Apple Inc.

Interval Research Corporation

Vulcan Patents LLC

Xerox Corporation

Elet Systems L.l.c.

Other

Electric Planet, Inc.

Internal Research Corporation

Vintell Applications Ny, LLC

Jonathan R Cohen

Michael I Mills

David A Burgess

Kimberly H Johnson

Henry B Strub

Subutai Ahmad

William L Verplank

David P Reed

M Margaret Withgott

Debby Hindus

Bonnie M Johnson

Andrew J Singer

Lisa J Stifelman

Scott C Wallters

Maribeth Joy Back

Philippe P Piernot

Richard J Goldstein

Scott L Minneman

Golan Levin

Marcos R Vescovi

Steven R Harrison

Rafael Granados

Justin Willow

Yin Yin Wong

G Roberto Aiello

Matthew G Gorbet

Ian S Small

Controlling an event in a virtual environment is disclosed. A video image from one or more video cameras is received. A video enhanced script is executed to display the virtual environment in a video display within a web browser. An event in the virtual environment is controlled based on the video image. The video enhanced script is configured to communicate with a web browser extension module.

Web based video enhancement apparatus, method, and article of manufacture

A computerized interactor system uses physical, three-dimensional objects as metaphors for input of user intent to a computer system. When one or more interactors are engaged with a detection field, the detection field reads an identifier associated with the object and communicates the identifier to a computer system. The computer system determines the meaning of the interactor based upon its identifier and upon a semantic context in which the computer system is operating. The interactors can be used to control other systems, such as audio systems, or it can be used as intuitive inputs into a computer system for such purposes as marking events in a temporal flow. The interactors, as a minimum, communicate their identity, but may also be more sophisticated in that they can communicate additional processed or unprocessed data, i.e. they can include their own data processors. The detection field can be one-dimensional or multi-dimensional, and typically has different semantic meanings associated with different parts of the detection field.

Computerized interactor systems and methods for providing same

The invention enables 'low attention recording,' i.e., recording that need not appreciably affect interaction of a recorder (i.e., a person in control of a recording unit according to the invention) or others with the environment in which the recording is taking place. The low attention recording enabled by the invention can be particularly advantageously employed in 'social recording,' i.e., recording in which multiple participants in an event are recording the event. As described in more detail below, advantageous aspects of the invention can be provided by a small, lightweight, wearable recording unit.

Low attention recording with particular application to social recording

The invention enables a recorder to mark a recording as an event is being recorded. The invention can enable the specification of a mark so that the mark is associated with recording data obtained at a time other than the time at which the mark is specified ('non-contemporaneous marking'), i.e., prior to the time of the mark ('retrospective marking') or after the time of the mark (&#x201c;predictive marking&#x201d;). The invention can also enable the use of multiple types of marks, each type of mark having a particular meaning. Additionally, the invention can enable marking capability to be implemented so that specification of a mark causes predetermined operation of the recording unit in accordance with the type of the mark (&#x201c;augmented marking&#x201d;).

Flexible marking of recording data by a recording unit

Low attention recording, with particular application to social recording

The invention enables &ldquo;low attention recording,&rdquo; i.e., recording that need not appreciably affect interaction of a recorder (i.e., a person in control of a recording unit according to the invention) or others with the environment in which the recording is taking place. The low attention recording enabled by the invention can be particularly advantageously employed in &ldquo;social recording,&rdquo; i.e., recording in which multiple participants in an event are recording the event. As described in more detail below, advantageous aspects of the invention can be provided by a small, lightweight, wearable recording unit. In particular, a &ldquo;hybrid recording unit&rdquo; having the above-described characteristics and advantages is constructed by adding to a portable video recorder (e.g., camcorder, portable dockable videotape recorder (VTR)) one or more devices (an &ldquo;auxiliary device&rdquo;) that provide additional functionality to the portable video recorder. The auxiliary device can advantageously provide, for example, one or more of the following capabilities: marking, position sensing, physiological monitoring and/or biometric identification.

Hybrid recording unit including portable video recorder and auxillary device

Presented herein is a video enhancer plug-in for a web browser that may either interface directly with the browser or indirectly as a plug-in for another more general multimedia browser plug-in. The video enhancer consists primarily of video enhanced scripts and a library of specialized routines. A script is intended to provide a visually interesting display within a web browser environment and calls upon routines in the library to do so. These routines, for example, may take live video input from a video camera and perform specific functions such as locating the head of an individual within the camera's field of view. Because the script runs within a web browser, it allows components of the system to be widely separated from one another, so long as they are connected across a wide area network such as the Internet. Consequently, another aspect of the invention is a computer-implemented system for playing a game, where a single player may utilize a script located on a remote server, or may play against other players who are either connected to the first player through the remote server or linked directly. Also included in the present invention is a method for video enhancement over a wide area network, and an article of manufacture comprising a computer readable medium containing code segments for providing a video enhancer for a web browser.

Web based video enhancement apparatus method and article of manufacture

Identifier tags are embedded in pages of a document. Each of these identifier tags identifies the particular page that a reader is viewing. By correlating the currently read page to information stored memory, dynamic content corresponding to the currently read page can be activated. This dynamic content can include, for example, lighting, sound effects, environmental conditions, or the like.

Systems and methods that detect a page identification using embedded identification tags

The invention enables &ldquo;low attention recording,&rdquo; i.e., recording that need not appreciably affect interaction of a recorder (i.e., a person in control of a recording unit according to the invention) or others with the environment in which the recording is taking place. The low attention recording enabled by the invention can be particularly advantageously employed in &ldquo;social recording,&rdquo; i.e., recording in which multiple participants in an event are recording the event. As described in more detail below, advantageous aspects of the invention can be provided by a small, lightweight, wearable recording unit. In particular, a recording unit according to the invention is particularly adapted to enable use of the recording unit to record an event during which the recorder engages in vigorous physical activity (e.g., an athletic activity, such as hiking, snow skiing or ping pong). The recording unit is constructed with a particular emphasis on the wearability characteristics of the recording unit, in order to facilitate freedom of movement by the recorder and minimize distraction to, or encumbrance of, the recorder's participation in the activity.

Low attention recording unit for use by vigorously active recorder

By using dynamic text and an interface utilizing a familiar metaphor, reading speed and comprehension can be increased. In particular, the interface, which is based on a familiar metaphor, such as driving, allows a user to concentrate on the real task at hand, reading, as opposed to manipulation of the interface. Thus, using a combination of a familiar metaphor and rapid serial presentation, dynamic text can be efficiently negotiated.

Systems and methods providing an interface for navigating dynamic text

Computerized interactor systems and method for providing same

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Jonathan R Cohen