System and method for electronic communication using a voiceover in combination with user interaction events on a selected background

摘要

A user-friendly and interactively created multimedia electronic message, as well as a system and method for creating such messages, combines an audio component (e.g. a voice-over, music, etc.) with user-interaction events that act upon selected visual media that serve as a visual background to the message. The visual media can be images, sequences of images, video, files such as documents or simply a pre-established library of background templates. The user interaction events can be sketch animations, text animations, symbols, shapes, emoticons and image transformation (e.g. pan, zoom, rotation, etc.) events. The user-interaction events may be time-correlated with the audio component through a common clock that is initiated by, and runs throughout, the audio recordation process, or they may be added outside of the audio component time-line.

主权项

1. A method for creating an electronic multimedia message, said method comprising:
selecting and displaying at least one background visual medium; recording at least one audio track; applying one or more user-interaction events to alter the viewed appearance of the selected at least one background visual medium, at least one of the applied one or more user interaction events being time-correlated with the at least one recorded audio track; generating a set of message events in the form of a time-line, each of the set of message events representative of said selecting, said recording and said applying, the time-line representing the order of occurrence of the set of message events and any time-correlation therebetween; and saving the set of events of the message to memory in a format that permits the set of events to be retrieved and played as a multimedia message in accordance with the timeline.