公开(公告)号：US5684715A

公开(公告)日：1997-11-04

申请号：US475984

申请日：1995-06-07

申请人： Douglas L. Palmer

发明人： Douglas L. Palmer

IPC分类号： G06F17/30 ,  G11B19/02 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/2343 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4725 ,  H04N21/84 ,  G06K15/00 ,  H04N7/08

CPC分类号： G06K9/00711 ,  G06F17/3079 ,  G06F17/30811 ,  G11B19/022 ,  G11B27/105 ,  G11B27/107 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/234318 ,  H04N21/235 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/4725 ,  H04N21/84 ,  G11B2220/20 ,  G11B2220/213 ,  G11B2220/2545 ,  G11B2220/2587 ,  G11B2220/90

摘要： An interactive video system by which an operator is able to select an object moving in a video sequence and by which the interactive video system is notified which object was selected so as to take appropriate action. Interactive video is achieved through generation and use of video object descriptors which are synchronized to objects in the video sequence. Video object descriptors are generated by a generating tool which decomposes frames of video sequences and tracks movement of objects in those frames so as to generate a frame sequential file of video object descriptors. The file of video object descriptors are then used by an event interpreter which detects a match between the position of a pointing device on a display containing the video sequence and the position of a video object descriptor. When a match is detected, an interactive video operation is performed, such as jumping to a new video sequence, altering flow of the interactive video program or the like.

摘要翻译： 一种交互式视频系统，通过该交互式视频系统，操作者能够选择在视频序列中移动的对象，通过该交互式视频系统通知哪个对象被选择以便采取适当的动作。 通过生成和使用与视频序列中的对象同步的视频对象描述符来实现交互式视频。 视频对象描述符由生成工具生成，该生成工具分解视频序列的帧并且跟踪那些帧中的对象的移动，以便生成视频对象描述符的帧顺序文件。 视频对象描述符的文件随后被事件解释器使用，事件解释器检测包含视频序列的显示器上的指示设备的位置与视频对象描述符的位置之间的匹配。 当检测到匹配时，执行交互式视频操作，例如跳转到新的视频序列，改变交互式视频节目的流程等。

公开(公告)号：US5680323A

公开(公告)日：1997-10-21

申请号：US494077

申请日：1995-06-23

申请人： John D. Barnard

发明人： John D. Barnard

IPC分类号： G06F9/44 ,  G06K15/00

CPC分类号： G06F9/4443

摘要： A method and apparatus for launching a multimedia player from an operating windowing application such that the multimedia player operates as a child window of the operating windowing application. The method and apparatus operate to launch the multimedia player in response to a user-selection of a predefined function in the operating windowing application, identify a main window within the operating windowing application from which the predefined function was selected, locate, within the main window, a target child window having both a specific class-type and a specific dimension, create, in the case that the child window is located, a playback window and overlaying the playback window onto the target child window, and play, within the playback window, a multimedia selection corresponding to the user-selected predefined function.

摘要翻译： 一种用于从操作窗口应用程序启动多媒体播放器的方法和装置，使得多媒体播放器作为操作窗口应用程序的子窗口操作。 所述方法和装置用于响应于操作窗口应用程序中的预定义功能的用户选择来启动多媒体播放器，识别在主窗口内定位预定义功能的操作窗口应用程序内的主窗口 具有特定类型和特定维度的目标子窗口在子窗口所在的情况下创建回放窗口并将重放窗口覆盖到目标子窗口上并在播放窗口内播放 ，对应于用户选择的预定义功能的多媒体选择。

公开(公告)号：US5623604A

公开(公告)日：1997-04-22

申请号：US978411

申请日：1992-11-18

申请人： William C. Russell ,  George A. Kalwitz ,  Lorraine F. Barrett

发明人： William C. Russell ,  George A. Kalwitz ,  Lorraine F. Barrett

IPC分类号： G06F3/00 ,  G06F9/06 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F11/00 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04L29/06 ,  G06F13/38 ,  G06F11/22

CPC分类号： H04L29/06 ,  G06F8/60

摘要： Method and apparatus for remotely altering programmable firmware stored in a PROM disposed on a target interactive network board having a local area network interface comprises activating a local area network communication program. The communication program operates to broadcast an inquiry through the local area network for the designated interactive network board, to receive location information of the designated board in response to the broadcast inquiry, and to establish communication with the designated board. A ROM firmware image is downloaded into a RAM on the designated board, preferably through the local area network interface. A verifying step verifies that the ROM firmware image stored in RAM is valid, and the PROM is controlled to erase memory locations, to transfer preservable data from the PROM into predetermined locations within the ROM firmware image stored in RAM, and to load into the PROM the ROM firmware image from the RAM. After completing the flash operation, the designated board may be re-initialized to execute instructions from the firmware image stored in the PROM.

