1. A system that facilitates creating an image-based video, comprising:
a component that receives a resulting video aspect ratio and an image;
a motion component that automatically generates and applies a motion to the image based at least in part upon a comparison of an aspect ratio of the image and the resulting video aspect ratio; and
a reference rectangle that is a virtual rectangle of aspect ratio equal to the aspect ratio of a resulting video and created with a substantially similar width or a substantially similar height as the image.
2. The system of claim 1, the motion is one or more of the following: a pan; a zoom; a pan and zoom; a transition; and a combination thereof.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a motion generator that generates and applies the motion based in part upon the comparison.
4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a component that can do one or more of the following: (1) crop the image to a substantially similar ratio as a resulting video aspect ratio; (2) determine at least one of a panning and zooming motion for an image (3) determine a motion direction for a second image based at least upon the motion applied to an adjacent previous first image; (4) calculate a duration for which the image appears in the image-based video with the motion applied; and (5) determine a duration of a transition between subsequent images by analyzing an overall motion duration of each of the two subsequent images.
5. The system of claim 4, the duration component calculates a motion duration (Tz) for a zoom with the following: (Dz)(Sz), where
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6. The system of claim 4, the duration component calculates a motion duration (Tp) for a pan with the following: (Dp)(Sp), where
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and a Dp is a panning motion distance, an x0start is an upper-left corner coordinate of a start rectangle, a y0start is an upper-left coordinate of the start rectangle, an x0end is an upper-left coordinate of an end rectangle, a y0end is an upper-left coordinate of the end rectangle, and Sp is a preferred motion speed for panning.
7. The system of claim 1, the reference rectangle is divided into a number of overlapping sub-rectangular areas, with an equal number of rows and columns to create a sub-rectangle grid, wherein the motion contains a start rectangle and an end rectangle, the start rectangle and the end rectangle have an aspect ratio equivalent to the resulting video aspect ratio and the reference angle.
8. The system of claim 7, the comparison is a numeric difference of the aspect ratio of the image and the resulting video aspect ratio, the motion automatically applied to the image is as follows:
a) When the aspect ratio of the image is smaller than a lower threshold, the motion applied is a vertical panning motion with no zoom and the start rectangle is substantially similar in size as the end rectangle;
b) When the aspect ratio of the image is greater than or equal to the lower threshold and less than the resulting video aspect ratio, the motion is one of:
i) a panning motion with the start rectangle as a sub-rectangle in a center position on one of: a top row of the sub-rectangle grid or a bottom row of the sub-rectangle grid, and the end rectangle is a sub-rectangle in a center position on one of: a bottom row of the sub-rectangle grid or a top row of the sub-rectangle grid; and
ii) a zoom and a pan motion with the start rectangle and the end rectangle being one of the reference rectangle and a center column sub-rectangle on the sub-rectangle grid;
c) When the aspect ratio of the image is equal to the resulting video aspect ratio, the motion applied is a zoom with one of the motion rectangles (the start rectangle or the end rectangle) being the reference rectangle, and the other is one of a sub-rectangles on the sub-rectangle grid;
d) When the aspect ratio of the image is greater than or equal to the resulting video aspect ratio and less than a higher threshold, the motion is one of:
i) a panning motion with the start rectangle as a sub-rectangle positioned in a center of one of: a first column of the sub-rectangle grid, or a last column of the sub-rectangle grid, and the end rectangle as a sub-rectangle positioned in a center of one of: a first column of the sub-rectangle grid, or a last column of the sub-rectangle grid; and
ii) a zoom and pan motion with the start rectangle as one of: the reference rectangle, or a sub-rectangle in a center row of the sub-rectangle grid, and the end rectangle as one of: the reference rectangle, or a sub-rectangle in a center row of the sub-rectangle grid; and
e) If the aspect ratio of the image is greater than the higher threshold, the motion applied is a horizontal panning motion with no zoom with the start rectangle being substantially similar in size as the end rectangle.
9. The system of claim 4, the overall motion duration is calculated by taking into account the motion duration for pan (Tp), motion duration for zoom (Tz) and a predefined minimum threshold for motion duration (Tmin).
