Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
715732000 | Slide manipulating or editing | 71 |
20080256453 | INTEGRATED DIGITAL MEDIA PROJECTION AND PERSONAL DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM - Disclosed is a projector and data processing method and system for recommending digital media content to a user. The method and system gather statistics about the preferences of the user and/or compare the user to population data to create recommendations in accord with the preferences of the population. The population data may be qualified by demographics or other factors classifying the user. Sources of the digital media content include radio broadcast television broadcast, global computer network content, email, and personal organizing software/programs. | 10-16-2008 |
20080256454 | Selection of list item using invariant focus location - A method to perform selection of a list item using an invariant selection location includes retrieving multiple data items to present for selection by a user. A single invariant selection location is recognized within a presentation window presented to the user. A subset of the multiple data items are then presented to the user within the presentation window, each of the presented data items are being presented within a respective presentation position defined within the presentation window. A single advance input mechanism is associated with the presentation window. The single advance input mechanism is operative to advance the presentation of data items within the presentation window. An advance input is received from the user, via the advanced input mechanism. The presentation of the subset of data items within the presentation window is advanced to locate a selected data item at the invariant selection location. | 10-16-2008 |
20090006969 | Video microscopy system and multi-view virtual slide viewer capable of simultaneously acquiring and displaying various digital views of an area of interest located on a microscopic slide - A slide viewer capable of simultaneous display of more than one representation of an area of interest of a slide is provided. The slide viewer includes a database containing at least two data files representing different representations for a same area of interest on one or multiple correlated slides or at least two different digital presentations of the same representation. The representations are views of different illumination and/or of different contrast. Associated with the database are a processor and a display. The processor retrieves data files representing different representations of the same of area of interest and displays them on the display. A user is allowed to simultaneously view representations of the same area of interest, where the representations are of views different from each other by either illumination and/or contrast or by the digital information content presented, and/or by the information acquired from multiple correlated slides. | 01-01-2009 |
20090037821 | System And Method For Electronic Presentations - An electronic presentation system and method provides multiple display screens for presentation materials as well as permits dynamic annotations to presentation materials that do not permanently alter the presentation materials. In a multi-windowed display interface, a currently displayed slide or the next-to-display slide can be easily annotated or otherwise modified. Thus, the presentation materials can easily be directed to any one of the display screens and any annotations can be saved for future use or simply deleted. | 02-05-2009 |
20090044123 | ACTION BUILDS AND SMART BUILDS FOR USE IN A PRESENTATION APPLICATION - A presentation application for animating objects placed on slides is provided. Using the presentation application, the user may add objects to slides of a presentation, and apply animations to the objects. The animations may include action builds (e.g., fundamental animations) and smart builds (e.g., complex combinations of action builds). The animations used in slides may be pre-processed, or may instead be rendered in real-time as the slides are being presented. The real-time rendering may be performed by graphics circuitry, such as the GPU of a video card. | 02-12-2009 |
20090113307 | SLIDESHOW METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IMAGES ON A DISPLAY - A method and system are disclosed for presenting digital images over a display in a slideshow presentation. The slideshow has an appearance of the images being hand-placed and for providing a more human feel to the presentation of digital images. | 04-30-2009 |
20090119597 | ACTION REPRESENTATION DURING SLIDE GENERATION - Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as it will appear after implementation of one or more corresponding actions. | 05-07-2009 |
20090172548 | TACTILE TWO-WAY FEEDBACK TO REMOTE PRESENTATION CONTROLLER DEVICE TO INDICATE SLIDE ANIMATION STATUS - A presentation controller device is disclosed. A presentation is constructed with slides. At least one slide can include animations. In a manual operation, the controller device vibrates or provides a tactile feedback before a final animation on a current slide. Clicking a button on the controller device makes a transition (e.g., an animation transition, a slide transition). In an automatic operation, the controller device vibrates or provides a tactile feedback before an event (i.e., an animation transition, a slide transition, a final animation, a final slide). A sequence of slides/animations is automatically presented at a programmed time interval. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSITIONING BETWEEN SCREEN PRESENTATIONS ON A DISPLAY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus for transitioning between screen presentations on a display of an electronic device includes determining a selection by a user of the electronic device of one of a plurality of dynamic transition themes, detecting an event that causes a transition from a current screen presentation to a replacement screen presentation, and applying the selected dynamic transition theme to the dynamic transition when it is in a set of allowed dynamic transitions. Each dynamic transition theme defines a manipulation of a plurality of manipulable objects that are in any dynamic transition in the allowed set of dynamic transitions. Each dynamic transition consists of a current screen presentation and replacement screen presentation and comprises a plurality of manipulable objects. The manipulations are performed according to a pattern defined by the dynamic transition theme. The set of allowed dynamic transitions includes substantially all dynamic transitions. | 07-02-2009 |
