Smartphone bluetooth headset receiver

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9820087-B2
Application number	US-201715409051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 18, 2017
Priority date	Dec 19, 2013
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for allowing a user with a Smartphone to pair the Smartphone with another Bluetooth device to receive audio that is played to the user over headphones or through speakers on the Smartphone. Further, an audio processing module is used to modify the audio presented to the user, extract closed captioning text to be displayed to the user, find information relevant to the audio to be displayed to the user, and pause audio content sent to the Smartphone when phone calls or other Smartphone interruptions occur.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device comprising:
a speaker configured to output audio to a user;
a first Bluetooth module configured to be paired with a second Bluetooth module of a Bluetooth-enabled device, the first Bluetooth module being configured to receive an audio portion of an audiovisual content from the second Bluetooth module of the Bluetooth-enabled device; and
a processing module coupled to the first Bluetooth module and the speaker and configured to:
detect that a phone call is received on the Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device;
upon detecting that the phone call is received on the Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device, send, using the first Bluetooth module, a command to the second Bluetooth module of the Bluetooth-enabled device to pause sending the audio portion;
when the phone call is completed, send, using the first Bluetooth module, a command to the second Bluetooth module of the Bluetooth-enabled device to resume sending the audio portion at a same location in the audio portion at which the pausing of the sending of the audio portion occurred; and
output the audio portion to the speaker.

2. The Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion of the audiovisual content by:
performing audio-to-text conversion on the audio portion to produce text; and
outputting the text to a display of the Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device.

3. The Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to adjust a volume of the audio portion so that the volume falls within a predetermined decibel range.

4. The Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion of the audiovisual content by:
analyzing the audio portion for closed captioned information; and
outputting the closed captioned information to a display of the Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device.

5. The Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion by:
analyzing the audio portion;
translating a language of the audio portion into a different language; and
creating an enhanced audio using the translated audio portion.

6. The Bluetooth-enabled Smartphone device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion by:
splitting the audio portion into predetermined frequency ranges;
applying adjustments to a volume of each of the frequency ranges; and
combining each of the volume-adjusted frequency ranges to create an enhanced audio, wherein outputting the audio portion includes outputting the enhanced audio.

7. The first Bluetooth-enabled device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion by:
analyzing the audio portion;
translating a language of the audio portion into a different language; and
creating an enhanced audio using the translated audio portion.

8. The first Bluetooth-enabled device of claim 1 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion by:
splitting the audio portion into predetermined frequency ranges;
applying adjustments to a volume of each of the frequency ranges; and
combining each of the volume-adjusted frequency ranges to create an enhanced audio; and wherein outputting the audio portion includes outputting the enhanced audio.

9. A method comprising:
pairing a first Bluetooth-enabled device with a second Bluetooth-enabled device using a Bluetooth connection;
receiving, by the second Bluetooth-enabled device, audiovisual content;
sending, by the second Bluetooth-enabled device, an audio portion of the audiovisual content to the first Bluetooth-enabled device using the paired Bluetooth connection;
receiving, by the first Bluetooth-enabled device, the sent audio portion of the audiovisual content using the paired Bluetooth connection;
receiving a phone call by the first Bluetooth-enabled device;
upon receiving the phone call, sending a command to the second Bluetooth-enabled device to pause sending the audio portion;
when the phone call is completed, sending a command to the second Bluetooth-enabled device to resume sending the audio portion at a same location in the audio portion at which the pausing of the sending of the audio portion occurred; and
outputting, by the first Bluetooth-enabled device, the audio portion to the user.

10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the first Bluetooth-enabled device is a Smartphone device.

11. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising processing the audio portion by:
analyzing the audio portion to determine if closed captioning data is included in the audio portion; and
if closed captioning data is included in the audio portion, decoding the closed captioning data into text strings and outputting the text strings to the user.

12. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising processing, by the first Bluetooth-enabled device, the audio portion by:
dividing the audio portion into predetermined frequency ranges;
applying adjustments to a volume of each of the frequency ranges; and
combining each of the volume-adjusted frequency ranges to generate enhanced audio; and wherein outputting the audio portion to the user includes outputting the enhanced audio to the user.

13. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising processing, by the first Bluetooth-enabled device, the audio portion by:
performing audio-to-text conversion on the audio portion to produce text; and
outputting the text to a display of the first Bluetooth-enabled device.

14. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising adjusting a volume of the audio portion so that the volume falls within a predetermined decibel range.

15. The method according to claim 9 , further comprising processing, by the first Bluetooth-enabled device, the audio portion by:
analyzing the audio portion;
translating a language of the audio portion into a different language; and
creating an enhanced audio using the translated audio portion.

16. A first Bluetooth-enabled device comprising:
a first Bluetooth module configured to be paired with a second Bluetooth module of a second Bluetooth-enabled device, the first Bluetooth module being configured to receive an audio portion of an audiovisual content from the second Bluetooth module of the Bluetooth-enabled device; and
a processing module coupled to the first Bluetooth module and configured to:
detect that a phone call is received on the first Bluetooth-enabled device;
upon detecting that the phone call is received on the first Bluetooth-enabled device, send, using the first Bluetooth module, a command to the second Bluetooth module of the Bluetooth-enabled device to pause sending the audio portion;
when the phone call is completed, send, using the first Bluetooth module, a command to the second Bluetooth module of the Bluetooth-enabled device to resume sending the audio portion at a same location in the audio portion at which the pausing of the sending of the audio portion occurred; and
output the audio portion.

17. The first Bluetooth-enabled device of claim 16 , wherein the processing module is configured to process the audio portion of the audiovisual content by:
performing audio-to-text conversion on the audio portion to produce text; and
outputting the text to a display of the first Bluetooth-enabled device.

18. The first Bluetooth-enabled device of claim

Assignees

• Echostar Technologies Llc

Inventors

• Innes David
• Martch Henry Gregg

Classifications

• G06F40/58

  Use of machine translation, e.g. for multi-lingual retrieval, for server-side translation for client devices or for real-time translation · CPC title

• G10L21/10

  Transforming into visible information · CPC title

• H04N21/6156

  specially adapted to the upstream path of the transmission network · CPC title

• G10L21/038

  using band spreading techniques · CPC title

• H04N21/4122

  additional display device, e.g. video projector (digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423) · CPC title