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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2016
Applicant:
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Ola Thörn, Lund, SE;
Assignee:
Sony Mobile Communications, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G10L 15/26 (2006.01); G10L 15/05 (2013.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01); G11B 27/28 (2006.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/277 (2013.01); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G10L 15/05 (2013.01); G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G10L 15/26 (2013.01); G11B 27/102 (2013.01); G11B 27/28 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01); G10L 2015/223 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control method improves a user's ability to navigate in speech-containing audio data during playback of the audio data on a computing device. The control method is executed by a processor in the computing device and comprises operating () a media player on the computing device to play the audio data, detecting () a user-initiated time-shift command to step forward or backward in the audio data, and, after detecting the time-shift command at a current time in the audio data, identifying () a starting point of a sentence in the audio data and operating () the media player to play the audio data from the starting point.