07-04-2013 |
20130346900 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VISUALIZING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PUBLICATIONS - A system and method are disclosed for illustrating relationships between a set of objects on a display device. An image is generated and displayed on the display device that includes a graphical representation for each of the objects. One of the objects in the set of objects is selected, and an application determines relationships between the selected object and a subset of the other objects. Connectors (i.e., a graphic overlay) are rendered over the image to show the relationship between one object and another object. Indirect relationships may be shown by drawing connectors between one object and a related object that connect one or more intervening objects. In one embodiment, the objects are publications stored in a digital repository and the relationships between publications are determined by examining references to other publications included in citations. Additional information, such as metadata, may also be rendered in the image. | 12-26-2013 |
20140310601 | REAL-TIME SCRUBBING OF VIDEOS USING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRID OF THUMBNAIL IMAGES - A computer-implemented method for traversing a video file includes populating a two-dimensional array with representative images corresponding to a portion of the video and causing the two-dimensional array to be displayed. The two-dimensional array includes a location indicator configured to traverse the two-dimensional array in a direction parallel with one dimension of the two-dimensional array in response to navigation information associated with the portion of the video. The location indicator is further configured to indicate a position in the video by highlighting one of the representative images populating the two-dimensional array. Because an end-user is provided with a large set of statically displayed representative images during navigation of a video timeline, the end-user can visually identify a desired target scene, even when traversing a the timeline relatively quickly. | 10-16-2014 |
20150033108 | ADAPTING VIDEO ANNOTATIONS TO PLAYBACK SPEED - Embodiments presented herein include a method for altering a first annotation associated with a media file. This method may generally include the technique for receiving the media file wherein the media file contains the first annotation which is associated with a first playback speed of the media file. A second playback speed is received for the media file. A second annotation is generated based on the second playback speed of the media file based on the first annotation associated with the first playback speed of the media file. The second annotation is associated with the second playback speed of the media file and, at the second playback speed, the media file concurrently plays the second annotation. | 01-29-2015 |
20150153919 | TECHNIQUE FOR SEARCHING AND VIEWING VIDEO MATERIAL - A video processing engine is configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows an end-user of the video processing engine to select a specific video and search through the specific video to detect a desired target scene. The video processing engine provides a grid array of video thumbnails that are configured to each display a segment of the video so that multiple scenes may be visually scanned simultaneously. When the end-user identifies a scene within a video thumbnail that may be the desired target scene, the end-user may launch the content of the video thumbnail in full-screen mode to verify that the scene is in fact the desired target scene. An advantage of the approach described herein is that the video processing engine provides a sampled overview of the video in its entirety, thus enabling the end-user to more effectively scrub the video for the desired target scene. | 06-04-2015 |
20150154188 | TECHNIQUES FOR VIEWING AND SEARCHING DOCUMENTS FROM COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS - A computing device is configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows an end-user to search for particular document or documents within a large collection of documents. The GUI provides a view of the overall document collection and affords the end-user the ability to reduce the number of visual document thumbnails by means of keyword search. When the end-user identifies a candidate among the reduced number of thumbnails, the end-user may select the page view of the candidate document and conduct further review. If the selected candidate is not the target document, the end-user may select adjacent documents to seamlessly transition between reading and searching. An advantage to this approach is that the visual qualities of the documents, such as images, graphical layout, and color, among others, may be incorporated into the search process. Searching for a particular target document is, thus, expedited. | 06-04-2015 |
20150156076 | TECHNIQUES FOR VISUALIZING DYNAMIC DATASETS - A visualization engine is configured to generate a network visualization that represents the evolution of a network over time. The visualization engine generates the network visualization based on a network dataset that describes various nodes within the network, and links between those nodes, over a sequence of time intervals. Initially, the visualization engine generates a stable simulated network based on initial network data, and then subsequently animates changes to that simulated network that derive from differences between the initial network data and subsequent network data. The visualization engine visually indicates changes to different nodes in the network via color changes, size changes, and other changes to the appearance of nodes. | 06-04-2015 |