Melody-Lyrics Editing GUI With Time-Aligned Regions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing music editing tools do not allow users to simultaneously view the melody line and lyrics in detail, making it difficult for non-musicians to align lyrics with rhythm and melody, and require frequent zooming in and out for editing.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface (GUI) with separate melody and lyrics regions, where pitches and characters are aligned along the time axis, enabling users to edit lyrics while viewing the melody, with features like synchronized scrolling and visual differentiation of modified and unmodified parts, and allowing for simultaneous synthesis of edited lyrics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users zoom in to edit lyrics in detail, then lyric editing precision is improved, but the ability to view the overall melody flow at a glance is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The interface is divided into separate melody region and lyrics region, each capable of independent scrolling and viewing. This segmentation allows users to focus on detailed lyric editing in one region while maintaining overview capability in the other region, resolving the contradiction between detailed viewing and overall context visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a vertical stacking arrangement where the lyrics region is positioned below the melody region, creating a multi-dimensional layout. This spatial arrangement in another dimension (vertical stacking instead of horizontal zooming) enables simultaneous viewing of both detailed lyrics and overall melody flow without requiring zoom operations.
2Loss of information
If users zoom out to view the overall melody flow, then the ability to see melody flow at a glance is improved, but detailed lyric editing capability is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
By separating the interface into distinct melody and lyrics regions with independent scrolling capabilities, users can zoom out to view overall melody flow in the melody region while maintaining the ability to zoom in for detailed lyric editing in the lyrics region, eliminating the trade-off between overview and detail viewing.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface implements dynamic, independent scrolling for both regions, allowing users to adjust the viewing level of each region separately. This dynamic capability enables users to switch between overview and detail modes in each region independently, resolving the contradiction between overall visibility and detailed editing capability.
3Device complexity
If non-musicians rely on memorization to align lyrics with melody, then the complexity of the task is reduced, but the time required for editing is significantly increased
Solution Approach 1:
The synchronized display of melody and lyrics with temporal alignment acts as an intermediary visual aid between the melody and lyrics regions. This intermediary visualization enables non-musicians to easily align lyrics with melody without relying on memorization, significantly reducing editing time while maintaining low task complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of memorization with a visual synchronization system that automatically aligns melody and lyrics in time. This substitution eliminates the need for memorization-based alignment, reducing both the cognitive load and time required for lyric editing by non-musicians.
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AI summary
A variety of exemplary embodiments for editing music and user interface thereof are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method includes displaying a GUI that allows a user to edit music; wherein the GUI includes a melody region and a lyrics region, the melody region displays a melody portion of the music along the time axis and pitch axis, the lyrics region displays a lyrics portion corresponding to at least a part of the displayed melody portion, at least one pitch of the displayed melody portion and at least one character of the displayed lyrics portion corresponding to the at least one pitch are displayed, and substantially aligned along time axis, receiving a user input for modifying the displayed lyrics portion; and in response to the user input for modifying the lyrics portion, displaying a modified version of the lyrics portion on the lyrics region.