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Portable music player with synchronized transmissive visual overlays

  • US 7,732,694 B2
  • Filed: 01/25/2007
  • Issued: 06/08/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A portable apparatus for providing music-responsive transmissive visual overlays that augment a user'"'"'s view of the real world, the apparatus comprising:

  • a processor;

    a memory coupled to the processor;

    a transmissive display functionally coupled to the processor and configured to display visual content such that a user perceives the displayed visual content as a real-time visual overlay upon the user'"'"'s view of the real world;

    a musical media file operatively loaded into the memory;

    a music responsive visual overlay program operatively loaded into the memory including instructions executable by the processor to modulate the visual content displayed upon the transmissive visual display in apparent time synchronicity with an audio output of the musical media file; and

    ,an audio processing subsystem functionally coupled to the processor configured to provide the audio output from play of the musical media file to the user.

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