Media-media augmentation system and method of composing a media product

A media-content augmentation system comprising:

• a database containing a multiplicity of sections of digital media files, each section mapped to a contextual theme defined with respect to identifying beginning and end timings for the section;
• a processing system coupled to the database and responsive to said metadata;
• and
• an input coupled to the processing system, the input identifying a changing nature of events presented as an input to the processing system, each event categorized with a theme;
• wherein the processing system is arranged to correlate the categorized themes of said changing events with said contextual themes for sections and is further arranged automatically to select and splice together sections to reflect said events as the input varies.

A method of aligning sections in one or more digital media files with temporally-varying events data to compose a media product, the method comprising:

• receiving, as temporal input, a stream of data containing temporally-changing events data;
• accessing a database containing a multiplicity of sections of media files and associated metadata, each section mapped to at least one contextual theme defined with respect to identified beginning and end timings, each contextual theme itself mapped to a section and wherein said beginning and end timings take the form of one of:
• (i) a beginning and an end in the case of a sustained feature for the contextual theme, wherein the sustained features is one of a form function and a hit point over time;
• and (ii) a specific point in time for a hit point;
• resolving the temporal input into one of a plurality of relevant categorized contextual themes;
• correlating said categorized contextual themes with metadata associated with selected sections relevant to the one or more of the plurality of categorized contextual themes;
• and
• splicing or fading together selected sections from one or more selected digital media files of the database to reflect said events as the temporal input varies, thereby generating, as an output, a media product in which sections are aligned with the temporally-changing events.

A method of aligning sections of at least one digital media file containing temporally-varying events data, thereby to compose a media product, the method comprising:

• receiving, as temporal input, a stream of data containing temporally-changing events data;
• accessing a database containing a multiplicity of media file sections and associated metadata therefor, each media file section mapped to at least one contextual theme defined with respect to identified beginning and end timings and wherein said beginning and end timings take the form of one of:
• (i) a beginning and an end in the case of a sustained feature for the contextual theme, wherein the sustained features is one of a form function and a hit point over time;
• and (ii) a specific point in time for a hit point;
• selecting at least one relevant contextual theme from a plurality of contextual themes;
• correlating said at least one selected relevant contextual theme with metadata associated with selected sections relevant to the one or more of the plurality of categorized contextual themes;
• and
• splicing or fading together selected sections from one or more selected digital media files of the database to reflect said events as the temporal input varies, thereby generating, as an output, the media product in which sections are aligned with the temporally-changing events.