Abstract: A method for the continuous automated audio synchronization of an alternative audio track with the playback of the combined audio and video of a motion picture includes selecting a motion picture in a user interface to an audio synchronization application executing in memory of a mobile computing device and downloading an alternative audio file for the selected motion picture. The method also includes detecting a location of the mobile computing device. Finally, in response to a determination that the mobile computing device is proximate to a movie theater, a start time of a next scheduled presentation of the selected motion picture is determined and audio synchronization of the alternative audio file triggered at a time that is within a threshold of the determined start time.

Abstract: In applications where assisted listening headphones are worn inside of a theater, phase cancellation effects cause the headset wearer to perceive the audio as reduced in volume and distorted. These undesirable phase cancellation effects may be disrupted through preprocessing or real time processing of the headset audio track by summing acoustical noise with the original headset audio track and providing this altered audio track to the headset. The acoustical noise is modulated such that it is imperceptible to the headset wearer while at the same time disrupting undesirable phase cancellation effects, which would otherwise occur if the headset audio track was provided unaltered. Thus, the preprocessing of the headset audio preserves the integrity of the intended headset audio, as perceived by the headset wearer, in headsets worn in a theater environment.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for audio file management for synchronized audio playback in coordination with external video playback. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for audio file management for synchronized audio playback in coordination with external video playback includes receiving a request to synchronize playback of an audio file locally stored in a mobile device with audio resulting from projection of a motion picture in a movie theater. The method additionally includes synchronizing playback of the audio file with the audio resulting from the projection of the motion picture in response to receiving the request. The method yet further includes determining that the synchronized playback of the audio file in the mobile device has completed. Finally, the method includes responding to the determination, by irretrievably modifying the audio file in the mobile device and by subsequently deleting the irretrievably modified audio file from the mobile device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for mobile device management during synchronized audio playback in coordination with external video playback. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for mobile device management during synchronized audio playback in coordination with external video playback includes receiving in memory of a mobile device a request to synchronize playback of an audio file through the mobile device with a presentation of video externally to the mobile device and in response to the request, automatically dimming a display of the mobile device and synchronizing playback of the audio file with the external presentation of the video.