Jesse L Vernon

US Patent:

20130182183, Jul 18, 2013

Filed:

Jan 10, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/737996

Inventors:

Eric L. Burns - Seattle WA, US
William Guttman - Pittsburgh PA, US
Jesse Rice Vernon - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

PANOPTO, INC. - Seattle WA

International Classification:

H04N 5/262

US Classification:

348584

Abstract:

A system for video compositing is comprised of a storage device for storing a composite timeline file. A timeline manager reads rendering instructions and compositing instructions from the stored file. A plurality of filter graphs, each receiving one of a plurality of video streams, renders frames therefrom in response to the rendering instructions. A uniform resource locator (URL) incorporator generates URL based content. Hardware is responsive to the rendered frames, URL based content, and compositing instructions for creating a composite image. A frame scheduler is responsive to the plurality of filter graphs for controlling a frequency at which the hardware creates a new composite image. An output is provided for displaying the composite image. Methods of generating a composite work and methods of generating the timeline file are also disclosed. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this Abstract should not be used to construe the claims.

US Patent:

20110191346, Aug 4, 2011

Filed:

Feb 1, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/697942

Inventors:

Jesse R. Vernon - Seattle WA, US
Andrew B. Rothbart - Seattle WA, US
Daniel J. Giambalvo - Seattle WA, US
Daniel P. Cory - Seattle WA, US
Karim T. Farouki - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
G06F 17/30
G06K 9/54

US Classification:

707741, 709203, 707769, 382305, 707E17108, 707E17002, 707E1703

Abstract:

Dynamically-created content may be rendered in the form of a virtual image pyramid, and tiles of the pyramid may be provided for display. In one example, a user interacts with a server-based application, and the application dynamically generates visual content to be shown to the user. Based on the application's interaction with the user, or based on some other type of state information, the application determines the appropriate magnification level at which to show content to the user, and also determines the particular spatial region of the content to show to the user. This content is rendered onto one or more tiles, and the one or more tiles are delivered to the user. In this way, tiles are created and may be rendered as if there were an image pyramid of the dynamically-created content.