Multi-dimensional transformation systems and display communication architecture for compositions and derivations thereof

• US 7,423,213 B2
• Filed: 01/25/2006
• Issued: 09/09/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: OL Security LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bassilic Technologies LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Sitrick, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Fletcher; Marlon T
• Application Number:
  US11/340,017
• Publication Number:
  US 20060117935A1
• Time in Patent Office: 958 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 84/477.00R
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 15/023 Electrically operated
• CPC Class Codes: G10G 1/00 Means for the representation of music
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• 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

Abstract

A composition display system produces a display presentation in one of a plurality of formats from an original composition, the formats being created from the original composition responsive to input variables and a selected operating mode. The system is comprised of means to receive the original composition, a memory, a selection subsystem, a controller, a master display subsystem, and one or more slave display subsystems. The controller, responsive to the selection subsystem, provides means for selectively controlling the storing of the original composition in the memory. The master display subsystem can optionally provide means for selectively altering the stored original composition to produce a particular derivative composition. One or more slave display subsystems provide for displaying a presentation of the original (or optionally the particular derivative composition) in the selected format responsive to the master display subsystem. The master display subsystem can provide control of content and page turns for display on one or a plurality of the slave display subsystems.

Claims

1. A system producing a display presentation, the system comprising:

a storage memory providing storage of data relating to an original composition utilized to generate a video display presentation of the original composition;

a master subsystem controlling communication of the data utilized in generating the video display presentation of the original composition, coupled to the storage memory;

at least one slave computing subsystem comprising a processor, local memory and a local display apparatus;

wherein said at least one slave computing subsystem stores the data in the respective local memory of said at least one slave computing subsystem responsive to the communication and provides a respective local video display responsive to the respective local memory;

wherein the original composition is utilized in common by authorized ones of a plurality of individual users, utilizing the master subsystem and said at least one slave computing subsystem, to permit working together in a group among the authorized ones of the plurality of individual users; and

wherein said working together in a group further comprises;

selectively permitting each of the plurality of individual users to utilize the portion of the original composition in a shared manner among the authorized ones of the plurality of individual users in the group.

2. The system as in claim 1,

wherein each of the respective slave computing subsystem is associated with a respective one of the plurality of individual users and is programmed as a user type within a group to be at least one of:

an authorized one to permit locally displaying the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the original composition, an authorized one to permit locally altering the respective display presentation of said at least one portion Of the original composition, and an authorized one to permit communication from the respective slave computing subsystem to other authorized ones of respective slave computing subsystems within the group.

3. The system as in claim 1, wherein the master subsystem is coupled to provide communication with said at least one slave computing subsystem via at least one of wired communication, wireless communication, and communication via an internet connection, and communication via coupling through a central server computer.

4. The system as in claim 1, further comprising:

a plurality of slave computing subsystems each providing a respective local video display responsive to the communication;

wherein the original composition is utilized in common by the authorized ones of the plurality of users/utilizing the master subsystem and said plurality of slave computing subsystems, to permit working together in a group among the authorized ones of the plurality of individual users; and

wherein said working together in a group comprises selectively permitting at least two of the authorized ones of the plurality of users that are working together in a group to utilize, in common, the original composition, to permit at least one of;

displaying the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the original composition, alternating the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the original composition, and communicating of changes made via the altering to the respective display presentation of at least one portion of the original composition.

5. The system as in claim 4, wherein at least one of the slave computing subsystems acts as the master subsystem.

6. The system as in claim 4, wherein there is a plurality of slave computing subsystems each providing a respective local video display, wherein the master subsystem provides a video display comprised of all the local video displays occurring at all of said plurality of slave computing subsystems in the group.

7. The system as in claim 4, wherein the master subsystem provides simultaneous generation of the local video displays at all of the plurality of slave computing subsystems in the group.

8. The system as in claim 1, wherein the master subsystem communicates the data to said at least one slave computing subsystem which responsive to the data provides a local audio presentation to synchronously accompany the respective local video display.

9. The system as in claim 1, further comprising:

wherein the master subsystem provides selection of an auto-operation mode to generate a real-time scrolling of the respective local video displays for all of the authorized ones of the users.

