A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.

 
Web www.patentalert.com

< Multimedia signal processing apparatus

< Multimedia customer care center having a layered control architecture

> Data hiding in digital multimedia

> Video information generating apparatus, video communication terminal, video distribution server, and video information system

~ 00227