Apple Inc.

Netflix Inc.

Murthy Parthasarathi

Maxime Veron

Patrice Olivier Gautier

Karthik Narayanan

Timothy S Hurley

Raghu Pai

Yadong Wang

Andrew Kerr Swan

Shilpa Jois Rao

Kyle Tacke

Thomas E Mack

Boney Sekh

Raja Ranjan Senapati

Kalyan Nistala

Devang Shah

Ghaida Zahran

Anjali Chablani

Timonthy Hurley

A system and method of locating 'friends' having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., “home”). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device.

Identifying and locating users on a mobile network

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing an audio track that is associated with a video recording, identifying a section of the accessed audio track having a specific audio characteristic, reducing a volume level of the audio track in the identified section, accessing an audio segment that includes a synthesized voice and inserting the accessed audio segment into the identified section of the audio track, where the inserted segment has a higher volume level than the reduced volume level of the audio track in the identified section. The synthesized voice description can be used to provide additional information to a visually impaired viewer without interrupting the audio track that is associated with the video recording, typically by inserting the synthesized voice description into a segment of the audio track in which there is no dialog. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Systems and methods for mixing synthetic voice with original audio tracks

The disclosed computer-implemented method may include obtaining an audio sample from a content source, inputting the obtained audio sample into a trained machine learning model, obtaining the output of the trained machine learning model, wherein the output is a profile of an environment in which the input audio sample was recorded, obtaining an acoustic impulse response corresponding to the profile of the environment in which the input audio sample was recorded, obtaining a second audio sample, processing the obtained acoustic impulse response with the second audio sample, and inserting a result of processing the obtained acoustic impulse response and the second audio sample into an audio track. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

System and methods for automatically mixing audio for acoustic scenes

A system and method of locating 'friends' having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., 'home'). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device.

In various embodiments, a subtitle timing application detects timing errors between subtitles and shot changes. In operation, the subtitle timing application determines that a temporal edge associated with a subtitle does not satisfy a timing guideline based on a shot change. The shot change occurs within a sequence of frames of an audiovisual program. The subtitle timing application then determines a new temporal edge that satisfies the timing guideline relative to the shot change. Subsequently, the subtitle timing application causes a modification to a temporal location of the subtitle within the sequence of frames based on the new temporal edge. Advantageously, the modification to the subtitle improves a quality of a viewing experience for a viewer. Notably, by automatically detecting timing errors, the subtitle timing application facilitates proper and efficient re-scheduling of subtitles that are not optimally timed with shot changes.

Detecting errors in the timing between subtitles and shot changes

In various embodiments, a subtitle application generates a subtitle list for a trailer. In operation, the subtitle application performs matching operation(s) between trailer audio associated with a trailer and source audio associated with an audiovisual program. The subtitle application then maps a subtitle associated with the source audio from a source timeline associated with the source audio to a trailer timeline associated with the trailer audio to generate a mapped subtitle. Subsequently, the subtitle application generates a trailer subtitle list based on the mapped subtitle and at least one additional mapped subtitle. Because the subtitle application generates the trailer subtitle list based on audio comparisons, the subtitle application ensures that the proper subtitles are included in the trailer subtitle list without requiring a subtitler to view the trailer.

Techniques for generating subtitles for trailers

In various embodiments, a subtitle conformance application causes modifications to a subtitle list based on changes associated with an audiovisual program. In operation, the subtitle conformance application performs comparison operation(s) between versions of a subtitle template to identify changes to subtitles associated with the audiovisual program. The subtitle conformance application then determines a mapping between a first change included in the changes and a subtitle list associated with the audiovisual program. Finally, the subtitle conformance application causes the subtitle list to be modified based on the first change and the mapping. Advantageously, the subtitle conformance application enables productive development of subtitles to begin before the audiovisual program is finalized.

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Murthy Parthasarathi