Nec Corporation

Nec Engineering, Ltd.

Daigo Taguchi

Tohru Kimura

Hitoshi Yano

Isamu Teranishi

Kazue Sako

Koji Fukami

Hisashi Noda

Nobuhide Yoshida

Jun Noda

Yuuichi Aoki

Akitake Mitsuhashi

Teruki Sukenari

Kunihiro Suzuki

A communication network of the present invention includes: a plurality of superordinate nodestoforming a cascade type topology; and a plurality of terminal nodesto, connected to at least one superordinate node from among said plurality of superordinate nodes and forming a star type topology with the superordinate node connected.

Communication network, information processor and address assigning method

A scenario editing device comprises a scenario supplementing unit supplements a scenario memorized in a scenario memory according to a scenario basic rule memorized in a scenario rule memory when it receives additional data set from a receiving unit. The scenario supplementing unit includes a material represented by the additional data set with multimedia contents to make the multimedia contents approach a complete state. To receive the additional data set at the receiving unit, the scenario editing device exhibits the multimedia contents with a incomplete state on a computer network.

Scenario editing device capable of automatically supplementing scenario on the basis of received additional data

A scenario edit device creates node icons representative of the presentation screens described in the scenario, data icons associated with and disposed within their respective node icons, and link graphic indicating links between the presentation screens. The node icons, the data icons, and the link graphic are displayed as an edit image. The links between the presentation screens that are described in the scenario are visually edited using the edit image.

Visual scenario editor for editing links between presentation screens in a multi-media application

A scenario editing apparatus for editing of multimedia including an input manager for managing a user's input and selecting specific multimedia data to indicate the presentation position of the selected multimedia data, an electronic image input unit for inputting an electronic image, a position coordinate analyzer for analyzing the electronic image from the electronic image input unit and extracting figure feature points of the electronic image to obtain position coordinates of the figure feature points, a presentation position memory for storing the position coordinates of the figure feature points of the electronic image as the presentation position coordinates of the multimedia data selected by the input manager , and screen output unit for displaying on a display screen the figure feature points of the electronic image and the multimedia data for which the presentation position is edited, thereby performing an interactive editing.

Scenario editing apparatus for performing editing of multimedia using figure feature points

A scenario editing apparatus by which presentation positions, presentation times and presentation effects of a plurality of multi-media data scenarios can be collectively designated and edited. The scenario editing apparatus comprises a storage section for storing multi-media data and one or more sets of media presentation information including media types, presentation positions, presentation times and presentation effects, a selection section for selecting two sets of media presentation information, a pair of storage sections for storing the selected two sets of presentation information, a determination section for comparing the two sets of presentation information stored in the storage sections to produce a presentation information template, a template production section for producing a scenario template from the presentation information template, a storage section for storing the scenario template, a storage section for storing data identifiers for identification of presentation data, media types, sizes and times, and a scenario production section for producing a scenario wherein the scenario template to be used and the data identifier to be presented are selectively related to each other.

Scenario editing apparatus

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Tokyo, Japan

Daigo Taguchi