摘要翻译： 用于远程改变存储在布置在具有局域网接口的目标交互式网络板上的PROM中的可编程固件的方法和装置包括激活局域网通信程序。 通信程序用于通过用于指定交互网络板的局域网广播查询，以响应于广播查询来接收指定板的位置信息，并与指定板建立通信。 ROM固件图像被下载到指定板上的RAM中，优选地通过局域网接口。 验证步骤验证存储在RAM中的ROM固件图像是否有效，并且控制PROM以擦除存储器位置，将保存的数据从PROM传送到存储在RAM中的ROM固件图像内的预定位置，并加载到PROM 来自RAM的ROM固件映像。 完成闪存操作后，可以重新初始化指定的板，以从存储在PROM中的固件映像执行指令。

公开(公告)号：US5615320A

公开(公告)日：1997-03-25

申请号：US231911

申请日：1994-04-25

申请人： Laurence A. Lavendel

发明人： Laurence A. Lavendel

IPC分类号： G06T11/60 ,  G06T11/00 ,  G06T11/80 ,  G09G1/28

CPC分类号： G06T11/001

摘要： A computer-implemented system for selecting a color scheme and colorizing a document with the selected color scheme includes displaying a menu of user-selectable objectives which are used to define a color scheme, accessing a computerized color knowledge-base system in accordance with the selected objectives to select the color scheme, and displaying the selected color scheme. Once the color scheme has been selected, the document can be colorized by retrieving the document from a file such as that created by a desktop publishing program, selecting a page of the document image to be colorized, and colorizing a plurality of reproductions of the selected page. The plurality of reproduced pages are variably colorized with combinations of colors from the selected color scheme. A user selects the most desirably colorized page reproduction and the selected colorized page is re-displayed for further processing.

摘要翻译： 用于选择配色方案并使用所选择的颜色方案对文档着色的计算机实现的系统包括显示用于定义配色方案的用户可选择目标的菜单，根据所选颜色方案访问计算机化的彩色知识库系统 选择配色方案的目标，以及显示选定的配色方案。 一旦选择了配色方案，可以通过从诸如由桌面出版程序创建的文件中检索文档来选择要被着色的文档图像的页面，以及着色所选择的多个复制品来着色该文档 页。 多个再现页面通过来自所选择的配色方案的颜色的组合可变地着色。 用户选择最期望的彩色页面再现，并且重新显示所选择的着色页面以进行进一步处理。

公开(公告)号：US5574666A

公开(公告)日：1996-11-12

申请号：US242234

申请日：1994-05-13

申请人： Brigitte Ruetz ,  Gesualdo Alesii ,  Timothy I. Kohler

发明人： Brigitte Ruetz ,  Gesualdo Alesii ,  Timothy I. Kohler

IPC分类号： B41J2/525 ,  B41J5/30 ,  G03F3/08 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06T11/60 ,  H04N1/46 ,  H04N1/60

CPC分类号： H04N1/6033 ,  H04N1/6058

摘要： A method and apparatus for constructing a color printer table. Printable colors in CIELAB space are transformed to Munsell space and color mapping functions are derived which map Munsell space coordinates into primary color coordinates CMY of the printer. A Munsell printer gamut is determined by selecting points in Munsell space where the color mapping functions result within the printable primary color range. All discrete points of an extended gamut in CIELAB space are mapped into the Munsell space. The extended gamut comprises colors inside the printer gamut as well as colors outside the printer gamut, such as colors typically found in a color monitor. Primary color values are inserted into the color printer table by taking the mapped CIELAB points and applying the color mapping functions to the mapped CIELAB points that lie inside the Munsell printer gamut, and applying gamut mapping to the mapped CIELAB points in Munsell space that lie outside the Munsell printer gamut. Since the gamut mapping takes place in Munsell space, the hue is exactly preserved by simply preserving the hue angle.

摘要翻译： 一种用于构造彩色打印机表的方法和装置。 将CIELAB空间中的可打印颜色转换为Munsell空间，并导出颜色映射函数，将Munsell空间坐标映射到打印机的主色坐标CMY。 Munsell打印机色域是通过选择Munsell空间中的颜色映射功能在可打印的主要颜色范围内产生的点来确定的。 CIELAB空间中扩展色域的所有离散点都映射到孟塞尔空间中。 扩展色域包括打印机色域内的颜色以及打印机色域外的颜色，例如通常在彩色监视器中找到的颜色。 通过拍摄映射的CIELAB点并将颜色映射函数应用于位于Munsell打印机色域内的映射CIELAB点，将原色值插入到彩色打印机表中，并将色域映射应用于位于外部的Munsell空间中映射的CIELAB点 孟塞尔打印机色域。 由于色域映射发生在孟塞尔空间中，所以通过简单地保留色相角来完全保留色调。

