System and method for synchronizing a graphic image and a media event
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorPetrus Wilhelmus Maria Desain
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Abstract
In an illustrative embodiment, the invention discloses a computer system in which an arbitrary set of graphical images can be used to navigate through a musical score. The musical score may be read through by a user while listening to the music and pointing to a corresponding position in the music. To this end, tracking information may be stored with image as a time-place mapping. In navigation through the musical score, the mapping may be used inversely to calculate musical time from a place pointed at in the score. In collaboration, the mapping may be used to calculate corresponding positions in different versions (parts) of the same musical score presented to different users.
Claims20
A computer system comprising:
- 1) means for storing a time-based media file that corresponds to a portion of a media event;
- 2) means for storing a graphic image that corresponds to the portion of the media event;
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- 3) means for relating time position in the media file with spatial position in the graphic image that corresponds to the portion of the media event, so that a time-place mapping is created between the media file and the graphic image.
A computer method comprising the steps of:
- 1) storing a time-based media file that corresponds to a portion of a media event;
- 2) storing a graphic image that corresponds to a portion of the media event;
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- 3) relating time position in the media file with spatial position in the graphic image that corresponds to a portion of the media event by moving a pointing device over the graphic image while the media file is presented, thereby constructing a time-place mapping between the media file and the graphic image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.