Sound editing system using visually displayed control line for altering specified characteristic of adjacent segment of stored waveform

Patent 5204969 Issued on April 20, 1993. Estimated Expiration Date:

March 19, 2012. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 857079 filed on 03/19/1992

US Classes:

704/278, Sound editing84/625, Mixing345/418, COMPUTER GRAPHICS PROCESSING360/13, RECORD EDITING715/961, OPERATOR INTERFACE WITH VISUAL STRUCTURE OR FUNCTION DICTATED BY INTENDED USE715/978AUDIO INTERACTION AS PART OF AN OPERATOR INTERFACE

Examiners

Primary: Lee, Thomas C.
Assistant: Donaghue, L.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin, & Friel

Foreign Patent References

63-124290 JP. 05/13/1988

International Class

G06F 003/16

Abstract

A hardware and software system and method for a personal computer such as the Macintosh allows recording, editing, and playback of sound. The system includes a sound editor which displays sound waveforms, and permits the user to mix together several simultaneously displayed waveforms, and to change the pitch and amplitude of one part of each waveform by means of a novel screen display.

Other References

Gosch "Voice Synthesizer editor displays speech as curves easily alterable by keyboard", Electronic, vol. 55, No. 17, Aug. 1982, pp. 68, 70
"High Resolution Graphics Teleconferencing", Defense Communications Agency, dated Jan. 1988, pp. 45-6