Patent attributes
A method comprising the steps of: generating an acoustic fingerprint that is responsive to a playing of a movie; searching, responsive to the acoustic fingerprint, an acoustic database; generating a dialogue fingerprint that is responsive to the playing of the movie; searching, responsive to the dialogue fingerprint, a dialogue database; identifying, responsive to the searching of the acoustic database and responsive to the searching of the dialogue database, a location within the movie; and displaying, responsive to the identified location, an information item that is associated with the identified location; and wherein the generating the dialogue fingerprint comprises a conversion of a portion of dialogue to text; wherein the searching the acoustic database is initially limited to a portion of the acoustic database; wherein the identifying is further responsive to a confidence indicator; and wherein a subsequent searching is responsive to a synchronization suspend timer.
