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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1995
Troy Lee Cline, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Scott Harlan Isensee, Georgetown, TX (US);
Ricky Lee Poston, Austin, TX (US);
Jon Harald Werner, Oceanside, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for graphic video image control of selected segments of video data from within a video presentation which includes a large number of video frames. The video frames are displayed in a stacked overlapping manner within a computer display system. Upon selection of a particular edge of the display of an uppermost frame, each frame is then slightly offset from an adjacent frame such that a small portion of each overlapped frame may be visually accessed. A user may then select some portion of the video presentation for display by observing the transition effects along the exposed edge of each frame and then graphically selecting a particular frame utilizing a graphical pointing device, such as a mouse pointer. The selected frame is then displayed and a particular portion of the video presentation, beginning at the selected frame, may then be presented, greatly enhancing the efficiency of video display control.