Graphical user interface for navigating and displaying relationships among media data and metadata
US7512885B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 31, 2003 |
| Grant date | Mar 31, 2009 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 4, 2025 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG11B27/034
- WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An editing system has a graphical user interface that shows media/metadata and metadata/metadata relationships and allows a user to navigate a graph defined by these relationships. Using this graphical user interface, a user may determine, for example, which masterclips are used in a sequence, or which sequences are using those masterclips. Such information can be useful for many purposes. For example, by identifying all masterclips used in a sequence, the media files associated with these masterclips can be readily recaptured in a different format. The graphical user interface provides simple navigation of such relationships by using two panes. Each pane may receive and display indications of any media data or metadata object type defined in the problem domain. In an editing system, such object types may include objects such as projects, sequences, clips and media files. Each of the object types has bidirectional and many-to-many relationships defined with other object types and many relationships can emanate from each object type.
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