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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2022
Roku, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Jesse Sookne, Garner, NC (US);
Karina Levitian, Austin, TX (US);
Chris Tegethoff, Portland, OR (US);
Abhijit Pol, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Anthony Wood, Palo Alto, CA (US);
ROKU, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for providing content searching for people with visual impairments or blindness. An embodiment operates by receiving a command to search multimedia content including both video content and audio content. One or more scene changes, including a first scene change, corresponding to the video content are determined. The search command is executed on the multimedia content. It is detected that the multimedia content has reached the first scene change responsive to the executing the search command. An audio cue t is audibly output responsive to the detection.