Kaleida Labs, Inc.

Frederick L Malouf

Erik R Neumann

A media player and the clock which controls it are integrated into a single object. This integration may be achieved by the construct of inheritance between objects in an object oriented programming environment. A software class for player objects is established which inherits from a software class for clock objects. In this way, a player 'is a' clock. This integration provides improved synchronization among different media, and simplifies design of applications which employ player objects and clock objects. Each object is synchronized to a RootClock object which operates at the speed of the fastest media player in the system. The RootClock may be separated into 'low' order and 'high' order components and a compare register in order to reduce interrupt overhead.

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Frederick L Malouf