Method for comparing and synchronizing data from different data sources

• US 6,615,249 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2001
• Issued: 09/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Schulte Am Hülse, Regina
• Original Assignee: Schulte Am Hülse, Regina
• Inventors: Schulte Am Hülse, Regina
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, VIET DUY
• Application Number:
  US09/759,957
• Publication Number:
  US 20010008500A1
• Time in Patent Office: 964 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/219, 709/230, 709/246, 709/313, 709/328, 709/329, 709/321
• US Class Current: 709/217
• 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 for combining and synchronizing data on a data carrier, comprising the steps of:

generating a data set on a first data processing device;

transmitting the generated data set electronically from the first data processing device to a second data processing device;

combining and synchronizing in the second data processing device an existing data set with the transmitted data;

transmitting the combined and synchronized data from the second data processing device to the first data processing device,

recording the data in a first storage device of the first data processing device located at a first location,

transmitting the data via a remote data transmission device to the second data processing device located at a second location, wherein the data transmitted to the second data processing device are in the form of sound data, and wherein the transmitted sound data are synchronized with sound data that already exist at the second data processing device,

recording the transmitted data on the data carrier at the second location,

merging the data with an existing data set before the data are recorded on the data carrier at the second location,

transforming a first musical piece is into sound data and synchronizing the transmitted sound data derived from a second musical piece with the sound data of the first musical piece, 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,

having the vocalist repeat 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, and

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,

whereby the transmitted combined and synchronized data is accessible from the first data processing device via the Internet.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first data processing device is associated with a user location.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second data processing device is associated with a studio.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated data set is transmitted from the first data processing device to the second data processing device via email.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein at the time the sound data of the equal part are recorded, the sound data of the vocal part are referenced to the sound data of the first musical piece.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the sound data of the first musical piece are transmitted to the vocalist located at the first data processing device 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.

7. The method of claim 1, 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.

8. The method of claim 1, 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.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the data are stored on one of a plurality of different tracks of the data carrier.

10. The method of claim 9, 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.

11. The method of claim 9, 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.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein an interference sound is superimposed on the sound data of the first musical piece during transmission to the vocalist.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the superimposed interference sound is a muffled sound of an interpreter portraying a background music.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the data carrier is provided with a copy protection.

15. The method of claim 1, 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.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the printable data are transmitted in the form of an artistic design.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the printable data are printed on a cover of the data carrier.