Multimedia playing apparatus utilizing synchronization of scenario-defined processing time points with playing of finite-time monomedia item

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PATENT NO 6487564
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08677752

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A multimedia playing apparatus plays hypermedia titles each consisting of a plurality of monomedia objects including at least one finite time monomedia object such as a video object, which is formatted as a sequence of fixed-length playing sections such as video frames and functions as a base-axis object for providing a timing reference. The apparatus executes playing of a hypermedia title in accordance with processing time points specified as respective numbers of the playing sections, and stores and utilizes a plurality of sets of synchronization trigger data each of which designates that playing of a specific monomedia object other than the base-axis object is to be started, or is to be ended, at a specific processing time point, with the synchronization trigger data sets being successively accessed and used as the corresponding processing time points are respectively reached during playing of the hypermedia title.

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  • MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC INDUSTRIAL CO., LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Asai, Kayoko Tokyo, JP 7 325
Minemura, Atsushi Kashiwa, JP 26 518
Oka, Toshio Yokohama, JP 41 601
Sato, Makoto Tokyo, JP 725 7894

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