SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING BASED ON AUDIO SEARCH CRITERIA

• US 20080086539A1
• Filed: 08/31/2006
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Bloebaum, L. Scott, Kokes, Mark G.
• Granted Patent: US 8,311,823 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/634 Query by example, e.g. query by humming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/68 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/685 using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics speech recognition G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/23 Construction or mounting of dials or of equivalent devices; Means for facilitating the use thereof by improving visibility H04M1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72442 for playing music files

Abstract

A method of conducting a search includes tagging a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip. The audio clip is captured from the audio content and transferred to a search support function to conduct a search based on the search criteria from the audio clip

Claims

1. A method of conducting a search, comprising:

tagging a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip;

capturing the audio clip from the audio content; and

transferring the audio clip to a search support function to conduct a search based on the search criteria from the audio clip.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the search support function is hosted remotely from a local device that captured the audio clip.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving search results from the search support function.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the search support function conducts speech recognition on the audio clip to extract the search criteria.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the search support function carries out an Internet search or a database search using the extracted search criteria.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the transferring includes transmitting the audio clip to a server that hosts the search support function.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio clip is processed to extract the search criteria.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the processing includes speech recognition.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the search support function carries out an Internet search or a database search using the extracted search criteria.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the tagging and capturing is carried out by a mobile radio terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the audio content is stored by the mobile radio terminal.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the audio content is streamed to the mobile radio terminal.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio content is played to the user and repeated to facilitate tagging in response to user input.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the tagging is based on command inputs based on user action.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the command inputs are based on depression of a button by a user.

18. The program of claim 15, wherein the audio clip is processed to extract the search criteria and the search support function carries out an Internet search or a database search using the extracted search criteria.

19. The program of claim 15, wherein the executable logic is executed by a mobile radio terminal that plays back the audio content from a locally stored source or from a steaming source.

23. The electronic device of claim 19, wherein the audio clip is processed to extract the search criteria and the search support function carries out an Internet search or a database search using the extracted search criteria.

16. A program stored on a machine readable medium to conduct a search and comprising executable logic to:

tag a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip;

capture the audio clip from the audio content; and

transfer the audio clip to a search support function to conduct a search based on the search criteria from the audio clip.

17. The program of claim 16, wherein the search support function is hosted remotely from a local device that captures the audio clip.

20. An electronic device, comprising:

an audio processing circuit to playback audio content to a user; and

a processing device that executes logic to conduct a search, the logic including code that;

tags a user selected segment of audio content that includes search criteria to define an audio clip;

captures the audio clip from the audio content; and

transfers the audio clip to a search support function to conduct a search based on the search criteria from the audio clip.

21. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the electronic device is a mobile radio terminal and further includes a radio circuit to establish communications with a communications network.

22. The electronic device of claim 20, wherein the search support function is hosted remotely from the electronic device.