10. The system as in claim 4, further comprising:

control logic selecting a plurality of the slave computing subsystems as the authorized ones of the users to receive the communication;

wherein the communication from the master subsystem is only to the respective ones of the plurality of slave computing subsystems of the authorized ones of the users.

11. The system as in claim 4, wherein at least one of the authorized ones of the users is associated with a leader, wherein other ones of the authorized ones of the users are associated with non-leader members of the group utilizing respective ones of the plurality of the slave computing subsystems.

12. The system as in claim 4, wherein the master subsystem provides communication of at least one derivative composition derived from the original composition responsive to the altering;

and

wherein each of the authorized ones of the slave computing subsystems is responsive to the communication of said at least one derivative composition to provide a display presentation of said at least one derivative composition on the respective local video display of the respective one of the slave computing subsystems.

13. The system as in claim 1, wherein the master subsystem provides a video display at the master subsystem of the respective local video display as it appears at said at least one of the plurality of the slave computing subsystems.

14. The system as in claim 4, wherein the communication of the changes is comprised of a change data file of the changes made via the altering to the original composition;

and

wherein the change data file is communicated to the plurality of the slave computing subsystems in the group.

15. The system as in claim 4, wherein the original composition is in a page format comprising a plurality of pages to be displayed, and wherein the master subsystem provides control of page-turning in the display presentation by all of the plurality of slave computing subsystems.

16. The system as in claim 4, wherein a separate software program is executed on each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems to provide access to the master subsystem which acts as a remote server.

17. The system as in claim 4, wherein the master subsystem selectively grants permission by entering a respective one or more unique addresses for selected ones of the respective one or more of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, as the authorized ones permitted at least one of displaying the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the original composition, altering the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the original composition, and communicating of changes made via the altering to the respective display presentation of at least one portion of the original composition;

and

wherein all of the one or more slave computing subsystems that are granted permission are provided common access to a same common database via the master subsystem.

23. The system as in claim 1, wherein there is a plurality of the slave computing subsystems each providing at the respective local video display a modified video display on a video display at the master subsystem of a respective derivative composition created via altering at the respective one of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, wherein the master subsystem provides a simultaneous display of the respective local displays of the respective derivative compositions appearing at all of a plurality of slave computing subsystems.

34. The system as in claim 1, wherein the original composition is representative of at least one of:

a music composition, a text composition, a composition data file, a digital data file, a data table, an educational composition, a scanned image, a digital image file, a computer-generated composition, an optical-character-recognized composition, a user-provided composition, performance notation, music notation, staffs and notes, tablature, hand-drawn notation, chord charts, a video visual presentation, a graphic presentation, an audio presentation, an audiovisual presentation, user-friendly notation, an audio presentation that can be selectively tracked to the local display presentation, a visual image, a photographic image, a moving picture, a movie, written instructions, text, a musical score, non-written instructions, scanned and digitized input, a computer generated display image, graphics, a still photo image, and an audio-only sound image.

18. A method of presenting an image to be displayed, the method comprising:

storing, in a server computing subsystem, data representative of at least one portion of the image to be displayed;

communicating said data from the server to at least one slave computing subsystem;

storing said data, responsive to the communicating, in a local memory of said at least one slave computing subsystem;

displaying said at least one portion of the image to be displayed on a respective local display at said at least one slave computing subsystem responsive to the local memory;

utilizing the image to be displayed by at least one of a plurality of users, working together as a group and via utilizing the server computing subsystem; and

permitting said working together as a group according to individual authorization levels of each respective one of the plurality of users to permit utilization as a common work, said image to be displayed, so as to selectively permit at least one of;

displaying the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the to be displayed, altering the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the image to be displayed, and communicating of changes made via the altering to the respective display presentation of at least one portion of image to be displayed.

19. The method as in claim 18, wherein said image to be displayed is represented by a plurality of portions which together provide a display of the image to be displayed, the method further comprising:

displaying the plurality of portions in a defined sequence as multiple separate display presentations of the image to be displayed; and

advancing the display of the multiple separate display presentations of the image to be displayed such that the plurality of portions are displayed in the defined sequence on selected ones of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, responsive to individual authorization levels of each respective one of the plurality of users responsive to the master subsystem.

