Patent ID: 6665490
Filing Date: 2003-12-16
Classification: G06F,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
A method for obtaining data associating manual annotating activities with portions of recordings, the method comprising:using an image input device to produce an image signal set, the image signal set defining a set of one or more images that include information about a manual annotating activity that occurs during a period of time within which a portion of a recording is made or played; using a recording/playback device to obtain a recording portion signal providing information about the portion of the recording; and using the image signal set and the recording portion signal to automatically obtain activity/recording data that associate information about the manual annotating activity with information identifying the portion of the recording; in which the manual annotating activity is performed in a region of a marking medium that bears machine-readable markings encoding a position identifier for the region; the machine-readable markings existing in the region of the marking medium before the manual annotating activity is performed; and in which the image signal set defines a set of one or more images of the region of the marking medium; the act of using the image signal set and the recording portion signal to automatically obtain activity/recording data comprising: using the image signal set to obtain position data indicating the position identifier.