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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 14, 2011
Christopher Michael Maloney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mirza Pasalic, Ottawa, CA;
Runzhen Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Michael Maloney, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mirza Pasalic, Ottawa, CA;
Runzhen Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An animation timeline is analyzed to determine one or more discrete states. Each discrete state includes one or more animation effects. The discrete states represent scenes of a slide in a slide presentation. The concepts of scenes allows user to view a timeline of scenes, open a scene, and direct manipulate objects in the scene to author animations. The animations can include motion path animation effects, which can be directly manipulated utilizing a motion path tweening method. To aid in direct manipulation of a motion path of an object, a ghost version of the object can be shown to communicate to a user the position of the object after a motion path animation effect that includes the motion path is performed. The ghost version may also be used to show a start position when a start point is manipulated.