SBIR Phase I: The Visual Database: Portable, XML-Based Middleware For Media Representation, Interaction and Exchange

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段的研究项目将创建一个便携式的代表性和互动的数字媒体嵌入在一个3D观看环境的隐喻。目前，难以将诸如照片、视频、声音和3D图形内容之类的异构数字媒体组织成易于理解、直观操作并且易于经由电子邮件或其他标准数据传输协议交换的形式。这里描述的工作将定义一个代表性的模式，数据上下文，数据访问门户网站，有序的时空路径，可以有效地表示使用便携式交换语言XML。这个比喻-称为可视化数据库或VDB-通常适用于在交互式3D可视化环境中最容易理解的信息，例如电子医疗记录和解剖学培训材料、地图、3D环境的数字图尔斯和工程分析档案。该项目还将为VDB创建一个原型查看器和内容创建系统。如果成功，这个项目将建立一个普遍的新标准，用于表示，交互和交换数字媒体。这样的标准可以提高个人和公司创建和交流3D内容的生产力。这个项目定义了一个新的隐喻，扩展了以前的组织隐喻，如书籍和网页，以支持视觉，3D信息的信息。的代表性的模式是足够简单的小型便携式设备，如PDA的支持，并足够复杂，以支持复杂的人/计算机在3D可视化环境中的交互。该技术适合于基于开放XML标准的商业化计划，以及与商业内容创建应用程序和许可关系相结合的相关内容查看器。

This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I research project will create a portable representational and interaction metaphor for digital media embedded in a 3D viewing environment. Currently it is difficult to organize heterogeneous digital media such as photographs, video, sound, and 3D graphics content into a form that is readily understood, intuitive to work with, and easy to exchange via e-mail or other standard data transmission protocols. The work described here will define a representational schema based on data context, data access portals, and ordered space-time paths that can be efficiently represented using the portable exchange language XML. This metaphor-known as the visual database or VDB-is generally applicable to information that is best understood in an interactive 3D visual environment such as electronic medical records and anatomical training material, maps, digital tours of 3D environments, and archival of engineering analysis. The project will also create a prototype viewer and content creation system for the VDB. If successful, this project will establish a pervasive new standard for representing, interacting with, and exchanging digital media. Such a standard could improve the productivity of individuals and firms that create and communicate with 3D content. This project defines a novel metaphor for working with information that extends previous organizational metaphors such as books and web pages to support visual, 3D information. The representational schema is simple enough to be supported by small portable devices such as PDA's, and sophisticated enough to support complex human/computer interaction in a 3D visualization environment. The technology lends itself to a commercialization plan based on open XML standard and associated content viewers in conjunction with commercial content creation applications and licensing relationships.