20090172550 | System and Method for Analyzing Time for a Slide Presentation - A system and method for analyzing time for a slide presentation that permits a speaker to coordinate available time with the number of slides to be shown and a method of operating the same is described. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a time allocation tool enabling a user to establish a presentation time with respect to at least one slide in the slide presentation and allocate any remaining presentation time to each remaining slide on a pro-rata basis and (2) a monitoring module associated with the time allocation tool to monitor the progress of the slide presentation and display a time status for the slide presentation as well as a slide number and a time status for a currently displayed slide. | 07-02-2009 |
20090282340 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - A display control apparatus which realizes display capable of providing an overview of a group of thumbnail images and which includes an object controller ( | 11-12-2009 |
20100037140 | Sections of a Presentation having User-Definable Properties - In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation. In addition to the slides associated with each section, each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation. Because the values of the properties of the sections are user-definable, these properties may, in some implementations of these techniques, enable the author of the presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in presentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for navigation among slides in an authoring interface. | 02-11-2010 |
20100042926 | THEME-BASED SLIDESHOWS - A system and method for providing photographic slideshows with theme elements is provided. Each photograph and each theme element may be associated with different contextual information. The contextual information may include, for example, locations, time and date, calendar events, user preference or history information, or any other suitable information. In response to receiving a selection of contextual information, the electronic device may identify photographs and theme elements associated with contextual information to generate a photographic slideshow. Alternatively, in response to receiving a selection of at least one photograph or theme element, the electronic device may identify contextual information associated with the selected photograph or theme element to identify other photographs and theme elements associated with the identified contextual information for generating a photographic slideshow. | 02-18-2010 |
20100064222 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS - Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition. | 03-11-2010 |
20100064223 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS - Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition. | 03-11-2010 |
20100122171 | NON-LINEAR SLIDE PRESENTATION MANAGEMENT FOR SLIDE SHOW PROGRAMS - A non-linear slide presentation management for slide show programs. In a first aspect, the invention provides a method for non-linear slide presentations, comprising: interrupting a topic sequence of a slide presentation being currently shown; placing a slide identifier from the interrupted topic sequence on a stack; showing a new topic sequence of the slide presentation; and upon completion of the new topic sequence of the slide presentation, returning to the interrupted topic sequence by examining the stack to obtain the slide identifier from the interrupted topic sequence. | 05-13-2010 |
20100131851 | Machine, Program Product, And Computer-Implemented Method For Randomized Slide Show Of Files - A user specifies in a database a plurality of files for inclusion in a randomized slide show of files so that only specified files are to be displayed. The plurality of files and the database can be stored on a remote server with user access through an electronic communications network. The user can save criteria for a particular configuration, including a list of predetermined categories associated with a life of the user from which to draw files, a number of files to display, a display duration, and a number of repetitions. A set of files from the plurality of files specified for inclusion in the slide show is randomly selected, responsive to user criteria. A display device displays the randomly selected set of files in the slide show. The steps of randomly selecting and displaying the set of files in the slide show are repeated. | 05-27-2010 |
20100223554 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS - Techniques for accomplishing slide transitions in a presentation are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects within the slides are identified, automatically or by a user, and each object is individually manipulable during slide transitions. The individual manipulation applied to each object during a transition may also be automatically determined or specified by a user. In certain embodiments, the persistence of an object between slides may be taken into account in the manipulation of the object during slide transition. | 09-02-2010 |
20100293470 | Hierarchically-Organized Control Galleries - A computing system provides a graphical user interface having hierarchically-organized control galleries. The computing system displays the graphical user interface on a display device. The graphical user interface contains a document area and a control ribbon. The document area contains at least a portion of a document that a user is editing. The control ribbon includes a class control gallery. The class control gallery includes a plurality of class controls associated with different classes of related commands. The computing system displays a variation control gallery containing variation controls in a class associated with a selected one of the class controls. In response to a selection of a variation control in the variation control gallery, the computing system applies a command associated with the variation control to a document in the document area. | 11-18-2010 |
