[nzlug] NZOSS Patent Analysis Project - could use a hand here...

[Simon Bridge]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:38 +1200, Vik Olliver wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:45 +1300, Simon Bridge wrote:
> > In particular - labelling the timetrack in units of time rather than
> > by frame-number, seems important.
> 
> That, I think, comes under the "obvious to those involved in the art"
> category.

Yeah... well... it only takes a periferal contact with the "art" to find
the connection I think.

To those involved, it makes more sense to specify the framerate (since
that's normally fixed) and label the timetrack in frames. And this is
what web-designers do with their wee gifs aint it?

Anyway, the patent goes out of it's way to describe that aspect. It's
also the only bit that I haven't seen in any of the tools I've looked at
so far. I was wondering (out loud) if there exists an industry-level or
obscure (to me) tool which does this?

B'sides: obviousness is a weak defence.