System and method of adjusting audiovisual content to improve hearing
AssigneeEnhanced Personal Audiovisual Technology, LLC
InventorsAnthony B. Sokol, Michael D. Orosz, James E. Ziegler, Barry Berk
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AssigneeEnhanced Personal Audiovisual Technology, LLC
InventorsAnthony B. Sokol, Michael D. Orosz, James E. Ziegler, Barry Berk
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A system for adjusting audiovisual content having a server including a receiver for receiving a first content from a media source, a first circuitry configured to generate a second content based on the first content, the second content having multiple audio channels, a first transceiver for sending the second content to one or more clients, each client including a second transceiver for receiving the second content, and a second circuitry configured to generate a third content based on the second content and provide the third content to an audio device, wherein the second circuitry is configured to provide a graphical user interface to a user, the graphical user interface having a plurality of icons representing the user and the multiple audio channels, wherein movement of any of the plurality of icons will alter the second content.
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Transmission or handling of upstream communications: direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware: processing of audio elementary streams
Processing of content or additional data, e.g. demultiplexing additional data from a digital video stream; Elementary client operations, e.g.…:…
Processing of audio elementary streams: involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio…
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The present invention relates generally to a system for assisting individuals in the reception and understanding of information, including information transmitted in the audio and visual domains.
Hearing is an important part of communication and can often be impaired for varying reasons. In some instances, hearing is impaired due to physical conditions of the human auditory system. In other instances, hearing is impaired due to the saturation of the audio domain by a large number of audio stimuli or distractions from non-audio stimuli. One example is individuals immersed in noisy environments.
A variety of hearing impairments relate to physical conditions. Often an individual may have difficulty hearing in only one ear, or more difficulty hearing in one ear than the other. Some individuals may have difficulty hearing out of either ear. Each person's hearing impairments are unique in terms of which ear is impaired and the degree to which it is impaired. Individual impairments to hearing can also be associated with particular frequencies of audio. In this regard, it is desirable to have a system and method for adjusting audiovisual content to improve hearing.
FIG. 1a is a schematic block diagram of an audiovisual content adjustment system in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 1b is a schematic block diagram of an audiovisual content adjustment system in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 1c is a functional block diagram of an audio processing system in accordance with the embodiment of FIG. 1b;
Referring now to the drawings, audiovisual content adjustment systems in accordance with embodiments of the present invention are illustrated. Audiovisual content adjustment systems can allow a user to individually and graphically customize the channels or subcomponents of audio content and video content from a media source to suit the user's preferences. In some cases, the user's preferences will be tailored to overcome impairments to the user's hearing. The user can often express his preferences visually with the use of a graphical user interface. The user can adjust the audio content using a graphical user interface depicting a room or theater with a multi-channel speaker system, as in FIGS. 3b-3i.
Often a multichannel audio system will include six speakers comprising center, right, left, right surround, and left surround speakers, as well as a special effects speaker, which is typically a subwoofer. By moving icons representing speakers and/or the user, the user can control the way the audio content sounds when played on an audio delivery system, like a pair of headphones. For example, if the center speaker icon is moved closer to the icon depicting the user, then the volume of the center speaker relative to the other speakers will be increased when played on the user's headphones. The increase in volume can be in proportion to the distance that the center speaker icon is moved.
Video content from the media source can supplement the audio content by providing close-captioning text representing the audio content delivered to the audio delivery system. Characteristics, such as size, color and transparency of the text, describing how the video content is presented to the user can be customized using a graphical user interface. In one embodiment, the video content and graphical user interface is presented to the user by a video delivery system such as a heads-up display.