Apparatus and method for controlling sounds and images

• US 20060016321A1
• Filed: 05/31/2005
• Published: 01/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Hsieh, Kuan-Hong, Li, Xiao-Guang, Lu, Xin
• Application Number:
  US11/141,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20060016321A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/602
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part

Abstract

An apparatus for controlling sounds and images includes: a first memory (11) for storing songs and MMHL (Multi Media Hyper Link) files, each MMHL file including timeline information, lyrics, pictures and videos of a corresponding song, the timeline information including a plurality of time slices and related actions of each time slice; a second memory (13) for storing read songs and MMHL fifes matched with the songs; a third memory (12) for storing one or more controlling programs; and a Central Processing Unit (CPU) (10) for reading a song, obtaining an MMHL file matched with the song, and controlling simultaneous output of the song and the MMHL file according to the timeline information, via the controlling programs. A related method is also disclosed.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling sounds and images, the apparatus comprising a control unit, an audio output unit for outputting digital sounds of a song, and a video output unit for outputting digital multimedia information of a Multi Media Hyper Link (MMHL) file matched with the song, wherein the control unit comprises:

a first memory for storing songs and MMHL files, each MMHL file comprising timeline information of a song, the timeline information comprising a plurality of time slices and related actions of each time slice;

a second memory for storing read songs and MMHL files matched with the songs;

a third memory for storing one or more controlling programs; and

a Central Processing Unit (CPU) for reading a song, obtaining an MMHL file matched with the song, and controlling simultaneous output of the song and the MMHL file according to the timeline information, via the controlling programs.

2. The apparatus described as in claim 1, further comprising an input unit connected with the CPU, for receiving a user operation selecting a song.

3. The apparatus described as in claim 1, wherein the control unit further comprises a decoder connected with the CPU, for decompressing the song and/or the MMHL file if the song and/or the MMHL file is in a compressed format.

4. The apparatus described as in claim 1, wherein a name of each song includes 6 parts:

a file name of the song, a first designated symbol, a file name of a multimedia file or an MMHL file corresponding to the song, a second designated symbol, an extension of the corresponding multimedia file or MMHL file, and an extension of the song, the first and second designated symbols each being a character which can be recognized by the control unit.

5. The apparatus described as in claim 1, wherein the MMHL file further comprises lyrics, pictures and videos of the corresponding song.

6. The apparatus described as in claim 1, wherein the related actions comprise any one or more of loading a text file, loading an image file, loading a user set, and loading other MMHL files.

7. The apparatus described as in claim 1, wherein the MMHL file is in an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.

8. The apparatus described as in claim 7, wherein the XML file is in a text (TXT) format, a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPG/JPEG) Format, a Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), or a Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG) format.

9. A method for controlling sounds and images, the method comprising the steps of:

providing a first memory for storing songs and Multi Media Hyper Link (MMHL) files matched with the songs;

reading a song;

obtaining MMHL file information matched with the song based on a name of the song, the MMHL file information comprising timeline information, the timeline information comprising a plurality of time slices and related actions of each time slice; and

outputting digital sounds of the song and digital multimedia information of the MMHL file.

10. The method described as in claim 9, further comprising the step of loading the song and the MMHL file matched with the song to a second memory.

11. The method described as in claim 9, further comprising the step of decompressing the song and/or the MMHL file, if the song and/or the MMHL file is in a compressed format.

12. The method described as in claim 9, wherein the related actions comprise any one or more of loading a text file, loading an image file, loading a user set, and loading other MMHL files.

13. A method for displaying image information of a song together with playing of said song, the method comprising the steps of:

retrieving a file name of said song designating to an audio file recording said song;

retrieving said image information by means of searching image files related to said image information based on said file name of said song; and

playing said song from said audio file and displaying said image information from said image files simultaneously.

14. The method described as in claim 13, wherein said image files are in one of a multimedia format and a multi media hyper link (MMHL) format.