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"Path-enhanced" multimedia (PEM) data may be viewed, modified, or interacted with according to user selected views which determine the manner in which at least a portion of the PEM data is displayed. The PEM data is stored in a data structure as a scrapbook object including first data object types corresponding to the PEM data and second object types corresponding to the different view types. The scrapbook object data structure lends itself to displaying portions of the PEM data according to selected views that correspond to a particular time and place or to a particular time ordered sequence of locations (i.e., a particular path segment) and/or can be enhanced with other multimedia content related to that time and place or to that path segment, thereby providing a more interesting and effective display of the "path-enhanced" recorded events. For example, the time and location of a particular point on the path may be used to locate and append other recorded sounds and images associated with that time and/or that location, to thereby provide an enhanced presentation of a trip or other path-oriented experience. Moreover, the data defining any such associated path may also be edited to thereby define a new or modified path.
1. A multimedia system comprising:
storage area having a data structure including at least one first data object for storing "path-enhanced" multimedia (PEM) data including essentially continuous path information associated with a path traversed and multimedia data associated with points along the path, and at least one second data object for storing information corresponding to at least one view which defines the manner in which at least a portion of the PEM data is to be displayed by the system;
user control for receiving user input including selection of one of the at least one view;
renderer for receiving first and second data object types dependent on the user input view selection and for generating display data including the at least a portion of the "path-enhanced" multimedia data corresponding to the view selection;
display for displaying the display data.
2. A machine-implemented multimedia method, comprising:
accessing path-enhanced multimedia (PEM) data including definitions of spatiotemporal paths and links between multimedia objects in a collection and respective points on the spatiotemporal paths;
generating at least one view data structure, each view data structure specifying a respective perspective for visualizing at least a portion of the PEM data; and
storing the at least one view data structure on a machine readable medium.
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access path-enhanced multimedia (PEM) data including definitions of spatiotemporal paths and links between multimedia objects in a collection and respective points on the spatiotemporal paths;
generate at least one view data structure, each view data structure specifying a respective perspective for visualizing at least a portion of the PEM data; and
store the at least one view data structure on a machine readable medium.
76. A machine-readable medium storing machine-readable instructions for causing a machine to:
access path-enhanced multimedia (PEM) data including definitions of spatiotemporal paths and links between multimedia objects in a collection and respective points on the spatiotemporal paths;
generate at least one view data structure, each view data structure specifying a respective perspective for visualizing at least a portion of the PEM data; and
store the at least one view data structure on a machine readable medium.
77. A multimedia system, comprising:
a machine-implemented accessing module configured to access path-enhanced multimedia (PEM) data including definitions of spatiotemporal paths and links between multimedia objects in a collection and respective points on the spatiotemporal paths;
a machine-implemented view generating module configured to generate at least one view data structure, each view data structure specifying a respective perspective for visualizing at least a portion of the PEM data; and
a machine-implemented rendering module configured to render a user interface configured to present the PEM data as specified by the at least one view data structure.
Our commonly assigned patent application filed concurrently Ser. No. 10/427,614 "Apparatus and Method for Recording "Path-Enhanced" Multimedia" describes a novel multimedia recording appliance that can record multimedia such as audio, still images and/or video individually or in combinations, and that is capable of sampling time and position information whether or not it is recording any such multimedia, thereby providing a record not only of particular sounds, imagery and the like, but also of a path traveled during and between the recording of those sounds and/or imagery. The recorded data that this appliance generates are examples of "path-enhanced" multimedia, and the identified patent application is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Other commonly assigned patent applications filed concurrently herewith describe various other contemplated applications for "path-enhanced" multimedia technology, and each of the following identified patent applications is also hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety:
Ser. No. 10/427,582 "Automatic Generation of Presentations from "Path-Enhanced" Multimedia" relates to novel apparatus and methodology for generating a presentation of multimedia data together with an animated overview and/or a path-oriented context connecting those events.
Ser. No. 10/427,647 "Indexed Database Structures and Methods for Searching Path-Enhanced Multimedia" relates to novel database structures and data searching procedures suitable for recorded data having associated times and locations.
The present invention relates generally to recorded multimedia data associated with essentially continuously recorded path information, and more particularly this disclosure describes techniques of viewing, modifying, and interacting with the associated multimedia and path information.
Still and video digital images with attached GPS data from a known recording device may be processed using known web-based systems for generating web-enabled maps overlaid with icons for accessing such digital images. Although these systems provide GPS data for the images on an individual and unrelated basis, no information is provided relating to GPS data occurring at times other than when the images are captured. In addition, no information is provided relating to GPS data occurring along a continuous path between points of capture.
GPS-based navigation systems are known which display the user's current location relative to a calculated route between two predetermined points. There are also systems known that record and display a user's route.
In addition, there are known user interfaces for displaying photos in a map where the photos are shown on the map according to location tags associated with the photo. However, these interfaces do not display path information associated with the photos or route information between the photos.
However, at present there are no known user interfaces for displaying and/or interacting with a map including a continuous path and multimedia associated with points along the path.
Although "multimedia" has been variously used in other contexts to refer to data, to a sensory experience, or to the technology used to render the experience from the data, as used herein it broadly refers to any data that can be rendered by a compatible machine into a form that can be experienced by one or more human senses, such as sight, hearing, or smell. Similarly, although "multimedia" has been used elsewhere specifically in connection with the presentation of multiple sensory experiences from multiple data sources, as used herein it is intended to be equally applicable to data representative of but a single sensory experience. Common examples of such multimedia include data originally captured by physical sensors, such as visible or IR images recorded by photographic film or a CCD array, or sounds recorded by a microphone, or a printed publication that has been microfilmed or digitized. Other currently contemplated examples include data that is completely synthesized by a computer, as for example a simulated flight in space, digital text (in ASCII or UNICODE format) that can be rendered either as a page of text or as computer generated speech, or data representative of certain physical properties (such as color, size, shape, location, spatial orientation, velocity, weight, surface texture, density, elasticity, temperature, humidity, or chemical composition) of a real or imaginary object or environment that could be used to synthesize a replica of that object or environment. Multimedia data is typically stored in one or more "multimedia files", each such file typically being in a defined digital format.