20110010629 | SELECTIVELY DISTRIBUTING UPDATES OF CHANGING IMAGES TO CLIENT DEVICES - A network server for sharing images with mobile electronic devices having one or more processors, and image sharing client application, and an image distribution application. The image sharing client application is to be executed on one or more of the processors to receive an update to an image being shared over a network with mobile electronic devices that each have their own current zoom level and their own currently visible area of the image. The image distribution application is to be executed on one or more of the processors to keep a record of the current zoom level and currently visible area for each of the plurality of mobile electronic devices and to selectively send image updates to the plurality of mobile electronic devices based on the current zoom level and currently viewable area of the mobile electronic devices. | 01-13-2011 |
20110022960 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMPARING PRESENTATION SLIDE DECKS - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for comparing two slide decks using a compare service. The compare service generates a comparison analysis for the two slide decks based on a comparison theme selected by the user. The result of the analysis is displayed in a comparison display that includes a slide selector section, a slide pair viewer section, and a navigable change summary section. In one embodiment, the compare service allows the user to select preferred slides from the two slide decks displayed in the comparison display, and subsequently generates a new slide deck that contains only the preferred slides selected by the user. | 01-27-2011 |
20110167351 | METHOD OF REMOTELY CONTROLLING A PRESENTATION IN LOOP MODE USING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A system and method are set forth for remotely controlling a presentation in a loop mode to allow the presentation to continue in the absence of a communication channel between the portable electronic device and remote presentation device. In particular, the portable electronic device can issue a command to the remote presentation device to present the presentation in loop mode so that a user of the portable electronic device can leave the vicinity of the remote presentation device (e.g. out of communication range) while the presentation plays in loop mode. | 07-07-2011 |
20110246893 | PRESENTATION SLIDE PREPARATION - Presenting a slide. Anticipating a slide to be selected for display. Receiving data of the anticipated slide in an unconstructed format. Constructing the anticipated slide from the received data. Caching the constructed slide. Pre-drawing the constructed slide in construction memory. Receiving instructions to display a slide. In the event that the instructed slide is the cached and pre-drawn slide, rendering the pre-drawn slide to display memory. | 10-06-2011 |
20110265005 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGE ATTACHMENTS - According to embodiments described in the specification, a method, system and apparatus for managing attachments are provided. The method comprises: receiving a request for a slideshow attachment, the slideshow attachment maintained in a memory; distilling at least one content layer from the slideshow attachment; generating a slide list from the slideshow attachment; converting the slide list and at least a portion of the at least one content layer into a transmission format; and, transmitting a response to the request, the response comprising the converted slide list and the converted portion of the at least one layer. | 10-27-2011 |
20110302494 | Smart Presentation Application - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method to create a presentation having at least one sheet, where each sheet contains one or more visual elements, as well as a system and computer program embodied on a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes, in response to input from a user, representing visual elements as depictions in a model, where each depiction depicts a single item in the model, where each item is a unit of information with a unique identifier, where each item can be depicted by at least one depiction and each depiction defines the visual representation of the item's information via the visual element. The method further includes, in response to a change to an item made by altering the visual element associated with the depiction of the item, automatically propagating the change to the item to all other depictions of the item across all sheets of the presentation. The method further includes updating the associated visual elements to reflect the change to the item. | 12-08-2011 |
20120084656 | Method of Inserting Active Content in a Series of Electronic Presentation Slides - A method of inserting active content in a series of electronic presentation slides and a computer program, computer readable storage media and a computer for the same is disclosed, the method includes the steps of providing an interface to enable a user to define a slide hierarchy and, based on a user defined slide hierarchy, automatically inserting in at least some of the slides active content for navigating between the slides. | 04-05-2012 |
20120089916 | MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION EDITOR FOR A SMALL-DISPLAY COMMUNICATION TERMINAL OR COMPUTING DEVICE - A method by which a multimedia presentation editor for use on a (typically handheld) communication or computing terminal ( | 04-12-2012 |
20120117474 | Image Data Display System and Image Data Display Program - An image data display system classifies image data into a cluster based on a predetermined condition regardless of whether or not the image data conforms to DCF standard and displays information specific to the image data when displayed as a slide show. A CPU creates a cluster, including a plurality of the image data, and a slide show table having first and second cluster name candidates based on a FAT data or an Exif data and a third cluster name candidate input by a user. The image display screen combines any two of the above first, second, and third cluster name candidates and displays a list of the combined candidates as cluster names indicating contents of the image data. The user can select the cluster name in high visibility and can easily display the desired image data as the slide show. | 05-10-2012 |
