Rearranging artistic compositions

• US 5,952,598 A
• Filed: 09/10/1997
• Issued: 09/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Airworks Corporation
• Original Assignee: Airworks Corporation
• Inventors: Goede, Darryl
• Primary Examiner(s): Shoop, Jr., William M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fletcher, Marlon T.
• Application Number:
  US08/926,685
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• Field of Search: 84/602-603, 84/604-607, 84/609, 84/610, 84/645, 84/649, 84/650, 84/634, 84/477 R, 84/478
• US Class Current: 84/609
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/117 Tagging; Marking up details of markup languages G06F40/143; Designating a block; Setting of attributes style sheets, e.g. eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation [XSLT], G06F40/154
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0025 Automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music theory or modifying a musical piece automatically producing a series of tones G10H1/26
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/105 Composing aid, e.g. for supporting creation, edition or modification of a piece of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/056 MIDI or other note-oriented file format
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 7/002 using a common processing for different operations or calculations, and a set of microinstructions (programme) to control the sequence thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/90 Tape-like record carriers
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/913 Digital audio tape [DAT] format
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• 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: G11B 27/36 Monitoring, i.e. supervising the progress of recording or reproducing for digital recording G11B20/00 and s.gr.; for monitoring, testing or measuring of TV recorders of the type covered by H04N5/76 and subgroups, see H04N17/06

Abstract

A method is provided for automatically rearranging a plurality of digital information units (DIU) arbitrarily designated in a first digital information file (DIF), each DIU containing data with artistic structure and characteristics, to create a plurality of second DIF'"'"'s having different artistic structure and characteristics from the first DIF. The method includes a first process for automatically (1) reordering, (2) repeating, (3) creating alternate sequences of, (4) altering durations of, (5) including and excluding certain ones of, and (6) automatically manipulating the characteristics of the plurality of DIU.

Claims

1. A process for rearranging an artistic composition in a digital information file, said digital information file having artistic continuity and structure, comprising the steps of:

(a) inputting said digital information file into computer memory;

(b) inputting a digital instruction file into computer memory, said digital instruction file including;

(1) a plurality of predetermined markers, said markers being selected from a plurality of artistically appropriate edit points, said markers dividing said digital information file into a plurality of units, each of said plurality of units having artistic continuity and structure and having a marker denoting a beginning point and an ending point of said unit, (2) a plurality of instructions for dividing said digital information file into a first arrangement of a plurality of digital information units; and

(c) combining an arbitrary number of said units of said first arrangement of digital information units to form a second arrangement of digital information units, each unit of said second plurality of digital information units being taken from said first plurality of digital information units.

2. The process as claimed in claim 1 wherein each digital information unit is comprised of a sequence of events and the markers are assigned to mark a starting event for the sequence of events, and wherein the digital information file comprises a MIDI file of a musical composition, each of the events in the sequence of events being tones.

3. The process as claimed in claim 1 wherein each digital information unit is comprised of a sequence of events and the markers are assigned to mark a starting event for the sequence of events, and wherein the digital information file comprises an imagefile of a motion picture work, each of the events in the sequence of events being images.

4. The process as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of:

providing at least one classification file, said classification file including data relating to a common characteristic of the digital information file at certain starting events, each of said at least one classification file including data relating to a single common characteristic, wherein each starting event in the MIDI file is capable of being expressed as a point in a measure of music and the common characteristic is the point in the measure of music which marks the beginning of the unit, and wherein said first arrangement of digital information units combined to form the second arrangement of digital information units are taken from the at least one classification file.