Location may be defined in terms of coordinates, typically representative of the user's position on the Earth's surface. Many coordinate systems are commonly used in celestial mechanics and there are known transformations between the different coordinate systems. Most coordinate systems of practical interest will be Earth centered, Earth-fixed (ECEF) coordinate systems. In ECEF coordinate systems the origin will be the center of the Earth, and the coordinate system is fixed to the Earth. It is common to model the Earth's shape as an ellipsoid of revolution, in particular an oblate spheroid, with the Earth being larger at the equator than at the poles. The World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS84) is an example of such a coordinate system commonly used in GPS applications. Within the WGS84 system, latitude and longitude will define any location on the Earth's surface. Any other generalized coordinate system, instead of latitude and longitude, defined on the ellipsoid, could be used to reference locations on the Earth. For some applications, a third coordinate, altitude will also be required. In GPS applications, altitude typically measures the distance not above the actual terrain, but above (or below) the aforementioned oblate spheroid representation of the Earth. In other applications, location could be represented in a one-dimensional coordinate system, corresponding for example to mileposts or stations (or even scheduled time) along a predetermined route.
Similar to location, there are many methods for representing time. In many data processing applications, time is defined as the numerical representation of the time difference between the current time and an absolute reference time using some time scale. Local time may be calculated from this numerical representation by using additional latitude and longitude information.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is a modern time scale that serves as an example of the time scale used in these inventions. The UTC time scale defines a very steady second and it is also tied to the earth's rotation. The second is defined in terms of the duration of a given number of periods of the radiation produced by the atomic transitions between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of cesium-133. In addition, the UTC system is synchronized to drifts in speed of the Earth's rotation by the addition of leap seconds.
As used herein, "path" means an ordered sequence of adjacent locations (from GPS or otherwise; it may include latitude, longitude and/or altitude) each having an associated sequential time stamp (typically from GPS, from other wireless services, and/or from an internal clock or counter). Equivalently, a "path" may be thought of as a sequence of time data, each associated with a respective location from a sequence of locations.
"Path-Enhanced" Multimedia (PEM)
The association of path information (e.g., time and location data) and multimedia generates "path-enhanced" multimedia. Path information is recorded for the path traveled between and during the recording of the individual recorded multimedia files. In other words, the path information includes path times and locations at which multimedia was and was not recorded. Note that one multimedia file associated with a given point on a path can correspond to more than a single instant of time, and that more than one multimedia file can be associated with the same point.
Systems and Methods of viewing, modifying, and interacting with "path-enhanced" multimedia (PEM) are described. Systems and Methods are based on providing different types of views of all or a portion of the PEM data that determine the manner in which all or a portion of the PEM data is displayed. According to the system, PEM data is stored according to a data structure including a first data object corresponding to "path-enhanced" multimedia (PEM) data which includes multimedia data and its corresponding path information, and at least one second object that stores information corresponding to a view which defines the manner in which the PEM data is to be displayed by the system. A user control receives a user input for selecting a view and provides the view selection to a renderer. In response, the renderer receives first and second data object types dependent on the user input view selection and generates display data which causes PEM data to be displayed according to the selected view. In other embodiments, the system and method provide user control to allow the modification and interaction with the PEM
In general, the present invention relates to systems and methods of viewing, modifying, and interacting with recorded "path-enhanced" multimedia (herein referred to as PEM).
In the example shown in
In one embodiment, third-party services may also be used to provide different types of specialty maps on which to overlay the displayed trip path and any related multimedia icons. In one embodiment, the choice of underlying maps can be dynamically selected and explored by the viewer. For a tourist who has visited San Francisco, for example, some maps on which he might want to lay out his trip data could include a satellite map of San Francisco, a tourist map showing the neighborhood names and boundaries, a historical map of the region, or a combination of digital elevation map and street map of San Francisco, possibly using available GIS technology (see http://www.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html).
Types of views other than geographical or temporally organized views are contemplated. For instance, the PEM data may be organized by type of multimedia content, for example in a table with one column for audio recordings, one for still photos, and so on, with the entries in each column organized by their associated time and/or location.
According to the present invention, views may display all or a portion of the PEM data. For instance, the displayed multimedia icons can be limited to those falling within a particular time period or within a particular geographic area, or to multimedia files having particular associated attributes such as "favorite" or "unedited" or "private".
The PEM presented in the views may subsequently be supplemented with additional data including for example annotation data, multimedia data, and auxiliary data (e.g., temperature, elevation, etc.) There are a variety of techniques for supplementing the PEM data.
Supplemental annotation data may include text labels for the trip or for individual photos that one took, or audio recordings of remembrances of the thoughts one was having while capturing particular photos and videos. These annotations can be integrated within data structures that store the original PEM data in such a way as to allow for seamless browsing, editing, and display of the annotated PEM data. In accordance with this embodiment, the annotation data integrated within the PEM data structures are preferably tagged, as will be described herein below, with indicators that clearly distinguish the subsequent annotations from the original PEM data. These indicators are useful for subsequent editing and searching.
Supplemental multimedia data can be added to views of PEM data by the user through manual file selection, e.g., manually locating a file in a database via a file system browser interface or similar user interface, and selecting the file. Alternatively, the time and location information of the path within the PEM can facilitate a search for supplemental multimedia that is relevant to the PEM. The supplemental multimedia can be stock multimedia (i.e., pre-existing readily available multimedia often available through an internet or extranet connection) obtained from third-party services, and might include multimedia such as a concert or speech performed at a nearby venue, or professionally made photos or videos of places visited but at which recording was not allowed, or other "geo-referenced" (i.e., including, encoded with, or associated with geographically-based information) multimedia data of potential interest to the viewer. If the weather or lighting was poor during portions of the original trip, professional stock photos and videos that were taken during better weather, different seasons, or different times of day could be substituted for the original photos and videos using these techniques. In one embodiment, when supplemental multimedia is added to the original PEM data structure, it is seamlessly integrated by tagging it in such a way as to identify it as supplemental. In addition, the supplemental multimedia is tagged with time and location data in a similar manner as the PEM's originally recorded multimedia. Specifically, inserted multimedia files are preferably tagged with data fields that detail 1) the actual time and location of their creation (or an indication that the actual time and/or location is not available), as well as 2) virtual times and locations that determine their temporal and geographical relationships with respect to the original path and multimedia data displayed for the trip.
Views of the PEM can also be supplemented by non-multimedia, auxiliary data obtainable from various other types of geographically-based databases and services. For example, a display of a trip may be supplemented with text labels (or synthesized voice) detailing temperature, elevation, or historical data at various points (i.e., path times and locations) along the trip path displayed within the view. Similarly, icons representing local news headline events occurring at more or less the same time and place as the data capture may be added to the displayed view of the PEM, so that the news stories accompanying these headlines are displayed or spoken (via synthesized speech) when the icon is selected.
