Information broadcasting system
AssigneeInnovative Electronic Designs, Inc.
InventorsHardison G. Martin, Kenneth A. Tench, Anthony W. Simpson, John D. Johnson
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Abstract
The instant invention provides a system and method of broadcasting audio and visual information to a plurality of audio reproduction devices and visual display devices utilizing a plurality of control computers linked thereto by a communications network. The invention employs a plurality of pre-recorded digital audio files and corresponding visual representation thereof to allow a user to construct message sequences for broadcast with a minimum of system input. Furthermore, a user may specify a plurality of broadcast zones to broadcast audio and visual messages.
Claims20
A system for broadcasting audio and visual information comprising:
- at least one audio reproduction device for broadcasting audio messages;
- at least one visual display device for displaying visual messages;
- a first computer means for recording audio and visual message components and storing the message components as a plurality of digital computer files, said first computer means generating a first signal representative of an audio message and transmitting the first signal to said at least one audio reproduction device, said first computer means further generating a second signal representative of a visual message;
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- a second computer means electrically connected to said at least one visual display device and said first computer means, said second computer means receiving the second signal representative of a visual message from said first computer means and generating and transmitting a corresponding electrical signal representative thereof to said at least one video display device.
A method for broadcasting audio and visual information comprising the steps of:
- providing a computer means for recording audio message components input from a sound transducer and corresponding visual message components input from a user interface, and storing said message components in said information database;
- assembling messages for broadcast by ordering said audio message components and said visual message components in said information database in a predetermined sequence;
- providing at least one audio reproduction device for broadcasting audio messages;
- providing at least one visual display device for broadcasting visual messages;
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- broadcasting said audio and visual messages over said at least one audio reproduction device and said at least one visual display device.
A method for broadcasting audio and visual information comprising the steps of:
- providing a computer means for recording audio message components input from a sound transducer and corresponding visual message components input from a user interface, and storing said message components in said information database;
- assembling messages for broadcast by ordering said audio message components and said visual message components in said information database in a predetermined sequence;
- providing at least one audio reproduction device for broadcasting audio messages;
- providing at least one visual display device for broadcasting visual messages;
- calculating a duration for each audio message component;
- embedding the time duration of each audio message component into the corresponding visual message component;
- synchronizing the broadcast of said visual messages with said audio messages by calculating a scroll rate for said visual messages on said at least one visual display device using the embedded time duration of each corresponding audio message component;
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- broadcasting said audio and visual messages over said at least one audio reproduction device and said at least one visual display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.