End-user-navigable set of zoomed-in images derived from a high-resolution master image
AssigneeSonic Solutions
InventorsJames M. Roth, Kenneth G. Oetzel
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Abstract
The invention relates generally to improvements in systems used in the development of interactive visual media. More particularly, the invention relates in some embodiments to (a) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of a set of files representing “zoomed-in” sections of a master high-resolution image file, and (b) the automatic or semi-automatic generation of the logical data required to allow navigation of the generated files by an end-user of an interactive visual medium, including but not limited to such optical disc formats as DVD-Video, DVD-Audio, Video CD, and Super Video CD, as well as media hosted by a server and delivered over a network.
Claims20
A method of creating an interactive visual medium comprising:
- providing an image at a first resolution;
- causing to be produced a first presentation data representing of the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution;
- causing to be produced a second presentation data comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second resolution;
- causing to be produced logical data linking the first and second presentation data;
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- causing the logical data and the first and second presentation data to be placed on the interactive visual medium.
A method of creating content for an interactive visual medium comprising:
- receiving an image at a first resolution;
- forming a first presentation data representing of the image at a second resolution, wherein the second resolution is lower than the first resolution;
- forming a second presentation data comprising a representation of a portion of the image at a third resolution higher than the second resolution;
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- forming logical data linking the first and second presentation data, wherein the logical data and first and second presentation data are encoded in the format of the interactive visual medium.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.