US20040100486A1 — Method and system for image editing using a limit…

Claim 1

Independent Claim 125 words

1 . A method for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements overlaying a video content field, comprising: identifying a room, wherein the room is a specific set of the plurality of UI control elements that, taken together, allow a user to perform a related set of activities using the limited input control device; moving between those of the plurality of UI control elements that form a first subset of the specific set of UI control elements that form the identified room using the limited input control device; and executing a first action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the first subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 125 words

1 . A method for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements overlaying a video content field, comprising: identifying a room, wherein the room is a specific set of the plurality of UI control elements that, taken together, allow a user to perform a related set of activities using the limited input control device; moving between those of the plurality of UI control elements that form a first subset of the specific set of UI control elements that form the identified room using the limited input control device; and executing a first action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the first subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 66 words

2 . A method as recited in 1 , further comprising: activating other ones of the specific set of the UI control elements to form a second subset; deactivating one of the first subset of UI control elements; and executing a second action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the second subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 66 words

2 . A method as recited in 1 , further comprising: activating other ones of the specific set of the UI control elements to form a second subset; deactivating one of the first subset of UI control elements; and executing a second action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the second subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 30 words

3 . A method as recited in claim 2 , wherein activating the second subset of the UI control elements substantially simultaneously de-activates the first subset of UI control elements.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 30 words

4 . A method as recited in claim 2 , wherein activating the first subset of the UI control elements substantially simultaneously de-activates the second subset of UI control elements.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 28 words

5 . A method as recited in claim 2 , wherein the second subset of UI control elements is activated by a single input event at any time.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 18 words

6 . A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the first subset is an option bar.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 32 words

7 . A method as recited in claim 2 , wherein the second subset is a list, wherein the list is selected from the group comprising: a list and an expanded list.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 33 words

8 . A method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the list is formed of a single column of cells and wherein the expanded list is formed of multiple columns of cells.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 26 words

9 . A method as recited in claim 8 , wherein the action is selected from the group comprising: a menu, a tool, and a manipulator.

Claim 12

Dependent Claim 34 words

10 . A method as recited in claim 18 , wherein the menu initiates a room transition such that a current room is replaced by a new room that is defined by the menu.

Claim 13

Dependent Claim 32 words

11 . A method as recited in claim 10 , wherein the tool initiates a command that affects a current image in a pre-determined manner that requires no additional user supplied input.

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 45 words

12 . A method as recited in claim 10 , wherein the manipulator requires additional user supplied input to accomplish its designated function as well as initiates a command that affects the current content in a pre-determined manner that requires no additional user supplied input.

Claim 15

Dependent Claim 71 words

13 . A method as recited in claim 12 , wherein the user supplied input is received by leaving the navigation mode and entering the manipulator mode, wherein in the manipulator mode user content is dynamically updated as the user input is received and wherein in order to de-activate the manipulator, a single user supplied input event is used to either save or discard the changes made to the image content.

Claim 16

Dependent Claim 49 words

14 . A method as recited in claim 13 , wherein a first type manipulator requires a single additional user supplied input event to accomplish its designated function and wherein a second type manipulator requires more than the single additional user supplied input events to accomplish its designated function.

Claim 17

Dependent Claim 41 words

15 . A method as recited in claim 11 , wherein the image includes image data selected from a group comprising: image data supplied by a user, pre-rendered image data, predefined image data, image data not specifically supplied by the user.

Claim 18

Dependent Claim 19 words

16 . A method as recited in claim 11 , wherein the image is a pixel based digital image.

Claim 19

Dependent Claim 17 words

17 . A method as recited in claim 11 , wherein the image is a video image.

Claim 20

Dependent Claim 20 words

18 . A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the limited input device is a non-pointing input device.

Claim 21

Dependent Claim 17 words

19 . A method as recited in claim 14 wherein the first type manipulator is a slider.

Claim 22

Dependent Claim 35 words

20 . A method as recited in claim 14 wherein the second type manipulator is selected from a group comprising: a scale, rotate, translate (SRT) manipulator, a red eye correction manipulator, and a reframe manipulator.

Claim 23

Dependent Claim 148 words

21 . A computer-readable medium containing programming instructions for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements included in a video content field, the computer-readable medium comprising computer program code arranged to cause a host computer system to execute the operations of: identifying a room, wherein the room is a specific set of the plurality of UI control elements that, taken together, allow a user to perform a related set of activities using the limited input control device; moving between those of the plurality of UI control elements that form a first subset of the specific set of UI control elements that form the identified room using the limited input control device; and executing a first action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the first subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 24

Dependent Claim 148 words

21 . A computer-readable medium containing programming instructions for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements included in a video content field, the computer-readable medium comprising computer program code arranged to cause a host computer system to execute the operations of: identifying a room, wherein the room is a specific set of the plurality of UI control elements that, taken together, allow a user to perform a related set of activities using the limited input control device; moving between those of the plurality of UI control elements that form a first subset of the specific set of UI control elements that form the identified room using the limited input control device; and executing a first action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the first subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 25

Dependent Claim 111 words

22 . A computer-readable medium containing programming instructions for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements included in a video content field as recited in claim 21 the computer-readable medium comprising computer program code arranged to cause a host computer system to execute the additional operations of: activating other ones of the specific set of the UI control elements to form a second subset; deactivating one of the first subset of UI control elements; and executing a second action corresponding to a particular active UI control element of the second subset based upon an input event provided by the limited input device.

Claim 26

Dependent Claim 77 words

23 . A computer-readable medium containing programming instructions for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements included in a video content field as recited in claim 22 wherein activating the second subset of the UI control elements substantially simultaneously de-activates the first subset of UI control elements and wherein activating the first subset of the UI control elements substantially simultaneously de-activates the second subset of UI control elements.

Claim 27

Dependent Claim 48 words

24 . A computer-readable medium containing programming instructions for using a limited input device to navigate through a plurality of user interface (UI) control elements included in a video content field as recited in claim 21 , wherein the host compute is coupled to a set top box.

Method and system for image editing using a limited input device in a video environment

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