WO1992017009A1 - Improved digital system for recording and reproducing radiophonic advertisements - Google Patents

Abstract

The improved digital system for recording and reproducing advertisements is a system which makes possible the recording and reproduction of radiophonic advertisements in real time directly from a data processing medium, obtaining a high sound quality without deterioration of such quality after many reproductions due to the type of format of sound data, and also allowing to send the advertisements between remote locations through normal telephone lines without losing the good quality, independently of the distance, and also making possible that a same system performs the emission of the advertisements and uses the resulting parameters for its own use in the corresponding administrative part, without having to interrupt the process for human intervention reasons, thereby avoiding possible errors.

Description

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ADVANCED DIGITAL RADIO PHONE RECORDING AND PLAYBACK SYSTEM.

SECTOR OF THE TECHNIQUE: The ADVANCED DIGITAL RADIO PHONE RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is designed and designed to achieve important advances in this sector in terms of the digital treatment of radio wedge recordings, not particularly being the most important part of the improvements in the systems of use, but what will then be considered in the development of the application, and that will allow: the administrative control of the emission of the same, the transmission of the sound messages between broadcasters and studios even if it is through of low quality telephone lines, the simplified selection of wedges to be issued by technicians, automatic scheduling of block emissions, saving possibilities of failures, and other advantages, a fundamental set of this patent application.

INDICATION OF THE STATE OF THE PREVIOUS TECHNIQUE: Until now, the systems used in the recording and reproduction of advertising wedges can be considered within the standards of sound treatment, without special applications being those dedicated to the subject.

We will make a little history for further clarification of the prior art. In the first years of the radio the advertising messages were made live. Subsequently, they were supports of the advertising wedges, the same as those used for any sound recording; in principle the old tape recorders and then those of magnetic tape. At this point the advertising wedges were each stored in a small magnetic tape holder, its storage constituting a large part of space and its speed at the time of having to issue several consecutive, the need for several tape recorders and manual speed to carry out good term the necessary chain.

When the open-coil magnetophonic tapes, they adopted new market formats, such as the "cassette" tape, with a great impact on its principle in the European market; and the cartridge known as "four tracks" with parallel impact on the American market; in the radio field, the latter opted for a specific adaptation for the use of radio stations and reproduction and recording of advertising wedges: a system that allows to use an open coil of tape, cut the part corresponding to the duration of the wedge and install it with an easy operation in the plastic container that by its configuration allows this piece of tape, always advanced in the sense of reproduction reading, is what we understand by "endless", that is, that united its beginning and end, constantly spinning. A tone system at a certain frequency allows the reader to detect the end of the recording and the beginning of the recording, therefore the chain that in previous procedures was so laborious, is simplified substantially. This system described is the most implanted today, having adapted almost all the radio stations in the world.

EXPLANATION OF THE INVENTION: The ADVANCED DIGITAL RADIO PHONE RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM consists of a system that allows the reproduction of advertising wedges for thousands of times without altering the quality of its sound at all due to wear, which also interrelates the issuance and treatment of wedges with departments such as accounting or advertising within the station or chain, allowing the monitoring, schedules or modification of blocks by them thanks to being communicated directly by computer, which also allows the chains in a totally Exact and automatic if desired, between the wedges emitted in the same block and which considerably reduces the space where they are contained. Detailing the above, let's start by recording an advertising wedge.

This is done digitally, that is, by converting the sound signal from a microphone, or any type of conventional media, into information capable of being recorded on a computer medium. In this way, we can perform with it all those types of computer treatments that could be performed with any type of information; This also ensures that reproduction is unalterable over time, through backup copies, etc. Once the wedge recording has been made, it has a name and a password as a file within the system. Thanks to this and with the simplicity of the processing of any file, the different departments of programming, accounting, advertising, etc. they manage to instantly process the information regarding the treatment of these files that they require; thus it is simple that the emission controller with the press of a button, can emit a block of wedges that neither he himself knows and that has been a minute before established by the programming or advertising department; also, within the operating system of a station, it will no longer be necessary to physically move to change listings of wedges in the study, pick up those of the previous day, introduce a change on the fly, etc., as well as for the technicians of emission of Wedges must realize the time of emission of a block, etc.

