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Granted patent

Systems and methods to facilitate selective dialogue presentation

Number
10917451
Published
2021-02-09
Filed
2020-02-14
Assignee
Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors
Arana; Mark
CPC
G06F16/683; G06F16/433; G06F16/438; H04L12/1827; H04N21/4307; G06F3/167; G06F16/483; H04N21/4755; H04N21/4856; G06F3/165; H04L65/764; H04L65/762
Verdict
Set aside dialogue/content selection feature, business
Source
Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

This disclosure presents systems and methods to facilitate selective dialogue presentation for multimedia presentations. Exemplary implementations may: present visual content of the multimedia presentation on a display device; present effects audio content of the multimedia presentation on a set of audio presentation devices; communication of individual dialogue audio content of the multimedia presentation to individual user devices to cause the individual user devices to present individual dialogue audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and/or the effects audio content; and/or other operations.

Background

FIELD (1) This disclosure relates to systems and methods to facilitate selective dialogue presentation, in particular, for consumption of a multimedia presentation. BACKGROUND (2) Traditionally, a movie theater projects a movie onto a large projection screen using a projector. Sound effects and music may be played through a number of wall-mounted surround sound speakers. Often a central speaker (or speakers) was positioned behind the projection screen to project audio through the projection screen. The central speaker(s) functioned as an audio channel primarily presenting dialogue, as well as other sound intended to come from immediately in front of the listener (e.g., sound effects intended to be perceived as being in front of the listener). More recently, the projector and projection screen are being replaced by light emitting diode (LED) screens. These modern LED screens may allow for more vibrant color definition with enhanced clarity and resolution. The LED screen, however, may not permit a central audio channel speaker to be positioned behind the LED screen for audio projection through the LED screen. Instead, the audio channel may also be presented through one or more of the wall-mounted speakers. (3) Movies are often produced for a target audience of one native language. When a movie is presented in a foreign language, the movie in its entirety may be dubbed over by foreign language voice actors, or the movie may be modified to include subtitles in the foreign languag

Claims

1. A system configured to facilitate selective dialogue presentation, the system comprising: non-transitory electronic storage storing media information for a multimedia presentation, the media information including visual information and audio information, the visual information defining visual content of the multimedia presentation, the audio information defining effects audio content and a set of centered audio content of the multimedia presentation, the effects audio content including surround sound effects, the set of centered audio content including separate and distinct centered audio content, such that the set of centered audio content includes first centered audio content and second centered audio content; and one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to: effectuate presentation of the visual content on a display device; effectuate presentation the effects audio content by a set of audio presentation devices, the presentation of the effects audio content being in sync with the presentation of the visual content; and effectuate communication of the audio information defining individual centered audio content to individual user devices included in a set of user devices associated with users to cause the individual user devices to present the individual centered audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and the effects audio content, such that the audio information defining the first centered audio content is communicated to a first user device associated with a first user to cause the first user device to present the first centered audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and the effects audio content, and the audio information defining the second centered audio content is communicated to a second user device associated with a second user to cause the second user device to present the second centered audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and the effects audio content. || 11. A method to facilitate selective dialogue presentation, the method comprising: storing media information for a multimedia presentation, the media information including visual information and audio information, the visual information defining visual content of the multimedia presentation, the audio information defining effects audio content and a set of centered audio content of the multimedia presentation, the effects audio content including surround sound effects, the set of centered audio content including separate and distinct centered audio content, such that the set of centered audio content includes first centered audio content and second centered audio content; effectuating presentation of the visual content on a display device; effectuating presentation the effects audio content by a set of audio presentation devices, the presentation of the effects audio content being in sync with the presentation of the visual content; and effectuating communication of the audio information defining individual centered audio content to individual user devices included in a set of user devices associated with users to cause the individual user devices to present the individual centered audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and the effects audio content, including communicating the audio information defining the first centered audio content to a first user device associated with a first user to cause the first user device to present the first centered audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and the effects audio content, and the audio information defining the second centered audio content to a second user device associated with a second user to cause the second user device to present the second centered audio content in sync with the presentation of the visual content and the effects audio content.