Accessing audio processing components in an audio generation system
First Claim
1. A method, comprising:
- providing an audio rendition manager having audio data processing components to process audio data, the audio data processing components being instantiated by the audio rendition manager as component objects having one or more interfaces that are callable by an application program;
the audio rendition manager receiving a request from the application program for a programming reference corresponding to an interface of one of the instantiated audio data processing components; and
the audio rendition manager returning the requested programming reference to the application program.
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Abstract
An application program provides a performance manager and an audio rendition manager to produce a rendition corresponding to an audio source. The performance manager receives audio data from the audio source and instantiates audio data processing components to process the audio data. The audio rendition manager receives the audio data from the performance manager and instantiates audio data processing components to further process the audio data, including a synthesizer component that generates audio sound wave data, and audio buffers that process the audio sound wave data. The audio data processing components are instantiated as objects having an interface that can be called by the application program. The application program requests a programming reference to an interface of an audio data processing component in the performance manager, or in the audio rendition manager, by calling an interface method of the performance manager or the audio rendition manager, respectively.
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71 Claims
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1. A method, comprising:
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providing an audio rendition manager having audio data processing components to process audio data, the audio data processing components being instantiated by the audio rendition manager as component objects having one or more interfaces that are callable by an application program;
the audio rendition manager receiving a request from the application program for a programming reference corresponding to an interface of one of the instantiated audio data processing components; and
the audio rendition manager returning the requested programming reference to the application program. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method, comprising:
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providing a performance manager as an audio data processing component having an interface that is callable by an application program;
the performance manager instantiating audio data processing components to process audio data, each of the audio data processing components being instantiated as a component object having an interface that is callable by the application program, wherein the audio data processing components include an audio content component that generates the audio data, and an audio rendition manager corresponding to an audio rendition and processing the audio data to render the corresponding audio rendition;
the audio content component receiving a request from the application program for a programming reference corresponding to an interface of one of the audio data processing components; and
the audio content component returning the requested programming reference to the application program. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A method, comprising:
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providing an audio rendition manager having audio data processing components to process audio data;
requesting a reference corresponding to an interface of one of the audio data processing components, the audio rendition manager receiving the request and determining the requested reference; and
receiving the requested reference from the audio rendition manager. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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45. A computer programmed to perform a method, comprising:
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instantiating a data manager as a programming object to manage processing data, the data manager having an interface that is callable by an application program;
the data manager performing acts comprising;
instantiating one or more data processing components as programming objects that process the data, each data processing component having an interface that is callable by the application program;
receiving a request for a programming reference corresponding to an interface of one of the instantiated data processing components, the request being received from the application program as a call to an interface method of the data manager interface;
determining the requested programming reference with the data manager interface method; and
returning the requested programming reference to the application program.
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55. An audio generation system, comprising:
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an audio rendition manager configured to receive audio instructions from one or more sources;
one or more audio instruction processing components configured to process the audio instructions, the audio instruction processing components provided by the audio rendition manager;
an application program configured to request a reference corresponding to one of the audio instruction processing components by initiating that the audio rendition manager determine the requested reference and return the requested reference to the application program. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71)
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