Patent ID: 9355681
Filing Date: 2016-05-31
CPC Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A tool for creating interactive MPEG content, the tool comprising: an editor having a scene window allowing a user to create a scene based upon placement of atomic MPEG objects within the scene window; an object tool bar allowing a user to add the atomic MPEG objects to the scene, each of the atomic MPEG objects having a respective plurality of visual states and comprising a respective plurality of graphical elements, each graphical element of the respective plurality of graphical elements corresponding to a respective visual state of the respective plurality of visual states, each of the atomic MPEG objects further comprising code to construct each visual state of the respective plurality of visual states, wherein: a format processor comprising hardware for processing the scene into a file format that includes display position information of respective pluralities of graphical elements of the atomic MPEG objects that were added to the scene, so as to allow a stitcher to form a complete MPEG video frame from the respective pluralities of graphical elements, wherein different MPEG frames can be assigned to a respective visual state of the pluralities of visual states.