Patent ID: 7272779
Filing Date: 2007-09-18
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. The device comprising: a display screen; an audio output device; and a processor to execute a computer language adapted for providing different slideshow instructions, the instructions, comprising: at least one programmable body element of a slideshow, where the body element includes: a programmable master audio element that causes the processor to playback audio with and without synchronized image and associating any audio clip instructions in the same master audio element with any image clip instructions in the same master audio element, the master audio element defining the audio clip instructions for identifying an audio clip file name field associated with an audio clip file for playing out, an audio clipbegin field for programmably defining how far into a timeline for the defined audio clip file to start playing the audio clip, and a clipend field for programmably defining how far into the timeline of the audio clip file to stop playing the audio clip wherein the timeline is a time duration specifically for the audio clip file, the clipbegin field specifies at what time within the audio clip after a beginning time of the audio clip to start playing the audio clip and the clipend field specifies at what time within the audio clip prior to an ending time of the audio clip to stop playing the audio clip; the master audio element also defining the image clip instructions for identifying an image clip file name field for identifying an image clip file for playing out, an image clipbegin field for programmably defining how far into a timeline for the image clip file to start playing the image clip, and a clipend field for programmably defining how far into the timeline of the image clip file to stop playing the image clip; a separate master image element programmably categorizing a group of instructions for playback of images with a specified timing but independently from any audio clips, the master image element including instructions for identifying a programmable image clip file name field that programmably defines an associated image clip file for playing out by the processor, an image clipbegin field for programmably defining how far into a timeline for the image clip file to start playing the image clip, and a clipend field for programmably defining how far into the timeline of the image clip file to stop playing the image clip, the master audio element operable with the master image element so that the audio clip can be programmably operated in combination with one or more image clips and the master image element also operable independently of the master audio element so that one or more image clips can be programmably operated by themselves with no associated audio clip, wherein a XML computer language is used for specifying the master audio element and the master image element instructions that are then parsed by an XML parser to derive XML slideshow instructions executed by the processor; and wherein the XML instructions conform to the following Document Type Definition (DTD): <!ELEMENT synchshow (head?, body?)> <!ELEMENT head (metadata*)> <!ELEMENT metadata EMPTY> <!ATTLIST metadata name NMTOKEN #REQUIRED value CDATA #REQUIRED > <!ENTITY % mediaattributes” “> <#ENTITY % clipattributes” “> <#ENTITY % graphicsattributes” “> <#ELEMENT body (masteraudio | maternone)*> <#ELEMENT masternone (image)*> <#ELEMENT masteraudio (image)*> <#ATTLIST masteraudio < <#ELEMENT image EMPTY> <#ATTLIST image >.