Patent Document ID: 8933312
Application ID: 13486582

Base Claim:
1. A method of providing synchronized audio sheet music, as an electronic book, the method comprising: implementing a piece-of-music file, in the EPUB electronic book format, representing (i) a piece of music, the file including the piece of music in a form of music notation content, the music notation content having elements that can be identified, displayed, and highlighted, the elements representing discrete segments of the piece of music, each of the segments having a beginning and an end; and (ii) an audio recording of the piece of music, the audio recording including sound-wave sampled audio; and (iii) synchronization data marking beginning and end points in the audio recording for each element of the piece of music; and providing the piece-of-music file to a user, whereby the user may load the piece-of-music file into a general purpose electronic appliance supporting the electronic book format, having a graphical display and an audio output; and whereby the electronic appliance may be user-operated to play music according to the EPUB format, and to display sheet music according to the EPUB format, with synchronization of the audio recording of the piece of music with the piece of music.

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Claim 9:
9. A method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the implementing includes: creating a sheet music file for a piece of music, in a sheet music editor, that generates vector graphics representations, from the sheet music file, having elements that can be identified, displayed, and highlighted, the elements representing discrete segments of the piece of music, each of the segments having a beginning and an end; obtaining an audio recording of the piece of music, the audio recording including sound-wave sampled audio; generating synchronization data to synchronize the audio recording to the vector graphics representations, wherein beginning and end points in the audio recording correspond with the elements of the piece of music that represent the discrete segments thereof; and generating an electronic book file, that includes the vector graphics representations for each segment of sheet music; the audio recording; and the synchronization data between the vector graphics and the audio recording.