The view of the PEM can also be dynamically supplemented/updated to include current information and content, so that interaction and viewing of the displayed view of the PEM reveals new information relevant to one's previous travels (i.e., previously recorded PEM). For example, a vacation recorded three years ago can be automatically enriched with current stock multimedia information and non-multimedia information (preferably but not necessarily indexed by location) from third party databases. According to this embodiment, an interface allowing interaction with this type of view would allow inquiries/searches such as: "What does the place I visited look like now?", "How has it grown?", "Is the hotel I stayed at still in business?", and "What are its current rates?". In one embodiment, a link to an Internet-enabled source (such as a live webcam) of real-time multimedia originating from a location near the displayed path can be included.
In another embodiment, a virtual path may be defined within the view which corresponds to an imaginary trip or contemplated future vacation, possibly using only supplemental stock sounds and images. The supplemental multimedia can be organized with a geographically-based (e.g., path-oriented) user interface that allows control over the sequence and geographic location of the supplemental multimedia content along that virtual path. This virtual path interface can be particularly useful for planning prospective trips when the virtual path and map are linked to dynamically updated, current, geographically-based data and multimedia content, as described above.
The PEM data can include security attributes for limiting access to all or identified segments of the PEM's path information and to portions of the PEM's multimedia data, so as to facilitate control of data access when data is shared by means of e-mail, CD-rom, the Internet, and other similar distribution mechanisms.
It should be understood that the disclosed PEM technology is also applicable to consumer and business applications other than the sharing of vacation memories. For example, it may be useful for people involved in scientific exploration missions, such as for geological or biological scouting expeditions, where explorers would like to create a rich, multimedia record of what they found, and would like to simplify the process of compiling their documentation into a format that can be easily reviewed or shared with others. It may also be a valuable tool for news reporting teams gathering material for a story, for law enforcement officials or private investigators documenting evidence in the field, for members of the military while on reconnaissance missions, for surveyors and construction workers analyzing a building site, and for real-estate agents attempting to build multimedia, map-based presentations of homes for sale.
An exemplary system for viewing and interacting with the PEM data according to the above-described functionality is shown in FIG. 3. In particular, the system shown in
In general, the system provides for the creation of Scrapbook Objects 10 and implements methods for displaying, browsing, editing, and augmenting the PEM information. According to this embodiment, PEM data and default view data is received from the Generate Default View block 20 and are stored by the Scrapbook Object 10 into a data structure as will be described herein below. In the preferred embodiment, block 20 generates default views having types of "map", "calendar", and "media type". For example, a default map-based view is generated by the following steps:
The default calendar-based view shows a range of dates and times encompassing all of the times associated with data in the PEM, and has entries with place names retrieved from a Database 34 associating location coordinates with names. The place names are retrieved from a database in a manner analogous to that described above for map information, except that different queries may be used to retrieve names for different bounding box regions, and databases of place names rather than map information are used so that place names are returned in the queries.
A default view organized by media type is also generated, containing one section for each type of multimedia associated with the PEM. As for the default calendar-based view, place names can be associated with the different multimedia entries in this view, through queries of databases associating place names to geographical coordinates. The Time and Location Data 38 associated with the multimedia and/or the path near them are used by the Computational Geometry Engine 36 to generate these Queries 40.
For each type of default view, a default set of style parameters is used to specify layout and representation preferences for that view. Also, for all of the default views, all of the path, multimedia, and other data in the PEM, except that designated as "hidden", "private", or similarly protected prior to input of the PEM data into the system, is designated for inclusion in the view, so that representations of all of the PEM data will be generated by Renderer 22 if possible.
The data structure facilitates the display of the PEM data according to the different view types. In addition it facilitates the searching, and modifying of the PEM data. A user selects a type of view using User Control 28, causing a Select View signal 24 to be provided to Renderer 22. Dependent on signal 24, PEM and View data are transferred to Renderer 22. Renderer 22, then generates data for driving Display 26. Display 26 displays the PEM data via a graphical user interface (GUI) according to the selected view. In one embodiment, Select View 24 allows for selection among possible types of views including but not limited to a map-based view, a calendar-based view, or a table-based view (how many videos, length of videos, etc.). The Select View 24 can also provide user control to select what data is displayed within the view. For instance, only multimedia within a bounded time and/or space, or that correspond to some specially named or labeled subset of the PEM data, such as "Favorites" may be displayed according to the selected view.
It should be noted that the originally recorded PEM data provided to the system shown in
In one embodiment, the path time data portion of the PEM data can include both the calendar date and the time in some known time reference system such as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The path location data portion of the PEM data can include a two-dimensional coordinate in some coordinate system spanning the surface of the Earth (such as a standard latitude and longitude coordinate system), but may also include elevation relative to sea level, orientation information for the recording device, and other types of continuously sampled sensor data. When photo or video media are being recorded, the path location and orientation data may describe not just where the multimedia was captured, but also the region of space viewed by the recorder at capture time. This region can be determined approximately by the field-of-view (FOV) of the recorder, computed from the recorder's focal length and the imager size, in combination with the device position and orientation, the latter of which is preferably determined from a compass and an inclinometer embedded in the recording device, as discussed in greater detail in the referenced co-pending application entitled "Apparatus and Method for Recording "Path-Enhanced" Multimedia".
In one embodiment, the Path Processor 18 processes and refines the path information within the received PEM data prior to providing it to the Scrapbook Object 10. For example, it can smooth the path to remove spatial jitter (e.g. due to multipath signal interference at the GPS receiver), interpolate paths within regions where measured location data is not available, simplify the path to remove small loops or meanderings (perhaps where a person back-tracked briefly or otherwise dawdled), and/or separate the path into non-overlapping portions for improved map-overlay presentations. The Path Processor 18 may also compute trip statistics that are presented for display to the user, such as text notes on a "Trip Summary" window that might state facts such as "Traveled 6 miles in 4 hours" or "Average speed=2 miles per hour".
The Path Processor 18 may also function to analyze path information within the PEM data to identify events that occurred along the path during the recording of the PEM data. For instance, Path Processor 18 may detect "stop points" and/or "indoor sites" along the traveled path, for example through analysis of "signal strength" or through calculations based on velocities derived from location and time differentials. The detected "stop points" and "indoor locations" may be tagged within the Scrapbook Object 10 data structure and may be used to automatically generate optional layers of presentation of the PEM. For example, after the PEM data is transferred from the recording device to the system, Path Processor 18 may find "stops" as places where the travel velocity was near zero for a predetermined amount of time. When the PEM data is displayed, as described below, special icons may be inserted to indicate where these stops occurred. Additionally, the locations of these stops may subsequently be used to construct criteria for searching for information within the PEM data to enhance the displayed trip. For example, the user may want to find stock photos from third-party databases near any location at which he appeared to stop for a specified period of time.