10. A system that facilitates creating an image-based video, comprising:
a component that receives a resulting video aspect ratio and an image; and
a motion component that automatically generates and applies a motion to the image based at least in part upon a comparison of an aspect ratio of the image and the resulting video aspect ratio, the motion component providing a default setting, wherein motion is not generated and applied to an image with a caption.
11. A computer implemented method that facilitates creating an image-based video, comprising:
receiving an image;
receiving a resulting video resolution that the image-based video is to be displayed in;
analyzing the image and the resulting video resolution;
determining a motion for the image based at least in part upon a comparison of an aspect ratio of the image and an aspect ratio of the resulting video;
applying the motion to the image;
creating a reference rectangle used to center the image;
dividing the reference angle into an equal amount of columns and rows to create a sub-rectangle grid;
determining a numeric difference based upon the comparison; and
utilizing a start rectangle as a first frame of motion and an end rectangle as a last frame of motion, wherein each position of the start rectangle and the end rectangle are related to the numeric difference and an associated category.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising at least one of the following: 1) adding an in-between motion for a second image adjacent to the first based at least in part upon the motion applied to a first image, and 2) determining a duration of the motion based at least upon the motion applied and a preferred motion speed.
13. The method of claim 11, further comprising adding a transition for a duration between a first image and a second image, the first image and the second image are subsequent images, the transition is one of a wipe, a fade, a cross-fade, an explode, an implode, a matrix wipe, a push, a dissolve, a checker, and any suitable transition utilized in video post-production.
14. The method of claim 11, further comprising accumulating the image to be presented as the image-based video.
15. The method of claim 13, further comprising cropping the image to an aspect ratio that is substantially similar to the resulting video aspect ratio.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A magneto-optical device comprising:
a substrate transparent to light in a visible spectral region;
a plurality of ferromagnetic layers having a width in an inclusive range of 5 through 100 nanometers and a thickness in an inclusive range of 0.1 through 5 microns;
wherein said ferromagnetic layers are parallel to each other and separated by a distance in an inclusive range of 0.2 through 2 microns.
2. The magneto-optical device of claim 1, wherein said substrate defines grooves having side walls, said ferromagnetic layers being arranged on said side walls.
3. The magneto-optical device of claim 2, wherein said side walls are perpendicular to a surface of said substrate.
4. The magneto-optical device of claim 1, further comprising a reflecting layer on a first face of said substrate.
5. The magneto-optical device of claim 4, further comprising an anti-reflecting layer on a second face of said substrate.
6. The magneto-optical device of claim 1, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are electrically conductive.
7. The magneto-optical device of claim 6, wherein said ferromagnetic layers comprise particles of a member of the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, FeCo alloys, FeNi alloys and CoNi alloys.
8. The magneto-optical device of claim 7, wherein said ferromagnetic layers particles have an average diameter in an inclusive range of 2 through 20 nanometers.
9. The magneto-optical device of claim 1, further comprising a layer of non-magnetic semiconducting material or metal in contact with said ferromagnetic layers and having a same thickness as the thickness of the ferromagnetic layers and a width in an inclusive range of 5 through 10 nanometers.
10. The magneto-optical device of claim 2, further comprising a reflecting layer on a first face of said substrate.
11. The magneto-optical device of claim 10, further comprising an anti-reflecting layer on a second face of said substrate.
12. The magneto-optical device of claim 2, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are electrically conductive.
13. The magneto-optical device of claim 12, wherein said ferromagnetic layers comprise particles of a member of the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, FeCo alloys, FeNi alloys and CoNi alloys.
14. The magneto-optical device of claim 13, wherein said ferromagnetic layers particles have an average diameter in an inclusive range of 2 through 20 nanometers.
15. The magneto-optical device of claim 2, further comprising a layer of non-magnetic semiconducting material or metal in contact with said ferromagnetic layers and having a same thickness as the thickness of the ferromagnetic layers and a width in an inclusive range of 5 through 10 nanometers.
