State driven media playback rate augmentation and pitch maintenance
OwnerMichael J. Andriinventor
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Abstract
An electronic device obtains a media content item that includes an audio component. The electronic device obtains inertial sensor measurements indicating physical movement of the electronic device. The electronic device selects a target tempo for presentation of the audio component in which the target tempo is based, at least in part, on the inertial sensor measurements. The electronic device presents the audio component at the target tempo while maintaining pitch of one or more frequency components of the audio component at a native pitch or within a substantially un-shifted state relative to the native pitch of the one or more frequency components.
Claims18
A method for an electronic device, the method comprising:
- obtaining a media content item including at least an audio component;
- obtaining inertial sensor measurements indicating physical movement of the electronic device;
- selecting a target tempo for presentation of the audio component, the target tempo based at least in part on the inertial sensor measurements;
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- presenting at least a portion of the audio component via the electronic device at the target tempo while maintaining pitch of one or more frequency components of the portion of the audio component within a substantially un-shifted state relative to a native pitch of the one or more frequency components.
A storage subsystem having instructions stored thereon executable by a logic subsystem to:
- obtain a media library including a plurality of media content items;
- obtain a user input indicating a target tempo for presentation of an audio component of a media content item of the media library;
- filter the media library based at least in part on a respective native tempo of an audio component of each of the media content items of the media library to obtain a subset of the media content items having a respective native tempo within a tempo range of the target tempo;
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- present at least a portion of an audio component of a media content item of the subset via the electronic device at the target tempo and maintain pitch of one or more frequency components of the portion of the audio component within a substantially un-shifted state relative to a native pitch of the one or more frequency components during presentation of the audio component.
A method for an electronic device, comprising:
- receiving at least a portion of a media content item at the electronic device over a communications network;
- selecting an augmented playback rate for the portion of the media content item that is less than a native playback rate of the portion of the media content item, the augmented playback rate selected responsive to a data rate of the communications network being less than a threshold data rate;
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- presenting the portion of the media content item via the electronic device at the augmented playback rate while maintaining pitch of an audio component of the portion of the media content item within a substantially un-shifted state relative to a native pitch of the audio component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.