VIRTUAL PHONOGRAPH

• US 20100318204A1
• Filed: 10/20/2009
• Published: 12/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyran Daisy
• Original Assignee: Kyran Daisy
• Inventors: Daisy, Kyran
• Granted Patent: US 8,369,974 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A computer-based method and system to play back an audio file, and to display and animate a virtual phonograph turntable on a touch-screen similar to the movement of a record and stylus in a conventional physical turntable. A user may manipulate and control playback of the audio file by using the touchscreen to touch, move and drag the virtual record or stylus on the screen. The audio file playback is modified in accordance with the user'"'"'s input, resulting in playback that is similar to what would occur if corresponding touching and movement were performed on a conventional turntable. The system may playback and mix from multiple sources under user control, which may be saved, recorded or exported for future use.

Claims

1. A processor-implemented method to control a playback of recorded sound, comprising the steps of:

displaying on a display screen a processor-generated image of a sound recording medium;

playing, by use of a processor in communication with a processor storage, a sound encoded in the processor storage, to produce a playback;

animating the processor-generated image of the sound recording medium, to produce an animation in synchronicity with the playback;

detecting a touch on the animation, to produce a detected touch; and

controlling the playback and the animation, responsive to the detected touch, to produce a control of the playback and the animation.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the processor-generated image of a sound recording medium comprises an image of a vinyl record.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch comprises a substantially linear touching motion, and the playback and the animation are advanced or retarded in time, in response to a direction of the substantially linear touching motion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch comprises a substantially linear touching motion, and the playback comprises a scratching sound.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the animation comprises a rotating image having a direction of rotation;

the touch comprises a touching motion that is substantially perpendicular to the direction of rotation; and

the playback comprises a scratching sound.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch comprises a pressure, and the step of controlling the playback and the animation comprises varying a speed of the playback and the animation in response to the pressure.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of mixing the playback with a playback of another sound encoded in a processor storage.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of moving a playback point within the playback, responsive to the detected touch.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the touch comprises a dragging of a processor-generated image of a stylus across a processor-generated image of a vinyl record.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

detecting an information of the sound, to produce a detected information;

associating the detected information with the sound, to produce an association; and

storing, in the processor storage, the detected information and the association.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of controlling the playback and the animation comprises the step of remotely controlling the playback on a remote processor, by use of the animation, wherein the animation is produced by a second processor.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

playing, by use of the processor in communication with the processor storage, a video encoded in a processor storage, to produce a video playback,

wherein the animation is in synchronicity with the video playback.

13. A processor storage encoded with a process for controlling playback of a recorded sound, comprising:

memory to store a process to display on a display screen a processor-generated image of a sound recording medium;

memory to store a process to play, by use of a processor in communication with the processor storage, a sound encoded in the processor storage, to produce a playback;

memory to store a process to animate the image of the sound recording medium, to produce an animation in synchronicity with the playback;

memory to store a process to detect a touch on the animation, to produce a detected touch; and

memory to store a process to control the playback and the animation, responsive to the detected touch, to produce a control of the playback and the animation.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising storage to store a process to create a display information about the sound.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 14, further comprising storage to store a process to move, on the display screen, the display of information about the sound.

16. A system to control the playback of recorded sound, comprising:

a first processor in communication with a processor storage, the processor configured to play a sound encoded in the processor storage, to produce a playback; and

a display screen in communication with the first processor, wherein;

the display screen is configured to display a processor-generated image of a sound recording medium;

the display screen is configured to display a processor-generated animation of the image of the sound recording medium, the processor-generated animation in synchronicity with the playback;

the display screen is configured to detect a touch on the animation, to produce a detected touch; and

the display screen is configured to display a processor-controlled animation, the playback and the animation responsive to the detected touch, to control the playback and the animation.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a communication link between the first processor and a second processor, wherein the first processor is configured to control playing a sound by the second processor.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the first processor is configurable to be one of a master of the second processor and a slave of the second processor.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising an interface to connect the first processor to an external sound source.