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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2002
Tina Fay Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bee Yian Liew, Cupertino, CA (US);
Guijun Yang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Tina Fay Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bee Yian Liew, Cupertino, CA (US);
Guijun Yang, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A digital document comprising a multi-channel interface is provided that achieves improved user interaction. The digital document includes a plurality of content channels providing primary content continuously in a looping manner and at least one supplementary channel on a single page. The supplementary channel is configured to provide supplementary content upon the occurrence of an event during playback of the document. Channel content may include video, text, images, web page content and audio. The media content can be managed in a spatial and temporal manner. In addition to media content, a channel may contain interactive regions in the form of hot spots and interactive mapping regions. An authoring tool is also provided for generating a multi-channel interactive digital document.