IP Library Granted Patent US 7,133,597
Granted Patent B2
US 7,133,597 · App. 09/898,813 · Granted Nov 7, 2006

Recording audio enabling software and images on a removable storage medium

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 7,133,597
App. No.
09/898,813
Granted
Nov 7, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method of recording audio enabling software and images on a removable storage medium including providing a plurality of digital files representing colored digital images, transferring such digital files onto the removable storage medium, and providing audio enabling software and transferring such software onto the removable storage medium.

Claims (12)

1. A method of recording audio enabling software and images on a removable storage medium, comprising the steps of:

a) providing a plurality of digital files representing colored digital images;

b) transferring such digital files onto the removable storage medium;

c) providing audio enabling software and print enabling software and transferring such audio enabling software and print enabling software onto the removable storage medium; and

d) using the audio enabling software to produce audio information and transferring such audio information onto the removable storage medium which already includes the audio enabling software and the print enabling software.

2. The method of claim 1 further including providing print enabling software for producing a print from the digital files and the audio information, wherein the print includes an audio data code area which encodes the audio information in a machine readable format.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the removable storage medium is a write-once disc.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the audio software is prepressed at the time the write-once disc is manufactured.

5. The method of claim 1 further including providing a computer which responds to the audio enabling software on the removable storage medium to record audio information onto the removable storage medium.

6. The method of claim 5 further including a display coupled to the computer, and the audio enabling software further enables the digital files to be viewed on the monitor and selected for audio recording.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the audio enabling software further enables a plurality of digital files to be selected for recording a single audio recording in association with the plurality of digital files.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the enabling software further enables the plurality of digital files to be automatically viewed in a sequence as the single audio recording is played.

Assignments (5)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Aug 15, 2023
From: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
To: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 064599/0304 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 9, 2017
From: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
To: MONUMENT PEAK VENTURES, LLC
Reel/Frame 041941/0079 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2013
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
To: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 83 LLC
Reel/Frame 030203/0507 →
PATENT RELEASE Recorded Feb 1, 2013
From: CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC.; WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
To: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; EASTMAN KODAK INTERNATIONAL CAPITAL COMPANY, INC.; FAR EAST DEVELOPMENT LTD.; KODAK (NEAR EAST), INC.; KODAK AMERICAS, LTD.; KODAK PORTUGUESA LIMITED; KODAK REALTY, INC.; LASER-PACIFIC MEDIA CORPORATION; KODAK AVIATION LEASING LLC; KODAK PHILIPPINES, LTD.; NPEC INC.; FPC INC.; KODAK IMAGING NETWORK, INC.; PAKON, INC.; QUALEX INC.; CREO MANUFACTURING AMERICA LLC
Reel/Frame 029913/0001 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Feb 21, 2012
From: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY; PAKON, INC.
To: CITICORP NORTH AMERICA, INC., AS AGENT
Reel/Frame 028201/0420 →