Patent ID: 7610553

Claim:
For a media editing application stored on a computer readable medium of a computer system comprising a processor for executing operations of the media editing application, a method comprising: receiving a plurality of data events representing a parameter of a signal during a time period, each data event of the plurality of data events comprising a parameter value of the signal and a time-based value for the parameter value that corresponds to an instance in time during the time period; receiving a user selected display preference specifying a reduced display representation that comprises a smaller set of the plurality of data events; iteratively processing sets of three data events in the plurality of data events to identify the smaller set of data events by eliminating one of the three data events for at least one set by comparing a parameter value of one of the three data events to parameter values of the other two data events; and displaying the reduced display representation on a display interface of the computer system, the reduced display representation comprising the smaller set of the plurality of data events that excludes eliminated data events.