Podop, Inc.

Ideaworks 3d Ltd.

Adrian Sack

Derek H B Chung

Matthew Keesan

Steven Andrew Soderbergh

Andrew L Silver

Daniel J Siegel

Cynthia P Brelis

Caroline S Welch

Kristin Marie Loeb

Edward James Solomon

Ronny Heinrich Grunwald

Nicolas Dedual

Jose Raul Castillo

Srikanth Bandi

An interactive narrative presentation includes a plurality of narrative segments, with a variety of available media content consumer selectable paths or directions, typically specified by a director or editor. The content consumer can select a path or path segment at each of a number of points, e.g., decision points, in the narrative presentation via user interface elements or narrative prompts, providing the consumer the opportunity to follow a storyline they find interesting. Each consumer follows a 'personalized' path through the narrative. The narrative prompts can include images from subsequent segments, may be generated to stylistically resemble the underlying narrative presentation, may be animated to move with or with respect to the underlying narrative presentation, and, or may be presented in overlaid with a presentation of the underlying narrative while the underlying narrative continues play.

User interface elements for content selection in media narrative presentation

A narrative includes a number of serially connected narrative segments combined by a director or editor in a defined sequence to tell a story. Quite frequently a number of different narrative segments are available to the director or editor. A content delivery editor provides editors and directors with the ability to augment a standard with additional narrative segments that provide alternate perspectives, view, or insights to the narrative consumer. Such provides the ability to convey the same narrative to the narrative consumer using a number of plots, storylines, or perspectives. Branch points in the narrative, defined by the editor or director, provide the narrative consumer the opportunity to follow a storyline they find interesting. Each narrative consumer follows a 'personalized' path through the narrative. Through social media, narrative consumers are able to discuss the narrative path with other narrative consumers who have taken a different path through the narrative.

A narrative includes a number of serially connected narrative segments combined by a director or editor in a defined sequence to tell a story. A number of different narrative segments are available to the director or editor. A content delivery editor provides editors and directors with the ability to augment a narrative with additional narrative segments that provide alternate perspectives, views, or insights to the consumer. Such allows conveyance of the same narrative to the consumer using a number of plots or perspectives. Branch points in the narrative provide the consumer the opportunity to follow a storyline they find interesting. Each consumer follows a 'personalized' path through the narrative. The director or editor may influence selection at branch points by providing priming stimuli prior to presentation of a prompt to select a branch and by optionally providing target stimuli during presentation of the prompt to select a branch.

Data mining, influencing viewer selections, and user interfaces

Method, apparatus and article for delivering media content via a user-selectable narrative presentation

A method of manipulating a vector graphics data file representative of at least one graphics element defined by a set of co-ordinate values in a graphics image, the method comprising the step of scaling down the at least one graphics element by applying a scaling factor to the set of co-ordinate values defining the at least one graphics element. There is also disclosed a method of previewing a vector graphics image composed of a plurality of graphics elements comprising the steps of: parsing a vector graphics data file into individual graphics elements; selecting at least one graphics element; selecting and applying a scaling factor to a set of co-ordinate values defining the at least one selected graphics element; applying an inverse of the scaling factor to the set of co-ordinate values defining the at least one selected graphics element; displaying the graphics image including the graphics element having the scaling factor and inverse scaling factor applied thereto; and providing an indication of data file compression as a result of said scaling such that the effect of the scaling on image quality and data file size can be appreciated.

Graphics compression

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London, United Kingdom

Adrian Sack