20. The method as in claim 19, wherein the image to be displayed has timing data associated therewith, and wherein said advancing the display is further comprised of automatically advancing the image to be displayed among the multiple display presentations responsive to the timing data.

21. The method as in claim 18, further comprising:

providing operational control of said at least one slave computing subsystem responsive to the server computing subsystem; and

displaying said portion of the image to be displayed on said at least one slave computing subsystem responsive to said operational control.

22. The method as in claim 18, further comprised of a plurality of slave computing subsystems each associated with a respective one of the plurality of users in the group, the method comprising:

utilizing the image to be displayed in common by authorized ones of the plurality of users in the group utilizing the respective associated ones of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, to permit working together collaboratively in a group,

wherein said working together collaboratively in a group comprises selectively permitting said authorized ones of the plurality of users in the group to utilize, in common, the image to be displayed, to permit as individually authorized for each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, at least one of;

displaying the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the image to be displayed, altering the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the image to be displayed, and communicating of changes made via the altering to the respective display presentation of at least one portion of image to be displayed.

24. The method as in claim 19, wherein the image to be displayed is representative of at least one of:

a music composition, a text composition, an educational composition, a scanned image, a digital image tile, a computer-generated composition, an optical-character-recognized composition, a user-provided composition, performance notation, a movie, graphic data, a musical score, an audio presentation that can be selectively tracked to the respective local display, music notation, staffs and notes, tablature, hand-drawn notation, image data, written instructions, graphic data, and an audiovisual movie image.

25. The method as in claim 18, further comprising:

registering at least one of;

an identity of each respective user of the group of a plurality of slave computing subsystems and an identity of each corresponding respective one of the plurality of slave computing subsystems being used by each said respective user;

receiving at the server computing subsystem a change to the image to be displayed;

initiating respective changes input via at least one of a keyboard, a touch screen device, a touch-sensitive device, a digitizer and electronic stylus, a microphone, a video camera, an alphanumeric keyboard, and an integrated musical-alphanumeric keyboard as made at any given time for each of the plurality of users in the group;

allowing the server computing subsystem to select as to each respective change of the changes whether the respective change is to be transmitted to all the plurality of users in the group or only to those of the plurality of users in the group that is impacted by the change;

wherein the server computing subsystem selects to transmit for each respective change, the change only to the specific users impacted by the change, determining which of the plurality of users are impacted by the change and identifying which of the respective corresponding computerized devices are registered for the respective users impacted by the change; and

transmitting the change in accordance with the server computing subsystem'"'"'s selections.

26. The method as in claim 25, further comprising:

displaying a display presentation of the composition and local changes for each respective one of said slave computing subsystems on a local video display at said respective one of said slave computing subsystems; and

displaying on at least one of the slave computing subsystems the display presentation appearing on all of the plurality of slave computing subsystems.

30. The method as in claim 18, further comprising:

utilizing, as individually authorized for each of the plurality of users working collaboratively in the group, the image to be displayed, to permit at least one of;

locally displaying the image;

practicing utilizing the image;

performing utilizing the image;

modifying the display presentation of utilizing the image to be displayed; and

recording at least one of;

an audio representation of the display presentation of the image to be displayed, a visual representation of the display presentation of the image to be displayed, and an audio-visual representation of the display presentation of the image to be displayed.

27. A system providing a display presentation, the system comprising:

a master computing subsystem comprising a processor, memory providing storage of stored data comprising composition data representative of a composition utilized to generate a video display of the composition responsive thereto, and for storage of stored change data representative of changes to the video display of the composition and a communications interface to provide communications of the stored data;

a plurality of slave computing subsystems each comprising;

a processor;

memory providing local storage of local data responsive at least in part to the communication and a local display wherein the local display provides a local video presentation responsive to the respective local storage, wherein the local storage is comprised of local composition data, the stored change data, and local change data presentative of locally made changes at the respective slave computing subsystem to the video display of the composition;

wherein the video display of the composition is utilized in common by a plurality of users utilizing the plurality of slave computing subsystems, to permit working together collaboratively in a group; and

wherein said working together collaboratively in a group further comprises selectively permitting each one of the plurality of users in the group to utilize in common, the display presentation of the composition, to permit at least one of;

displaying the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the composition, altering the respective display presentation of said at least one portion of the composition, and communicating of changes made via the altering to the respective display presentation of at least one portion of the composition.

