Interactive multimedia apparatus
AssigneeThurdis Developments Limited
InventorJames Anthony Barry
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Abstract
An interactive multimedia apparatus (1) usable in combination with a software suite of authoring programs (2) installed in a computing means of a mobile data processing apparatus (3) of the type having a display means (4) and one or more input means (4) is disclosed. The interactive multimedia apparatus (1) provides a bundle of tools which together enable a multimedia composition to be generated in real time on the mobile data processing apparatus (3). The present invention utilizes individual channels (11, 40) to ensure users can interact directly with individual files (10) and set various composition authoring parameters (14) both before and during a mixing cycle to dynamically create a multimedia composition.
Claims51
An interactive multimedia apparatus usable in combination with a software suite of authoring programs installed in a computing means of a mobile data processing apparatus having a display means and one or more input means the interactive multimedia apparatus comprising:
- user control means operable to allow a user to transmit one or more of an audio file and a video file and a still image file and a text file, including a combination thereof, to respective channels of a plurality of channels on the mobile data processing apparatus, and then to activate a selection of the respective channels to enable a plurality of files in the selection of channels to be combined in a mixing cycle to generate a multimedia composition having one or more of audio content and video content and still image content and text content, the user control means being further operable to enable the user to set composition authoring parameters assigned to a selected channel, whereby when the composition authoring parameters assigned to the selected channel are adjusted by the user, authoring programs are operable to apply the parameters to modify, refine, adjust, vary and/or change performance characteristics of one or more files in the selected channel to generate the multimedia composition during the mixing cycle;
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- means enabling the composition authoring parameters to be settable and adjustable by the user in real time during continuous playing of the plurality of files in the selection of channels combined in the mixing cycle, while simultaneously rendering the combined selection of channels to an output file.
A graphical user interface on a mobile telephone having stored thereon a software suite of authoring programs which when executed displays on display means of the mobile telephone the graphical user interface as a plurality of interactive channels and an interactive user control means,
- whereby the user control means is operable via the graphical user interface to allow a user to transmit one or more of an audio file and a video file and a still image file and a text file, including a combination thereof, to respective channels of a plurality of channels, and then to activate a selection of the respective channels to enable a plurality of files in the selection of channels to be combined in a mixing cycle to generate a multimedia composition having one or more of audio content and video content and still image content and text content,
- the user control means being further operable via the graphical user interface to enable the user to set composition authoring parameters assigned to a selected channel, whereby when the composition authoring parameters assigned to the selected channel are adjusted by the user, authoring programs are operable to apply the parameters to modify, refine, adjust, vary and/or change performance characteristics of the one or more files in the selected channel to generate the multimedia composition during the mixing cycle;
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- the composition authoring parameters being operable via the graphical user interface to be set and adjusted by the user in real time during continuous playing of the plurality of files in the selection of channels combined in the mixing cycle while simultaneously rendering the combined selection of channels to an output file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.