公开(公告)号：US5511151A

公开(公告)日：1996-04-23

申请号：US896367

申请日：1992-06-10

申请人： William C. Russell ,  H. Brad Emerson ,  Tony K. Ip

发明人： William C. Russell ,  H. Brad Emerson ,  Tony K. Ip

IPC分类号： B41J5/30 ,  B41J21/00 ,  G06K15/10 ,  G06T3/60 ,  H04N1/387 ,  H04N7/01

CPC分类号： G06K15/10 ,  G06K2215/0014 ,  G06K2215/0077

摘要： Method and apparatus for converting image data from row format into column format and a printer incorporating the same. A conversion circuit, which is responsive to writes to a first address space, is provided for converting the image data from the row format into the column format. A CPU writes the row format image data to the first address space whereupon the conversion circuit converts it to the second format. The CPU then writes image data to a second address space. In accordance with an unwind flag set by the CPU, either the converted image data or the original image data is stored in a memory. After the data has been written to memory, the CPU initiates a DMA transfer of the image data to a printer engine.

摘要翻译： 将图像数据从行格式转换为列格式的方法和装置以及包含该格式的打印机。 提供响应于对第一地址空间的写入的转换电路，用于将来自行格式的图像数据转换为列格式。 CPU将行格式图像数据写入第一地址空间，因此转换电路将其转换为第二格式。 CPU然后将图像数据写入第二个地址空间。 根据由CPU设置的展开标志，转换的图像数据或原始图像数据被存储在存储器中。 在将数据写入存储器之后，CPU启动图像数据的DMA传输到打印机引擎。

公开(公告)号：US5500921A

公开(公告)日：1996-03-19

申请号：US956300

申请日：1992-10-05

申请人： Brigitte Ruetz

发明人： Brigitte Ruetz

IPC分类号： B41J2/525 ,  G06T1/00 ,  G06T1/20 ,  G06T11/00 ,  H04N1/46 ,  H04N1/60 ,  G06K15/00

CPC分类号： H04N1/6058

摘要： A method and apparatus for building and using tables which determine the colors to be printed from a device independent color coordinate system. Two tables are built: the first is a printer table for colors in the printer gamut as well as for colors in a typical color monitor gamut, and the second is a border table for colors outside the printer table. The printer table is constructed from a mathematically smooth mapping function for mapping from the device independent coordinate system (such as CIELAB space) to the printer coordinate system, and the mathematically smooth mapping function is determined based on a measurement of the printable colors in the device independent coordinate system. The border table is constructed so as to preserve the hue of unprintable colors but to increase saturation so as to achieve a more natural looking result. Transition colors are added to the printer table outside the printer gamut, smoothing the transition from the edge of the printer gamut to the border table. In use, either the printer table or the border table is selected based on whether the desired color in the device independent coordinate system is within the printer table or outside the printer table.

摘要翻译： 一种用于构建和使用从装置独立颜色坐标系确定要印刷的颜色的表的方法和装置。 建立了两个表：第一个是打印机色域中的颜色的打印机表以及典型颜色监视器色域中的颜色，第二个是用于打印机表外部颜色的边框。 打印机表由用于从设备独立坐标系（例如CIELAB空间）映射到打印机坐标系的数学平滑映射功能构建，并且基于对设备中的可打印颜色的测量来确定数学平滑映射功能 独立坐标系。 边框的构造是为了保持不可打印颜色的色调，同时增加饱和度，以达到更自然的外观效果。 将转换颜色添加到打印机色域外部的打印机表中，从而平滑从打印机色域边缘到边框表的过渡。 在使用中，打印机表或边框表是根据设备独立坐标系中所需的颜色是否在打印机表内或打印机表外部来选择的。

公开(公告)号：US5500919A

公开(公告)日：1996-03-19

申请号：US977680

申请日：1992-11-18

申请人： Willis J. Luther

发明人： Willis J. Luther

IPC分类号： G06F3/14 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F3/16 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G10L13/04 ,  G10L9/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/167 ,  G10L13/00

摘要： A system for controlling how text is fed to a text-to-speech converter. Text is controllably fed from a text buffer to a text-to-speech converter, the control being based on operator commands which are effectuated at text boundaries, such as word boundaries or sentence boundaries. Operator commands can include commands to advance through the text in a file, in which case text is fed to the text-to-speech converter on a selectable level of granularity, for example, next word, next sentence, next paragraph, etc. It is also possible to advance through the text file rapidly in which case only a sampling of text segments, for example, three words out of twenty, are fed to the text-to-speech converter. Text segments can be repeated, and text segments can be searched for.