28. The system as in claim 27, wherein data representative of the composition is representative of at least one of:

performance notation, music notation, staffs and notes, tablature, hand-drawn notation, chord charts, a video visual presentation, a graphic presentation, an audio presentation, an audiovisual presentation, user-friendly notation, an audio presentation that can be selectively tracked to the local display presentation, image data, a photograph, a moving picture, a movie, written instructions, text, a music composition, a text composition, a composition data file, a digital data file, a data table, an educational composition, a user-provided composition, a scanned image, a digital image file, a computer-generated composition, an optical-character-recognized composition, a musical score, non-written instructions, images, scanned and digitized input, a computer generated display image, graphics, a still photo image, an audio-only sound image, and graphic data.

29. The system as in claim 27, wherein the master computing subsystem provides communicates edit data utilized to generate a display presentation of edits made relative to a respective portion of a video display of a respective portion of the image to be displayed, and

wherein at least one of the plurality of slave computing subsystems provides on the respective local video display a display presentation of the edits shown aligned with the display presentation of the respective portion of the composition.

31. The system as in claim 27, further comprising:

wherein the master computing subsystem enables a simultaneous local display presentation to occur at all of the plurality of slave computing subsystems in the group.

32. The system as in claim 27,

wherein the master computing subsystem generates a respective video display presentation at the master computing subsystem, representative of the local display presentation appearing at all of,

the plurality of the slave computing subsystems.

33. The system as in claim 27, wherein the composition has a plurality of portions that can be displayed as subsequent portions in a defined sequence;

and

wherein the master computing subsystem provides control of advancing of the local display presentation on at least one of the plurality of slave computing subsystems such that the subsequent portions are displayed on said at least one of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, responsive to the master computing subsystem.

35. The system as in claim 27, comprising:

a local user-input apparatus, at each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems, providing respective local change data representative of a respective user-input-based change to the respective local video presentation; and

wherein the local change data from each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems is communicated and stored as the stored change data, which is also communicated to all other ones of each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems and is store in the respective local storage, wherein the local display provides the local video presentation, responsive to the respective local storage.

36. The system as in claim 35, wherein the memory provides central storage of the stored change data as a mapping of the local change data as communicated from each of said plurality of slave computing subsystems;

and

wherein the mapping correlates the local change data to provide alignment with the video display of the composition to provide a combined video display.

37. The system as in claim 27, wherein each of the slave computing subsystems can be enabled to operate as a master computing subsystem, wherein multiple master computing subsystems can cooperatively interact in the system.

38. The system as in claim 28, wherein each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems is coupled via a network to be enabled to utilize the master computing subsystem, wherein the master computing subsystem provides remote control for cooperative interaction of the plurality of slave computing subsystems.

39. The system as in claim 27, wherein the master computing subsystem provides registering of at least one of:

an identity of each respective user of the group a plurality of slave computing subsystems and an identity of each respective one of the corresponding one of the plurality of slave computing subsystems being used by each said respective user;

wherein the master computing subsystem provides receiving at the master computing subsystem of a change to the image to be displayed;

wherein respective changes are input via at least one of a keyboard, a touch screen device, a touch-sensitive device, a digitizer and electronic stylus, a microphone, a video camera, an alphanumeric keyboard, and an integrated musical-alphanumeric keyboard as made at any given time for each of the plurality of users in the group;

wherein the master computing subsystem to select as to each respective change of the changes whether the respective change is to be transmitted to all the plurality of users in the group or only to those of the plurality of users in the group that is impacted by the change;

wherein when the master computing subsystem selects to transmit the change only to the specific users impacted by the change, it does so by determining which of the plurality of users are impacted by the change and identifying which of the respective corresponding computerized devices are registered for the respective users impacted by the change; and

wherein the master computing subsystem provides transmitting of the change in accordance with the master computing subsystem'"'"'s selections.

40. The system as in claim 27, wherein a separate software program is executed on each of the plurality of slave computing subsystems to provide access to the master computing subsystem which acts as a remote server.