- Number
- 11599328
- Published
- 2023-03-07
- Filed
- 2015-05-26
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Poswal; Mohammad et al.
- CPC
- G06F3/165
- Verdict
- Set aside audio-for-text playback feature, generic
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
Abstract
There is provided a media player device for use with a text medium having a plurality of pages each having a plurality of words, the media player device comprising an audio output, a memory storing a text medium application software; and a processor configured to execute the text medium application software to receive a first signal emitted from a wireless communication element embedded in the text medium, the first signal including a text medium ID uniquely identifying the text medium, and play an audio, via the audio output and in response to receiving the text medium ID, wherein the audio corresponds to the text medium ID and the audio pronounces the plurality of words in a same sequence appearing in each of the plurality of pages.
Background
BACKGROUND (1) Children enjoy read-along books, which allow them to listen to an audio of a book while they follow along in a corresponding book. However, conventional approaches to read-along books require one to be in possession of a CD or a cassette, which includes the audio of the corresponding book. In addition, a child may not be able to find a matching CD or cassette for a book, and may not be able to operate a CD or a cassette player for playing the matching CD or cassette. Further, a CD or a cassette may be lost, damaged or misplaced, especially at the hands of children. Even more, conventional approaches to read-along books or books on CDs require a child or an adult to remember at which point during the audio was previously stopped for the purpose of re-starting the audio at a later time. SUMMARY (2) The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for playing an audio corresponding to a text medium, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
Claims
1. A media player device comprising: an audio output; a display; a memory storing an audio book application software; and a processor configured to execute the audio book application software to: receive, using a playback module of the audio book application software, a text medium ID uniquely identifying a text medium having a plurality of pages each having a plurality of words; locate, using a bookmark module of the audio book application software, in response to receiving the text medium ID, a bookmark location in the memory associated with a user of a plurality of users associated with the text medium ID; detect, using a proximity module of the audio book application software, a proximity of the media player device to the text medium; initiate play of an audio, using the playback module of the audio book application software only when the media player device is within a predetermined proximity of the text medium, starting from the bookmark location associated with the user, wherein the audio corresponds to the text medium ID and pronounces words corresponding to the plurality of words in a same sequence appearing in the plurality of pages, and wherein the bookmark location corresponds to a location prior to a word last played to avoid playing the audio from a middle of a sentence; continue play of the audio until an end of the audio, whether or not the media player device remains within the predetermined proximity of the text medium during the continued play of the audio; and display, on the display, a non-numeric graphic of an illustration or a still picture corresponding to a current playback page of the text medium so as to identify a location in the text medium corresponding to the current playback of the audio. ||
7. A method for use by a media player device having an audio output, a memory storing an audio book application software, a display and a processor, the method comprising: receiving, using the processor executing a playback module of the audio book application software, uniquely identifying a text medium having a plurality of pages each having a plurality of words; locating, in response to receiving the text medium ID, using the processor executing a bookmark module of the audio book application software, a bookmark location in the memory associated with a user of a plurality of users associated with the text medium ID; detecting, using the processor executing a proximity module of the audio book application software, a proximity of the media player device to the text medium; initiating play of an audio, using the processor executing the playback module of the audio book application software only when the media player device is within a predetermined proximity of the text medium, starting from the bookmark location associated with the user, wherein the audio corresponds to the text medium ID and pronounces words corresponding to the plurality of words in a same sequence appearing in the plurality of pages, and wherein the bookmark location corresponds to a location prior to a word last played to avoid playing the audio from a middle of a sentence; continuing play of the audio until an end of the audio, whether or not the media player device remains within the predetermined proximity of the text medium during the continued playing of the audio; and displaying, on the display, a non-numeric graphic of an illustration or a still picture corresponding to a current playback page of the text medium so as to identify a location in the text medium corresponding to the current playback of the audio. ||
17. A media player device comprising: an audio output; a display; a memory storing an audio book application software; and a processor configured to execute the audio book application software to: receive, using a playback module of the audio book application software, a text medium ID uniquely identifying a text medium having a plurality of pages each having a plurality of words; locate, using a bookmark module of the audio book application software, in response to receiving the text medium ID, a bookmark location in the memory associated with a user of a plurality of users associated with the text medium ID; detect, using a proximity module of the audio book application software, a proximity of the media player device to the text medium; play, using the playback module of the audio book application software only when the media player device is within a predetermined proximity of the text medium, starting from the bookmark location associated with the user, wherein the audio corresponds to the text medium ID and pronounces words corresponding to the plurality of words in a same sequence appearing in the plurality of pages, and wherein the bookmark location corresponds to a location prior to a word last played to avoid playing the audio from a middle of a sentence; and display, on the display, a non-numeric graphic of an illustration or a still picture corresponding to a current playback page of the text medium so as to identify a location in the text medium corresponding to the current playback of the audio.