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Apple is always trying to come up with more intuitive ways to view things.  We’re not video or image buffs, so we couldn’t say how novel or not Apple’s patent application 11/956,286 is.  We can say that their approach, while graphically intensive, is a rather intuitive way of viewing frames of a video within a three-dimensional space.  Though a sharper color image would help, the image from the patent application does a good job of visualizing the invention.  As you can see from the image, “the video frames are displayed concurrently along a timeline in a three-dimensional display environment.”