Media data and audio playback positioning method and electronic device system utilizing the same

• US 9,384,274 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2014
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cloud Network Technology Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lu, Chi-Chang
• Primary Examiner(s): Goins, Davetta W
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sellers, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US14/198,596
• Publication Number:
  US 20140188259A1
• Time in Patent Office: 852 Days
• Field of Search: 700/94
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• 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 16/686 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title or artist information, time, location or usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/022 Control panels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

Media data playback positioning method, such as audio data positioning, comprising a processor retrieving audio data from a memory, using a timer to time an extendable digit receiving period, receiving digits, generating a time value upon expiration of the extendable digit receiving period, and performing a playback operation on the media data based on the time value.

Claims

1. An electronic device system comprising:

a memory operable to store audio data;

an input device responsive to operations and operable to generate input signals of numbers; and

a processor electrically connected to the memory and the input device, and executing an audio playback positioning method, the method comprising;

receiving a first digit from the input device and initiating a timer operable to count a predetermined period of time;

generating a first time value corresponding to a first position in the audio data based on the received first digit;

locating the first position in the audio data;

determining whether the processor receives a second digit from the input device before the timer expires;

performing a first playback operation on the audio data based on the first position in response to expiration of the timer if the timer expires without reception of the second digit;

generating a second time value corresponding to a second position in the audio data based on the received first and second digits in substitution for the first time value, resetting the timer, and locating the second position if the processor receives the second digit from the input device before the timer expires; and

performing a second playback operation on the audio data based on the second position in response to expiration of the timer after reception of the second digit.

2. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a mobile phone, and the method further comprising determining whether to utilize the first digit for an operation selected from a phone number entering and audio data positioning.

3. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first playback operation comprises an operation selected from audio playing, repeating, and bookmark setting based on the first position, and the second playback operation comprises an operation selected from audio playing, repeating, and bookmark setting based on the second position.

4. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input device further comprises a touch panel, and the processor generates at least one of the first digit and the second digit in response to operations on the touch panel.

5. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input device further comprises numeric keys, and the processor generates at least one of the first digit and the second digit in response to operations on one numeric key.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input device further comprises a voice receiving device, and the processor generates at least one of the first digit and the second digit from the voice receiving device.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the first time value and the second time value is generated as a time value not greater than total playback time of the audio data.

8. The system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the audio playback positioning method further comprises:

generating an initial time value based on the received first and second digits;

obtaining a processed time value from the initial time value if the initial time exceed a time range presenting a time length of the audio data, wherein the processed time value is within the time range; and

utilized the processed time value as the second time value.

9. The system as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a first display device and a second display device, wherein the audio playback positioning method further comprises:

generating a first graphical user interface element representing length of the audio data and a second first graphical user interface element representing at least one of the first position and the second position on the audio data;

displaying the first graphical user interface element and the second first graphical user interface element on the first display device; and

transmitting the first graphical user interface element and the second first graphical user interface element through a wireless communication channel to the second display device.

10. An audio playback positioning method executable by an electronic device system comprising:

receiving a first input operation representative of a first digit and initiating a timer operable to count a predetermined period of time;

generating a first time value corresponding to a first position in an audio data based on the received first digit;

locating the first position in the audio data;

determining whether a second input operation representative of a second digit is received before the timer expires;

performing a first playback operation on the audio data based on the first position in response to expiration of the timer if the timer expires without reception of the second input operation representative of the second digit;

generating a second time value corresponding to a second position in the audio data based on the received first and second digits in substitution for the first time value, resetting the timer, and locating the second position if the second input operation representative of the second digit is received before the timer expires; and

performing a second playback operation on the audio data based on the second position in response to expiration of the timer after reception of the second digit.

11. The audio playback positioning method as claimed in claim 10, further comprising:

generating a first graphical user interface element representing length of the audio data and a second first graphical user interface element representing at least one of the first position and the second position on the audio data;

displaying the first graphical user interface element and the second first graphical user interface element on a first display device; and

transmitting the first graphical user interface element and the second first graphical user interface element through a wireless communication channel to a second display device.

12. The audio playback positioning method as claimed in claim 10, wherein the audio playback positioning method further comprises:

generating an initial time value based on the received first and second digits;

obtaining a processed time value from the initial time value if the initial time exceed a time range presenting a time length of the audio data, wherein the processed time value is within the time range; and

utilized the processed time value as the second time value.

13. An media data playback positioning method executable by an electronic device system comprising:

receiving a first input operation representative of a first digit and initiating a timer operable to count a predetermined period of time;

generating a first time value corresponding to a first position in an media data based on the received first digit;

locating the first position in the media data;

determining whether a second input operation representative of a second digit is received before the timer expires;

performing a first playback operation on the media data based on the first position in response to expiration of the timer if the timer expires without reception of the second input operation representative of the second digit;

generating a second time value corresponding to a second position in the media data based on the received first and second digits in substitution for the first time value, resetting the timer, and locating the second position if the second input operation representative of the second digit is received before the timer expires; and

performing a second playback operation on the media data based on the second position in response to expiration of the timer after reception of the second digit.

14. The media data playback positioning method as claimed in claim 13, further comprising:

generating a first graphical user interface element representing length of the audio data and a second first graphical user interface element representing at least one of the first position and the second position on the audio data;

displaying the first graphical user interface element and the second first graphical user interface element on a first display device; and

transmitting the first graphical user interface element and the second first graphical user interface element through a wireless communication channel to a second display device.

15. The media data playback positioning method as claimed in claim 13, wherein the audio playback positioning method further comprises:

generating an initial time value based on the received first and second digits;

obtaining a processed time value from the initial time value if the initial time exceed a time range presenting a time length of the audio data, wherein the processed time value is within the time range; and

utilized the processed time value as the second time value.