International Business Machines Corporation

Luke P Staddon

Edwin P J Moffatt

Richard William Pilot

Disclosed is a method for editing multimedia content, the multimedia content comprising a demonstration of actions performed in utilizing a computer application, the computer application having an 'undo' history, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an 'undo' history from the computer application; detecting an indication of an action being removed from the &#x201c;undo&#x201d; history; adding an end marker to a timeline associated with the multimedia content at a time corresponding to such detection; adding a start marker to said timeline at a time corresponding to the action which was removed from the &#x201c;undo&#x201d; history; and removing a portion of the multimedia content corresponding to that located between the start marker and the end marker.

Automated multimedia content editing

A method and system are provided for image scaling including low resolution text areas. The method may include: determining one or more areas of text in an image to be scaled; scaling the one or more areas of text using two or more scaling algorithms to a required resolution to acquire two or more scaled versions of the text area; selecting the clearest text in a text area from two or more scaled versions of the text area; scaling the overall image to the required resolution; and merging the scaled overall image with the selected scaled version of each text area.

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Luke P Staddon