20120131464 | Sections of a Presentation having User-Definable Properties - In general, this disclosure describes techniques that employ user-defined values of properties of sections of an electronic presentation. As described herein, a user may configure a presentation to include a plurality of sections. Each of the sections includes zero or more slides of the electronic slide presentation. In addition to the slides associated with each section, each of the sections is associated with one or more properties having values that can be defined by an author of the presentation. Because the values of the properties of the sections are user-definable, these properties may, in some implementations of these techniques, enable the author of the presentation to use the sections in ways not possible in presentation applications that merely use sections as a means of grouping thumbnail images of slides for navigation among slides in an authoring interface. | 05-24-2012 |
20120159332 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC PRESENTATIONS MANAGEMENT - A method for dynamic presentations management of electronic presentations including multiple slides, wherein each slide has at least one presentation constraint parameter assigned thereto, and wherein a presentation software is used for generating and displaying the presentation can include gathering metadata regarding the presentation by the presentation software, evaluating the metadata regarding the presentation and determining at least one presentation constraint parameter by the presentation software, and automatically arranging and/or selecting slides and/or modifying a content of slides according to the determined at least one presentation constraint parameter to be presented by use of the presentation software. | 06-21-2012 |
20120260178 | AUTOMATED WEB CONFERENCE PRESENTATION QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - A slide presentation file created by a web conference client device at an initial presentation quality using one version of an application is uploaded to a web conference server device that implements a state sharing mechanism for web conference slide presentation quality improvement during a web conference among a group of web conference client devices. The web conference server device is requested to begin rendering and distribution of presentation slides as part of the web conference among the group of web conference client devices using the state sharing mechanism. A rendered web conference presentation slide of the slide presentation file is received from the web conference server device. A determination is made that the rendered web conference presentation slide of the slide presentation file is rendered at a presentation quality different from the initial presentation quality of the uploaded slide presentation file. | 10-11-2012 |
20120290934 | METHOD OF RETRIEVING AND NAVIGATING INFORMATION USING A LOGICAL KEYWORD OR CODE - A method of retrieving and navigating information using logical keywords or codes where the method includes digitizing content; categorizing the digitized content using a keyword taxonomy; storing the categorized content on a storage device; providing access to the categorized content in at least one of a global, local, or personal context; and displaying the categorized content as a content slide show. | 11-15-2012 |
20130067336 | VIEWING PRESENTATIONS IN A CONDENSED ANIMATION MODE - Concepts and technologies are described herein for viewing presentations in a condensed animation mode in which a presentation program condenses or accelerates animations or effects within the presentation while maintaining the animations and effects associated with the presentation. The presentation program is configured to enter into a condensed animation mode and to render a slide of the presentation. In some embodiments, the presentation program waits for user input before playing an accelerated or condensed version of the animations and/or effects. In other embodiments, the presentation program plays the condensed or accelerated version upon rendering the slide without requiring further user input. If user input is received, the presentation program can be configured to wait for the animation sequence to complete before proceeding to the next slide and/or can interrupt playback of the animation sequence and proceed to the next slide of the presentation immediately. | 03-14-2013 |
20130125003 | ACTION REPRESENTATION DURING SLIDE GENERATION - Techniques for displaying object animations on a slide are disclosed. In accordance with these techniques, objects on a slide may be assigned actions when generating or editing the slide. The effects of the actions on the slide are depicted using one or more respective representations which represent the slide as it will appear after implementation of one or more corresponding actions. | 05-16-2013 |
20130191754 | SEQUENCING ELECTRONIC FILES - Systems and methods for sequencing electronic files include generating a first file sequence and one or more alternative file sequences. An alternative file sequence may be generated based in part on a characteristic of a file in the first sequence. The first and alternative sequences may be used in an electronic slideshow that allows a user to switch between file sequences. In some implementations, which alternative file sequences are generated may be determined based in part on a prediction of characteristics that may be of interest to a user. | 07-25-2013 |
20130239001 | PROVIDING THEME VARIATIONS IN A USER INTERFACE - A presentation program provides a graphical user interface that includes a theme gallery and a theme variation gallery. Users can apply a theme to a slide by selecting a theme thumbnail image. Once selected, a corresponding set of theme variations are indicated in the theme variation gallery using theme variation thumbnail images. Users can apply the desired theme variation by selecting the theme variation thumbnail image. Once selected, the theme variation is applied to the slide. A theme variation family identifier is stored in the slide file that allows subsequent identification of the theme, and allows a presentation program to subsequently identify theme variations for display on the theme variation gallery. A file structure is identified that allows backwards compatibility so that a presentation file of a slide with theme variations can be opened by an earlier version of a presentation program that does not implement theme variations. | 09-12-2013 |
