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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2002
David W. Glass, Georgetown, KY (US);
James G. Mclean, Guquay-Varina, NC (US);
Daniel J. Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
David W. Glass, Georgetown, KY (US);
James G. McLean, Guquay-Varina, NC (US);
Daniel J. Winarski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Clifford A. Pickover, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
According to the present invention, there is provided a method, system and program storage device for displaying textual information associated with a defined video object in video data on a video display device, comprising: sampling a video object plane to determine whether the video object is in the video object plane for displaying the video object on the video display device; updating a location of the video object in the video object plane as the video object moves during display of the video data on the video display device; determining whether a pointing device is over the updated location of the video object; and displaying the textual information associated with the video object on the video display device for a predetermined period of time.