Data management of an audio data stream

• US 9,093,121 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2011
• Issued: 07/28/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Rinaldo, Jr., John D., Jung, Edward K. Y., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Tsang, Fan
• Assistant Examiner(s): SIEGEL, DAVID F
• Application Number:
  US13/135,255
• Publication Number:
  US 20120095579A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,490 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/00014 the compressed signal being an audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/00079 the compression ratio or quality level being adapted to circumstances, e.g. to the available recording space
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/22 Means responsive to presence or absence of recorded information signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/30 on the same track as the main recording
• 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 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/422 Input-only peripherals , i.e. input devices connected to specially adapted client devices, e.g. global positioning system [GPS] input devices also receiving signals from specially adapted client devices H04N21/4104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream

Abstract

In one aspect, a method related to data management includes but is not limited to accepting input for a designation of a reference designator in an audio data stream; accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator in the audio data stream; accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator in the audio data stream; and accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream beginning substantially at the beginning demarcation designator and ending substantially at the ending demarcation designator. In addition, other method, system, and program product aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and/or text forming a part of the present application.

Claims

1. A machine, comprising:

circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream;

circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator;

circuitry for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator;

circuitry for accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the portion for retaining at a high resolution beginning at the beginning demarcation designator and ending at the ending demarcation designator; and

circuitry for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the retaining at the high resolution relative to retention of another portion of the audio data stream not associated with the presence of the sound of interest and designated for retention at a resolution lower than the high resolution.

2. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream comprises:

circuitry for accepting input for a confirmation of the designation of the reference designator associated with the sound of interest in the audio data stream.

3. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream comprises:

circuitry for accepting a tactile input.

4. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream comprises:

circuitry for accepting a sonic input.

5. The machine of claim 4, wherein circuitry for accepting a sonic input comprises:

circuitry for accepting a mechanically-produced sonic input.

6. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream comprises:

circuitry for accepting a visual input.

7. The machine of claim 6, wherein circuitry for accepting a visual input comprises:

circuitry for accepting the visual input, wherein the visual input includes data representing stored visual information.

8. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

accepting input for a designation of an ending designator of a latest relative silence prior to the reference designator in the audio data stream.

9. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a tactile input.

10. The machine of claim 9, wherein circuitry for accepting a tactile input comprises:

circuitry for accepting the tactile input introduced via an interaction with a graphical user interface feature.

11. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a sonic input from the audio data stream, including at least circuitry for designating the beginning demarcation designator at least partially based on a detection of the beginning of the presence of the sound of interest in the audio data stream.

12. The machine of claim 11, wherein circuitry for accepting a sonic input comprises:

circuitry for accepting the sonic input, wherein the sonic input includes data representing stored sonic information.

13. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a visual input.

14. The machine of claim 13, wherein circuitry for accepting a visual input comprises:

circuitry for accepting the visual input introduced via an electromagnetic-radiation detection device including at least detection of a light flash associated with designating the beginning demarcation designator.

15. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting input for a confirmation of the designation of the ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator.

16. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a visual input.

17. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the portion for retaining at a high resolution beginning at the beginning demarcation designator and ending at the ending demarcation designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting an input for a confirmation of the input for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest.

18. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the portion for retaining at a high resolution beginning at the beginning demarcation designator and ending at the ending demarcation designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting an input for a designation of a resolution value associated with retaining the portion of the audio stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest.

21. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the retaining at the high resolution relative to retention of another portion of the audio data stream not associated with the presence of the sound of interest and designated for retention at a resolution lower than the high resolution comprises:

circuitry for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the retaining at the high resolution including at least retaining at an equal resolution to a resolution of a source audio stream associated with the audio data stream.

22. The machine of claim 21, further comprising:

circuitry for retaining the another portion of the audio data stream at a resolution lower than the resolution of the source audio stream.

23. The machine of claim 22, wherein circuitry for retaining the another portion of the audio data stream at a resolution lower than the resolution of the source audio stream comprises:

circuitry for discarding the another portion of the audio data stream.

24. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream comprises:

circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream, including at least circuitry for accepting at least one frequency spectrum characteristic associated with the sound of interest.

25. The machine of claim 24, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream, including at least circuitry for accepting at least one frequency spectrum characteristic associated with the sound of interest comprises:

circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream, including at least circuitry for accepting at least (i) a higher frequency cutoff below which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution and (ii) a lower frequency cutoff above which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution.

26. The machine of claim 25, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a sonic input associated with designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio stream of at least some audio associated with a particular frequency range, the particular frequency range defined by at least (i) the accepted higher frequency cutoff below which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution and (ii) the accepted lower frequency cutoff above which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution.

27. The machine of claim 25, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a sonic input associated with designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio stream of at least some audio associated with a particular frequency range, the particular frequency range defined by at least (i) the accepted higher frequency cutoff below which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution and (ii) the accepted lower frequency cutoff above which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution, the circuitry for accepting a sonic input including at least circuitry for analyzing the audio data stream to determine the presence of the at least some audio associated with the particular frequency range.

28. The machine of claim 27, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator comprises:

circuitry for accepting a sonic input associated with designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio stream of the at least some audio associated with the particular frequency range, including at least circuitry for analyzing the audio data stream to determine the ending of the presence of the at least some audio associated with the particular frequency range.

29. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream comprises:

circuitry for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream, including at least circuitry for accepting at least one frequency spectrum characteristic associated with one or more voices of interest.

30. The machine of claim 1, wherein circuitry for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the retaining at the high resolution relative to retention of another portion of the audio data stream not associated with the presence of the sound of interest and designated for retention at a resolution lower than the high resolution comprises:

circuitry for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of one or more voices of interest, the one or more voices of interest defined by at least (i) an accepted higher frequency cutoff below which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution and (ii) an accepted lower frequency cutoff above which the audio data stream is to be retained at a high resolution, and circuitry for discarding at least another portion of the audio data stream not associated with the presence of the one or more voices of interest.

19. A method, comprising:

accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream;

accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator;

accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator;

accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the portion for retaining at a high resolution beginning at the beginning demarcation designator and ending at the ending demarcation designator; and

retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the retaining at the high resolution relative to retention of another portion of the audio data stream not associated with the presence of the sound of interest and designated for retention at a resolution lower than the high resolution,

wherein at least one of accepting input for a designation of a reference designator, accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator, accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator, accepting input for retaining, or retaining the designated portion of the audio data stream is at least partially implemented using at least one processing device.

20. A machine, comprising:

means for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator associated with a sound of interest in an audio data stream;

means for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator associated with a beginning of a presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator;

means for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator associated with an ending of the presence in the audio data stream of the sound of interest designated by the reference designator;

means for accepting input for retaining at a high resolution a portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the portion for retaining at a high resolution beginning at the beginning demarcation designator and ending at the ending demarcation designator; and

means for retaining at the high resolution the portion of the audio data stream associated with the presence of the sound of interest, the retaining at the high resolution relative to retention of another portion of the audio data stream not associated with the presence of the sound of interest and designated for retention at a resolution lower than the high resolution,

wherein at least one of the means for accepting input for a designation of a reference designator, means for accepting input for a designation of a beginning demarcation designator, means for accepting input for a designation of an ending demarcation designator, means for accepting input for retaining, or means for retaining is at least partially implemented using hardware.