SYNCHRONIZED SPATIAL-TEMPORAL BROWSING OF IMAGES FOR SELECTION OF INDEXED TEMPORAL MULTIMEDIA TITLES

摘要

Described are a variety of techniques for viewing multimedia-based information in accordance with user controls for the speed and direction of the multimedia presentation. Different techniques for presenting multimedia information (302) are disclosed. User controls providing control for speed and direction in accordance with a user selection device being in a particular location. The speed and direction controls are on when a user device is within the defined area and are off when it leaves the defined area. Also described is a system using a browser tool (316) for displaying multimedia information (302). Multimedia information (302) are indices into multimedia presentations. A user selection is made by viewing the multimedia data items and control is transferred to an appropriate application to present a multimedia presentation corresponding to a selected multimedia data item. A technique is disclosed for generating an index database (308) of the multimedia data items used as indices into the multimedia presentations.