Temporal Layout Mechanism and Presentation Environment for Multimedia Documents

• Main Authors: Wen-Hern Hsiao, 蕭文和
• Other Authors: Jean-Lien C. Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1994
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/60225652399371967220

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 工程技術研究所 === 82 === Unlike a traditional document, which is simply a text file, multimedia document usually composites of various types of information such as text, graphic, image, audio and video. A traditional text file can be shown on the monitor, or print out to papers. But a multimedia document which contains continuous media (like audio or video) needs an environment to make a presentation. Because there are temporal relationships that existed among the media streams, in addition to handle the spatial layout of the document, this environment must consider the time constraints between different media, deal with the presentation attributes, and take care of the run-time user interactive. In this paper, we proposed an architecture of a presentation environment for multimedia document. This environment includes a temporal layout mechanism to manage the temporal relationships. We also design a timeline editor, which provides an graphical user interface (GUI), let user can easily create a multimedia document.