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Synchronous plan for multimedia caption and audeo frequency discription

A technology of media streaming and main media, applied in educational equipment, record carrier accessories, electronic digital data processing, etc., can solve problems such as confusion

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-07-14
MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
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Also, one scene's supplemental media often "overflows" into the next, which can create some confusion as to what is currently happening in the main media stream

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[0018] Figure 1 and the following discussion are intended to briefly and generally describe a computing system suitable for implementing the various features of the invention. Although the computing system will be described in the general context of a personal computer that may be used in a distributed computing environment, where complementary tasks are performed by remote computing devices linked together by a communications network, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention may be implemented in Implemented in many other computer system configurations, including multiprocessor systems, minicomputers, mainframe computers, and the like. The invention can be implemented in a local area network, or on a single computer using logical rather than physical remote devices. Additionally, although the invention has been described in terms of a computer system, it should be understood that the invention can be used with other media streaming players, such as ...

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A method for outputting supplemental media streams with a main media stream is presented. The method monitors for triggering events and, upon detecting a triggering event, causes one or more supplemental media streams associated with the triggering event to output. The associated supplemental media streams may be output either synchronously or asynchronously with the main media stream. Synchronous supplemental media streams are output concurrently with the main media stream. Asynchronously output supplemental media streams suspend the main media stream while they are output and terminate any currently outputting supplemental media streams. A supplemental media stream may cause a conditional triggering event to trigger a second supplemental media stream to output synchronously with the first. A second main media stream with associated supplemental media streams may be output asynchronously as a compiled supplemental media stream in connection with a first main media stream.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method for displaying a supplementary media stream, designed to assist visually and hearing impaired persons, together with a main multimedia stream. Background technique [0002] There are many people who can use multimedia but cannot fully appreciate the content delivered by the multimedia because one of their senses, such as vision or hearing, is impaired. For example a hearing impaired person may consume a stream of multimedia content with both video and audio aspects, but only perceive the video aspect of the content. Likewise, a visually impaired person can consume a stream of multimedia content that has both video and audio aspects, but only perceive the audio aspect of the content. [0003] Subtitles, a supplemental media stream used to aid the hearing-impaired, have become an industry staple for television programming over the years. The concept of subtitles has extended beyond television broadcasting to ot...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G09B21/00G03B31/04G06F9/30G06F11/00G06F13/18G06F13/38G06F17/50G06T13/00G06T13/80H04L12/16H04N5/06H04N5/445H04N5/93H04N7/025H04N7/08H04N7/16
CPCH04N21/23418H04N21/4884H04N7/0885H04N21/233H04N7/165H04N7/08H04N21/854H04N5/06
Inventor 金子雅彦
Owner MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC