MEDIA PLAYBACK METHOD, CLIENT AND SYSTEM

• US 20160286264A1
• Filed: 06/08/2016
• Published: 09/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Miao, Kunjie
• Granted Patent: US 10,097,884 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/58 of audio determination or detection of speech characteristics in general G10L25/00; speech recognition in general G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6112 involving terrestrial transmission, e.g. DVB-T
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8113 comprising music, e.g. song in MP3 format

Abstract

A media playback method, client device and system are described. The method includes: acquiring, by a client device, audio information from a radio station, and extracting audio feature information from the audio information; sending the audio feature information to a server; receiving media information that is matched according to the audio feature information and returned by the server; downloading a corresponding media file from the server according to the media information at a current playback progress; and switching a current playback mode from the radio station to a media player, and playing the downloaded media file according to a playback progress of the radio station.

Claims

1. A media playback method, comprising:

acquiring, by a client device, audio information from a radio station, and extracting audio feature information from the audio information;

sending the audio feature information to a server;

receiving media information that is matched according to the audio feature information and returned by the server;

downloading a corresponding media file from the server according to the media information at a current playback progress; and

switching a playback mode of the client device from the radio station to a media player, and playing the media file according to a playback progress of the radio station.

2. The method according to claim 1, after the extracting audio feature information from the audio information, further comprising:

encoding the audio feature information.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the playing the downloaded media file according to a playback progress of the radio station comprises:

playing a downloaded song according to the playback progress of the radio station, and synchronously displaying lyrics.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

comparing audio information currently played by the radio station with the media file played by the media player, and determining whether a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file; and

when a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file, and the difference satisfies a preset condition, adjusting a current playback progress of the media player to be consistent with that of the radio station;

or

when a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file, and the difference does not satisfy a preset condition, switching a current playback mode from the media player to the radio station, and returning to perform the step of acquiring, by a client device, audio information from a radio station, and extracting audio feature information from the audio information.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

generating a radio station media list in the media player according to the audio information played by the radio station; and

replaying a media file in the radio station media list in the media player according to a user selection.

6. A media playback client device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more modules stored in the memory and to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more modules comprising;

an acquiring module, configured to acquire audio information from a radio station, and extract audio feature information from the audio information;

a sending module, configured to send the audio feature information to a server;

a receiving module, configured to receive media information that is matched according to the audio feature information and returned by the server;

a downloading module, configured to download a corresponding media file from the server according to the media information at a current playback progress; and

a playing module, configured to switch a current playback mode from the radio station to a media player, and play the downloaded media file according to a playback progress of the radio station.

7. The client device according to claim 6, wherein

the acquiring module is further configured to encode the audio feature information.

8. The client device according to claim 6, wherein

the playing module is further configured to play a downloaded song according to the playback progress of the radio station, and synchronously display lyrics.

9. The client device according to claim 6, further comprising:

an adjusting module, configured to compare audio information currently played by the radio station with the media file played by the media player, and determine whether a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file; and

when a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file, and the difference satisfies a preset condition, adjust a current playback progress of the media player to be consistent with that of the radio station;

or when a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file, and the difference does not satisfy a preset condition, switch a current playback mode from the media player to the radio station, and the acquiring module acquires audio information from the radio station, and extracts audio feature information from the audio information.

10. The client device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a generating module, configured to generate a radio station media list in the media player according to the audio information played by the radio station, wherein

the playing module is further configured to replay a media file in the radio station media list in the media player according to a user selection.

11. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium, comprising a set of instructions, the set of instructions to direct at least one processor to perform the acts of:

acquiring, by a client device, audio information from a radio station, and extracting audio feature information from the audio information;

sending the audio feature information to a server;

receiving media information that is matched according to the audio feature information and returned by the server;

downloading a corresponding media file from the server according to the media information at a current playback progress; and

switching a playback mode of the client device from the radio station to a media player, and playing the media file according to a playback progress of the radio station.

12. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium according to claim 11, after the extracting audio feature information from the audio information, further comprising:

encoding the audio feature information.

13. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the playing the downloaded media file according to a playback progress of the radio station comprises:

playing a downloaded song according to the playback progress of the radio station, and synchronously displaying lyrics.

14. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the set of instructions further direct the at least one processor to perform the acts of:

comparing audio information currently played by the radio station with the media file played by the media player, and determining whether a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file; and

when a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file, and the difference satisfies a preset condition, adjusting a current playback progress of the media player to be consistent with that of the radio station;

or

when a difference is generated between the audio information and the media file, and the difference does not satisfy a preset condition, switching a current playback mode from the media player to the radio station, and returning to perform the step of acquiring, by a client device, audio information from a radio station, and extracting audio feature information from the audio information.

15. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the set of instructions further direct the at least one processor to perform the acts of:

generating a radio station media list in the media player according to the audio information played by the radio station; and

replaying a media file in the radio station media list in the media player according to a user selection.