20130239002 | Providing Theme Variations in a User Interface - A presentation program provides a graphical user interface that includes a theme gallery and a theme variation gallery. Users can apply a theme to a slide by selecting a theme thumbnail image. Once selected, a corresponding set of theme variations are indicated in the theme variation gallery using theme variation thumbnail images. Users can apply the desired theme variation by selecting the theme variation thumbnail image. Once selected, the theme variation is applied to the slide. A theme variation family identifier is stored in the slide file that allows subsequent identification of the theme, and allows a presentation program to subsequently identify theme variations for display on the theme variation gallery. A file structure is identified that allows backwards compatibility so that a presentation file of a slide with theme variations can be opened by an earlier version of a presentation program that does not implement theme variations. | 09-12-2013 |
20130290850 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MARKING SLIDE FILE USING LASER POINTER - A method for marking a slide file includes the following steps. Generating at least two reference spots on the slide file displayed by a display at preset reference coordinates of a displayed slide file. Obtaining an image of the slide file projected on a projection screen. Identifying the reference spots in the image and determining a standard coordinate of each reference spot in the image. Obtaining an association between the standard coordinates in the image and the preset reference coordinates in the displayed slide file. Obtaining a variety of images of the projected slide file. Identifying a bright spot in each image and determining its coordinate in each image. Calculating a coordinate of each bright spot in the displayed slide file according to the its determined coordinate in the image and the obtained association. Generating a continuous mark on the displayed slide file along the calculated coordinates. | 10-31-2013 |
20130339862 | LATENCY REDUCTION IN COLLABORATIVE PRESENTATION SHARING ENVIRONMENT - A method and system for delivering a presentation created using a presentation application program are disclosed. One method includes initiating, from a presentation computing system, display of a presentation to one or more remote computing devices. The method also includes creating an initial display package based on the presentation that includes metadata describing the presentation and an image representative of the presentation, and uploading the initial display package to a presentation server. The method includes, after uploading the initial display package, creating an initial set of presentation slides from the presentation, and uploading the initial set of presentation slides to the presentation server. The method further includes, after uploading the initial set of presentation slides, uploading at least a remaining portion of the presentation to the presentation server for display at one or more of the remote computing devices. | 12-19-2013 |
20140053071 | READING MODE FOR INTERACTIVE SLIDE PRESENTATIONS WITH ACCOMPANYING NOTES - Concepts and technologies are described herein for providing interactive slide presentations with accompanying notes in a reading mode of a presentation application program. In accordance with some of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a computer-implemented method includes computer-implemented operations for providing a reading mode user interface that includes a presentation object including a slide placeholder and a notes placeholder. The method may also include displaying slide content within the slide placeholder in the reading mode user interface. The method may also include moving the presentation object out of a view and a new presentation object into the view in response to an input. The method may also include scaling the new presentation object. | 02-20-2014 |
20140068442 | Viewing Digital Slides - A system for collaborative viewing of a digital slide image. In an embodiment, a session is established for viewing a digital slide image by a plurality of client viewers. A leader client viewer and non-leader client viewers are identified for the session. When a command is received from the leader client viewer, the command is sent to each of the non-leader client viewers to synchronize a view of the digital slide image at the non-leader client viewers with the view of the digital slide image at the leader client viewer. | 03-06-2014 |
20140096006 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING A PRESENTATION - A computer-implemented method of generating a presentation including a plurality of slides, the method comprising: storing a first slide and a second slide, each slide having one or more content elements; selecting, based on the one or more content elements of the first slide or the second slide or both, a slide transition from a set of slide transitions, each slide transition in the set of slide transitions defining how display of one slide changes to display of another slide; displaying the first slide; and, subsequently changing display of the first slide to display of the second slide in accordance with the selected slide transition. An electronic device and computer program product are also provided. | 04-03-2014 |
20140096007 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE MANAGEMENT METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes an image storing processor, a slide show transmitter and a comment receiver. The image storing processor receives an image from clients and stores first images including the received image. The slide show transmitter generates a slide show including second images of the first images and transmits the slide show including the second images in a first order to a first client. The comment receiver receives from the first client comments associated with images of the second images. The slide show transmitter alters the slide show such that the slide show includes the second images in a second order based on the comments and transmits the altered slide show to a second client. | 04-03-2014 |
