Appeal No. 1998-1323 Application 08/252,861 The disclosed invention pertains to a method and apparatus for representing a sequence of frames having at least first and second information-bearing media components. More particularly, the invention forms a correspondence between representative frames based on the first information- bearing media component and segments of the second information-bearing media component. Representative claims 1 and 25 are reproduced as follows: 1. A method of representing a sequence of frames having at least first and second information-bearing media components, in which the first and second information-bearing media components are different from one another, said method comprising the steps of: selecting a plurality of representative frames representing information contained in the first information- bearing media component; forming a correspondence between each of the representative frames and a segment of the second information- bearing media component; and recording said representative frames, said segment of the second information-bearing media component and the correspondence therebetween. 25. A method of displaying a compressed rendition of a sequence of frames having at least different first and second information-bearing media components, said method comprising the steps of 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007