Patent ID: 6396500
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: G06F,G06T

Abstract:
A method for generating a slide show for presentation by a viewing facility, the slide show being generated from a plurality of slides that were originally created for a slide show to be presented by another facility, comprising:(a) saving each object in the plurality of slides created for presentation by the other facility in a corresponding series of pages, a page including each object associated with a corresponding slide; (b) generating a size for a display space of each page, the size of the display space being related to a size of a container for a page, the container including each object in the page and each object in the container being displayable in the display space of the page; (c) generating an animated object for each object in the page that is related to an animation of the object in the corresponding slide created for presentation by the other facility, the animated object being included in the container for the page; (d) generating a queue for defining an order for the display of each object and each animated object in each container of each page and defining a time line for presenting the generated slide show; and (e) employing the viewing facility to display the contents of each container for each page in accord with the order and the time line defined by the queue, so that the generated slide show is presented to a user in a graphical display related to the presentation by the other facility of the originally created slide show.