Accessibility Enhanced Content Delivery

Number: 20220360839
Published: 2022-11-10
Filed: 2022-05-03
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Arana; Mark, Navarre; Katherine S., Radford; Michael A., Rice; Joseph S.
CPC: G06T13/40; G06T13/80; G09B21/009; G10L21/10; G11B27/10; H04N21/4122; H04N21/43074; H04N21/4316; H04N21/4394; H04N21/44008; H04N21/47202; H04N21/488; H04N21/816
Verdict: Set aside accessibility content-delivery feature, business
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

A system for delivering accessibility enhanced content includes a computer server having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to deliver, to a user system, accessibility enhanced content comprising primary content and an accessibility track synchronized to the primary content, the accessibility track including at least one of a sign language performance, or one or more video tokens each expressing one or more words. When the accessibility track includes the sign language performance, the sign language performance is delivered contemporaneously with delivery of the primary content. When the accessibility track includes the one or more video tokens, the one or more video tokens are played back when the primary content reaches a location corresponding to each of the one or more video tokens.

Background

BACKGROUND

A variety of accessibility features, such as vision compensation, hearing assistance, and neurodiversity tools, for example, can greatly improve the experience of interacting with media content for persons experiencing disabilities. As a specific example, members of the deaf and hearing impaired communities often rely on any of a number of signed languages for communication via hand signals. Although effective in translating the plain meaning of a communication, hand signals alone typically do not fully capture the emphasis or emotional intensity motivating that communication. Accordingly, skilled human sign language translators tend to employ multiple physical modes when communicating information. Those modes may include gestures other than hand signals, postures, and facial expressions, as well as the speed and force with which such expressive movements are executed.

For a human sign language translator, identification of the appropriate emotional intensity and emphasis to include in a signing performance may be largely intuitive, based on cognitive skills honed unconsciously as the understanding of spoken language is learned and refined through childhood and beyond. However, the exclusive reliance on human sign language translation can be expensive, and in some use cases may be inconvenient or even impracticable, while analogous challenges to the provision of vision compensated and neurodiversity sensitive content exist. Consequently, there is a ne

Claims

1. A system for delivering accessibility enhanced content, the system comprising: a computer server having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code; the processing hardware configured to execute the software code to: deliver, to a user system, an accessibility enhanced content comprising a primary content and an accessibility track synchronized to the primary content, wherein the accessibility track comprises at least one of a sign language performance, or one or more video tokens each expressing one or more words; wherein when the accessibility track comprises the sign language performance, the sign language performance is delivered contemporaneously with delivery of the primary content; and wherein when the accessibility track comprises the one or more video tokens, the one or more video tokens are played back when the primary content reaches a location corresponding to each of the one or more video tokens. || 11. A method for use by a system for delivering accessibility enhanced content, the system including a computer server having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code, the method comprising: delivering to a user system, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, an accessibility enhanced content including a primary content and an accessibility track synchronized to the primary content, wherein the accessibility track comprises at least one of a sign language performance, or one or more video tokens each expressing one or more words; wherein when the accessibility track comprises the sign language performance, the sign language performance is delivered contemporaneously with delivery of the primary content; and wherein when the accessibility track comprises the one or more video tokens, the one or more video tokens are played back when the primary content reaches a location corresponding to each of the one or more video tokens.