US 12,262,068 B1
Adaptive audio for enhancing individual and group consumption of immersive asynchronous audio-video content
Phil Libin, Bentonville, AR (US); and Leonid Kitainik, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to mmhmm inc., Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by mmhmm inc., Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/981,556.
Application 17/981,556 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/359,227, filed on Jun. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,714,595.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/062,504, filed on Aug. 7, 2020.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/2187 (2011.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 16/683 (2019.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01)
CPC H04N 21/2187 (2013.01) [G06F 3/16 (2013.01); G06F 16/685 (2019.01); G10L 25/63 (2013.01)] 31 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of providing a shared experience of a pre-recorded video content on video screens of devices of a plurality of participants, comprising:
presenting, on the video screens, video content corresponding to the pre-recorded video having superimposed thereon a live video feed;
determining feedback of the participants to the video content;
providing to the devices background noise that varies according to the feedback of the participants; and
altering acoustic properties of sound for the video content provided to the devices based on acoustic properties of an emulated presentation space for the video content, wherein altering acoustic properties includes varying echo and reverberation levels and intensities of the sound.