Managing Sound in a Relational Multimedia Database System
Abstract
Sound, in all of its varied forms, is an important and widely used medium for the transmission of information. The widespread use of computers has greatly increased the breadth and depth of our information processing abilities. Yet the limited sensory functionality of computers has traditionally dictated a predominantly alphanumeric or 'textual' communications interface standard. This thesis concentrates on the effective manipulation (i.e., capture, storage and retrieval) of sound data in a relational database system. It introduces the concept of an abstract data type of type SOUND which permits a level of sophistication in data manipulations that is beyond the capabilities of current systems. Such sophistication is accomplished through the use of a set of data manipulation operations which effectively hide the representation of the SOUND data structure from the user. As a result, the current familiarity of the user's view of the database remains unchanged when extended to the multimedia information processing environment. Keywords: Digitizing, Encoding, Theses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA205742
Entities
People
- Gregory R. Sawyer
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School