The multimedia object presentation manager of MINOS: a symmetric approach

Abstract

Large multimedia data bases become feasible due to recent advances in hardware technology. A very important component of multimedia data base management systems will be the presentation manager which will be responsible for effective multimedia presentation and browsing on the screen of workstations. In this paper we present the functions provided for multimedia presentation and browsing in MINOS, a multimedia information system. The presentation and browsing capabilities provided make effective use of the capabilities of a modern workstation to increase the man-machine communication bandwidth. We regard voice as an important means of communication. Symmetric capabilities for text and voice browsing are provided.

Concurrent frame signature files

“…It turns out that the false drop probability is approximately the same as that of FSSF (by (1)) with identical parameters F, n, s, and o.…”

“…Notice that each of the subsignatures itself is a special case of FSSF with one frame chosen by each word. Its false-drop probability is given by (1). Therefore,…”

“…• Electronic office filing [1] • Computerized libraries [6] • Automated law and patent offices [11] • Indexing of software components to enhance reusability [9] All these applications demand an efficient text search method. In this paper, we propose a signature-file-based full-text search scheme called concurrent frame signature file.…”

Design of a multimedia object-oriented DBMS

“…We define a reference point to be a sub-object [9], i.e., a part of an object, or an object, that can interact with other sub-objects or objects, while the information used to point to a reference point or object is called a reference [1]. For example, an object ID in our system is a reference.…”

“…The internal information of a long object can be directly referenced with reference point(s). For example, a user can divide a video object into several segments and assign each segment a reference point so that each of them can be referenced independently [9]. Usually a long object contains a number of conceptually different information elements that should be stored together.…”