Method and interface for indexing related media from multiple sources
AssigneeIntellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC
InventorsMadirakshi Das, Cathleen D. Cerosaletti, Alexander C. Loui
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
The invention relates generally to the field of digital image processing, and in particular to a method for associating and viewing related video and still images. In particular, the present invention is directed to methods for associating and/or viewing digital content records comprising ordering a first set of digital content records and the second set of digital content records based upon information associated with each of the digital content records.
Claims10
A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for displaying digital content records, and the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving a set of digital content records organized along a timeline, each digital content record being associated with a point on or segment of the timeline based at least upon its time/date of capture and, optionally, span of capture, at least two digital content records being associated with at least a same point on the timeline;
- identifying a current point on the timeline;
- displaying a digital content record of the set of digital content records as a focus record, the focus record associated with the current point on the timeline and being displayed prominently on a display;
- displaying first other digital content records of the set of digital content records on the display, the first other digital content records having time/dates of capture or spans of capture temporally adjacent to the current point on the timeline and being displayed less prominently than the focus record on the display;
- and
- displaying second other digital content records of the set of digital content records on the display, the second other digital content records having a time/date of capture or a span of capture equal to or including the current point on the timeline.
A method implemented at least in part by a data processing system, the method for presenting digital content records, and the method comprising the steps of:
- instructing presentation of a first digital content record on an output device, wherein the first digital content record is a video or audio digital content record;
- identifying a second digital content record having an association with the first digital content record, wherein the association is based at least upon adjacency in time, a common object represented therein, a common event during which the first and second digital content records were captured, or a common location at which the digital content records were captured;
- and
- instructing presentation of the second digital content record on the output device while the first digital content record is being presented.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.