SYNCRONIZING AUDIO PLAYBACK IN COORDINATION WITH EXTERNAL VIDEO PLAYBACK WITH AUTO-DIMMING

• US 20160092052A1
• Filed: 09/30/2014
• Published: 03/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Theater Ears, LLC
• Original Assignee: Theater Ears, LLC
• Inventors: Kawa, Larry A.
• Application Number:
  US14/501,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20160092052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/685 using automatically derived transcript of audio data, e.g. lyrics speech recognition G10L15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6058 involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72454 according to context-related or environment-related conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43079 of additional data with content streams on multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/439 Processing of audio elementary streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8106 involving special audio data, e.g. different tracks for different languages
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/04 Synchronising for television systems using pulse code modulation H04N7/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/7755 the recorder being connected to, or coupled with, the antenna of the television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9305 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

Embodiments of the invention provide for tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery. A method of tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery includes selecting a film from amongst a set of films in a user interface to a mobile device and downloading into persistent storage of the mobile device, an audio file associated with the selected film. The method also includes initiating playback of the audio file through the mobile device and presenting one or more selectable fine tune controls in the user interface of the mobile device. In this regard, the controls respond to a selection thereof by skipping playback of the audio file by a predetermined period of time. Finally, the method includes responding to a selection of one of the controls in the user interface, by skipping playback of the audio file by the predetermined period of time.

Claims

1. A method of tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery, the method comprising:

selecting a film from amongst a set of films in a user interface to a mobile device;

downloading into persistent storage of the mobile device, an audio file associated with the selected film;

initiating playback of the audio file through the mobile device;

presenting one or more selectable fine tune controls in the user interface of the mobile device, the controls responding to a selection thereof by skipping playback of the audio file by a predetermined period of time; and

,

responsive to a selection of one of the selectable fine tune controls in the user interface, skipping playback of the audio file by the predetermined period of time;

wherein a display of the user interface is dimmed during playback of the audio file.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of films is filtered in accordance with a determined location of the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is placed into an airplane mode during playback of the audio file.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the audio is played back over a wireless headset communicatively coupled to the mobile device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the controls include a skip forward control configured to respond to a selection thereof by skipping forward the playback of the audio by a predetermined amount of time, and a skip backwards control configured to respond to a selection thereof by skipping backwards the playback of the audio by a predetermined amount of time.

3. (canceled)

7. An audio presentation data processing system configured for tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery, the system comprising:

a mobile device comprising a display, audio circuitry, memory and at least one processor; and

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a tunable audio playback module executing in the memory of the mobile device, the module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the memory to present in the display a set of films, to select one of the films in the set, to download into the memory an audio file associated with the selected one of the films, to initiate playback of the audio file through the audio circuitry, to present in the display one or more selectable fine tune controls, the controls responding to a selection thereof by skipping playback of the audio file by a predetermined period of time and to respond to a selection of one of the selectable fine tune controls in the display by skipping playback of the audio file by the predetermined period of time, wherein the display is dimmed during playback of the audio file.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the set of films is filtered in accordance with a determined location of the mobile device.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein the mobile device is placed into an airplane mode during playback of the audio file.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the audio is played back over a wireless headset communicatively coupled to the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the controls include a skip forward control configured to respond to a selection thereof by skipping forward the playback of the audio by a predetermined amount of time, and a skip backwards control configured to respond to a selection thereof by skipping backwards the playback of the audio by a predetermined amount of time.

9. (canceled)

13. A computer program product for the tunable playback of audio coordinated with externally presented video imagery, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to perform a method comprising:

selecting a film from amongst a set of films in a user interface to a mobile device;

downloading into persistent storage of the mobile device, an audio file associated with the selected film;

initiating playback of the audio file through the mobile device;

presenting one or more selectable fine tune controls in the user interface of the mobile device, the controls responding to a selection thereof by skipping playback of the audio file by a predetermined period of time; and

, responsive to a selection of one of the selectable fine tune controls in the user interface, skipping playback of the audio file by the predetermined period of time;

wherein a display of the user interface is dimmed during playback of the audio file.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the set of films is filtered in accordance with a determined location of the mobile device.

16. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the mobile device is placed into an airplane mode during playback of the audio file.

17. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the audio is played back over a wireless headset communicatively coupled to the mobile device.

18. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the controls include a skip forward control configured to respond to a selection thereof by skipping forward the playback of the audio by a predetermined amount of time, and a skip backwards control configured to respond to a selection thereof by skipping backwards the playback of the audio by a predetermined amount of time.

15. (canceled)