Melanie T Nguyen

US Patent:

20040163045, Aug 19, 2004

Filed:

Feb 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/777119

Inventors:

Jonathan Hui - Fremont CA, US
Melanie Nguyen - San Jose CA, US

Assignee:

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA - TOKYO

International Classification:

G06F017/21

US Classification:

715/513000

Abstract:

A set of XML-based markers includes an event marker indicating an event, a condition marker indicating a state of a first media object, and an action marker indicating a second media object, an attribute of the second media object, and a value of the attribute. The markers represent a function to assign the value to the attribute of the second media object if the event is detected and if the first media object possesses the indicated state. A set of XML-based markers representing media object elements. Each marker includes a test-element attribute for indicating a particular media object element, a test-attribute attribute for indicating an attribute of the particular element, and a test-value attribute for indicating a test value to compare with a value of the specified attribute.