Sony Corporation

Sony Pictures Technologies Inc.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.

Sony Corporation of America

Michael K Thompson

Yoshikazu Takashima

John B Ying

Tommy Choy

Dennis Adams

Don Charles Eklund, Ii

George Reis

Kiruthika Krishnadevarajan

Robert Aubey, Jr

Jorge A Reis

Peter Avventi

Managing multi-threaded computer processing, including: processing a main thread for an object in background of the multi-threaded computer processing without locking the object during its process in the background, wherein processing a main thread includes: monitoring the state of the object, wherein the object is deemed ready for processing after it satisfies a set of rules to check for its completeness, and the object has not been modified for a pre-determined period of time; creating and adding tasks to a queue for processing once the object is ready; and packaging required information for the tasks into a single data structure that is passed to a task thread and returned to the main thread upon completion.

Managing multi-threaded operations in a multimedia authoring environment

Adjusting overlay positioning in stereoscopic video, including: receiving overlay data including a plurality of overlays, each overlay having a lateral axis value, a vertical axis value, and a depth value; receiving and displaying the stereoscopic video to a user as at least one of a video preview display and a stereoscopic display, each display including an overlay from the overlay data, wherein a position of the overlay in each display is based on the lateral axis value, the vertical axis value, and the depth value of the overlay, and wherein the video preview display includes interfaces for adjusting the position of the overlay in each display; receiving input from the user related to the depth value of the overlay; and adjusting the position of the overlay in the video preview display based on the input from the user.

Stereoscopic overlay offset creation and editing

Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray&#xae; discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line.

3D authoring tool ensuring no buffer underrun upon jumps

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Michael K Thompson