U.S. patent application number 10/893352 was filed with the patent office on 2004-12-16 for system and method for compact disc presentation of video movies.
Invention is credited to Quintos, Elias R..
Application Number | 20040252971 10/893352 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 33476981 |
Filed Date | 2004-12-16 |
United States Patent
Application |
20040252971 |
Kind Code |
A1 |
Quintos, Elias R. |
December 16, 2004 |
System and method for compact disc presentation of video movies
Abstract
A method for converting video movie (e.g., family video movie or
the like) clips for computer presentation in multi-media format
using compact discs by presenting on, a computer screen a starting
frame of each of desired video clips. Each starting frame of each
of the desired video clips is made into a thumbnail image or
picture (e.g., a reduced size video picture of the start of a
certain video clip) for viewing on a computer screen. A plurality
of thumbnail images or pictures are then set in a presentable
format; and background sound or music is created for each of the
video clips, if desired. Upon presentation of a plurality of
thumbnail images or pictures on the computer screen, a user is
capable of selecting and clicking a desired thumbnail image or
picture in order to play a video clip corresponding to a selected
one of the plurality of thumbnail images or pictures.
Inventors: |
Quintos, Elias R.;
(Smithtown, NY) |
Correspondence
Address: |
ARMSTRONG, KRATZ, QUINTOS, HANSON & BROOKS, LLP
1725 K STREET, NW
SUITE 1000
WASHINGTON
DC
20006
US
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Family ID: |
33476981 |
Appl. No.: |
10/893352 |
Filed: |
July 19, 2004 |
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10893352 |
Jul 19, 2004 |
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09472831 |
Dec 28, 1999 |
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Current U.S.
Class: |
386/241 ;
386/243; 386/248; 386/282; 386/333; 386/E5.064; G9B/27.012;
G9B/27.051 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G11B 27/34 20130101;
G11B 2220/2545 20130101; H04N 5/85 20130101; G11B 27/034 20130101;
G11B 2220/20 20130101 |
Class at
Publication: |
386/069 |
International
Class: |
H04N 005/91 |
Claims
1. A method for compact disc presentation of a video movie,
comprising the steps of: providing a video movie for presentation;
selecting at least one thumbnail image or picture of a frame of
said video movie from which to start the playing of said video
movie: and presenting on a screen said at least one thumbnail image
or picture of said video movie from which to start the playing of
said video movie.
2. The method as in claim 1, further comprising the step of:
clicking said at least one thumbnail image or picture of said frame
of said video movie; and playing said video movie starting from
said frame represented by said thumbnail image or picture.
3. A system for compact disc presentation of a video movie,
comprising: means for playing a video movie for presentation; means
for selecting at least one thumbnail image or picture of a frame of
said video movie from which to start the playing of said video
movie; and means for presenting on a screen said at least one
thumbnail image or picture of said video movie from which to start
the playing of said video movie.
4. The system as in claim 3, further comprising: means for clicking
said at least one thumbnail image or picture of said video movie,
and playing said video movie starting from said frame represented
by said thumbnail image or picture.
5. A system for playing a video movie stored in a compact disc,
comprising: means for playing a video movie for presentation; means
for selecting at least one thumbnail image or picture of a frame of
said video movie from which to start the playing of said video
movie; and means for presenting on a screen said at least one
thumbnail image or picture of said video movie from which to start
the playing of said video movie.
6. The system as in claim 5, further comprising: means for clicking
said at least one thumbnail image or picture of said video movie,
and playing said video movie starting from said frame represented
by said thumbnail image or picture.
7. The method as in claim 1, wherein the selecting step includes
the step of selecting at least one thumbnail or picture of a first
frame of a desired video clip segment within said video movie, and
wherein the presenting step includes the step of presenting on said
screen said at least one thumbnail image or picture of said first
frame of said desired video clip segment within said video
movie.
8. The system as in claim 3, wherein the means for selecting
includes the means for selecting at least one thumbnail or picture
of a first frame of a desired video clip segment within said video
movie, and wherein the means for presenting includes the means for
presenting on said screen said at least one thumbnail image or
picture of said first frame of said desired video clip segment
within said video movie.
9. The system as in claim 5, wherein the means for selecting
includes the means for selecting at least one thumbnail or picture
of a first frame of a desired video clip segment within said video
movie, and wherein the means for presenting includes the means for
presenting on said screen said at least one thumbnail image or
picture of said first frame of said desired video clip segment
within said video movie.