摘要翻译： 用于控制文本如何馈送到文本到语音转换器的系统。 文本被可控地从文本缓冲器馈送到文本到语音转换器，该控件基于在文本边界（例如字边界或句子边界）上实现的操作者命令。 操作员命令可以包括用于推进文件中的文本的命令，在这种情况下，文本以可选择的粒度级别（例如下一个单词，下一个句子，下一个段落等）被馈送到文本到语音转换器。 也可以快速地推进文本文件，在这种情况下，只有文本段的采样，例如，二十个中的三个字被提供给文本到语音转换器。 可以重复文本段，并且可以搜索文本段。

公开(公告)号：US5454102A

公开(公告)日：1995-09-26

申请号：US5770

申请日：1993-01-19

申请人： Hien Tang ,  Randy A. Cwikowski

发明人： Hien Tang ,  Randy A. Cwikowski

IPC分类号： G06F12/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30017 ,  G06F17/30327 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： A self-generating node network (or directed graph) which represents the structure and contents of structured data. The node network creates itself from a root node by querying the structured data for structural-type elements and data-type elements. In response to the query, the root node builds one of two types of nodes: a list node and a data node. Data nodes are built in response to queries indicating data-type elements, and they store pointer tags to pieces of data in the structured data. List nodes are built in response to queries indicating structural-type elements. List nodes can build and contain further list nodes and data nodes, and they store a list of the nodes that they contain. Communication within the node network is carried out only between directly adjacent nodes, that is, between a parent node and a child node. Commands issued to the network, such as commands to write out the node network, are issued to the network via the root node. If the root node cannot execute the command, it relays the command to nodes it contains which, in turn, either executes the command or relays the command further into the network. Likewise, commands from within the network, such as commands from a list node to query the structured data, are relayed upwards to a parent node which, in turn, either executes the command or relays the command further upward in the network.

摘要翻译： 表示结构化数据的结构和内容的自生成节点网络（或有向图）。 节点网络通过查询结构化数据的结构类型元素和数据类型元素，从根节点创建自身。 响应于该查询，根节点构建两种节点之一：列表节点和数据节点。 响应于指示数据类型元素的查询构建数据节点，并且它们将指针标签存储在结构化数据中的数据片段。 列表节点是响应于指示结构类型元素的查询而构建的。 列表节点可以构建并包含其他列表节点和数据节点，并且它们存储它们包含的节点的列表。 节点网络内的通信仅在直接相邻的节点之间进行，即在父节点和子节点之间进行。 发出到网络的命令，例如写出节点网络的命令，经由根节点发给网络。 如果根节点不能执行该命令，则将该命令中继到其所包含的节点，该节点又执行该命令或将该命令进一步中继到网络中。 同样地，来自网络中的命令，例如来自列表节点的查询结构化数据的命令，被向上传递到父节点，父节点又执行该命令或者在网络中进一步向上继续命令。

公开(公告)号：US5323393A

公开(公告)日：1994-06-21

申请号：US978281

申请日：1992-11-18

申请人： Lorraine F. Barrett ,  William C. Russell ,  Andrew J. Kraslavsky ,  Robert D. Wadsworth

发明人： Lorraine F. Barrett ,  William C. Russell ,  Andrew J. Kraslavsky ,  Robert D. Wadsworth

IPC分类号： B41J29/38 ,  G06F3/12 ,  G06F11/30 ,  G06F11/32 ,  G06F13/00 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04Q5/14

CPC分类号： H04L29/06 ,  G06F11/324 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04L41/0843

摘要： Method and apparatus for controlling the same functions of a networked printer that can be manually selected from the front panel of the printer, but remotely through an interactive network board connectable to the printer via a bi-directional printer interface and connectable to a local area network via a local area network interface. A printer status request, for example, from an administrator's console, is issued on the local area network and directed to the interactive network board to cause the board to interrogate the printer over the printer interface for the status of the manually selectable functions, and to transfer the status of those manually selectable functions from the board onto the local area network. A command to alter the status of those manually selectable functions is issued on the local area network and directed to the interactive board, the command causing the board to transfer the altered status to the printer via the printer interface, whereupon the printer status for the manually selectable functions is altered.

摘要翻译： 用于控制可以从打印机的前面板手动选择的网络打印机的相同功能的方法和装置，但是通过可通过双向打印机接口连接到打印机并且可连接到局域网的交互网板 通过局域网接口。 来自管理员控制台的打印机状态请求在局域网上被发布并被引导到交互式网络板，以使得主板通过打印机接口询问打印机的手动选择功能的状态，并且 将这些手动可选功能的状态从电路板传送到局域网上。 在局域网上发出改变这些手动可选功能的状态的命令，并且指向交互式电路板，该命令使电路板经由打印机接口将改变后的状态传送到打印机，由此手动打印机状态 可选功能被改变。