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

fYear

1996

fDate

17-23 Jun 1996

Firstpage

433

Lastpage

439

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hiroshima

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7438-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1996.535010

Filename

535010