Description
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0001] 1. Field of the Invention
[0002] This invention generally relates to a method for compact
disc presentation of video movies. Such apparatus and method of
this invention convert video movie (e.g., family video movie or the
like) clips for computer presentation in multi-media format using
compact discs. More particularly, a family video movie is captured
and digitized into the hard drive of a computer. The video clips
are edited; and a starting frame of each of the video clips is made
into a thumbnail image or picture (e.g., a reduced size video
picture of the start of a certain video clip) for viewing on a
computer screen. A plurality of thumbnail images or pictures are
then set in a presentable format. Background sound or music is
created for each of the video clips, if desired. A unique program
is then created to provide an interactive multimedia presentation
of the thumbnail pictures, along with their corresponding video
clips. The files are stored into recordable compact disc for easy
use; and the disc is then labeled.
[0003] 2. Description of the Relevant Art
[0004] The traditional manner for viewing movie clips, in a
traditional multimedia presentation, with the use of a video tape
player imposes time-consuming fast forward and rewind searches of a
film segment of interest.
[0005] At present, there are numerous commercially available video
capture cards and programs that capture video tape playback, and
store the corresponding film in digital format with a personal
computer. Likewise, there are numerous compact disc recorders
available for storing information, including digitized video
clips.
[0006] However, without an organized program to present the movie
video clips, a user or viewer must painstakingly search for the
individual video clips. To a user's dismay, this task is fairly
complex, and time-consuming.
[0007] A need was therefore felt to significantly ease the process
of showing desired movie video clips by showing such desired movie
clips on a computer screen in a multimedia format and in a
clickable format using a compact disc medium.
[0008] It is therefore an object of the present invention to
provide a method for compact disc presentation of video movies on a
computer screen in a multimedia format and in a clickable
format.
[0009] It is another object of the present invention to provide a
method for compact disc presentation of video movies in which a
video movie is captured and digitized into a hard drive of a
computer, and edited, wherein a starting frame of each desired
video clip is made into a thumbnail picture and set in a
presentable format.
[0010] It is another object of this invention to provide a method
for compact disc presentation of video movies in which a user or
viewer can choose which segment or segments of a video movie to
play by clicking on a thumbnail image or picture of a first frame
of a desired video clip segment on a computer screen, the desired
video clip having a starting frame thereof in the form of the
thumbnail image or picture.
[0011] It is yet another object of the present invention to provide
a method for compact disc presentation of video movies in which
background sound or music is created in each desired video
clip.
[0012] It is still another object of the present invention to
provide a method for compact disc presentation of video movies with
a computer program for providing an interactive multimedia
presentation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
[0013] The aforementioned and other objects of the present
invention are accomplished by providing an apparatus and a method
for converting video movie (e.g.. family video movie or the like)
clips for computer presentation in multi-media format using compact
discs by presenting on a computer screen a starting frame of each
of desired video clips. Each starting frame of each of the desired
video clips is made into a thumbnail image or picture (e.g., a
reduced size video picture of the start of a certain video clip)
for viewing on a computer screen. A plurality of thumbnail images
or pictures are then set in a presentable format; and background
sound or music is created for each of the video clips, if desired.
Upon presentation of a plurality of thumbnail images or pictures on
the computer screen, a user is capable of selecting and clicking a
desired thumbnail image or picture in order to play a video clip
corresponding to a selected one of the plurality of thumbnail
images or pictures.
[0014] These and other features of the invention will be understood
upon reading of the following description along with the
drawings.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0015] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the apparatus and method for
use in providing compact disc presentation of video movies with the
creation in this invention of thumbnail images or pictures set in a
presentable format on a computer screen;
[0016] FIG. 2 is a flowchart of a method for creating the thumbnail
images or pictures set in a presentable format for use in the disc
presentation of the video movies of this invention;
[0017] FIG. 3 is a flowchart of a method for providing the disc
presentation of the video movies of this invention after the
thumbnail images or pictures for use thereof have been created;
[0018] FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating more detailed method
steps for Step S10, shown in FIG. 3; and
[0019] FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the thumbnail images or
pictures set in a presentable format on a computer screen for use
in the disc presentation of the video movies of this invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS
[0020] FIG. 1 is a schematic view of the apparatus and method for
use in providing compact disc presentation of video movies with the
creation in this invention of thumbnail images or pictures set in a
presentable format on a computer screen. Illustrated in FIG. 1 is a
movie video tape recorder 10 coupled to a video capture card 20,
which in turn is coupled to a personal computer 30. The video
capture card 20 is preferably a Bravado video capture card with
Adobe Premiere 4.2 software. The personal computer 30 is, for
example, an IBM Pentium II 266 Mhz 48RAM personal computer.
