US 12,536,602 B2Granted

Systems, methods, and user interface for navigating media playback using scrollable text

OwnerCurtis Evansinventor

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Abstract

A mobile computing device can be configured, with an improved user interface, to synchronously play audio (or video) and text associated thereto, such as text stored in a synchronization index. Using the synchronization index, the device can periodically compare the current track time with that time associated to a word or range of words, such as a line (or segment) in a plurality of lines of text (or segments of text). Improved navigability of content using an improved mobile computing device and user interface is provided, because a user of the device can scroll through the lines of text associated with the audio or video to find a target word or range of words. If the user selects a particular word or range of words, by making a gesture on the mobile computing device, the device can identify a start time for the selected text. The device can then play the audio or video at the identified start time of the selected text. The improved user interface is a practical application for navigating audio (or video) and text associated thereto on a mobile computing device, providing bimodal reading on mobile computing devices and ease of navigability.

Claims22

Dependent claims

A mobile computing device comprising:

at least one processor;
at least one memory device including instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to:
display a first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation associated with a media content item and corresponding to words audible in the media content item, each of the text segments structured to navigate said media content item by having a successive respective start time and end time bounded by a start time and an end time associated with the media content item,
wherein said display is caused by an action from the group consisting of
(a) receiving a gesture on an icon,
(b) receiving a gesture on an icon from a list of icons,
(c) receiving a gesture on an item in a media list area,
(d) receiving a gesture on a link, and
(e) receiving a gesture on a button, and
wherein said displayed first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation originate from or are a part of a synchronization index, and wherein said first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation or a synchronization index are received by the mobile computing device wirelessly;
receive an instruction to navigate through the first plurality of text segments;
display a second plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation associated with the media content item and corresponding to words audible in the media content item, each of the text segments structured to navigate said media content item by having a successive respective start time and end time bounded by the start time and the end time associated with the media content item, wherein at least one of the text segments in the second plurality of text segments is different from one of the first plurality of text segments,
wherein said displayed second plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation originate from or are a part of a synchronization index;
receive an indication of a selected text segment from the second plurality of text segments;
and
play a portion of the media content item corresponding to the selected text segment.

13 more elements

A mobile computer-implemented method comprising:

displaying a first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation associated with a media content item and corresponding to words audible in the media content item, each of the text segments structured to navigate said media content item by having a successive respective start time and end time bounded by a start time and an end time associated with the media content item,
wherein said display is caused by an action from the group consisting of
(a) receiving a gesture on an icon,
(b) receiving a gesture on an icon from a list of icons,
(c) receiving a gesture on an item in a media list area,
(d) receiving a gesture on a link, and
(e) receiving a gesture on a button, and
wherein said displayed first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation originate from or are a part of a synchronization index, and
wherein said first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation or a synchronization index are received by the mobile computing device wirelessly;
receiving an instruction to navigate through the first plurality of text segments;
displaying a second plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation associated with the media content item and corresponding to words audible in the media content item, each of the text segments structured to navigate said media content item by having a successive respective start time and end time bounded by the start time and the end time associated with the media content item, wherein at least one of the text segments in the second plurality of text segments is different from one of the first plurality of text segments,
wherein said displayed second plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation originate from or are a part of a synchronization index;
receiving an indication of a selected text segment from the second plurality of text segments;
and
playing a portion of the media content item corresponding to the selected text segment.

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A non-transitory mobile computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by at least one processor of a mobile computing system, cause the mobile computing system to:

display a first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation associated with a media content item and corresponding to words audible in the media content item, each of the segments structured to navigate said media content item by having a successive respective start time and end time bounded by a start time and an end time associated with the media content item,
wherein said display is caused by an action from the group consisting of
(a) receiving a gesture on an icon,
(b) receiving a gesture on an icon from a list of icons,
(c) receiving a gesture on an item in a media list area,
(d) receiving a gesture on a link, and
(e) receiving a gesture on a button, and
wherein said displayed first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation originate from or are a part of a synchronization index, and
wherein said first plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation or a synchronization index are received by the mobile computing device wirelessly;
receive an instruction to navigate through the first plurality of text segments;
display a second plurality of scrollable text segments for navigation associated with the media content item and corresponding to words audible in the media content item, each of the text segments structured to navigate said media content item by having a successive respective start time and end time bounded by the start time and the end time associated with the media content item, wherein at least one of the segments in the second plurality of text segments is different from one of the first plurality of text segments;
receive an indication of a selected segment from the second plurality of text segments;
and
play a portion of the media content item corresponding to the selected segment.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/264,756Filed 1 Feb 2019 · continuation
Priority: 3 Jan 2011
Published: US 2019/0172166 A16 Jun 2019
Granted: 27 Jan 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification27 codes

G06Q 50/18
Services: legal services
G06F 3/0488
Using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of…:…
G06F 16/40
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and…
G06F 16/41
Of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data: indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures

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Application61/429,399Us provisional application · filed 3 Jan 2011
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