20140129945 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYNCHRONIZATION AND MANAGEMENT OF SYSTEM ACTIVITIES WITH LOCALLY INSTALLED APPLICATIONS - The present invention enables the host (presenter) to monitor and identify the current slide of the host presentation that is being displayed on a local user machine. The host is able to receive queries such as instant messages from local user's viewing the presentation and identify a particular presentation slide with contents that formed the basis for the question. The present invention generates a transcript of the local user activities that occurred during the presentation. This transcript helps the host presenter understand the contents of the activities and the basis for queries made to the host presenter. | 05-08-2014 |
20140173442 | PRESENTER VIEW IN PRESENTATION APPLICATION - Technologies are described herein for providing a presenter view in a presentation application. A determination is made, by a presentation application executing on a computer, as to whether a secondary display device is coupled to the computer. If a determination is made that the secondary display device is coupled to the computer, then the presentation application is transformed from a default configuration to a presenter configuration. If a determination has been made that the presentation is complete, then the presentation application is transformed from a presenter configuration to a default configuration. | 06-19-2014 |
20140215342 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS - A display control apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read allocation data in which categories of images to be displayed in a slide show are associated with display periods, a display control unit configured to display a selection screen that allows selection of a plurality of images for each of the categories based on the allocation data read by the reading unit, a selection unit configured to select images to be allocated to each of the categories based on a user operation performed on the selection screen, and a playing unit configured to sequentially play a plurality of images based on the images allocated to each of the categories in the selection and also based on the allocation data. | 07-31-2014 |
20140282013 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND SHARING NONLINEAR SLIDE-BASED MUTLIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS AND VISUAL DISCUSSIONS COMPRISING COMPLEX STORY PATHS AND DYNAMIC SLIDE OBJECTS - The invention provides computer-implemented means for engaging in visual discussions of slide-based multimedia content comprising nonlinear and complex, multidimensional data structures which convey narratives to one or more members of an audience, said data structures comprising visual depictions of slide content displayed as discrete pages linked according to spatial and temporal relationships and portrayed in a virtual discussion space, wherein said visual depictions comprise proportional and accurate, interactive graphical representations of said data structures. Multiple parties using mobile devices and individually distinguishable identities may participate in the generation and editing of said data structures in said visual discussion space, thereby participating in said virtual discussions; and a plurality of advantageous means for navigating among and controlling the behavior of virtual slides therein are provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140325362 | System and Method for Mobile Presentation Processing - The invention comprises a system and method using a software application (“app”) running on portable computing devices to download presentations from a central server as thumbnails and manipulate the presentations in thumbnail format. The thumbnails can provide a storybook-type presentation that takes much less memory on a portable device than full native presentation format files. With the thumbnail file, the portable device user can move from slide to slide, reorder slides, delete slides, add slides from other thumbnail files, and add notes/text. After a new presentation is created using one or more thumbnail files, it may be uploaded to a central server where a server-side application recompiles the new presentation into a native format presentation from the thumbnail format. In this manner, presentations can be sourced from virtually anywhere and using nearly any computing device from which one can view thumbnail presentations. Other variations and enhancements are disclosed. | 10-30-2014 |
20140337742 | METHOD, AN APPARATUS AND A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETERMINATION OF AN AUDIO TRACK - An audio processing apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprising an audio analysis unit configured to obtain a group of audio signals, each audio signal associated with an image of a group of images, the group of images being provided for a presentation having an assigned overall viewing time with each image having an assigned viewing time, and to analyze at least one of the audio signals to determine one or more intermediate audio signals for determination of an audio track having a first duration, which first duration essentially covers said assigned overall viewing time. The apparatus further comprises an audio track determination unit configured to compose the audio track having said first duration on basis of said one or more intermediate audio signals. The apparatus may further comprise a classification unit configured to obtain a plurality of audio signals, each audio signal associated with an image of a plurality of images, to obtain a plurality of location indicators, each location indicator associated with an image of the plurality of images, and to determine the group of images as a subset of the plurality of images such that the group comprises images having location indicator referring to a first location associated therewith. