MULTIPURPOSE MEDIA PLAYERS

• US 20200133419A1
• Filed: 12/20/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thomas Majchrowski & Associates, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Thomas Majchrowski & Associates, Inc.
• Inventors: DEWITT, Keri
• Granted Patent: US 11,467,706 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally

Abstract

Disclosed are Multipurpose Media Players that enable users to create transcriptions, closed captions, and/or logs of digitized recordings, that enable the presentation of transcripts, closed captions, logs, and digitized recordings in a correlated manner to users, that enable users to compose one or more scenes of a production, and that enable users to compose storyboards for a production. The multipurpose media players can be embodied within Internet browser environments; thereby providing high availability of the multipurpose players across software platforms, networks, and physical locations.

Claims

1. A multipurpose media player for playing a digital medium to a user, the digital medium comprising at least an audio stream, video stream, or both, the multipurpose media player comprising:

a data processor;

a display coupled to the data processor;

an audio output device coupled to the data processor;

a user interface to receive input text and commands from a human user, the user interface having at least a keyboard coupled to the data processor;

a first set of instructions that directs the data processor to present the digital medium to the user;

a second set of instructions that directs the data processor to receive keystrokes from the keyboard, to store representations of the keystrokes in a data file;

a third set of instructions that directs the data processor to detect a first pre-selected input-command from the user interface and to insert a time-stamp hyperlink into the data file upon detection of the first pre-selected input command, the inserted time-stamp hyperlink being representative of the playing time of the digital medium at which the first pre-selected input command was detected; and

a fourth set of instructions that directs the data processor to display representations of the keystrokes and the time stamps on the display.