METHOD FOR SLIDESHOWS, THUMBPAPERS, AND CLIPTONES ON A MOBILE PHONE

摘要

An apparatus and method for slideshows, thumbpapers, and cliptones on a mobile device are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a multimedia file having a video and an audio is downloaded from a source. A plurality of slides from the video of the multimedia file is chose, and an interval is computed using the plurality of slides. A plurality of frames are extracted at the interval from the video of the multimedia file. The extracted plurality of frames are scaled to display on a phone. The scaled plurality of frames are converted to a plurality of images having a format viewable on the phone. The plurality of images are combined with the audio of the multimedia file to form a slide show; and the slide show is displayed on the phone.