Apparatus and method for storing a movie within a movie

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  • Patent Number: US7636090
  • Application Number: US11497183
  • Filing date: 07/31/2006
  • Issue date: 12/22/2009
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  • Predicted expiration date: 12/11/2016
  • Patent term adjustment: 366
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  • U.S. Classifications: 345/419  · 345/440  · 345/474  · 345/475  · 345/473  · 345/536  · 345/537  · 715/514  · 345/423  ·
  • International Classifications: G06T1500 ·
  • Related U.S. Application Data:
    This application is a continuation application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/638,037, filed Aug. 8, 2003 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,102,644, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/911,946, filed Jul. 23, 2001, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,630,934, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/049,715, filed Mar. 27, 1998, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 6,297,830, which is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/570,542, filed Dec. 11, 1995, now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 5,751,281.
19 Claims, 12 Drawings


Abstract

A hierarchical movie is provided. A hierarchical movie is a movie that contains one or more embedded movies. Embedded movies may themselves contain embedded movies. Each movie contains zero or more media sequences. Within a hierarchical movie, media sequences that should be edited together may be grouped together using embedded movies. The media sequences of a hierarchical movie may be sequenced during playback based on a different time coordinate system than the time coordinate system that governs any embedded movies. This allows a movie to contain both time-based and time-independent media sequences. Also, the relative timing of events in the movie may vary from performance to performance. The hierarchical movie structure allows movies to be used as user interface controls, and even as field-sensitive databases.

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Independent Claims | See all claims (19)

  1. 1. A system for playing a movie comprising: a first storage area to store a first set of media sequences, the first set including at least one media sequence; a second storage area to store a second set of media sequences, the second set including at least one other media sequence, the second set having an embed relationship with the first set wherein the second set does not inherit the temporal frame of reference environment of the first set; and a display device coupled to a processor to sequentially play a media sequence from the first set and to sequentially play a media sequence from the second set according to the embed relationship, the processor coupled to the first and second storage areas.
  2. 16. A system for storing media sequences, comprising: i) one or more storage resources to store: a top level media container having at least one of the media sequences; a lower level media container within one of the media sequences and having another one of the media sequences wherein the one of the media sequences has a different temporal frame of reference environment than the another one of the media sequences; wherein, each of the media sequences include a plurality of samples; ii) a display iii) a processor; and iv) a presentation of keys to be touched by a user.