Visual manipulation of audio

• US 8,738,089 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2011
• Issued: 05/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Dunnam, Daniel Spurgeon, Stallings, Heath
• Primary Examiner(s): NGUYEN, LINH V
• Application Number:
  US13/315,806
• Publication Number:
  US 20120083249A1
• Time in Patent Office: 900 Days
• Field of Search: 455/566, 455/575.3, 455/575.4, 455/413, 455/414.1, 455/414.4
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/06 Transformation of speech into a non-audible representation, e.g. speech visualisation or speech processing for tactile aids G10L15/26 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6505 storing speech in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

A mobile communication device displays, via a display, an audio waveform associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and receives selection and sustained contact with the audio waveform from a user associated with the mobile communication device. The device also enlarges a portion of the audio waveform based on the sustained contact with the audio waveform, and displays, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform. The device further enables the user to manipulate, via the display, the enlarged portion of the audio waveform, and provides, via a speaker, audible feedback associated with the manipulated enlarged portion of the audio waveform.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying, via a display associated with a mobile communication device, an audio waveform associated with audio data associated with the mobile communication device;

receiving, by the mobile communication device and from a user, a selection of a portion of the displayed audio waveform,

receiving the selection including;

displaying a visual indicator of a graphical user input mechanism,

enabling the user to move the graphical user input mechanism along the portion of the audio waveform, and

displaying movement of the visual indicator based on movement of the graphical user input mechanism by the user; and

providing, by the mobile communication device and to the user, information associated with the selected portion of the audio waveform.

2. The method of claim 1, where receiving the selection of the portion of the displayed audio waveform further includes:

receiving a first user input to select a particular portion of the audio waveform;

enlarging, on the display, the selected particular portion of the audio waveform to obtain an enlarged portion of the audio waveform;

receiving a second user input specifying, from the enlarged portion of the audio waveform, the selected portion of the audio waveform; and

displaying the audio waveform, in an original size, with a visual indication of the selected portion.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising

providing, automatically via a speaker associated with mobile communication device, audible information associated with the selected portion of the audio waveform.

4. The method of claim 1, where the audio data is associated with a voicemail received by the mobile communication device, and

where the method further comprises:

displaying information associated with the voicemail,

where the information associated with the voicemail comprises one or more of;

a date when the voicemail was received by the mobile communication device,

a time when the voicemail was received by the mobile communication device, or

an identifier associated with the voicemail.

5. The method of claim 1, where the mobile communication device comprises one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal,

a personal digital assistant (PDA),

a portable gaming system,

a global positioning system (GPS) device, or

a media playing device.

6. A device comprising:

a memory to store a plurality of instructions; and

a processor to execute instructions in the memory to;

display, via a display, an audio waveform associated with audio data,

select, based on a first user input, a portion of the audio waveform,

provide, to the display, the selected portion of the audio waveform, and

manipulate, based on a second user input, the selected portion of the audio waveform,

the processor, when manipulating the selected portion of the audio waveform, is further to;

provide, to the display, a visual indicator of a location of a graphical user input mechanism on the display,

enable, via the display, a user to move the graphical user input mechanism along the selected portion of the audio waveform, and

cause the display to depict movement of the visual indicator based on movement of the graphical user input mechanism by the user.

7. The device of claim 6, where the display is a touch screen display, and

where the processor, when selecting the portion of the audio waveform, is further to:

detect a sustained contact, by the user, with a region of the touch screen display,

identify the portion of the audio waveform based on the region of the touch screen display associated with sustained contact,

enlarge, based on detecting the sustained contact, the portion of the audio waveform.

8. The device of claim 7, where the processor, when selecting the portion of the audio waveform, is further to:

receive, from the user, a selection of a point on the selected portion of the audio waveform,

reduce the audio waveform to an original displayed size based on the selection of the point on the selected portion of the audio waveform, and

cause the display to present, with the reduced audio waveform, the selected point.

9. The device of claim 6, where the processor is further to:

provide, via a speaker, audible information associated with the selected portion of the audio waveform.

10. The device of claim 6, where the audio data is associated with a voicemail, and

where the processor is further to:

display, via the display, information associated with the voicemail.

11. The device of claim 10, where the information associated with the voicemail includes one or more of:

a date when the voicemail was received by the device,

a time when the voicemail was received by the device, or

an identifier associated with the voicemail.

12. The device of claim 6, where the device is included in one or more of:

a radiotelephone,

a personal communications system (PCS) terminal,

a personal digital assistant (PDA),

a portable gaming system,

a global positioning system (GPS) device, or

a media playing device.

13. The device of claim 6, where the processor, when selecting the portion of the audio waveform based on the first user input, is further to:

provide, via a speaker, audio information associated with the audio data,

detect a portion of the audio information that is being provided when the first user input is received, and

identify the portion of the audio waveform based on the detected portion of the audio information.

14. A memory device to store instructions, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions which, when executed by a processor of a communication device, cause the processor to display an audio waveform associated with audio data;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to select, based on a first user input, a portion of the audio waveform;

one or more instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to display the selected portion of the audio waveform; and

one or more instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to manipulate, based on a second user input, the selected portion of the audio waveform,

the one or more instructions to manipulate the selected portion of the audio waveform including;

one or more instructions to display a visual indicator of a location of a graphical user input mechanism,

one or more instructions to enable a user to move the graphical user input mechanism along the selected portion of the audio waveform, and

one or more instructions to display movement of the visual indicator based on movement of the graphical user input mechanism by the user.

15. The memory device of claim 14, where the one or more instructions to select the portion of the audio waveform further include:

one or more instructions to enlarge the selected portion of the audio waveform.

16. The memory device of claim 15, where the one or more instructions to select the portion of the audio waveform further include:

one or more instructions to receive, from the user, selection of a point on the enlarged portion of the audio waveform,

one or more instructions to reduce, based on receiving the selection of the point, the audio waveform to an original displayed size, and

one or more instructions to concurrently display the reduced audio waveform and the selected point.

17. The memory device of claim 14, where the instructions further include:

one or more instructions to provide audible information associated with the selected portion of the audio waveform.

18. The memory device of claim 14, where the audio data is associated with a voicemail, and

where the instructions further include:

one or more instructions to display information associated with the voicemail.

19. The memory device of claim 18, where the one or more instructions to display the information associated with the voicemail includes one or more of:

one or more instructions to display a date when the voicemail was received by the communication device,

one or more instructions to display a time when the voicemail was received by the communication device, or

one or more instructions to display an identifier associated with the voicemail.

20. The memory device of claim 14, where the one or more instructions to select the portion of the audio waveform based on the first user input further include:

one or more instructions to provide sound associated with the audio data,

one or more instructions to identify a portion of the sound that is being provided when the first user input is received, and

one or more instructions to identify the portion of the audio waveform based on the identified portion of the sound.