Integration of multiple synchronization methodologies

摘要

A method comprising the steps of: generating an acoustic fingerprint that is responsive to a playing of a movie; searching, responsive to the acoustic fingerprint, an acoustic database; generating a dialogue fingerprint that is responsive to the playing of the movie; searching, responsive to the dialogue fingerprint, a dialogue database; identifying, responsive to the searching of the acoustic database and responsive to the searching of the dialogue database, a location within the movie; and displaying, responsive to the identified location, an information item that is associated with the identified location; and wherein the generating the dialogue fingerprint comprises a conversion of a portion of dialogue to text; wherein the searching the acoustic database is initially limited to a portion of the acoustic database; wherein the identifying is further responsive to a confidence indicator; and wherein a subsequent searching is responsive to a synchronization suspend timer.

主权项

1. A method comprising the steps of:
generating, with a second screen device, an acoustic fingerprint that is responsive to a playing of a movie on a primary screen device; searching, responsive to the acoustic fingerprint, an acoustic database; generating, with the second screen device, a dialogue fingerprint that is responsive to the playing of the movie on the primary screen device; searching, responsive to the dialogue fingerprint, a dialogue database; identifying, responsive to the searching of the acoustic database and responsive to the searching of the dialogue database, a location within the movie; displaying, on the second screen device and responsive to the identified location, an indication that information is available; and displaying, on the second screen device and responsive to a request for information, an information item that is responsive to the displayed indication that information is available, wherein the searching the acoustic database is initially limited to a portion of the acoustic database corresponding to a beginning portion of the movie, whereby a complete search of the acoustic database is ignored.