SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME LOCAL MUSIC PLAYBACK AND REMOTE SERVER LYRIC TIMING SYNCHRONIZATION UTILIZING SOCIAL NETWORKS AND WIKI TECHNOLOGY

• US 20090083281A1
• Filed: 01/22/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tunewiki Ltd. (TuneWiki, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tunewiki Ltd. (TuneWiki, Inc.)
• Inventors: Cohen, Ran, Sarig, Amnon
• Application Number:
  US12/017,389
• Publication Number:
  US 20090083281A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0264 based upon schedule
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/368 displaying animated or moving pictures synchronized with the music or audio part
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/40 Rhythm
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/011 Lyrics displays, e.g. for karaoke applications
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/355 Geolocation input, i.e. control of musical parameters based on location or geographic position, e.g. provided by GPS, WiFi network location databases or mobile phone base station position databases
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/091 Info, i.e. juxtaposition of unrelated auxiliary information or commercial messages with or between music files
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/131 Library retrieval, i.e. searching a database or selecting a specific musical piece, segment, pattern, rule or parameter set
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/251 Mobile telephone transmission, i.e. transmitting, accessing or controlling music data wirelessly via a wireless or mobile telephone receiver, analogue or digital, e.g. DECT, GSM, UMTS
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/305 Internet or TCP/IP protocol use for any electrophonic musical instrument data or musical parameter transmission purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/401 wherein the services involve a main real-time session and one or more additional parallel real-time or time sensitive sessions, e.g. white board sharing or spawning of a subconference

Abstract

A method enabling a local user having a playback device with a specialized player plug-in device to synchronize a display of song lyrics to a timer clock of hosting playback software and to search a remote computer system. The system includes a database with songs and hosting playback software with an interface to enable the user to locally receive and play back lyrics and timing metadata synchronized to a local music digital file. The method includes the user sending a query to the database via a proprietary software interface, searching in the database for lyrics and associated synchronization information, sending lyrics and associated synchronization information back and synchronizing and displaying the lyrics by the hosting playback software and the specialized player plug-in device, thereby enabling all users to enjoy access to synchronized lyrics.

Claims

1. A method enabling a local user having a playback device with a specialized player plug-in device to synchronize a display of song lyrics to a timer clock of hosting playback software and to search a remote computer system via an electronic network, said remote computer system comprising:

a remote database comprising at least songs; and

hosting playback software with an interface to enable the user to locally receive and play back lyrics and timing metadata synchronized to a local music digital file, said method comprising;

sending by the local user of a query to the remote database via a proprietary software interface;

searching by the system in the remote song database for the lyrics and associated synchronization information;

sending the lyrics and associated synchronization information when found back to the user; and

synchronizing and displaying of the lyrics by the hosting playback software and the specialized player plug-in device,

thereby enabling all users to enjoy access to synchronized lyrics in the playback device.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising modifying/adding to the lyrics and synchronization information, and uploading by the user of all new/modified lyrics and synchronization information back to the remote central database over the Internet.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein said user generated synchronization information uses Wiki technology, thereby enabling rapid exponential gathering of synchronization information, thereby saving time, money and other resources.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said playback device comprises at least one of an iPhone™

, a laptop computer, a personal computer and a mobile phone.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein said specialized player plug-in device enables automatic synchronization of the lyrics and saving of the synchronized lyrics locally for future synchronized playback offline.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising inserting an advertising message downloaded from the remote server one of:

in; and

around the lyrics.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said advertising message is a targeted advertising message synchronized to at least of the user'"'"'s geographic location, general demographics, type of playback device and musical taste.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein said playback device has vibration device to enable a deaf person to enjoy the playback of a song, while showing the synchronized lyrics.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein said database further comprises a timing database and said playback software provides means for enabling the lyrics to be heard in one language and read in another language.

10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising remixing of the lyrics with synchronization timing information and then playing back the original song by the original performer with a new order of the words.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the playback device further comprises a GPS capability and the remote computer further comprises a real time social networking engine, and thereby said method further comprise finding where a song is played physically and creating a connection with others who have the same musical taste.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein said GPS capability further enables GPS business intelligence for where a song is played and what song is being played in a specific location.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein said database further comprises a thesaurus database to link words and phrases in the lyrics to emotive pictures and emoticons.

14. The method according to claim 1, further comprising displaying one of a photo and a video synced to the lyrics using the derived synchronization information.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein said one of a photo and a video comprises the image of the user'"'"'s loved one whenever the word ‘

love’

is in the lyrics.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein said one of a photo and a video further comprises a slogan, wherein said lyrics comprises one of a word and a phrase linked to one of politics, current affairs and charity.

17. The method according to claim 14, further comprising frequency analyzing the music and using the results to alter the color cast of the one of a photo and a video.

18. The method according to claim 14, further comprising tempo analyzing the music and using the results to set the color cast of the one of a photo and a video cross-fade edit speed.

19. The method according to claim 1, further comprising using said thesaurus to re-invent the lyrics on the fly and displaying both the original lyrics and the re-invented lyrics.

20. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic network is the Internet.

21. The method according to claim 1, further comprising synchronizing the lyrics to a music video stream.