Appeal No. 96-0538
Application 08/126,450
through 11, 13 through 16, 18 and 20 are before us on appeal.
The disclosed invention relates to a user interface system and method for electronically
arranging the components of a special effects job for a motion picture production from a plurality of
image sequences obtained by the scanning of motion picture film.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:
1. A user interface system for electronically arranging the components of a special effects job
for a motion picture production from a plurality of image sequences obtained by the scanning of motion
picture film, said system comprising:
a) a virtual light box interface for lining up the components of the special effects job, said virtual
light box interface comprising:
means for ordering a plurality of image sequences into background and foreground image
sequences, each sequence being composed of frames that imitate the frames of a motion picture film;
means for displaying the image sequences adjacent to each other so that the frames thereof
visually align on a frame-to-frame basis; and
means providing for user variation of the adjacency of the image sequences so that different
frames thereof are brought into visual alignment with each other, such that the image sequences are
ordered by the user as to adjacency for one or more special effects; and
b) a flow graph interface visually displaying the type and order of special effects-process
operations applied to the frames, said flow graph interface providing for user specification and control
of what operations are to be performed and in what order the operations are applied to the components
of the special effects job.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Barndt 3,006,993 Oct. 31, 1961
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