Movie trailer voting system with audio movie trailer identification

• US 10,650,393 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2018
• Issued: 05/12/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Trailervote Corp.
• Original Assignee: Trailervote Corp.
• Inventors: Wirasinghe, Marco
• Primary Examiner(s): Bantamoi, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US16/009,165
• Publication Number:
  US 20190172076A1
• Time in Patent Office: 698 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/018 Audio watermarking, i.e. embedding inaudible data in the audio signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47815 Electronic shopping payment schemes, payment architectures or payment protocols for electronic shopping systems G06Q20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8358 involving watermark protecting executable software by watermarking G06F21/16; image watermarking in general G06T1/0021; watermarks inserted in still images for transmission purposes H04N1/32144; inserting watermarks during video coding H04N19/467
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A mobile computing device receives audio data comprising an audio encoding of a unique identifier associated with a movie trailer. The mobile computing device or a remote computing device decodes the audio encoding using a decoder and generates non-audio data comprising the unique identifier responsive to the decoding. The mobile computing device or the remote computing device determines that the unique identifier is associated with the movie trailer. The mobile computing device generates a prompt for user feedback regarding the movie trailer, receives the user feedback regarding the movie trailer, and sends the user feedback to the remote computing device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving audio data of a movie trailer by a user device, wherein the user device is a mobile computing device comprising a microphone, wherein the audio data comprises one or more audio encoding comprising a) a unique identifier associated with the movie trailer and b) at least two of an image associated with the movie trailer, a title of a movie associated with the movie trailer, a font, layout information, a time stamp that represents a time offset into the movie trailer, a location, a language, a company, a universal resource locator (URL), an application programming interface (API), actor information, director information, producer information, studio information, genre, movie trailer length, a theater or a theater room, and wherein the audio data is received via the microphone;

decoding the one or more audio encoding using a decoder;

generating non-audio data comprising the unique identifier responsive to the decoding;

determining that the unique identifier is associated with the movie trailer;

determining at least one of the image, the title, the font, the layout information, the time stamp, the location, the language, the company, the URL, the API, the actor information, the director information, the producer information, the studio information, the genre, the movie trailer length, the theater or the theater room;

generating a prompt for user feedback regarding the movie trailer based at least in part on at least one of the image, the title, the font, the layout information, the time stamp, the location, the language, the company, the URL, the API, the actor information, the director information, the producer information, the studio information, the genre, the movie trailer length, the theater or the theater room;

receiving the user feedback regarding the movie trailer; and

sending the user feedback to a remote computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the non-audio data comprises at least one of a textual representation or a numerical representation of the unique identifier.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the unique identifier is associated with the movie trailer comprises:

sending the non-audio data comprising the unique identifier to the remote computing device; and

receiving a response from the remote computing device, wherein the response comprises an identification of the movie trailer.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more audio encoding was encoded into an audio format using one or more audio modulation schemes selected from a group consisting of frequency shift keying, phase shift keying, and pulse modulation, and wherein decoding the one or more audio encoding is performed using the one or more audio modulation schemes.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises the image associated with the movie trailer, the method further comprising:

generating the image based on a result of the decoding; and

displaying the image by the mobile computing device.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises at least one of the title of the movie associated with the movie trailer, the font or the layout information, the method further comprising:

determining a placement of at least one of the image or the title on a display of the mobile computing device based on the layout information in the one or more audio encoding; and

generating an output to the display comprising the image and the title having the determined placement.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises at least one of a first audio encoding or a second audio encoding, wherein the first audio encoding comprises at least one of a first location, a first language, a first company, a first theater or a first theater room, and wherein the first audio coding or the second audio encoding comprises at least one of a second location, a second language, a second company, a second theater or a second theater room, the method further comprising:

determining whether the mobile computing device is associated with a) at least one of the first location, the first language, the first company, the first theater or the first theater room or with b) the second location, the second language, the second company, the second theater or the second theater room; and

generating the prompt responsive to determining that the mobile computing device is associated with at least one of the first location, the first language, the first company, the first theater or the first theater room, wherein a different prompt is generated if the mobile computing device is associated with at least one of the second location, the second language, the second company, the second theater or the second theater room.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein an audio watermark of the audio data comprises the one or more audio encoding.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises the time stamp that represents the time offset into the movie trailer, the method further comprising:

reproducing the time stamp;

determining, based on the time stamp, the time offset into the movie trailer;

determining a time at which the movie trailer will end; and

performing at least one of vibrating or increasing a brightness of a display of the mobile computing device at the time or at a second time that is within a threshold distance from the time.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending the one or more audio encoding to the remote computing device, wherein the decoding of the one or more audio encoding and the generating of the non-audio data are performed by the remote computing device; and

receiving a response from the remote computing device, wherein the response comprises at least one of the non-audio data or information on the movie trailer.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises at least one of the URL or the API, the method further comprising:

reproducing at least one of the URL or the API; and

using at least one of the URL or the API to send the user feedback to the remote computing device.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile computing device executes a movie application, the method further comprising:

identifying an additional mobile computing device also executing the movie application;

establishing a peer-to-peer wireless connection between the mobile computing device and the additional mobile computing device;

determining that the mobile computing device lacks a network connection; and

sending the user feedback to the additional mobile computing device with a request for the additional mobile computing device to send the user feedback to the remote computing device.

