Log Note System For Digitally Recorded Audio

Abstract

A system which is primarily of use for lawyers, judges, and electronic court reporters operates to correlate personal log notes with digitally recorded audio proceedings, such as courtroom proceedings. The notes may be made in conjunction with the computer actually recording the courtroom proceedings; or they may be made on personal computers separate from the computer recording the court proceedings. Identification of the proceedings is made on both the digitally recorded proceedings, as well as on the log notes; so that they are correlated. Each time a note is entered, the time at which the note• is entered is placed as a time stamp in conjunction with the note. When the log notes are synchronized with the recorded court proceedings (either at the time the proceedings begin, or at any subsequent time), reference subsequently to that note time stamp allows direct immediate access to the same running time on the court proceedings, for subsequent review of either the recorded audio or a transcription made of that audio carrying the same time references.

1 ) A computer system for creating and entering log notes each time-linked to the recording times of a digital record, including in combination:
 a) at least one source of recorded signals, the recorded signals associated with a date and a running time, the date and running time corresponding to the time at which the recorded signals were recorded;   b) at least one log sheet computer interface permitting a user to input log notes;   c) at least one computer storage structured and arranged to store digital signals corresponding to the user-input log notes;   d) said computer system associating a time stamp corresponding to the actual recording time of the user-input log notes;   e) wherein the digital signals of the user-input log notes are time linked to the recorded signals.   
   
   
       2 ) A computer system for creating and entering log notes each time-linked to the recording times of a digital record, including in combination:
 a) at least one source of recorded signals, the recorded signals associated with a date and a running time, the date and running time corresponding to the time at which the recorded signals were recorded;   a) means for playing the recorded signals;   b) at least one log sheet computer interface permitting a user to input log notes;   c) at least one computer storage structured and arranged to store digital signals corresponding to the user-input log notes;   d) said computer system associating a time stamp corresponding to the running time of the recorded signals with the user-input log notes;   b) wherein the digital signals of the user-input log notes are time linked to the recorded signals.   
   
   
       3 ) A computer system for creating and entering log notes each time-linked to the recording times of a digital record, including in combination:
 a) at least one computer recording system structured and arranged to digitally record at least one event;   b) at least one computer storage system structured and arranged to store digitally recorded signals of the at least one event;   c) said computer system associating a date and a running time with the digitally recorded signals, the date and running time corresponding to the time at which the digitally recorded signals were recorded;   d) at least one log sheet computer interface permitting a user to input log notes;   e) at least one computer storage structured and arranged to store digital signals corresponding to the user-input log notes;   f) said computer system associating a time stamp corresponding to the actual recording time of the user-input log notes;   g) wherein the digital signals of the user-input log notes are time linked to the recorded signals.