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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Thurs/ipodpatents.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Thurs/ipodpatents.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c38a512 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/07.16.07/Thurs/ipodpatents.txt @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Our sister site Gadget Lab [dug up a new Apple patent][1] for "Portable Home Folders," which could mean that it'll soon be easier to carry your entire User folder on all your portable devices like the iPhone or iPod. + +It's possible to achieve this now with a bit of hacking, but be sure to check out Gadget Lab for the details on how Apple plans to do it. + +In other Apple patent news, AppleInsider [reports][2] that the company has filed for a patent that allows dynamic lyrics display for iPods and iPhones. + +The gist of the system outlined in the patent is that your iPod (or iPhone) would store lyric information and if the information isn't already available would then query a service to retrieve it. In the case of the iPhone this could probably happen from the device via WiFi or Edge, but otherwise would be tied to iTunes (unless a WiFi iPod is in the works). + +The process as described in the patent works like this: + +>identifying an audio file for a media item to be played, the identified audio file including at least encoded audio content for the media item and encoded lyric codes for the media item; accessing lyrics pertaining to the media item; processing the identified audio file to extract and decode the encoded audio content and the encoded lyric codes; playing of the audio content that has been extracted and decoded from the identified audio file; displaying a portion of the lyrics such that the portion of the lyrics being displayed corresponds to that portion of the audio content being played; and distinguishably displaying, based on the lyric codes, a specific part of the portion of the lyrics being displayed from at least one other part of the lyrics being displayed. + +Can a mobile karoke phenomena be far behind? + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/07/apple-patent-wa.html +[2]: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/07/19/apple_working_on_dynamic_lyrics_display_for_ipods_and_iphones.html
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