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US 5,953,485 AGranted
Method and system for maintaining audio during video control
OwnerMax Abecassisinventor
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Abstract
A video method and system maintains a transmission of an audio of a video during a viewer controlled freezing, slowing, and/or zooming of the transmission of the video component of the video by automatically selecting, adjusting audio levels, looping, and producing audio effects, from a plurality of audio elements of the video, such as a foreground and background audio elements, in response to the viewer control of the transmission of the video component.
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A method of playing a video comprising the steps of:
- allowing a viewer to control a playing of a video component of a full-motion video, said full-motion video having an audio component comprising at least one synchronized background audio element and at least one synchronized foreground audio element;
- playing, at normal speed and responsive to the initiation of a viewer's control over the playing of said video component, an audio that includes said at least one synchronized background audio element and excludes said at least one synchronized foreground audio element;
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- restoring, responsive to a termination of said viewer's control, the playing of said video component and said audio component.
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A method of playing a video comprising the steps of:
- allowing a viewer to control a playing of a video component of a full-motion video, said full-motion video having an audio component comprising a plurality of synchronized audio elements;
- playing, at normal speed and responsive to the initiation of a viewer's control over the playing of said video component, an audio that is generated from said plurality of synchronized audio elements and excludes at least one of said plurality of synchronized audio elements;
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- restoring, responsive to a termination of said viewer's control, the playing of said video component and said audio component.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.