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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2014
Filed:
May. 06, 2008
Eamonn O'brien-strain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eamonn O'Brien-Strain, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () automatically is generated in accordance with a relative spatiotemporal layout specification (). The relative spatiotemporal layout specification () describes relative spatial positions and temporal order of media object types. The determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () describes a layout of media objects () in a display area () over time. The process of generating the determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () includes determining for each of the media objects () a respective spatiotemporal slot corresponding to a respective window in the display area () over a respective rendering period in which the media object () is scheduled to be rendered. The determinate spatiotemporal layout specification () is outputted.