Scrapbook Object 10 Data Structures
The Scrapbook Object 10 is implemented as data structures as shown in
The Scrapbook Object 10 data structures include two primary components or data objects: 1) a Path-Enhanced Multimedia (PEM) data file 200 and 2) one or more views 202, with each view 202 both describing a Style 204 in which to render the PEM data in a display and also specifying the portions of the path and/or multimedia data in the PEM 200 that should be included in that particular rendering. Each PEM 200 includes (indirectly, through its Segment list 232) two basic components: recorded GeoTemporalAnchors 208 (sometimes abbreviated herein as Anchor) and associated MediaFiles 206. Each GeoTemporalAnchor 208 can include not only a Time 210 (i.e., path time data), but also an optional Location 214 (i.e., path location data) if a reliable measurement has been obtained at the associated Time 210. Each GeoTemporalAnchor 208 may also contain fields storing various types of auxiliary sensor data such as Elevation 216, Orientation 218, Tilt 220, and Temperature 222 that are sampled and recorded in an essentially continuous manner similar to Time 210 and Location 214 at the time of recording the PEM. Each GeoTemporalAnchor 208 may also contain a pointer 212 to a particular MediaFile 206, although in alternative embodiments the MediaFile and GeoTemporalAnchor could be combined into a single object (which might exclude use of conventional file formats for the MediaFile 206), or the association could be made by means of a separate link table. Each MediaFile 206 is typically a data file representing an audio stream (for example, in MP3 format), a still image (for example, in JPEG format), or a video stream (for example, in MPEG format). However, other types of multimedia are contemplated.
GeoTemporalAnchor 208 can include an optional Boolean flag, Modified 224. If set to "true", this flag indicates that the associated GeoTemporalAnchor is not the originally recorded PEM data, but rather was created or modified after the PEM recording. These modified GeoTemporalAnchors may be part of an entirely fictitious virtual path or path segment, a reconstructed path segment obtained by interpolating or smoothing other original PEM path data, or an edited original path or path segment that has been moved in time and/or location from what was originally recorded. The Modified flag is also preferably set to "true" when a MediaFile 206 or other supplemental data is attached to or removed from an associated GeoTemporalAnchor 208, or if the supplemental data associated with a GeoTemporalAnchor 208 is in any way modified, during user editing of the "path-enhanced" multimedia data. Hence, if the PEM data for a given path point is supplemented with additional data, the path point is tagged by setting the Modified flag "true". Moreover, if any original data is modified the flag is set to "true".
A single path may be defined by the Segment 226 data structure, which contains an <Anchor> list of pointers 230 to GeoTemporalAnchors 208. The Header 228 within the Segment data structure 226 also allows drawing styles, access restrictions, and other attributes (e.g. "Favorite", "Tentative", etc.) to be associated with the path. However, it is contemplated that the user may desire to associate different attributes with different parts of a path, and that several discrete paths (possibly corresponding to different trips and/or different travelers) may be recorded by the same recording device or otherwise included in a common PEM data set for display, sharing, and editing. To that end, the Segment data structure 226 is regarded as capable of optionally representing only a portion of a complete path, or just one of several discrete paths in a combined data set. A sequence of several related Segments 226 (for example, portions of a single path recorded by a particular user) may be connected by a recursive {Segment} pointer 234 within the Segment data structure 226, thereby defining a sequence from one Segment to the next within a complete path. Also, different multiple such Segment sequences (possibly with different authors and/or recorded on different visits to the same place) may be included in a single PEM 200 by means of <Segment> list 232.
Since each GeoTemporalAnchor 208 may include a pointer 212 to any associated MediaFile 206, there is an indirect association between the PEM 200 and its MediaFiles 206. However, by optionally including in the PEM data structure 200 an explicit list 236 of pointers to MediaFiles associated with GeoTemporalAnchors within the Segments 232 of the PEM, the complete set of multimedia files associated with a PEM will be more amenable to searches and/or modifications.
In one embodiment, the hierarchical data structure of the PEM 200, the Segments 226 and the MediaFiles 206 facilitates different levels of ownership and access to be associated with the different data elements. For example, different PEMs 200 may be created by different authors, or be owned by different users, or belong to different trips, as reflected in the Header 238 for each PEM 200. Similarly, each Segment 226 of the same PEM 200 could be part of the same trip but belong to a different user, as reflected in the respective Segment Header 228. Also, each MediaFile 206 in a particular PEM 200 could have a different creator as reflected in its associated MediaFile Header 240.
More than one view 202 may be associated with a given PEM 200 data structure. A particular view 202 can define not only a particular style of rendering the same PEM data (for example, a map-based, calendar-based, or media-type-based view), but can also restrict the rendering to one or more different temporal or spatial portions of a trip (for example, those within specified geographic boundaries or within one or more intervals in time), and can restrict display of media to some subset of that contained in the PEM (for example, those marked as "favorites"). Each view 202 contains some or all of the following elements:
In a map-based view, the path and multimedia data is overlaid on a map image. The Map data structure 252 describes the map image to be drawn, and how to draw it. It may also be associated with MediaFiles and other information independently of any PEM context. The Map data structure 252 can include the following elements:
TimeInterval 264 defines a StartTime 266 and an EndTime 268, so that the list 246 of these for a particular view 202 define the time windows of the portions of the PEM path that are to be displayed in the view. LandAreaDelimiter (LAD) 270 defines the bounds of some section of the globe, in a 2D coordinate system. In an embodiment that tessellates the globe into sections aligned with the latitudinal and longitudinal direction lines, the LAD might have the following structure:
When the view Type 242 is set to "Map", exemplary Style tags 204 include:
As discussed above, the view data structure 202 contains, for map-based views, a pointer to a suitable map on which to draw the path information and the icons representing the locations at which multimedia was captured. The raw map data is optionally accompanied by map bounds and/or geometric transformation information needed to crop and align the full map so that it overlays the displayed PEM data 200 in a visually pleasing and accurate way. Referring to
The Renderer 22 may indicate the map locations corresponding to the capture locations of multimedia files in any of several styles specifiable by the view Style parameters 204. In the exemplary map style shown in
For visual multimedia such as photos and videos, the region of space viewed by the camera at capture time (i.e. its "field-of-view") may also be rendered in any of a variety of ways specifiable by the view Style parameters 204. In one exemplary style, the spatial extent of the camera field-of-view in the plane of the map is indicated by a colored or shaded region emanating from the multimedia icon location. Alternatively, an arrow emanating from the multimedia icon location can be used to indicate the central axis of the camera field of view within the plane of the map as shown in FIG. 5A. As shown in
One example of a user interface for viewing, modifying, and interacting with a Scrapbook Object is shown in FIG. 5. It consists of four windows. The first window 52 contains a path 1′ and multimedia icons 5′ overlaid on a map 2′. Within this first window, the user may 1) explore the rendered PEM data by scrolling or zooming the window; 2) select icons (for example, through double-clicking with a computer mouse) of multimedia that he wishes to play; 3) edit the path information in a graphical manner; 4) generate geo-temporal queries for relevant data from "geo-referenced" databases; and 5) perform a number of other map-based interactions. If the displayed icons include an indication of the camera's field of view, as described above, the editor will be able to verify whether any deletions or changes in the sequence of the individual multimedia files will result in sudden and potentially annoying changes in camera orientation or focus. A second window 54 provides tools for playing a movie-like "presentation" generated from this Scrapbook Object 10, as detailed in the referenced co-pending patent application entitled "Automatic Generation of Presentations from "Path-Enhanced" Multimedia". The third window 56 shows a list of currently selected multimedia and can be used to edit multimedia attributes. The fourth window 58 is a multimedia player.
