Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dennis Robert Austin

Paul O Warrin

Hannes Helmut Ruescher

Richard A Bretschneider

David Paul Gorbet

Bakul Vinodchandra Patel

Annette Marie Crowley

Vincent Teng-Wei Chun

Anders Kierulf

A computer-based system and method of creating and performing a soundtrack to accompany an electronic slide show presentation is disclosed. The method includes receiving input from a slide presentation author, the input specifying when the soundtrack is to begin, end, or change. The input also includes a specification of elements that control the soundtrack content. During an electronic slide show, when each slide (212) is displayed, the soundtrack specifications associated with the displayed slide (212) are retrieved. Based on the specifications, a music engine (230) is invoked with commands to control the composition and performance of a soundtrack that accompanies the currently displayed slide. The method also includes receiving specifications of motifs that are triggered to accompany predetermined events occurring during the electronic slide show.

Method and apparatus for controlling composition and performance of

A computer-based system and method of viewing an electronic slide show presentation providing three modes for viewing an electronic slide show: a speaker presentation mode, an individual browser mode, and a kiosk browser mode. For each mode, a user interface having features desirable in the corresponding mode is provided. The speaker presentation mode user interface displays slides sized to fill a computer display screen. The individual browser mode user interface displays slides within an application window and provides a navigation scrollbar for navigating the slides. The navigation scrollbar having advance and reverse buttons for controlling the display of builds in the slide, and previous and next slide buttons for controlling the display of slides. The kiosk browser mode user interface displays full screen slides and restricts a viewer's navigational functions. The method also provides a user with the ability to customize the user interface corresponding to a slide presentation.

Method and system for controlling the display of objects in a slide show

A system for converting a colored page to a black and white page for black and white printing. A colored page is selected for conversion to black and white. The colored page contains at least one graphical item, such as text, a frame, a line, a closed shape, or a picture. One of the graphical items is then selected for conversion to black and white. After a graphical item is selected, a mode is selected for converting the selected graphical item to black and white. The modes can include a gray scale mode, a light gray scale mode, an inverse gray scale mode, a black with white fill mode, a gray with white fill mode, a black with gray fill mode, a black mode, a white mode, a don't show mode, and an automatic mode. These modes each describe a different method for converting colors in the selected graphical item to black, white, and shades of gray. The selected graphical item is then converted to black and white based on the selected mode. These tasks can be repeated for each graphical item on the colored page. The colored page is printed in black and white in response to converting each graphical item on the colored page.

System for black and white printing of colored pages

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Dennis Robert Austin