SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR IMAGE AND OVERLAID ANNOTATION DISPLAY, MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION

• US 20100218098A1
• Filed: 09/18/2009
• Published: 08/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1996
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OL Security LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bassilic Technologies LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Sitrick, David H., Fling, Russell T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,053,657 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/719
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/002 Electrically operated systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/023 Electrically operated
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/00 Means for the representation of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/365 the accompaniment information being stored on a host computer and transmitted to a reproducing terminal by means of a network, e.g. public telephone lines
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/066 for pitch analysis as part of wider processing for musical purposes, e.g. transcription, musical performance evaluation; Pitch recognition, e.g. in polyphonic sounds; Estimation or use of missing fundamental
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/091 for performance evaluation, i.e. judging, grading or scoring the musical qualities or faithfulness of a performance, e.g. with respect to pitch, tempo or other timings of a reference performance
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/101 Music Composition or musical creation; Tools or processes therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/015 Musical staff, tablature or score displays, e.g. for score reading during a performance. graphical musical score editing G10H2220/121; musical score displays resulting from a transcription G10H2210/086
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/145 Multiplayer musical games, e.g. karaoke-like multiplayer videogames
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/206 Conductor baton movement detection used to adjust rhythm, tempo or expressivity of, e.g. the playback of musical pieces
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/241 on touchscreens, i.e. keys, frets, strings, tablature or staff displayed on a touchscreen display for note input purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/326 Control glove or other hand or palm-attached control device
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/455 Camera input, e.g. analyzing pictures from a video camera and using the analysis results as control data
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2230/015 PDA [personal digital assistant] or palmtop computing devices used for musical purposes, e.g. portable music players, tablet computers, e-readers or smart phones in which mobile telephony functions need not be used touch-screen interfaces G10H2220/096
• 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 2240/211 Wireless transmission, e.g. of music parameters or control data by radio, infrared or ultrasound beam G10H2220/405
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/301 Ethernet, e.g. according to IEEE 802.3
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/311 MIDI transmission G10H2240/056 takes precedence

Abstract

An electronic image visualization system, such as a music stand system and display, management and communications methodologies relating thereto are presented. The electronic music stand system is comprised of a performer subsystem comprising a processing subsystem, librarian logic, performance logic, and communications management logic. The communications management logic provides management of communication via the communications interface with external apparatus responsive to the performance logic and the librarian logic. The user input apparatus and the display apparatus can be integrated into a touch-screen input display. The user input apparatus can alternatively be at least one of a touch-tablet, a stylus-based writing tablet, a mouse, a keyboard, a joystick, a game controller, and a switch. In a preferred embodiment, the librarian logic, the performance logic and the communications management logic are defined by program data stored in the data storage apparatus, and the processor is responsive to the program data for managing data formatting, displaying music, and management of communications of data with the external apparatus. In one embodiment, two Performer subsystems are operable alternatively as one of a single appliance as a linked set a linked mode and as two independent appliances a stand-alone mode, wherein in the linked mode each of the two Performer subsystems operate cooperatively with each other as a linked set to provide a two page display on the video presentation, and wherein in the stand alone mode each of the two Performer subsystems operates independently and mutually exclusive of the other to provide two independent and mutually exclusive single page displays on the video presentation. The present invention also relates to a method for providing for video display of music responsive to the music data stored in a music database. The method is comprised of defining a page of music image data from the music database; defining ordered logical sections; storing the mapping in a memory for selective retrieval; and providing for the video display of the music responsive to the mapping and the storing.

Claims

1. A method for providing for video display of an image responsive to image data stored in an image database, the method comprising:

selecting a page of image data from the image database having a corresponding representative visual display of a page of video display;

providing a video display presentation for an underlying display presentation portion responsive to the page of image data;

selecting a specific location within the video display presentation having associated location data;

providing annotation data representative of a video display presentation of annotations drawn atop the specific location of video display presentation;

associating the annotation data with the respective associated location data for the respective specific location;

storing the annotation data and the respective associated location data; and

providing for video display of the page of video display wherein an integrated video display output is provided wherein the display presentation of the annotation data for the respective specific locations is effectively integrated with to appear atop the underlying display presentation portion.

2. The method as in claim 1, wherein the annotation data is associated with at least one user, wherein associated specifically with that at least one user.

3. The method as in claim 2, wherein there are a plurality of users, each of the plurality of users having a respective separate unique database of respective annotation data associated specifically for each respective user, the method further comprising:

selecting at least one of the users as the selected user;

providing for video display presentation of the page video display selectively integrated with the display of the annotations atop the respective specific location responsive to the respective separate unique database for the respective selected user.

4. The method as in claim 3, further comprising:

providing for user selection of a plurality of the users; and

providing for a video display presentation of the page video display of the display of the annotations for all of the plurality of users, integrated with and aligned for display to appear atop the respective specific location in the page video display.

5. The method as in claim 1, wherein the providing annotation data is comprised of providing a plurality of annotation data for a plurality of respective specific locations;

and wherein the video display of the visual display for the plurality of annotation data is aligned with the underlying video display portion.

6. The method as in claim 1, wherein the image data is representative of a display presentation for at least one of a scanned document, text, a computer-generated document, sheet music, photographs, movies, animations, and sound.

7. The method as in claim 1, wherein the selecting the page of image data is further comprised of:

defining first slices of the image data for a first orientation;

defining in a second orientation second slices of the first slices to define logical sections;

ordering the first slices from beginning to end;

ordering the second slices from beginning to end;

mapping the first slices, the second slices, the logical sections, and the ordering of the first slices and of the second slices;

storing the mapping in a memory for selective retrieval; and

wherein the providing for video display is further responsive to the mapping and the storing.

8. The method as in claim 1, further comprising:

associating an object with the specific location; and

providing a presentation responsive to the object for the display of the object concurrently with the video display of the respective specific location.

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28. A method of display of an image, the method comprising:

providing a computerized user workstation;

providing original composition data representative of a display representation of an underlying layer of display;

storing locally in the user workstation an indexed database of the image data for each of a plurality of specific page sections representative of a respective associated display presentation;

associating annotation data for annotations, representative of a display representation of an overlaying annotation layer made by a user with a respective one of the specific page sections; and

providing a visual display of the respective display representation of the annotations overlaid atop, aligned to the respective specific page section of the underlying layer, and integrated with the visual display of the respective display representation of the associated specific page section to provide an integrated display presentation.

29. The method as in claim 28, wherein there are a plurality of the workstations providing selective communications therebetween of the respective annotation data to provide for integration of a second workstation of annotation data communicated from another one of the workstations.

30. The method as in claim 29, further comprising:

synchronizing updates of data representative of annotations at defined intervals between two or more workstations.

31. The method as in claim 29, wherein there is a repeated update of the annotations to provide for synchronization and update of the annotation database in each of the plurality of workstations.

32. The method as in claim 28, wherein the notation layer is comprised of data representative of a display presentation of at least one of a visual image, a video movie image, an audio image, a graphic file, a text file, and music notation.

33. The method as in claim 28, wherein an annotation layer is comprised of data representative of displayed annotations made by a user relative to the visual display representation for the original composition data for the respective specific page of a respective underlying layer.

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