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In addition, User Control 28 allows for various methods of modification of the Scrapbook Object 10. For example, referring to
The User Control 28 can be used to edit the Scrapbook Object 10 to add supplemental information (e.g., security classes) to implement privacy protection, in that they allow the user to specify which portions of a "path-enhanced" multimedia data object are viewable by various users when the data object is shared. These privacy and security controls may interact with or be used by the security mechanisms employed by the various methods for sharing "path-enhanced" multimedia (e.g. database servers, peer-to-peer, and simple e-mail to friends).
User Control 28 additionally allows the user to modify the path data in the Scrapbook Object's PEM 200 via a graphical interface similar to those shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 5. For instance, the user can revise a portion of the path 2, request automatic smoothing or loop removal for some portion of the path, draw entirely new segments of path, or remove sections of the path. Such modifications of the recorded path may be desirable for a number of reasons. For example, in many situations, such as when a person "doubles-back" or when a person completes multiple loops through the same geographical area, the precise path taken by the person and recorded automatically by GPS or other means may result in the building of a map-based view of the data that is organized less clearly than in the person's mind. The person might wish to simplify the displayed path, so that it still passes by most or all of the sites at which multimedia were recorded and so that it roughly represents the true activities of the user, but so that it omits various distracting or unimportant details, such as side trips to find food or bathrooms. The person may even want to use an entirely new path that shows how he might conduct a tour of the area visited if he were to go back, when in reality he visited the individual locations in the area in a completely different and more haphazard order.
During graphical editing of the path, according to one embodiment, if the user selects portions of the path to be deleted, gaps may be opened up within the path. The endpoints of a gap can be automatically reconnected with a straight line or via other interpolation methods (e.g. cubic splines), or the user can choose to draw on the map a new path portion that bridges the gap. When portions of the path have been removed, the MediaFiles 206 associated with the removed portions may, at the request of the user, 1) be removed from display, 2) automatically attached to the nearest remaining GeoTemporalAnchors 208, or 3) presented to the user for manual reassignment to other GeoTemporalAnchors 208. The user may also draw new path portions that add to the beginning or end of the current path, or he can choose to delete the entire path and draw a new one. When a new path portion is drawn, the user may be prompted to input Times 210 to be associated with as many of the new GeoTemporalAnchors 208 as desired. Inconsistent time inputs, such as a set of times along a path that do not increase monotonically, are rejected by the system, and the user is asked to correct them. Linear interpolation may be used to automatically calculate Times 210 between Locations 214 where time is available either from user input or from the recording of the original adjacent path Segments 226. The user may also edit the time information for path Segments 226 whose shape is not modified, by selecting points along the path and entering new times for them. The recording initiation times for various multimedia can be automatically modified to be consistent with any changes to the time information for the path segments on which they lie. MediaFiles 206 may be added to modified or newly created path segments by any of the methods described herein. GeoTemporalAnchors 208 that have been modified or created at the user's request, as opposed to being directly recorded from sensor information, can be flagged as such by means of the Modified flag 224. Any of the full range of computer input and output devices, including standard keyboard and mouse interfaces, and tablet PCs, may be used to support these path-editing tasks.
User Control 28 also allows for the insertion of new media files into the Scrapbook Object 10. When a map-based view is being displayed, one technique for adding supplemental media proceeds as follows. The user selects a point on the map using the mouse or some other input device, and the system identifies and highlights the closest location to this on the displayed path. If the closest path location currently has no GeoTemporalAnchor associated with it (e.g. because it is along a line connecting two widely spaced GeoTemporalAnchors), a new GeoTemporalAnchor is created. If a GeoTemporalAnchor already exists, but already has a MediaFile associated with it, a new GeoTemporalAnchor is created with the same time and location data but no associated MediaFile. In either of these cases, the Modified flag of the GeoTemporalAnchor is set to "true", to indicate that this path location is not original PEM data. Otherwise, an existing GeoTemporalAnchor will be modified. A dialog box is opened that allows the user to then select a MediaFile (presumably from a digital computer storage device or similar source) to be associated with this GeoTemporalAnchor. The dialog box also provides the user with simple methods for creating a new MediaFile for insertion. For instance, it allows the user to record a new audio comment, or to type a text comment. The dialog box also asks the user if the new MediaFile should be inserted into just the currently rendered view, or into some or all of the other views of the Scrapbook Object 10 as well. The selected or created MediaFile is assigned a derived "virtual" location and time, which is stored in the Location and Time fields in the associated GeoTemporalAnchor, that allow it to be seamlessly integrated with the rest of the Scrapbook Object 10. The Header field of the inserted MediaFile may retain the multimedia's original capture time and location (for instance, to allow for subsequent filtering or processing), but the derived virtual Time and Location in its associated GeoTemporalAnchor allow it to be displayed and otherwise related as desired in the context of the other PEM data in the Scrapbook Object 10.
The User Control 28 can also include an interface that leverages the context of the PEM data rendered on Display 26 to help the User 14 generate appropriate queries for information from supplemental location- and/or time-organized databases. Referring to
Two categories of supplemental databases, herein denoted as Path-Enhanced MultiMedia Databases 12 and Geo-referenced Information Databases 34, are contemplated by the invention. Path-Enhanced MultiMedia Databases 12 contain multimedia collected by one or more users over arbitrary lengths of time, and form the underlying structure supporting the various methods of PEM sharing, searching, and organizing discussed in the referenced co-pending application "Indexed Database Structures and Methods for Searching Path-Enhanced Multimedia". For example, a person might store all of their PEM in one such database, so that he could request access to his multimedia via a map-based interface to the database. One or more users can contribute their "path-enhanced" multimedia to "Path-Enhanced" Multimedia Databases via the Database Upload 37, which incorporates a conventional browser-like user interface, as well as networking and security protocols. The Databases 12 may later be queried using predicates based on time, geography, or other information. Both contribution and query access to a given database may be restricted to a single User 14 or allowed for arbitrarily large groups of people. Applications, methods, and data structures related to these databases are discussed in greater detail in the referenced co-pending application entitled "Indexed Database Structures and Methods for Searching Path-Enhanced Multimedia"
Geo-referenced Information Databases 34 contain one or more types of data that are organized by location and/or time but typically lack the explicit path information that is found for multimedia in the "Path-Enhanced" MultiMedia Databases 12. That is, each record in a Geo-referenced Information Database 34 is annotated with time and/or location, but is not explicitly associated with a geo-temporal path. The Geo-referenced Information Databases 34 might contain recorded location- and/or time-tagged weather (temperature, precipitation, etc.) data, news articles, or stock photos of landmarks, typical scenes, and people of various cultures. For example, a user may query one such database for stock photos with location tags along the recorded PEM path traveled for a given trip, in order to augment this Scrapbook Object 10 with some professional pictures of known landmarks.
