Patent ID: 7275256

Claim:
A system for providing a visual complement to an audio service, comprising: a first transmission system configured to transmit data to a second transmission system, wherein the second transmission system is configured to transmit the data to one or more audio/video receivers; an audio subsystem configured to select sound recordings according to a playlist and transmit, according to the playlist, the selected sound recordings to the first transmission system for relay to the second transmission system; and a video subsystem, wherein the audio subsystem is further configured to transmit to the video subsystem a trigger message after selecting a sound recording, wherein the trigger message comprises an identifier associated with the selected sound recording, and the video subsystem is configured to generate a video image specification that is based, at least in part, on pre-defined configuration data and information included in the trigger message, and is configured to generate the video image specification in response to receiving the trigger message, wherein the video subsystem is configured to transmit the video image specification so that it is received by the second transmission system, and the second transmission system is configured to generate a video image conforming to the video image specification and transmit the video image along with a sound recording received from the first transmission system to the one or more audio/video receivers.