13. A user device comprising:

a microphone;

a display; and

a processing device operatively coupled to the microphone and to the display, wherein the processing device is to;

activate the microphone;

receive audio data of a movie trailer via the microphone, wherein the audio data comprises one or more audio encoding comprising a) a unique identifier associated with the movie trailer and b) at least two of an image associated with the movie trailer, a title of a movie associated with the movie trailer, a font, layout information, a time stamp that represents a time offset into the movie trailer, a location, a language, a company, a universal resource locator (URL), an application programming interface (API), actor information, director information, producer information, studio information, genre, movie trailer length, a theater or a theater room;

decode the one or more audio encoding using a decoder to generate non-audio data comprising the unique identifier;

identify the movie trailer from the unique identifier;

determine at least one of the image, the title, the font, the layout information, the time stamp, the location, the language, the company, the URL, the API, the actor information, the director information, the producer information, the studio information, the genre, the movie trailer length, the theater or the theater room;

generate a prompt for user feedback regarding a movie associated with the movie trailer based at least in part on at least one of the image, the title, the font, the layout information, the time stamp, the location, the language, the company, the URL, the API, the actor information, the director information, the producer information, the studio information, the genre, the movie trailer length, the theater or the theater room;

output the prompt to the display;

receive user feedback regarding the movie associated with the movie trailer; and

send the user feedback to a remote computing device.

14. The user device of claim 13, wherein to identify the movie trailer the processing device:

sends the non-audio data comprising the unique identifier to the remote computing device; and

receives a response from the remote computing device, wherein the response comprises an identification of the movie trailer.

15. The user device of claim 13, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises the image associated with the movie trailer, and wherein the processing device is further to:

generate the image based on a result of decoding the one or more audio encoding; and

output the image to the display.

16. The user device of claim 15, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises at least one of the title of the movie associated with the movie trailer, the font or the layout information, and wherein the processing device is further to:

determine a placement of at least one of the image or the title on a display of the user device based on the layout information in the one or more audio encoding; and

generate an output to the display comprising the image and the title having the determined placement.

17. The user device of claim 13, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises at least one of a first audio encoding or a second audio encoding, wherein the first audio encoding comprises at least one of a first location, a first language, a first company, a first theater or a first theater room, and wherein the first audio encoding or the second audio encoding comprises at least one of a second location, a second language, a second company, a second theater or a second theater room, and wherein the processing device is further to:

determine whether the user device is associated with a) at least one of the first location, the first language, the first company, the first theater or the first theater room or with b) the second location, the second language, the second company, the second theater or the second theater room; and

generate the prompt responsive to determining that the user device is associated with at least one of the first location, the first language, the first company, the first theater or the first theater room, wherein a different prompt is generated if the user device is associated with at least one of the second location, the second language, the second company, the second theater or the second theater room.

18. The user device of claim 13, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises the time stamp that represents the time offset into the movie trailer, and wherein the processing device is further to:

reproduce the time stamp;

determine, based on the time stamp, the time offset into the movie trailer;

determine a time at which the movie trailer will end; and

perform at least one of vibrating or increasing a brightness of a display of the user device at the time or at a second time that is within a threshold distance from the time.

19. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by a user device, cause the user device to perform operations comprising:

receiving audio data of a movie trailer by the user device, wherein the user device is a mobile computing device comprising a microphone, wherein the audio data comprises one or more audio encoding comprising a) a unique identifier associated with the movie trailer and b) at least two of an image associated with the movie trailer, a title of a movie associated with the movie trailer, a font, layout information, a time stamp that represents a time offset into the movie trailer, a location, a language, a company, a universal resource locator (URL), an application programming interface (API), actor information, director information, producer information, studio information, genre, movie trailer length, a theater or a theater room, and wherein the audio data is received via the microphone;

decoding the one or more audio encoding using a decoder;

generating non-audio data comprising the unique identifier responsive to the decoding;

determining that the unique identifier is associated with the movie trailer;

determining at least one of the image, the title, the font, the layout information, the time stamp, the location, the language, the company, the URL, the API, the actor information, the director information, the producer information, the studio information, the genre, the movie trailer length, the theater or the theater room;

generating a prompt for user feedback regarding the movie trailer based at least in part on at least one of the image, the title, the font, the layout information, the time stamp, the location, the language, the company, the URL, the API, the actor information, the director information, the producer information, the studio information, the genre, the movie trailer length, the theater or the theater room;

receiving the user feedback regarding the movie trailer; and

sending the user feedback to a remote computing device.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 19, wherein the one or more audio encoding comprises the image associated with the movie trailer, the title of the movie associated with the movie trailer and the layout information, and wherein the user device is further to:

generate the image based on a result of the decoding;

determine a placement of at least one of the image or the title on a display of the mobile computing device based on the layout information in the one or more audio encoding; and

generate an output to the display comprising the image and the title having the determined placement.