Visualized extension function of sound data for applications/services including

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to processing operations configured to execute a sound visualization application / service that dynamically generates a graphical sound indication that provides a visualization of sound for content being rendered. A visualization of the sound data may be generated and rendered according to analysis of the sound data, occurring in a manner independent of an application / service being used to render the content. The sound visualization application / service may be implemented as a separate application / service or plug-in that generally works to provide graphical sound visualization regardless of whether the content is developed to support graphical sound visualization. For example, a sound visualization application / service that graphically generates and renders sound indications without accessing code of displayed content is implemented. The rendered sound visualization may be presented concurrently with the displayed content. This differs from conventional technical examples where accessibility features can be directly encoded into the content itself, thereby overcoming the limitations in previous implementation examples.

Description

Background technique [0001] Real-time (or near real-time) processing of various applications / services can be improved for users by providing visual indications of sound. Gaming is one non-limiting example of an area where sound visualization can be leveraged to greatly improve the user experience, eg, where the sound is turned off / muted or the user is hearing impaired while the user is playing the game. Unfortunately, many video games are limited in the accessibility features (if any) that they offer users. In most games, deaf or hard-of-hearing players cannot hear important sounds such as footsteps, explosions, gunshots, etc. Additionally, this may result in the user being unable to pinpoint the direction these sounds are coming from. This lack of auditory awareness puts the user at a significant disadvantage when playing within a gaming session, especially when playing against others during a multi-player gaming session. As such, gaming applications / services and computing...

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Problems solved by technology

From a technical point of view, this is a tedious and time-consuming task that also needs to be done individually for each programmed game

Another technical disadvantage of traditionally integrating sound visualization directly into video game code is that this does not make sound visualization universally applicable across different video games and / or different types of applications / services

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