Multipurpose media players

• US 8,577,683 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2012
• Issued: 11/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thomas Majchrowski & Associates, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Thomas Majchrowski & Associates, Inc.
• Inventors: DeWitt, Keri
• Primary Examiner(s): Abebe, Daniel D
• Application Number:
  US13/525,171
• Publication Number:
  US 20120254761A1
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• Field of Search: 704/272, 704/278, 386/278, 715/723
• US Class Current: 704/272
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• 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: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally

Abstract

Disclosed are Multipurpose Media Players that enable users to create transcriptions, closed captions, and/or logs of digitized recordings, that enable the presentation of transcripts, closed captions, logs, and digitized recordings in a correlated manner to users, that enable users to compose one or more scenes of a production, and that enable users to compose storyboards for a production. The multipurpose media players can be embodied within Internet browser environments; thereby providing high availability of the multipurpose players across software platforms, networks, and physical locations.

Claims

1. A computer program product that directs a data processor to play a digital medium and to display a transcript comprising a series of words associated with the digital medium, the computer program product comprising the following set of instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to:

display at least a portion of the transcript associated with the digital medium, one or more words in the series of words being hyperlinked to provide a text hyperlink, the transcript embedded with a time stamp representative of a time code of the digital medium associated with the one or more words;

receive an activation of the text hyperlink; and

upon receipt of the text hyperlink activation, play the digital medium starting at the time code associated with the embedded time stamp.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the digital medium comprises at least one of an audio stream, video stream, or both.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the computer program product further comprising the following instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to hyperlink the one or more words in the series of words to obtain the text hyperlink.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the computer program product further comprising the following instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to play the digital medium on a display.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the computer program product further comprising the following instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to receive the one or more words from a user interface.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 wherein the user interface receives input text and commands using at least a keyboard and/or a pointer-control device.

7. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the text hyperlink is encrypted or encoded, and wherein the computer program product further comprising the following instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to decrypt or decode the time stamp.

8. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the set of instructions are configured to be downloadable to a web browser and executable by the web browser.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the web browser displays the digital medium and/or transcript based on a user input.

10. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the transcript includes transcribed dialog, logging of activities, locations, production notes, storyline notes, and/or characters.

11. A multipurpose media player for playing a digital medium and to display a transcript comprising a series of words associated with the digital medium, the multipurpose media player comprising:

a data processor;

a display coupled to the data processor;

an audio output device coupled to the data processor;

a user interface to receive input text and commands; and

a computer program product comprising instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to;

display at least a portion of the transcript associated with the digital medium, one or more words in the series of words being hyperlinked to provide a text hyperlink, the transcript embedded with a time stamp representative of a time code of the digital medium associated with the one or more words;

receive an activation of the text hyperlink; and

upon receipt of the text hyperlink activation, play the digital medium starting at the time code associated with the embedded time stamp.

12. The multipurpose media player in claim 11 wherein the digital medium comprises at least an audio stream, video stream, or both.

13. The multipurpose media player in claim 11 wherein the computer program product further comprising instructions embodied in a non-transitory computer-readable medium directing the data processor to highlight one or more words within at least a portion of the transcript based on a current playing time of the digital medium.

14. A computer-implemented method that directs a data processor configured with a set of instructions to play a digital medium and to display a transcript comprising a series of words associated with the digital medium, the method comprising:

displaying at least a portion of the transcript associated with the digital medium, one or more words in the series of words being hyperlinked providing a text hyperlink, the transcript embedded with a time stamp representing a time code of the digital medium associated;

receiving an activation of the text hyperlink; and

upon receipt of the text hyperlink activation, playing the digital medium starting at the time code associated with the embedded time stamp.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising searching through the at least a portion of the transcript being displayed and selecting the one or more words in the transcript to activate the playing of the digital medium starting at the time code associated with the text hyperlink.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein further comprising generating the series of words in the transcript as the text hyperlink, wherein the text hyperlink provides a time stamp representing the time code of the digital medium.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the transcript includes the one or more words in the series of words stored on an electronic file.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the electronic file is used for generating the text hyperlink for the stored transcript, wherein the text hyperlink provides a time stamp representing the time code of the digital medium.

19. The method of claim 18 wherein the set of instructions are configured to be downloadable to a web browser and executable by said web browser.

20. The method of claim 14 wherein the digital medium comprises at least one of an audio stream, video stream, or both.