Method of applying reproducible data on a data carrier

• US 20010008500A1
• Filed: 01/11/2001
• Published: 07/19/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Regina Schulte Am Hulse
• Original Assignee: Regina Schulte Am Hulse
• Inventors: Schulte Am Hulse, Regina
• Granted Patent: US 6,615,249 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 369/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/305 Internet or TCP/IP protocol use for any electrophonic musical instrument data or musical parameter transmission purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10 Digital recording or reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/04 Studio equipment; Interconnection of studios

Abstract

A method is disclosed for applying at the location of a studio reproducible data, for example sound data, on a data carrier, wherein at least a part of the data is produced by an interpreter, for example a vocalist, at the interpreter'"'"'s location and transmitted to the studio. Different interpretations can be synchronized and evaluated by the interpreter before being applied to the data carrier. Printed information can also be transmitted from the interpreter'"'"'s location or another location to the studio in conjunction with the transmission of sound data.

Claims

1. A method of applying reproducible data on a data carrier, comprising the steps of:

generating data at a first location;

transmitting the generated data electronically from the first location to a second location; and

applying the transmitted data at the second location on a data carrier.

2. The method of

claim 1

, wherein the first location is a user location.

3. The method of

claim 1

, wherein the second location is a location of a studio.

4. The method of

claim 1

, wherein the generated data are transmitted from the first location to the second location via email.

5. The method of

claim 1

, wherein the generating step includes recording the data in a first storage device of a first data processing device located at the first location, said transmitting step including transmitting the data via a remote data transmission device to a second data processing device located at the second location, and said applying step including recording the transmitted data on the data carrier at the second location.

6. The method of

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, and further comprising the step of merging the data with an existing data set before the data are recorded on the data carrier at the second location.

7. The method of

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, wherein the data transmitted to the second location are in the form of sound data, and wherein the transmitted sound data are synchronized with sound data that already exist at the second location.

8. The method of

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, wherein a first musical piece is transformed into sound data and the transmitted sound data derived from a second musical piece are synchronized with the sound data of the first musical piece.

9. The method of

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, wherein the sound data of the first musical piece are a vocal part produced by a vocalist, with the vocal part being synchronized with the second musical piece.

10. The method of

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, wherein at the time the sound data of the vocal part are recorded, the sound data of the vocal part are referenced to the sound data of the first musical piece.

11. The method of

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, wherein the sound data of the first musical piece are transmitted to the vocalist located at the first location for converting the sound data into the first musical piece, wherein the vocal part performed by the vocalist is matched to the first musical piece and translated into respective sound data, with the translated sound data for the purpose of synchronization being sent together with the data of the second musical piece to the second data processing device.

12. The method of

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, wherein the data of the first musical piece are synchronized with a data of the second musical piece before being burned in the data carrier.

13. The method of

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, wherein the data of the first musical piece that are synchronized with the data of the second musical piece are stored in a server having general access.

14. The method of

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, wherein the data are stored on one of a plurality of different tracks of the data carrier.

15. The method of

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, wherein a different version of the first musical piece is stored on a track which is different from the track where the data are stored.

16. The method of

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, wherein on the different track an unprocessed version of the first musical piece is stored, whereas a processed version of the first musical piece is stored on another track that is different from both the track where the unprocessed version is stored and the track where the data are stored.

17. The method of

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, wherein an interference sound is superimposed on the sound data of the first musical piece during transmission to the vocalist.

18. The method of

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, wherein the superimposed interference sound is a muffled sound of an interpreter portraying a background music.

19. The method of

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, wherein the data carrier is provided with a copy protection.

20. The method of

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, wherein the vocalist repeats the vocal part for the purpose of practice, before the song is converted into data and synchronized with a data of the second musical piece.

21. The method of

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, and further comprising the step of projecting for the vocalist a virtual tape recorder onto a projection screen, wherein the virtual tape recorder includes recording functions selected from the group consisting of forward and rewind, play and record.

22. The method of

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, and further comprising the step of electronically transmitting printable data to the second location to provide written comments of the data to be recorded on the data carrier.

23. The method of

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, wherein the printable data are transmitted in the form of an artistic design.

24. The method of

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, wherein the printable data are printed on a cover of the data carrier.