Portable music player with synchronized transmissive visual overlays
First Claim
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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Abstract
A portable music player apparatus that outputs visual content to a head-worn transmissive display, the visual content being modulated in time with playing musical content and overlaid upon the user'"'"'s direct view of his or her physical surroundings. In this way, the user is provided with an enhanced visual view of his or her physical surroundings, the enhanced visual view including transmissive visual content that is generally synchronized in time with the playing music content. This provides the user with an improved music listening experience in which he or she feels present within a visually enhanced version of the physical world that has changing visual qualities that are perceptually synchronized in time with one or more features of the playing music. The displayed visual content may include time-varying translucency and/or color-tinting such that the user'"'"'s direct view of the physical world changes in brightness and/or color tinting in a manner choreographed with the playing music.
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22 Claims
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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:
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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. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for providing music-responsive transmissive visual overlays that augment a user'"'"'s view of the real world, the method comprising:
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providing a transmissive display for displaying 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; functionally coupling the transmissive display to a processor associated with a portable media player; providing a music responsive visual overlay program including instructions executable by the processor for modulating the visual content displayed upon the transmissive visual display in apparent time synchronicity with an audio outputting of a playing musical media file; and
,functionally coupling an audio processing subsystem to the processor for audio outputting the playing musical media file to the user. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer program product embodied in a tangible form comprising instructions executable by a processor to:
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play a musical media file stored in a memory coupled to the processor; generate an audio output from the play of the musical media file; generate a visual content modulated in apparent synchronicity with at least one varying characteristic of the generated audio output for display upon a transmissive visual display coupled to the processor; output the modulated visual content to the transmissive visual display such that a user perceives the displayed visual content as a real-time visual overlay upon the user'"'"'s view of the real world which varies in apparent time synchronicity with the audio output generated by play of the musical media file. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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