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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2013
Audible, Inc., Newark, NJ (US);
Guy Ashley Story, Jr., New York, NY (US);
Nathan Garret Brothers, New York, NY (US);
Ajay Arora, New York, NY (US);
Douglas Scott Goldstein, Riverdale, NJ (US);
AUDIBLE, INC., Newark, NJ (US);
Abstract
A computing device may provide a visual cue to items of content (for example, words in a book) synchronized with the playback of companion content (for example, audio content corresponding to the book). Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a content playback synchronization system for use with physical books (or other physical media). In an embodiment, the computing device captures images of the physical book and may display a visual cue (for example, an underline, box, dot, cursor, or the like) to identify a current location in textual content of the captured and displayed images of the physical book corresponding to a current output position of companion audio content. As the audio content is presented (i.e., as it 'plays back'), the highlight and/or visual cue may be advanced to maintain synchronization between the output position within the audio content and a corresponding position in the displayed physical textual content.