Referring to
Although the above example is described such that queries are provided via Internet services, the same mechanisms may be used for databases provided from other media storage devices. For example, optical recorded media such as DVDs or CDs may be used in conjunction with PCs to provide access to third party databases.
The geo-temporal proximity criteria employed in step (4) above may be generated in many ways using the PEM data, and many of these types of criteria cannot be constructed from the simple time and/or location annotations of multimedia used in other current systems. That is, this invention's association of path information to the multimedia enables the construction of novel types of interesting and useful geo-temporal proximity criteria for "geo-referenced" database queries. The Computational Geometry Engine 36 is instrumental in providing translations and interfaces between these path-based geo-temporal proximity criteria and the bounds-oriented query styles used by typical Geo-referenced Information Databases 34. Some examples of proximity search criteria that may be used in step (4) above and embodiments of techniques for implementing them include:
Criterion 1: Find information, such as multimedia, that is associated with locations within some distance "d" of at least one Geo TemporalAnchor 208 of the path in a PEM.
Search Technique 1: Because many conventional Geo-referenced Information Databases 34 are capable only of accepting queries that specify regions and times of interest defined by spatial and temporal bounds, it may not be possible to directly submit to some databases the above criterion, which is predicated on proximity to some PEM path. In such cases, the Computational Geometry Engine 36 first analyzes query requests (Queries 32) made by users in the context of displayed "path-enhanced" multimedia (e.g. in a map-based view) then gathers the relevant Time and Location Data 38 from the PEM data in Scrapbook Object 10. The Computational Geometry Engine 36 then generates suitable queries (Filtered Queries 40), in terms of spatial and temporal bounds, to be sent to the Geo-referenced Information Databases 34, and, finally, refines the results returned by the databases to generate Filtered Query Responses 50 to satisfy the (possibly) path-oriented proximity constraints specified by the user. An exemplary method by which the Computational Geometry Engine 36 may generate queries and filter the database search results based on proximity to a PEM path proceeds as follows (See also FIG. 7):
In the methods described above, a slider may be used to control the "proximity" thresholds, such as "d" and "i", in order to interactively include or exclude multimedia returned by the query. Provision can also be made to edit an existing path or to construct a new path prior to generation of search queries by any of the proximity criteria listed above.
The mechanisms described above for viewing, modifying, and interacting with the Scrapbook Object 10 can also be used for sharing and commenting on scrapbook objects. For instance, a Scrapbook Object 10 representing a particular vacation one has taken may be shared with one or more other people, such as friends or family of the Scrapbook Object 10 author, in all of the same ways that any other digitized computer file may be shared. For example, it may be sent via email, transferred via the Internet using HTTP or FTP, or written to an archival device such as a DVD or CD that is then physically transferred to the other people. Each of these other people may use the same interface described above to browse the trip described by the Scrapbook Object 10, to form a commentary on the trip, to edit the Scrapbook Object 10 to include a modified path that would make a great next vacation, and so on. The other people may then send back the edited Scrapbook Object 10 for display and possible further editing or publication of an automated presentation. Such an exchange can also be performed using a server upload mechanism or a peer-to-peer sharing mechanism, and synchronous sharing methods (such as are already used to interact with an online document or slide presentation) are also possible. Moreover, assuming that one of the non-spatial attributes for the path and multimedia annotations is "Editor" and/or "Edit Time", the modifications may be tracked over time, so that a current viewer of the Scrapbook Object 10 may either view the edited Scrapbook Object 10 or may request to view just what was created or added by a specific individual views containing just the modifications made by specific individuals are easily created and stored by automated means.
Much of the functionality described above can be implemented on a system (such as a desktop PC) that is physically separate from the recording device and that possesses display, computational, and storage resources, as well as an interface with transfer protocols for downloading data from the recording device. The system can also possess an Internet connection that facilitates the sharing of PEM, and that allows for connecting to various databases that may be searched to aid in the augmentation and exploration of the "path-enhanced" multimedia.
In other embodiments, at least a portion or all of the system as shown in
In another embodiment, at least a portion of the elements or processing steps may be implemented remotely. In one example, the User Control 28 can be performed locally through a web-based user interface. The web-based interface can allow a user to interact with a web site to facilitate uploading of the user's PEM data recording to a remote server having computing capabilities to remotely perform the functions of blocks 18, 10, 20, 22. In response to a user specifying a view selection via the web-based interface, the server may then perform the functions of blocks 18, 10, 20, 22 to provide downloadable PEM data via the interface to allow the user to view the user's PEM data on Display 26 according to their selected view.
Other implementations and enhancements to the disclosed exemplary devices will doubtless be apparent to those skilled in the art, both today and in the future. For example, when a recording device with a relatively small viewing screen supplies the input "path-enhanced" multimedia data, certain basic editing and viewing functions derived from those described above may be implemented in the actual recording device itself using its built-in viewing screen and a simplified user interface.
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The Online Resource (OLR) is a one-stop source for all BCEA policy, procedures and program information for eligibility for ministry employment and assistance programs.
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Information in the Online Resource is organized into Topic Categories.
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Topic home pages provide an overview and links to relevant acts and regulations, policy, procedures, contacts, rate tables and resources for the public, such as fact sheets and brochures.
Topics are updated regularly to provide the most current information available.
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A Table of Contents listing all the Topics of the OLR is also available to assist you. You can open this Table of Contents and go directly to any Topic home page.
What's New
June 15, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
The Verification topic has been renamed Information and Verification and now includes policy on the use and limits of the authority under Section 10.
May 25, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Policy updates include clarifying when the ministry can provide special care facility user charges and the comforts allowance.
Policy and procedures have been updated to clarify when direct deposit can be set up.
