REAL-TIME CUSTOMIZATION OF AUDIO STREAMS

• US 20110035033A1
• Filed: 08/05/2010
• Published: 02/10/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/05/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fox Mobile Dictribution LLC
• Original Assignee: Fox Mobile Dictribution LLC
• Inventors: Friedenberger, Norman
• Application Number:
  US12/851,068
• Publication Number:
  US 20110035033A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0025 Automatic or semi-automatic music composition, e.g. producing random music, applying rules from music theory or modifying a musical piece automatically producing a series of tones G10H1/26
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0058 Transmission between separate instruments or between individual components of a musical system G10H1/0083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/125 Medley, i.e. linking parts of different musical pieces in one single piece, e.g. sound collage, DJ mix
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2210/381 Manual tempo setting or adjustment tempo setting by interpretation of conducting movements G10H2220/206
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/096 using a touch screen touch screen note input, e.g. using a displayed keyboard G10H2220/241; personal digital assistant [PDA] G10H2230/015
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/351 Environmental parameters, e.g. temperature, ambient light, atmospheric pressure, humidity, used as input for musical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/355 Geolocation input, i.e. control of musical parameters based on location or geographic position, e.g. provided by GPS, WiFi network location databases or mobile phone base station position databases
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2230/015 PDA [personal digital assistant] or palmtop computing devices used for musical purposes, e.g. portable music players, tablet computers, e-readers or smart phones in which mobile telephony functions need not be used touch-screen interfaces G10H2220/096
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2240/085 Mood, i.e. generation, detection or selection of a particular emotional content or atmosphere in a musical piece
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4398 involving reformatting operations of audio signals details of audio signal transcoding G10L19/173
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44213 Monitoring of end-user related data arrangements for monitoring the users' behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33

Abstract

A method of real-time customization of an audio stream includes retrieving a set of parameters related to a current state of a device, determining a pattern, tempo, background loop, pitch, and number of foreground notes for the audio stream based upon the set of parameters, and creating an audio stream based upon the determination.

Claims

1. A method of real-time customization of an audio stream, comprising:

retrieving a set of parameters related to a current state of a device;

determining a pattern, tempo, background loop, pitch, and number of foreground notes for the audio stream based upon the set of parameters; and

creating an audio stream based upon the determination.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

playing back the audio stream on the device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the set of parameters based upon a predetermined frequency.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving a set of pre-configured parameters if the current state of the device is not accessible.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the current state of the device is the device'"'"'s current geographical location, relative velocity, surrounding ambient temperature, and/or surrounding weather conditions.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising intelligently adjusting the pattern determination based upon user interaction on the device over time.

7. A system of real-time customization of an audio stream, comprising:

a service provider, the service provider storing a plurality of information related to a state of a geographic location; and

a device in communication with the service provider, the device configured and disposed to retrieve information related to a state of the device from the service provider based on a geographic location of the device, and the device further configured and disposed to customize an audio-stream based on the retrieved information.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the state of the device is the device'"'"'s surrounding ambient temperature and/or surrounding weather conditions.

9. The system of claim 7, further comprising a server in communication with the device, the server storing a plurality of audio information.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the device is configured and disposed to retrieve a portion of the audio information and customize the audio-stream through use of the retrieved portion.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the service provider is a weather information provider, a cellular service provider, a data connection provider, or an application provider.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the device is a portable music playing device, a portable computing device, a personal digital assistant, or a cellular telephone.

13. The system of claim 7, further comprising a plurality of devices in communication with the service provider and the device, wherein each of the plurality of devices is configured and disposed to share audio information between each of the plurality of devices.

14. The system of claim 7, wherein the device includes a display configured to render and display a visual graphic based on the customized audio stream.

15. A computer-implemented user-interface rendered on a display portion of a portable computer apparatus, the interface comprising:

a plurality of controls, each control of the plurality of controls including user-configurable and pre-existing states of the portable computer apparatus;

wherein a processor of the portable computer apparatus is configured and disposed to perform a method of real-time customization of an audio stream, the method comprising;

retrieving a set of parameters based on user-manipulation of the user-interface and the plurality of controls;

determining a pattern, tempo, background loop, pitch, and number of foreground notes for a customized audio stream based upon the set of parameters; and

creating an audio stream based upon the determination.

16. A computer program product including a computer readable medium containing computer executable code thereon, wherein the computer executable code, when processed by a processor of a computer, directs the processor to perform a method of real-time customization of an audio stream, the method comprising:

retrieving a set of parameters related to a current state of a device;

determining a pattern, tempo, background loop, pitch, and number of foreground notes for the audio stream based upon the set of parameters; and

creating an audio stream based upon the determination.