Title :
The Digital Album: a personal file-tainment system
Author :
Yagawa, Yuichi ; Iwai, Noriyuki ; Yanagi, Kunihiro ; Kojima, Keiji ; Matsumoto, Kiyoshi
Author_Institution :
Syst. Dev. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan
Abstract :
Describes the Digital Album, a personal `file-tainment´ (entertainment file) system that allows users to enjoy multimedia data as well as filing and retrieving them. This system incorporates an album metaphor which imitates a photo album and features pseudo-3D page-turning animation. Stories described in this album metaphor entertain the users. We also adopt a multiview classification scheme in which each data item is registered to any node in multiple classification hierarchies. The system is suitable for filing and retrieving multimedia data visually and bibliographically. Moreover, users can enjoy creating their own albums, based on the classification, easily and dynamically. The album metaphor is used as a PhotoCD user interface in Hitachi´s multimedia products
Keywords :
bibliographic systems; classification; computer animation; entertainment; graphical user interfaces; multimedia computing; personal information systems; photography; visual databases; Digital Album; Hitachi multimedia products; PhotoCD user interface; bibliographic data; data retrieval; entertainment file system; filing; multimedia data; multiple classification hierarchies; multiview classification scheme; personal file-tainment system; photograph album metaphor; pseudo-3D page-turning animation; stories; visual data; Animation; CD-ROMs; Computational Intelligence Society; DVD; Data engineering; Information retrieval; Memory; Multimedia databases; Multimedia systems; Standardization;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hiroshima
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7438-5
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1996.535010
