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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
David Hermanson, Westmount, CA;
Assignee:
Discreet Logic, Inc., Montreal, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
345302 ;
Abstract
A multitrack architecture for computer-based editing of multimedia sequences is disclosed herein. The multimedia sequences are formed of a plurality of collated segments representing audio or video scenes. The architecture contains sequence tracks for ordering the segments of the multimedia sequence and process tracks for applying transformations and/or animations to some of these segments. The output of the process tracks may be supplied to other process tracks and/or to a sequence track. Scope controls are provided to determine which portion of the output of a process track is supplied to another process track and/or to a sequence track.