Method and system for creating a slide show with a sound track in real-time using a digital camera
AssigneeFlashPoint Technology, Inc.
InventorEric C. Anderson
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Abstract
A method and system for creating a slide show with real-time audio in a digital camera. First audio is recorded that implicitly includes a time-based time-line. While the audio is being recorded, a plurality of images are captured, where each one of the plurality of images is captured at some time along the time-line. After capturing images, the recording of the audio is ended. The method and system further includes presenting a slide show from the plurality of images and the recorded audio by playing the recorded audio, while displaying each one of the plurality of images on a display device at the time that the image was captured along the time-line of the recorded audio.
Claims14
A method for creating a slide show with real-time audio in a digital camera, the digital camera including an image device for capturing digital image data, and a memory for storing the digital image data as still images, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) continuously recording audio and storing the audio in the memory to create recorded audio that includes a time-based time-line;
- (b) capturing a plurality of still images, each one of the plurality of images captured at a time along the time-line;
- (c) ending the recording of the audio;
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- (d) presenting a slide show from the plurality of images retrieved from the memory and the recorded audio, whereupon initiation of the slide show presentation, the recorded audio is continuously played and each one of the plurality of images is automatically displayed on a display device at the time that the image was captured along the time-line of the recorded audio.
A digital camera for creating a slide show with real-time audio, the digital camera comprising:
- an image device for capturing digital image data;
- a memory for storing the digital image data as still images;
- means for continuously recording audio and storing the audio in the memory to create recorded audio that includes a time-based time-line;
- means for capturing a plurality of still images at times along the time-line;
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- means for presenting a slide show from the plurality of images retrieved from memory and the recorded audio, wherein the recorded audio is continuously played, and each one of the plurality of images is automatically displayed on a display device at the time that the image was captured along the time-line of the recorded audio.
A method for creating a multimedia object in a digital camera, the digital camera including an image device for capturing digital image data, and a memory for storing the digital image data as still images, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) continuously recording audio and storing the audio in the memory using the digital camera to provide a time-based audio recording having a plurality of time references;
- (b) capturing a first image at a first one of the time references;
- (c) capturing a second image at a second one of the time references;
- (d) ending the audio recording;
- (e) saving the audio recording, the first image, and the second image as a multimedia object;
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- (f) playing the multimedia object by
- (i) starting and continuously playing the audio recording,
- (ii) retrieving the first image from the memory and automatically displaying the first image, and
- (iii) retrieving the second image from the memory and automatically displaying the second image beginning at the second one of the time references.
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