May 6, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Persons with Disabilities Designation
The Assets table has been enhanced to increase clarity by including more information, and a link to the table has been added to Resources for Clients to improve accessibility of this information.
May 1, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
General Supplements
Family Maintenance Program
As of May 1, 2015, clients are no longer required to assign their family maintenance rights to the ministry. If a client would like ministry help with obtaining a maintenance order or written agreement, the client may assign their maintenance rights to the ministry if they meet certain criteria. Clients will also have the option to cancel an assignment at any time by providing written notice to the ministry. Clients may choose to enrol their maintenance order with the Family Maintenance Enforcement Program (FMEP) or may choose to withdraw from this service by contacting FMEP.
OIC #182 (B.C. Reg. 62/2015) amends both the Employment and Assistance Regulations and the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulations.
April 28, 2015
Health Supplements and Programs
Procedures have been clarified for when a recipient requires ongoing non-local non-emergency medical transportation within B.C.
April 21, 2015
Health Supplements and Programs
All requests are now approved via Purchase Authorization by Health Assistance Branch (HAB) and all invoices for payment must be directed to HAB.
April 10, 2015
Program Administration
Policy and procedures have been clarified regarding the process to follow when an applicant or recipient requires a sign language interpreter.
April 1, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Policy has been updated to exempt as an asset and income the BC Early Childhood Tax Benefit, for income, disability, and hardship assistance.
Health Supplements and Programs
As of April 1, 2015, individuals eligible for hearing instruments will no longer need to contact the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation (SDSI) to request hearing instruments. This includes new requests, repairs, replacements, bone anchored hearing aids, and cochlear implants. The service provider will work directly with Pacific Blue Cross (PBC) to start the process of determining eligibility.
March 27, 2015
Health Supplements and Programs
Policy has been updated to include guidelines for the use of non-contracted medical equipment service providers.
March 23, 2015
Persons with Disabilities Designation
This topic has been updated to provide additional information for staff who are providing income supports to youth with special needs who are transitioning from government care.
March 18, 2015
Health Supplements and Programs
This topic has been updated to clarify that persons leaving Hardship Assistance are not eligible for MSO.
March 9, 2015
Health Supplements and Programs
- Medical Services Only
- Medical Equipment and Devices
- Medical Equipment – Hearing Instruments
- Medical Equipment – Orthoses
- Eligible and Non-Eligible Health Supplements
The Overviews in these topics have been updated to reflect that the Equipment and Assistive Technology Initiative (EATI) program ended on August 29, 2014. The ministry will fund equipment/technology repairs for all former participants until March 31, 2015, and expects to refer participants to other programs and services after March 31, 2015.
January 28, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Policy has been updated to clarify eligibility for assistance due to payments made by a committee from assets held by a client versus payments made by a committee from a client's trust.
January 19, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
- Income and Exemptions
- Monthly Reporting Requirements
- Loss Management – Referral for PLMS Review or Investigation
- Recoveries
- Eligibility Review
Employment Strategy for Persons with Disabilities
Health Supplements and Programs
Effective January 1, 2015, the annual earnings exemption (AEE) has been expanded to all PWD cases. PWD cases will no longer have a monthly earnings exemption. All clients receiving disability assistance will automatically be set up with the AEE beginning in 2015 – no registration is required. Policies and procedures in these topics have been updated accordingly.
OIC #666 (BC Reg. 226/2014) amended the Employment and Assistance for Persons with Disabilities Regulation effective January 1, 2015.
January 1, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Effective January 1, the Ministry of Health introduced new client rates for residential care services and assisted living services in BC. Policy, procedures, and the rate table have been updated to reflect this change.
January 9, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Policy has been updated to allow a supervisor to use their discretion to accept other proof of identity for a dependent child.
January 7, 2015
Verification and Eligibility
Students' Assistance policy has been clarified to indicate that EPBC supports (excludes living supports) are not considered income and now includes a full list on what is exempt when the income is from government training and other programs.
December 17, 2014
Policy has been amended to clarify that Fair PharmaCare refunds are exempt as income and assets for hardship assistance.
December 9, 2014
General Supplements
Topics have been updated to provide clarification of "imminent threat to the physical safety" in relation to eligibility for the Moving, Transportation, and Living Costs Supplement.
November 24, 2014
Effective November 24, 2014, the final phase (Phase 4) of Integrated Case Management (ICM) is implemented. As a result, housekeeping changes have been introduced throughout several topics to update systems-related text within the topics.
November 24, 2014
Employment Planning and Exemptions
Employment Programs and Community Services
Topics have been updated to reflect that when a client does not currently meet EPBC referral criteria, but is otherwise suitable for EPBC referral, a dual employment plan is to be created.
Verification and Eligibility
This topic has been updated to reflect an update to the child status notification process.
Program Administration
Verification and Eligibility
Topics have been updated to reflect the retirement of the Fraud Allegation and Reporting System (FARS).
November 3, 2014
Health Supplements and Programs
Topics have been updated to reflect that as of November 1, 2014, requests for exceptions for eyeglasses and replacement of dentures, and requests for contact lenses and orthodontic coverage should be sent directly to Pacific Blue Cross instead of the Health Assistance Branch.
October 15, 2014
Verification and Eligibility
Procedures have been updated regarding adding a dependent child to a case.
October 8, 2014
Verification and Eligibility
The 2015 Cheque Issue Schedule and full Cheque Date schedule have been updated in Resources for Staff and Resources for Clients.
October 3, 2014
Verification and Eligibility
Policy and procedures have been updated to reflect the treatment of previous HST credits and update the income code for the BC Sales Tax Credit.
October 1, 2014
General Supplements
The rate table has been updated to reflect increase in federal OAS/GIS rates, effective October 1, 2014.


