CONFORMING LOCAL AND REMOTE MEDIA CHARACTERISTICS DATA TO TARGET MEDIA PRESENTATION PROFILES

• US 20140371889A1
• Filed: 06/13/2013
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jawbone Innovations, LLC
• Original Assignee: AliphCom, Inc. (AliphCom Corp.)
• Inventors: Donaldson, Thomas Alan, Luna, Michael Edward Smith
• Granted Patent: US 11,016,718 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/94
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/30 Profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41422 located in transportation means, e.g. personal vehicle arrangements specially adapted for transportation systems in broadcast systems H04H20/62
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

Techniques associated with conforming local and remote media characteristics data to target media presentation profiles are described, including a media characteristic configuration module comprising an audio characteristic manager configured to modify an audio portion of media content data received from a source to conform the audio portion to a target audio characteristic indicated in a target configuration profile, and to modify an audio portion of other media content data received from another source to conform the audio portion to the target audio characteristic indicated in the target configuration profile, a communication facility configured to receive media content data from different sources using different data communication protocols, and a storage device configured to store target configuration profiles and data associated with media content.

Claims

1. A device, comprising:

a media characteristic configuration module implemented using a processor, the media characteristic configuration module comprising an audio characteristic manager configured to modify a first audio portion of a first media content data received from a first source to conform the first audio portion to a target audio characteristic indicated in a target configuration profile, and to modify a second audio portion of a second media content data received from a second source to conform the second audio portion to the target audio characteristic indicated in the target configuration profile;

a communication facility configured to receive the first media content data from the first source using a first data communication protocol and to receive the second media content data from the second source using a second data communication protocol; and

a storage device configured to store a plurality of target configuration profiles and data associated with a plurality of media content.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the first audio portion and the second audio portion comprise metadata associated with one or more audio characteristics.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the media characteristic configuration module further comprises a video characteristic manager configured to modify a video portion of the first media content data to conform the video portion to a target video characteristic indicated in the target configuration profile.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the first media content data is associated with media content provided by a media service and the second media content data is associated with another media content provided by another media service.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the first media content data is associated with media content provided by a media service and the second media content data is associated with a telephone call.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the first data communication protocol is associated with an advanced audio distribution profile (A2DP), and the second data communication protocol is associated with an IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) standard.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the first data communication protocol is associated with a headset (HSP) profile, and the second data communication protocol is associated with an IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) standard.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the first data communication protocol is associated with an audio/video remote control profile (AVRCP), and the second data communication protocol is associated with an advanced audio distribution profile (A2DP).

9. The device of claim 1, wherein the first data communication protocol is associated with a satellite communication protocol and the second data communication protocol is associated with an IEEE 802.11 (WiFi) standard.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the target audio characteristic comprises a target volume range and the audio characteristic manager is configured to normalize a volume data from the first audio portion and another volume data from the second audio portion using the target volume range.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the target audio characteristic comprises a target perceived loudness range and the audio characteristic manager is configured to perform psychoacoustic analysis and to normalize a loudness of the first audio portion and another loudness of the second audio portion using the target perceived loudness range.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the audio characteristic manager is configured to implement a compression algorithm.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the audio characteristic manager is configured to implement a dynamic range compression algorithm.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the audio characteristic manager is configured to implement a peak volume normalization algorithm.

15. The device of claim 1, wherein the audio characteristic manager is configured to implement a perceived loudness normalization algorithm.

16. The device of claim 1, wherein the audio characteristic manager is further configured to substantially match an audio characteristic of the first audio portion with the audio characteristic of the second audio portion.

17. The device of claim 1, wherein the data associated with the plurality of media content comprises metadata from two or more media services comprising the first source and the second source.

18. The device of claim 1, wherein the first source comprises a local source configured to exchange data with the communication facility using a short range communication protocol.

19. The device of claim 1, wherein the second source comprises a remote source configured to exchange data with the communication facility using a long range communication protocol.