THE RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM OF RADIOPHONIC Wedges

ADVANCED DIGITAL has two main concepts to refer to: one is the conversion of wedges into digital files and their treatment, that is, they can be recorded with the desired parameters; that the originals that are received in the stations coming from sound studios can come in this type of supports and not in the conventional ones, as long as the study has a similar system; that the wedges can come by conventional telephone, without losing in absolute quality, since it consists of a digital data transmission and ultimately what the treatment of the sound data itself entails. The other treatment, chaining, emission relations, programming, billing, insertions and other processes that can be performed with these files greatly facilitating the work of the departments of the station and avoiding many of the errors that with conventional systems are likely to occur.

You have to look at what the progress of the system means by avoiding the transfer of data between two parts of the mechanics in a radio station, such as the administrative and technical part. With this system it is achieved that the two are integrated into one, since the computer system is the same, the verification of the recording of any wedge could be carried out not only in the studio, but in any terminal, only depending on the appropriate accesses. As for the practical operation of the wedge emission, let's say that they can be selected one at a time without noticing the cut between them, that blocks can be pre-determined in advance and even introduce mini-tunings between them or other possibilities. These processes can be preset automatically as desired.

The wedges are recorded in a computer medium that can be central, with access to each terminal of the system, or independent by studies or controls, with or that the support with the daily programming, for example, would be passed on independent media to each of the studies. These independent units would have been prerecorded in advance. The study technician selects the wedge key to Issue, for example "2F" or the name of the wedge title through the list you can get on a help screen. Then press the play button and this occurs. If while the reproduction is being made, select a new wedge and give the order of its emission, it will be linked to the previous one as soon as it is finished. Here we have seen a way of functioning in which the technician of each study selects the wedges to be emitted. Another execution formula is that the programming department has planned the order of broadcast and already preprogrammed in the system, so that it indicates in the approximate time that a block should be issued, to the technician, by means of a light signal or announcement on the screen of help, that the block must be issued. The technician simply at the time he deems appropriate according to the development of the program, will give the order to reproduce the block, so this will occur, without the need for the technician to know the composition of the block itself or the wedges that integrate it . At the same time, the program will record the parameters corresponding to the administrative departments, which will therefore invoice, obtain emission parts, radiation hours, etc. on absolutely real and faithful data that will avoid the possibilities of error until now existing in that sense. Likewise, in the opposite direction, the system is equally operative, that is, wedges can be programmed automatically if desired, without the need for anyone to intervene. When the wedge is received at the station, it is entered into the system with the parameters corresponding, such as emission dates, approximate hours thereof, number of times, etc. Each day the system automatically selects, depending on the number of wedges planned to be issued and other factors, as well as keys that prevent it from joining two similar clients, etc., each block and chain, so that the controller will only indicate the exact moment when a block will begin to be emitted after the system warns you that it is time. This system, depending on what has been described, also prevents wedges from being repeated by mistake, their emission is forgotten, their physical supports are lost and other factors that can ensure high reliability. EXPLANATION OF AN EMBODIMENT: Let us follow a sequence in which the advertising wedge is recorded in a sound production studio, subsequently sent from it to several radio stations distant hundreds of kilometers. From them we select one to explain an automatic execution process. The wedge will be scheduled for two months. In the recording studio the speakers are prepared. The technician has decided to make the recording directly on the digital media through the system, since he could previously register it on conventional media to pass it later. Prepare the system through the help screen, selecting to which medium you want to direct the recording, the quality in which you want it, etc., so that the system indicates that you are ready and just wait for the key that will start recording. Press the key and play a disc. The announcers enter reading the texts and all this is recorded on a hard disk that the system has, after being converted into digital digital format. When finished, the technician indicates to the system that the recording has finished.

After this step, and already handling the digital sound information, the system allows the technician to eliminate silences or small background noises, to accelerate or increase the duration of the recorded, select the names and keys that will give the file, work with the same adding other files, etc.

