Computer System for Managing Digital Media of an Organization

摘要

A computer system provides a data structure, a framework for the querying of that data structure, and a presentation layer responsible for the interactive manipulation of that data via the use of standards enabling the data to be replaced, or the presentation to be replaced, which produces a highly customizable interactive presentation of data via re-used modules. The computer system includes a database and database access module to support information about sets of members of an organization with static and time-varying information. The computer system provides an application programming interface that abstracts the re-usable aspects of the database and also provides a set of functions that streamline the development of new visual presentations of that data. The computer system provides for the playback of interactive scenes which each use novel interaction techniques to present entities (organizations, groups, individuals, and associated media) that have been pulled from the database by the framework; the interchangeable nature of the databases and presentation layers allow different interaction models to be used with different templates driven by different data. The computer system also includes image processing that can operate automatically on a large volume of images to apply effects to those images without manual intervention. As a particular example, a morph effect can be applied to a time-ordered sequence of images of an individual to generate a video representing changes in the individual's appearance over time. Such a morph effect uses automatically generated correspondence points within each image.