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344703 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An apparatus and a method that perform reproduction control with a high degree of freedom on slideshow reproduction are provided. Reproduction control to which first control data in which information on a reproduction start point and a reproduction end point of an image is recorded and second control data in which information on maximum display time of each image is recorded are applied is performed. When automatic slide paging setting as user setting information is ON (valid), image transition processing is performed according to whether the maximum display time for reproducing the second control data has passed, regardless of whether the reproduction end point of the first control data has passed. For example, if image display time reaches the reproduction end point of the first control data, the image is continuously displayed in a state in which the displayed image is paused, and image transition processing is performed as the maximum display time for reproducing the second control data has passed after the pause. | 11-20-2014 |
20140372894 | ADDING NEW SLIDES ON A CANVAS IN A ZOOMING USER INTERFACE - A method is provided to place new slides on zooming user interface canvas is provided that includes: receiving user request to add a new slide; determining whether a zoom level of a current viewing window has changed to meet a prescribed threshold zoom level since addition of a previously added slide; in response to a determination that the zoom level has changed, using a current viewing window zoom level as a reference zoom level; in response to a determination that the zoom level has not changed, using a previous viewing window zoom level as the reference zoom level; and determining a placement of the new slide with reference to the reference zoom level. | 12-18-2014 |
20140380171 | AUTOMATIC PRESENTATION OF SLIDE DESIGN SUGGESTIONS - A method and system for organizing slides by analyzing content and offering alternative solutions for placing content on the slides in an effective and visually interesting organization is provided. The presentation application automatically generates alternative design suggestions for the provided content that effectively utilize the slide space pursuant to analytics performed on the content. Providing alternative design suggestions for organizing content on a slide assists in quickly and easily creating presentations that effectively utilize slide space. | 12-25-2014 |
20150052440 | REAL-TIME MANAGEMENT OF PRESENTATION DELIVERY - Managing the delivery of a presentation in real-time includes receiving a presentation including a plurality of slides, wherein each slide of the plurality of slides is allocated an amount of time for display during delivery of the presentation and is associated with a slide subject, determining subjects of interest for an audience of the presentation from a social media website, and correlating, using a processor, the subjects of interest with the plurality of slides of the presentation. A recommendation is generated using the processor. The recommendation specifies a modification to the presentation according to the correlation of subjects of interest with the plurality of slides of the presentation. Further, the recommendation is indicated using a display. | 02-19-2015 |
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20150113412 | INTERACTIVE BUILD ORDER INTERFACE - An approach is presented for ordering and manipulating objects involved in a build on a slide of a presentation. For example, in certain embodiments, build effects may be grouped and moved or manipulated as groups within a build order list. In certain implementations, movement of build effects on the build order list may be facilitated by displaying one or more visual indicators conveying information about the order or properties of the build effects being moved. | 04-23-2015 |
20150121231 | Systems and Methods for Interactively Presenting a Presentation to Viewers - A system and method that allows a user to interactively display a presentation to one or more viewers. The presentation system allows the presentation to be displayed on an interactive display while one or more mobile computing devices assigned to each viewer connects to the presentation system so that the viewer can view the presentation and also receive one or more slides from the presentation in real-time while the slide presentation is being presented. The received slides may be electronically editable versions of the slides being displayed or electronically editable versions of slides that contain subject matter related to the subject matter of the slides being displayed. The viewers can edit the electronically editable versions of the slides and send the edited versions back to the user during the presentation. The user may then optionally display one or more of the edited slides as part of the presentation. | 04-30-2015 |
20150121232 | Systems and Methods for Creating and Displaying Multi-Slide Presentations - A computer system for creating and displaying a presentation is disclosed. In various embodiments, the computer system receives a request to generate one or more slides and to associate the one or more slides with a particular background. The system then displays a preview of the one or more slides and the associated particular background in a preview area. The system, in one or more embodiments, is configured to display, during the presentation, the one or more slides overlaid on the one or more backgrounds. In a particular embodiment, the computer system is configured to display multiple slides on a single background during the presentation. | 04-30-2015 |
20150143243 | HIERARCHICAL PRESENTATION EDITOR - In a method for editing slide arrangement within a hierarchical slide presentation, a processor displays a holistic view of a plurality of slides including a first slide and a second slide, wherein the second slide is associated with the first slide in a first parent-child relationship. A processor receives an indication that the first slide is selected. A processor receives an instruction to move the first slide to a location within the holistic view of the plurality of slides. A processor determines that the second slide shall remain associated with the first slide. A processor relocates the first slide to the location within the holistic view of the plurality of slides and relocates the second slide such that the second slide remains associated with the first slide. | 05-21-2015 |
