Method for Cueing the Display of Active Content to an Audience
AssigneeLegistek Corporation
InventorPeter Nicholas Moore
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Abstract
A content presentation system is disclosed for composing a visual scene for an audience using content contained in a storage device, and storing the visual appearance of the scene for later retrieval and recreation by the presentation system. Scenes are recalled in a manner that permits further manipulation of the scene during the live presentation. Scenes can furthermore be recalled in random order, or cued to time-based media such as video, modifying existing elements in the staging area to the extent necessary to recreate the stored scene.
Claims7
A method for presenting displayable content to an audience, comprising the steps of:
- displaying the contents of a staging area on a presentation display connected to said computer and visible to said audience,
- playing back prerecorded media to said audience, and
- while said prerecorded media is being played back, at a predetermined time relative to the start of said prerecorded media,
- retrieving from a database connected to said computer scene information representing a visual state of said staging area, said scene information comprising a data structure for an image window to be hosted in said staging area according to said visual state, said data structure including information for retrieving from a storage source the image data to be presented in said image window, information regarding the visual appearance of said image window relative to said staging area, and information regarding the visual appearance of said image data relative to said image window,
- placing within said staging area an image window for displaying said image data, positioning and sizing said image window relative to said staging area according to said information regarding the visual appearance of said image window, and
- placing within said image window a depiction of said image data, positioning and sizing said depiction relative to said image window according to said information regarding the visual appearance of said image data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.