Patent ID: 6898759

Claim:
A system for animating movable parts of an object along with music, said system comprising: a sequencer module that sequentially provides music control information in correspondence with the music to be played, the music control information including a plurality of types of music control event data for controlling a sound of the music to be played; a parameter setting module for generating a graphical user interface that is operable to select a type of music control event data from among the plurality of types of the music control event data that are graphically displayed for selection, said graphical user interface operable to assign a type of music control event data to each of the movable parts of the object such that each of the movable parts correspond to an assigned type of music control event data, wherein the correspondence between each of the movable parts and the corresponding assigned type of music control event data is displayed; an audio module for generating the sound in accordance with each music control event data included in the music control information to thereby play the music; and a video module responsive to the music control information for controlling movements of the respective movable parts in correspondence to the types of music control event data included in the music control information sequentially provided from the sequencer module, thereby generating a motion image of the object in matching with progression of the music.