20150293650 | ENHANCEMENT OF PRESENTATION OR ONLINE COLLABORATION MEETING - An interactive presentation and collaboration system and method comprising detecting a presentation window being displayed on a computer display; detecting all the shapes in said presentation window; breaking down each one of said detected shapes into logical shapes; receiving user commands pertaining to a selected one or more of said logical shapes; and changing said displayed presentation window according to said user command. The invention also comprises design-time tools for presentation enhancement. | 10-15-2015 |
20150317071 | Method and Computer-Readable Medium for Cueing the Display of Active Content to an Audience - 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. | 11-05-2015 |
20160004400 | DYNAMIC PRESENTATIONS MANAGEMENT - A method for dynamic presentations management of electronic presentations including multiple slides, wherein each slide has at least one presentation constraint parameter assigned thereto, and wherein a presentation software is used for generating and displaying the presentation can include gathering metadata regarding the presentation by the presentation software, evaluating the metadata regarding the presentation and determining at least one presentation constraint parameter by the presentation software, and automatically arranging and/or selecting slides and/or modifying a content of slides according to the determined at least one presentation constraint parameter to be presented by use of the presentation software. | 01-07-2016 |
20160086259 | Smart Snapping - A platform allows experts, for example home improvement professionals, to upload their portfolios, i.e. content such as photos, videos, text, and sound, to a publicly available resource, such as a Web browser accessible, network based commerce system. Users may then browse the content, for example by room, style, and metro area. The content is arranged in collections that are in part passively sorted, based upon user relevance. Tags are shown on objects, for example within photos, for which there is more information. In the case of a movable display device, the tags can simulate the physics of real tags, for example they can move back and forth when the device is shaken. In another embodiment, a snap point is set to impart either a scrolling transition or a step transition between display pages, based upon user scroll activity. | 03-24-2016 |
20160124909 | COMPUTERIZED TOOL FOR CREATING VARIABLE LENGTH PRESENTATIONS - A computer based tool and method for automatically producing, from an existing presentation, a new presentation that fits within a specific presentation duration based on the priority associated with each element within the existing presentation and the presentation time for each individual element. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132221 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING A JOINT SLIDE SHOW WITH ONE OR MORE REMOTE USER TERMINALS - Methods and apparatus for managing a joint slide show by a source user terminal in communication with one or more remote user terminal(s) are disclosed herein. During the slide show, a plurality of picture files are shown on the source user terminal. One or more slide-show display-transitions are performed at the source user terminal by replacing, at a slide-show display-location of the source user terminal, a pre-transition picture file with a post-transition picture file. In some embodiments, (i) for each slide-show display-transition, a respective post-transition picture file is sent from the source terminal to each remote user terminal in advance of the slide-show display-transition and/or (ii) each of the slide-show display-transitions is contingent upon, and performed only after meeting a condition related to a number of remote user-terminals from which the source terminal has received a confirmation message confirming receipt of the respective post-transition picture file. | 05-12-2016 |
20160155212 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD | 06-02-2016 |
20160196681 | OBJECT-AWARE TRANSITIONS | 07-07-2016 |
20160378283 | MOBILE DEVICE VISUAL BROWSING - Systems and methods for providing tablet web visual browsing are provided. In example embodiments, an identity of a user of a mobile device is determined and user specific information is accessed based on the identity. A landing page having a plurality of categories from which the user at the mobile device may begin a navigation to search for an item of interest is provided. The landing page displays a plurality of categories without displaying sub-categories of the plurality of categories and includes the user specific information. A first touch input that indicates a selection of a category is received from the mobile device. A plurality of subcategories of the selected category and a search result a plurality of item selections within the selected category are determined. A user interface is presented on the mobile device that displays the selected category, the plurality of subcategories, and the plurality of item selections within the selected category. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378728 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING CONTENT MENUS FOR WEBCASTING EVENTS - A webcasting system that provides a webcast presenter and webcast attendees with multiple interactive means of connecting and communicating is disclosed. A webcast presenter may create and send webcast slides, which include references to dynamic and interactive content, to webcast attendees. Attendees may view the webcast slides and interact with the dynamic and interactive content provided through the references. Webcast presenters may control an attendee's ability to interact with the interactive content. Additionally, webcast presenters may allow attendees to break away from a main webcast presentation into smaller presentation or group. | 12-29-2016 |
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