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Method and apparatus for providing multiple programmed audio/still image presentations from a digital disc image player

  • US 5,555,098 A
  • Filed: 04/26/1994
  • Issued: 09/10/1996
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/05/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. An apparatus for use with a system including a digital data base for storing respectively corresponding digitized still images in image data files and digitized audio messages in audio data files, for controlling concurrent reproduction of digitized images on an image reproduction device and audio information on a sound reproduction device, said apparatus comprising:

  • means for providing user input commands;

    means, responsive to a single user command from said means for providing user input commands, for selecting and reading a sequence of digitized still images from the image data files in an ordered sequence established in a presentation sequences file and coupling said selected sequence of digitized still images to an image signal output for display on the image reproduction device;

    means for identifying a plurality of sequences of digitized audio messages associated with a plurality of sequences of digitized still images, some of said digitized audio messages being associated with different digitized still images in different sequences, said plurality of sequences of digitized audio messages including a selected sequence of digitized audio messages which are to be played back in an ordered sequence also established in the presentation sequences file and concurrently with the display of said selected sequence of digitized still images; and

    means for reading said selected sequence of digitized audio messages from the audio data files and coupling the audio information to an audio signal output for playback on the sound reproduction device concurrent with the display of the associated sequence of digitized still images on said image reproduction device.

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