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From $130 / night
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Description from the owner
Bedrooms: 3/
Bathrooms: 2/
Sleeps: 7/
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Ultimate Santana (2007)
|Artist: Santana
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Release Date: 10/16/2007
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Into the Night - (featuring Chad Kroeger) ~ Santana
2. This Boy's Fire - (featuring Carlos Santana/Baby Bash) ~ Santana
3. Smooth - (featuring Rob Thomas) ~ Santana
4. Maria Maria - (featuring The Product G&B) ~ Santana
5. Oye Como Va - (Spanish) ~ Santana
6. Black Magic Woman ~ Santana
7. Evil Ways ~ Santana
8. Corazon Espinado - (Spanish, featuring Carlos Santana) ~ Santana
9. Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile) ~ Santana
10. Game of Love, The - (featuring Tina Turner) ~ Santana
11. Put Your Lights On - (featuring Everlast) ~ Santana
12. Why Don't You & I - (featuring Alex Band) ~ Santana
13. Everybody's Everything ~ Santana
14. Just Feel Better - (featuring Steven Tyler) ~ Santana
15. Samba Pa Ti ~ Santana
16. No One to Depend On ~ Santana
17. Game of Love, The ~ Santana
18. Interplanetary Party ~ Santana
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info
|Personnel: Carlos Santana (vocals, guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, keyboards, congas, percussion); Jos? Chepit¢ Areas (vocals, flugelhorn, drums, congas, timbales, percussion); Gregg Rolie (vocals, piano, organ, keyboards); Leon Patillo (vocals, piano); Mike Carabello (vocals, drums, congas, tambourine, percussion); Michelle Branch (vocals, background vocals); Rob Thomas , Fher Olvera, Alex Band, Steven Tyler , The Product G&B, Tina Turner, Tony Lindsay, Rico Reyes (vocals); Neal Schon, Tim Pierce, Chad Kroeger (guitar); John Shanks (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar); Rick Knowles (acoustic guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Karl Perazzo (electric guitar, bass guitar, congas, timbales, percussion); Rusty Anderson (electric guitar); Jeremy Cohen (violin); Hari Balakrisnan, Danny Seidenberg (viola); Joseph H?rbert (cello); Ed Calle, Jules Broussard (saxophone); Jesus Jorge (trumpet, trombone); Julius Melendez, William Oritz, Bill Ortiz (trumpet); Jose Abel Figueroa , Jeff Cressman, Marty Wehner (trombone); Chester Thompson (piano, organ, keyboards, synthesizer, congas, timbales, percussion); Jamie Muhoberac (piano, keyboards); Lester Mendez (keyboards, programming); Alberto Salas, Tom Coster, David Delgado (keyboards); Michael Shrieve (vibraphone, drums); David Brown , David Brown (bass guitar); Coke Escovedo, Alex Gonzales (drums, background vocals); Brian Collier, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Rodney Holmes, Jeff Rothschild (drums); Armando Peraza (congas, percussion); Raul Rekow (congas); Luis Conte, Carol Steele (percussion); John Gamble, Mark Dobson, Dante Ross (programming); Joe L Angelo Margolis, Jim Reitzel, Wayne Rodrigues (drum programming); Nikita Houston, Sakai, Niki Harris, Siedah Garrett (background vocals).
|Additional personnel: Everlast, Jennifer Lopez, Man , Baby Bash.
|Audio Mixers: Manny Marroquin; David Thoener; John Shanks; Andy Grassi; Serban Ghenea; Tom Lord-Alge; Benny Faccone; Jeff Rothschild.
|Recording information: Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA; Conway Recording, Los Angeles, CA; Cubejam, Miami, FL; Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA; Henson Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; Icon Studios, Miami, FL; Laughing Tiger, San Rafael, CA; Mountain View Studios, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Ca; Pacific High Recording, San Francisco, CA; South Beach Studios, Miami, FL; Tarpan Studios, San Rafael, CA; The Big Space, Santa Monica, CA; The Gallery, Miami, FL; The Hit Factory, New York, NY; The Record Plant, Sausalito, CA; Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco, CA.
|Author: Carlos Santana.
|Editor: Lars Fox.
|Illustrator: Joshua Marc Levy.
|Photographers: Alan Silfen; Kwaku Alston.
|Arranger: Lester Mendez.
|Compilations are always trying to outdo each other, claiming to be "definitive," "ultimate," or the "the best of the best." ULTIMATE SANTANA lays claim to its title by spanning the guitarist's entire career, from the late 1960s to the early 2000s. It's true that there is a fair showing of the Santana classics of yore, including "Oye Como Va," "Evil Ways," and "Black Magic Woman," but the majority of the 18-track set is devoted to Santana's crossover work in the '90s and 2000s.
|In fact, ULTIMATE plays like an advertisement for Santana's star-studded collaborations. In addition to chart-toppers like "Smooth" (featuring Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20), there are collaborations with Jennifer Lopez, Tina Turner, Everlast, Michelle Branch, and Nickleback's Chad Kroeger, among others. This makes ULTIMATE somewhat lopsided as a retrospective, but those looking for a summation of the man's latter-day pop music mixed in with some classics will enjoy this collection.
Producer: Clive Davis; Cory Rooney; Steve "Rokstar" Morales; David Rubinson; Rick Knowles; Alex Ander; Fher Olvera; Fred Catero; Raymond "Sarom" Diaz; Alex Gonzales; Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis; John Gamble; John Shanks; KC Porter; Lester Mendez; Matt Serletic; Wyclef
Engineer: Chris Theis; Chris Garcia; Randy Wine; Steve "Rokstar" Morales; David Thoener; Michael Rosen; Steve Farrone; Glen Kolotkin; Greg Collins; Jim Gaines; Jim Reitzel; John Gamble; Lester Mendez; Andy Grassi; Steve Fontano; Benny Faccone; Bill Malina; Jeff Rot
Musical Guests
|Chad Kroeger
|Baby Bash
|Carlos Santana
|Rob Thomas
|The Product G&B
|Tina Turner
|Alex Band
|Steven Tyler
Compilation Appearances
Associated Artists and Works
|Calle, Ed
|Ike & Tina Turner
|McLaughlin, John
|McLaughlin, John (Jazz)
|On, Pickin'
|Pickin' On
|Robert S.
Technical Info
|Release Date : 10/16/2007
|Original Release Date : 2007
|Catalog ID : 706293
|Label : Arista
|Number of Discs : 1
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
|SPAR Code : n/a


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Rice Baked Stuffed Fish
|Whitefish/Pike / perch
|4 Pound, cleaned and boned
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Minced onion
|2 Tablespoon
|Dry bread crumbs
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Cooked rice
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs)
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Dill weed
|1⁄4 Teaspoon (Dill Seed)
|Minced parsley
|1 Tablespoon
|Lemon juice
|1 Tablespoon
|Melted butter/Margarine
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Lemon slices
|2 , cut in half
|To Taste
|To Taste
Preheat oven to 350°.
Grease shallow baking pan.
Melt 1/4 cup butter or margarine in skillet.
Cook onion until tender.
Remove from heat.
Add crumbs, rice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, 1/4 teaspoon paprika, basil, dill weed, parsley and lemon juice.
Toss lightly until mixed.
Fill cavity lightly with stuffing and fasten with skewers and string.
Spread half of melted butter or margarine over entire fish.
Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Place half slices of lemon in center of prepared pan.
Place fish on lemon slices; sprinkle with 1/8 teaspoon paprika.
Bake 45 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
Baste frequently with melted butter during last 15 minutes.
Serve on heated platter; garnish with additional lemon slices and pars-ley.
Cut into individual servings with electric knife.


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