Virtual film reader for digital cinema
OwnerJohn Robert Naylor, James Edward Pearce +1inventors
InventorsJohn Robert Naylor, James Edward Pearce, Merlin Ray Miller
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Abstract
A virtual film reader system and method includes a digital cinema server configured to render a presentation (124). A graphical user interface is coupled to the server which includes one or more virtual automation cue tracks (108) which define a temporal domain corresponding with the presentation (124). Cues (108) are positioned by a user employing the graphical user interface on the one or more tracks, the cues (108) corresponding to a time and duration of (104) the presentation (124) when an event is to occur.
Claims21
A virtual film reader system comprising:
- a digital cinema server configured to render a presentation;
- a graphical user interface coupled to the server which includes at least one virtual automation cue track and
- at least one cue positioned using the graphical user interface on at least one track, at least one cue corresponds to a time and duration of the presentation when an event is to occur.
A method for setting automation cues in a digital cinema system, comprising:
- providing instruction to a server to generate at least one automation track against representations of digital content;
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- applying at least one virtual cue to at least one track to indicate when an event is to be triggered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.