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Audio media mood visualization

Granted 24 Nov 2015 · 2 office actions

Current assignee: International Business Machines Corporation · originally International Business Machines

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Inventors: Rajeshkumar N. Singi, Robert R. Wentworth, Tamer E. Abuelsaad, John E. Moore, Jr. · Examiner: Eugene Zhao

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Abstract

An audio media visualization method and system. The method includes receiving by a computing processor, mood description data describing different human emotions/moods. The computer processor an audio file comprising audio data and generates a mood descriptor file comprising portions of the audio data associated with specified descriptions of the mood description data. The computer processor receives a mood tag library file comprising mood tags mapped to animated and/or still objects representing various emotions/moods and associates each animated and/or still object with an associated description. The computer processor synchronizes the animated and/or still objects with the portions of said audio data and presents the animated and/or still objects synchronized with the portions of said audio data.

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IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
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  • G06T13/20

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related publicationUS 20150127129 A17 May 2015

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