Standard RCA cables 15 are attached to the input jacks 18 of the
video capture card 20 and the output jacks 13 of the video tape
recorder 13.
[0021] As shown in FIG. 2, the video capture card 20 is installed
into a PCI expansion slot in the personal computer 30 (S1). A video
tape is then played in the video tape recorder 10 (S2) and captured
into a hard disk of the personal computer 30 (S3). A captured video
film is then separated into many segments by editing with Adobe
Premiere software (S4). These are stored in ".avi" format (S5).
[0022] The first frame of each segment of video film clips is then
stored as a ".bmp" format (S6) and re-sized with an image software
or Paint Shop Pro software (S7). These will be the thumbnail images
or pictures used to visually guide a user into selecting the
corresponding video clip that is desired by the user.
[0023] The sound track of a segment of a video clip can be
transformed into ".wav" format by the Adobe Premiere software (S8).
The background sound or music is played as the thumbnail pictures
are presented to the user.
[0024] A program or application is then created using Microsoft
Development Studio in Visual C++ to show the collated thumbnail
images or pictures, as well as the corresponding video clips and
background sound or music thereof. This program provides for
presentation the multiple thumbnail images or pictures and video
clips in an interactive format. FIG. 3 illustrates a general
flowchart for showing the creation of such a program.
[0025] As illustrated in FIG. 3, a compact disc (CD) is inserted
into a PC CD-ROM Drive (with CD recorder) (S9) so that the created
program, along with the corresponding video clips, thumbnail images
or pictures with background music or sound, and a "self-starting"
command are recorded in the CD. It is preferred that a Philips
Omniwriter CD recorder be used. The program, in the CD,
automatically starts (S10); and the user merely clicks on any of
the buttons relating to the thumbnail pictures or images T1-T6
(see, FIG. 5) corresponding to the first frame of a desired video
clip to view that video clip segment on the computer screen (S11).
The user may manually stop, rewind or replay any video clip, and
has instantaneous access to any video clip at any time.
[0026] It is noted that the operating system needed to view the CD,
having the above-discussed program therein, is Windows 95 or
Windows 98. The computer system for use to view such CD is
preferably a multimedia computer with a Pentium or similar
processor, a CD-rom drive with video and sound capabilities.
[0027] The creation of the program installed in the CD in Step S10
is discussed hereinafter in reference to FIG. 4.
[0028] As shown in FIG. 4, the program creation starts by starting
Microsoft Development Studio in, preferably, the same computer
described above (S20). A new project workspace of Microsoft
Foundation Class AppWizard type is named MOVIE VIEWER (or any
preferred name) and created (S21). A dialog-based application
framework is chosen with 3D controls (S22). A Microsoft Development
Studio program then creates a framework (S23), where additional
commands are written to incorporate the thumbnail images or
pictures, buttons, background sound or music and video clips (S24).
Three additional files are included into the project workspace;
namely, "Dibapi.cpp", "Dibapi.h" and "Myfile.cpp". The first two
files are part of a Microsoft Foundation Class Visual C++ library,
while the last file is a source file for presenting Device
Independent Bitmaps. The project is then linked to a "vfw32.lib"
library module (S25). The Mircosoft Development Studio then creates
the following files: "MOVIE VIEWERDlg.cpp", "MOVIE VIEWERDlg.h" and
resource files (S26).
[0029] Hereinafter, the files created by Microsoft Development
Studio are modified, as shown in the attached complete program.
That is dialog-based source files and buttons are created to
correspond to each thumbnail picture or image and video clip (S27).
After the source files are created, they are compiled and linked by
Microsoft Development Studio (S28). Then, an application "MOVIE
VIEWER.exe" is created and tested (S29). Once tested and working,
the application name is changed. In this case, it is changed to
"HERE.exe" (S30). A Notepad file is created (S31), and is entitled
"autorun.inf" (S32). The contents of such notepad file are as
follows: [autorun] and open=HERE.exe. Such notepad file is
incorporated into the CD (S33) in order to allow the user's
personal computer to automatically start the program "HERE.exe"
once it is loaded into the CD-rom drive.
[0030] Once the program is successfully created, it is recorded
permanently into a recordable CD, using, preferably, a Philips
Omniwriter (S34). Associated thumbnail images or pictures, labels,
background sound and music and video clips are recorded into the
CD(S35); and the autorun file are likewise recorded into the CD
(S36).
[0031] While the invention has been particularly shown and
described in reference to preferred embodiments thereof, it will be
understood by those skilled in the art that changes in form and
details may be made therein without departing from the spirit and
scope of the invention.
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