Once the final result adjustments have been completed, if these have been done, the technician must send the wedge to different stations. To do this, simply dial the telephone number of the same that you have for this purpose and order the system to send it digitally. At this time the transmission will be made through communication between modems and the sending will take the sound file as well as its programming and other data.

Once the wedge has been received at one of the stations, it is reviewed and checked the perfect sound of the file sent, as well as the data related to programming. If everything is correct and the approval of the advertising and programming departments is obtained, these can give the order to the system to proceed to the emissions as it has been received and therefore is scheduled. From this moment, and since we have selected for the explanation of an operating mode, the automatic, the wedge that was received in the described way will appear in each block corresponding to the hours and days in which it was programmed; If this programming were every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10.00 and 20.00 hours, the system will automatically select this wedge in these blocks.

For two months, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, in the control that is currently on broadcast within the radio station, at 10.00 and 20.00 hours, in addition to many other times that logically this is will produce, a light signal will light or an indication will appear on the help screen, indicating that from that moment the technician must give way to a wedge block. The technician, who should not even know what the wedges will be issued, gives way to them, producing the emission of these below.

At the same time, the key data, name and time of exact wedge radiation will be recorded in a system file, in addition to whether it occurred without any abnormality. Daily the advertising department will obtain a list in which the above data will be contained and that will serve as a faithful control instrument. Likewise, at the end of the month the billing will be done automatically, with the indication to the client of the exact hours of radiation, etc. Therefore, for all intents and purposes, the security of correct programming will be had, since if there had been failures in any of the emissions, the system would have detected it by repeating it later and indicating it according to the programming, but according to the really emitted.

Claims

1 ^§ - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized in that it allows the easy recording and reproduction of advertising wedges on computer media directly, in pure digital form, achieving the recording and reproduction of the wedges on standard computer media in real time, and providing a pure and manageable sound in a computer way, allowing the transmission of wedges over long distances through normal telephone lines without loss of quality when being reproduced at the destination, and integrate in the same process the management of data on wedges for use in administrative processes and their sound execution. 2 ^§ - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized according to the first claim, because it allows recording the advertising wedges in digital files contained in computer media and, from that, specific and differentiating treatments, such as the one avoid errors or mismatches between the wedge emission control and the reality of their issuance when both processes execute the same system. 33 - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized in that it allows the self-programmed emission of wedges and the formation of the different wedge blocks to be emitted at each moment of automatically and until the very end of the process, that is, the actual radiation of the wedges, executing everything within the same system and finding sound and information data of the wedges in the same computer support if desired. 43 - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized in that at the time of issuance of the wedges it is not necessary that the technician in charge of it must perform more process than pressing the button that proceeds to the emission of the block corresponding, whose content does not need to be knowledgeable since it is self-programmed by the system; and neither of its preparation since the system performs the same as well as warning of the time at which it should proceed to its emission. 6 ^β - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized, according to the first claim, because it allows to design formulas for the emission of wedges that the system will automatically compose later, such as wedge and wedge tunings, pauses between the same or station tuning at the beginning and end, as well as similar variants. 73 - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized, according to the first claim, because it integrates in the same system the processes of billing, programming and broadcasting of wedges in a radio station, without the data of all this they must be handled in any of the steps by the intervention of technicians, not even selecting the wedges or the own sound execution of them. 8 - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized, according to the first claim, because it allows to directly program the emission of one or several advertising wedges until its own execution from any study of the telephone recording company, without having to intervene No one for that purpose on the station itself, just to supervise it if you wish. 93 - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized, according to the first claim, because it allows the real-time reproduction of a wedge from a computer file and therefore it will not suffer any deterioration in its reproduction for many times that be carried out, given the characteristic of the type of sound data. 103 - The ADVANCED DIGITAL ADVERTISING RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION SYSTEM is characterized by allowing flexibility in the treatment of wedges in the format converted by it and in the processing processes in the same system of administrative and sound data characterized by future ones Improved programs that could be done over time for this purpose.