Patent ID: 7668718

Claim:
An apparatus transforming data input a plurality of diverse data sources selected from the group including text, audio, and image, the diverse data sources selected from the group including real-time and recorded, human and mechanically-generated audio, single-speaker and multispeaker, the apparatus comprising: means for dividing the data input into a uniform dataset with one or more data segments, each uniform dataset being associated with at least one respective data buffer such that each of the respective data buffers would have the same number of data segments given the same data input; first means for processing of the uniform dataset to produce a first processed uniform dataset with one or more data segments; second means for processing of the uniform dataset to produce a second processed uniform dataset with one or more data segments, wherein the first and second processed uniform dataset have the same number of data segments; and means for editing data selectively within each one of the one or more segments of the first and second processed uniform dataset wherein editing means creates a composite output data tile based on data selection from the first and second processed uniform dataset.