Selective playback of audio at normal speed during trick play operations
AssigneeAdeia Guides Inc.
InventorsAkshay Chetan Shah, Padmassri Chandrashekar
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Abstract
Systems and methods are described herein for selective playback of portions of audio at normal speed during a fast-forward operation. Upon receiving a command to perform a fast-forward operation, a current playback position is identified, as well as a plurality of portions of audio of the content item that will be subject to the fast-forward operation. A subset of the audio portions that will be subject to the fast-forward operation are selected. The fast-forward operation is initiated, and video of the content item is played back at the increased speed while the selected portions of audio of the content item are played back at normal speed.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving a command to perform a fast-forward operation for fast-forwarding from a current location in a content item to a desired location;
- determining a duration to perform the fast-forward operation from the received command;
- determining, based on the duration, that a time required to play a current audio segment associated with the current location of the content item exceeds the duration of the fast-forward operation;
- and
- in response to determining that the time required to play the current audio segment associated with the current location of the content item exceeds the duration of the fast-forward operation, reducing a speed of the fast-forward operation from its current speed and calculating a new duration to perform the fast-forward operation based on the reduced speed.
A system comprising:
- input/output circuitry configured to:
- receiving a command to perform a fast-forward operation for fast-forwarding from a current location in a content item to a desired location;
- and
- processing circuitry configured to:
- determine a duration to perform the fast-forward operation from the received command;
- determine, based on the duration, that a time required to play a current audio segment associated with the current location of the content item exceeds the duration of the fast-forward operation;
- and
- in response to determining that the time required to play the current audio segment associated with the current location of the content item exceeds the duration of the fast-forward operation, reduce a speed of the fast-forward operation from its current speed and calculate a new duration to perform the fast-forward operation based on the reduced speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.