16. The magneto-optical device of claim 3, further comprising a reflecting layer on a first face of said substrate.
17. The magneto-optical device of claim 16, further comprising an anti-reflecting layer on a second face of said substrate.
18. The magneto-optical device of claim 3, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are electrically conductive.
19. The magneto-optical device of claim 18, wherein said ferromagnetic layers comprise particles of a member of the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, FeCo alloys, FeNi alloys and CoNi alloys.
20. The magneto-optical device of claim 19, wherein said ferromagnetic layers particles have an average diameter in an inclusive range of 2 through 20 nanometers.
21. The magneto-optical device of claim 3, further comprising a layer of non-magnetic semiconducting material or metal in contact with said ferromagnetic layers and having a same thickness as the thickness of the ferromagnetic layers and a width in an inclusive range of 5 through 10 nanometers.
22. A magneto-optical device comprising:
a substrate transparent to light in a visible spectral region; and
a plurality of ferromagnetic layers having a width in an inclusive range of 5 through 100 nanometers and a thickness in an inclusive range of 0.1 through 5 microns;
wherein said ferromagnetic layers are parallel to each other.
23. The magneto-optical device of claim 22, wherein said substrate defines grooves having side walls, said ferromagnetic layers being arranged on said side walls.
24. The magneto-optical device of claim 23, wherein said side walls are perpendicular to a surface of said substrate.
25. The magneto-optical device of claim 22, further comprising a reflecting layer on a first face of said substrate.
26. The magneto-optical device of claim 25, further comprising an anti-reflecting layer on a second face of said substrate.
27. The magneto-optical device of claim 22, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are electrically conductive.
28. The magneto-optical device of claim 27, wherein said ferromagnetic layers comprise particles of a member of the group consisting of Fe, Co, Ni, FeCo alloys, FeNi alloys and CoNi alloys.
29. A recording device comprising:
a magneto-optical device comprising:
a substrate, and
a plurality of ferromagnetic layers on said substrate; and
a magnetic recording head, on which said magneto-optical device is positioned,
wherein said magnetic recording head comprises a plurality of bars of magnetic material.
30. The recording device of claim 29, wherein said magnetic recording head further comprises lines wound around said bars of magnetic material.
31. The recording device of claim 30, wherein said bars of magnetic material are arranged in a matrix.
32. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an array of magnetic heads; and
a magneto-optical device on said array and comprising:
a substrate, and
a plurality of ferromagnetic layers formed on said substrate,
wherein a relative position between the magneto-optical device and the magnetic heads does not change during a recording operation.
33. The image forming apparatus of claim 32, wherein said ferromagnetic layers have a width in an inclusive range of 5 through 100 nanometers.
34. The image forming apparatus of claim 32, wherein said ferromagnetic layers have a thickness in an inclusive range of 0.1 through 5 microns.
35. The image forming apparatus of claim 32, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are parallel to each other.
36. The image forming apparatus of claim 35, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are separated by a distance in an inclusive range of 0.2 through 2 microns.
37. The image forming apparatus of claim 32, wherein said substrate defines grooves having side walls, said ferromagnetic layers being arranged on said side walls.
38. The image forming apparatus of claim 37, wherein said side walls are perpendicular to a surface of said substrate.
39. The image forming apparatus of claim 32, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are formed by a method selected from the group consisting of sputtering, PVD, CVD and plating.
40. The image forming apparatus of claim 32, further comprising:
an address circuit configured to select a line of said array of magnetic heads; and
a driver circuit configured to input and erase information data to each head on the selected line.
41. The image forming apparatus of claim 40, further comprising a controller configured to control writing and erasing operations of said information data.
42. The magneto-optical device of claim 32, wherein each magnetic head of said array of magnetic heads includes a micro magnetic head and a reading head.
43. The image forming apparatus of claim 42, wherein said reading head comprises a magnetoresistance film.
44. The recording device of claim 41, wherein each of said ferromagnetic layers is positioned on a wall of said grooves.
45. The recording device of claim 44, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are separated from each other.
46. The recording device of claim 45, wherein said ferromagnetic layers are parallel to each other.