Voice communication method and system in game applications

• US 10,603,586 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2016
• Issued: 03/31/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Ma, Liang, He, Zhiqiang, Luo, Chunhua, Zhang, Wen
• Primary Examiner(s): McClellan, James S.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Carter, Kevin M
• Application Number:
  US15/386,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20170100670A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/215 comprising means for detecting acoustic signals, e.g. using a microphone
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/49 Saving the game status; Pausing or ending the game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/70 Game security or game management aspects
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/87 Communicating with other players during game play, e.g. by e-mail or chat
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services

Abstract

A voice communication method and system in a game application are provided. The method includes receiving a voice communication instruction in a game process. The voice communication instruction may be a communication identification of a game client that receives voice data. The method also performs voice recording according to the instruction, performs coding and compression processing on the voice data, and sends the voice data that has gone through the coding and compression processing to a corresponding game client.

Claims

1. A voice communication method in a game application, comprising:

receiving a voice communication instruction in a game process;

the voice communication instruction comprising a communication identification of a game client that receives voice data;

performing voice recording according to the voice communication instruction;

performing coding and compression processing on voice data obtained by voice recording; and

sending the voice data that has gone through the coding and compression processing to a corresponding game client according to the communication identification,

wherein the performing coding and compression processing on voice data obtained by voice recording comprises;

adding set codes at a head and a tail of the voice data as tags for indicating transmission start and end;

acquiring a sampling frequency value, a channel value, and a channel bit value of the voice data; and

performing coding and compression of an adaptive multi-rate narrow band (AMR-NB) format on the voice data according to the tags, the sampling frequency value, the channel value, and the channel bit value, to obtain AMR-NB data, and storing the AMR-NB data in the local magnetic disk in the form of a file.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing voice recording comprises:

detecting a current memory status of the game client in real time and creating several voice recording buffers according to the memory status;

turning on a microphone according to the communication instruction to perform voice recording, and storing recorded voice data in the voice recording buffers;

writing, after detecting that one voice recording buffer is a full buffer, voice data of the full buffer into a local magnetic disk and continuously writing voice data into a next voice recording buffer; and

reclaiming, after detecting that all voice data in the full buffer is written into the local magnetic disk, the full buffer to continuously receive new voice data until the voice recording is finished.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sending the voice data that has gone through the coding and compression processing to a corresponding game client according to the communication identification comprises:

determining whether a capacity of the AMR-NB data is greater than a set threshold; and

performing, if the capacity of the AMR-NB data is greater than the set threshold, secondary coding and compression of a Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) format on the AMR-NB data, to obtain JCE data, and sending the JCE data to the corresponding game client according to the communication identification.

4. A voice communication system in a game application, comprising a first game client, the first game client comprising:

a communication instruction receiving module, configured to receive a voice communication instruction in a game process, the voice communication instruction comprising a communication identification of a game client that receives voice data;

a voice recording module, configured to perform voice recording according to the voice communication instruction; and

a coding and transmission module, configured to perform coding and compression processing on voice data obtained by voice recording and send the voice data that has gone through the coding and compression processing to a corresponding game client according to the communication identification,

wherein the coding and transmission module comprises;

a marking module, configured to add set codes at a head and a tail of the voice data as tags for indicating transmission start and end;

an acquiring module, configured to acquire a sampling frequency value, a channel value, and a channel bit value of the voice data; and

an adaptive multi-rate (AMR) coding module, configured to perform coding and compression of an adaptive multi-rate narrow band (AMR-NB) format on the voice data according to the tags, the sampling frequency value, the channel value, and the channel bit value, to obtain AMR-NB data, and store the AMR-NB data in the local magnetic disk in the form of a file.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the voice recording module comprises:

a voice recording buffer creating module, configured to detect a current memory status of a first game client in real time and create several voice recording buffers according to the memory status;

a buffer writing module, configured to turn on a microphone according to the communication instruction to perform voice recording, and store recorded voice data in the voice recording buffers;

a local magnetic disk writing module, configured to write, after detecting that one voice recording buffer is a full buffer, voice data of the full buffer into a local magnetic disk and continuously write voice data into a next voice recording buffer; and

a reclaiming module, configured to reclaim, after detecting that all voice data in the full buffer is written into the local magnetic disk, the full buffer to continuously receive new voice data until the voice recording is finished.

6. The system according to claim 4, wherein the coding and transmission module further comprises:

a first determining module, configured to determine whether a capacity of the AMR-NB data is greater than a set threshold; and

a Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) coding and sending module, configured to perform, if a determining result of the first determining module is yes, secondary coding and compression of a JCE format on the AMR-NB data, to obtain JCE data, and send the JCE data to the corresponding game client according to the communication identification.