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20080215981 | Squad command interface for console-based video game - A squad command interface for a squad-based shooter video game maps character selection and command selection to actuators on a game controller. Players can select squad characters and issue a single order to multiple characters with few controller actuations. | 09-04-2008 |
20080256449 | HEADS-UP-DISPLAY FOR USE IN A MEDIA MANIPULATION OPERATION - Techniques are provided for generating a heads-up-display to assist users during performance of media manipulation operations. According to one embodiment, a transient heads-up-display is displayed during a media manipulation operation to assist the user in the media manipulation operation. The heads-up-display may, for example, depict three frames of a video clip when an audio clip is being positioned, on a timeline, relative to the video clip. The three frames that are depicted in the heads-up-display may be the frames located at the current starting position, cursor position, and ending position, of the audio clip. As the audio clip is being moved during the positioning operation, the three frames depicted in the heads-up-display change accordingly. | 10-16-2008 |
20080276174 | Providing an Interactive Presentation Environment - An interactive presentation environment for eMeetings or the like that provides participants with more control over what they see and hear. One embodiment of the interactive presentation environment comprises a meeting recorder adapted to create a recording of a live meeting and a navigation control for selecting a portion of the recording to view during the live meeting. Some embodiment may further comprise a timeline control containing a first graphical indicator associated with a live position and a second graphical indicator associated with a current position, a bookmark control adapted to mark a portion of the recording for archiving, and a display operatively connected to the meeting recorder and the navigation control. | 11-06-2008 |
20090100339 | Content Acess Tree - A system and method are disclosed for visualizing, manipulating and encoding video stream data via a hierarchical format in a graphical user interface where at least one segment reduced image represents a sequential portion of a video stream, each segment having at least one scene, at least one scene reduced image representing a scene in each segment, each scene having at least one frame, and displaying at least one frame reduced image, each frame reduced image representing a frame in the scene. The system and method further include displaying buttons allowing a user to encode at least a portion of the video stream. In this system, at least one segment is an active segment, and the scenes displayed are part of the active segment. Additionally, one scene is an active scene, and the frames displayed are part of the active scene. | 04-16-2009 |
20090210791 | User interface having a cross arrangement - A tangible computer readable storage medium storing instructions which when executed on a programmed processor carry out a process for navigation of menu options available to a user of an audio/visual (AV) system has instructions that enter a graphical user interface (GUI) in a menu system that is displayed on a video display; instructions that generate a signal for displaying a first navigable list of menu options on the video display, the first navigable list of menu options having a plurality of fields arranged in a first linear configuration that overlays the AV content currently playing on the video display with one of the menu options shown at a location of the video display that is highlighted; and instructions responsive to a navigation command from a remote controller, that move the first navigable list of menu options of the GUI to cause another field of the plurality of fields to move to the location that is highlighted, and thus highlight the another field while continuing to display the AV content currently playing on the television video display | 08-20-2009 |
20090210792 | User interface having a cross arrangement - In an audio/visual (AV) system, a method for navigation of menu options available to a user involves entering a graphical user interface (GUI) in a menu system that is displayed on a video display; generating a signal for displaying a first navigable list of menu options on the video display, the first navigable list of menu options having a plurality of fields arranged in a first linear configuration that overlays AV content currently playing on the display with one of the menu options shown at a location of the video display that is highlighted; and responsive to a navigation command from a remote controller, moving the first navigable list of menu options of the GUI to cause another field of the plurality of fields to move to the location that is highlighted, to highlight the another field while continuing to display the AV content currently playing on the video display. | 08-20-2009 |
20090288010 | USER INTERFACES FOR EDITING VIDEO CLIPS - A computer-implemented method including displaying in a user interface, a first thumbnail representing a first video clip including a first plurality of frames; displaying in the first thumbnail, a first transition point positioned between a left edge and a right edge of the first thumbnail, the first transition point associated with a frame of the first plurality of frames, wherein, playback of the first plurality of frames starts with a first start frame positioned at the left edge and stops at the frame associated with the first transition point; receiving a first move input to move the frame associated with the first transition point to a new frame of the first plurality of frames; and in response to receiving the input, associating the new frame with the first transition point, wherein, in response to a playback input, playback starts with the first start frame and stops at the new frame. | 11-19-2009 |
20090288011 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS THEREOF - A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window, and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion. | 11-19-2009 |
20090313545 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING MEDIA FILE - An apparatus and method for playing media files are disclosed. The playback method includes: receiving a user option request from a user; selecting, according to a user input, a frame of the media file to process the received user option request; moving to the selected frame when the user option request requires a frame shift; and playing back the media file from the selected frame in response to a playback request. | 12-17-2009 |
20100011296 | AUDIO/VIDEO INTERFACE AS A SUPPLEMENT TO RADIOLOGY REPORTS - A method for generating an audio/video report, to be used with a report of radiographic image(s) is disclosed. The audio/video report is created by the radiologist while generating the report. The audio/video report includes a portion of a screen image selected by the radiologist, as well as the spoken words of the radiologist. The audio/video report is stored in the database with the report for access by clinicians and others. The audio/video report may be used as a tool for teaching interesting cases. | 01-14-2010 |
20100107079 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TITLING - Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for presenting computer-generated characters. The method defines several frames for a character and sequentially presents the frames. Each frame depicts a particular representation of the character. Also, at least two of the frames provide different representations of the character. Some embodiments provide a method for applying effects to computer-generated characters. This method applies an effect to the computer-generated characters by first generating an effect script. It then selects the generated effect script to apply to the computer-generated characters. | 04-29-2010 |
20100138745 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING THE PRODUCTION OF A FREE-VIEWPOINT AND VIDEO-BASED ANIMATION - Described herein are systems and methods for managing the production of video-based animation, described particularly by reference to the example of free-viewpoint video-based animation. In overview, hardware, software, facilities and protocols described herein allow known and subsequently developed video-based animation techniques to be implemented in commercial environments in an improved manner, particularly as compared with the manner in which such techniques are implemented in a research and development environment. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZED VIDEO SHARING - A system and a method for synchronized sharing of digital content through a network. | 06-03-2010 |
20100174989 | ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS AND DECODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The disclosed embodiments relate to a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. In some aspects, a decoding method comprises receiving multimedia data which comprises a media area including a video data area and an audio data area; a media information area including a video track area and an audio track area respectively corresponding to the video data area and the audio data area respectively; and a menu description area including description data for displaying a menu that provides an interface between a user and media data in the media area; displaying a menu using the description data for a menu with an animation effect; and decoding a media data extracted from the media area based on the displayed menu, wherein the media information area further comprises segment metadata for searching segments of the media data included in the media area, the segment metadata having information regarding one or more segment groups which the segments are classified into, and the media information area and the menu description area are incorporated into a single file. The disclosed embodiments include a multimedia data encoding/decoding method and apparatus can construct a multi media data file including a plurality of video/audio contents and description data for a menu between a user and media data. Thus, a time taken to process and transmit the multimedia data can be reduced. | 07-08-2010 |
20100241961 | CONTENT PRESENTATION CONTROL AND PROGRESSION INDICATOR - A graphical interface for presenting the relationship between a primary content item and multiple supplemental content items. A progression bar corresponding to the rendering or playback of the primary content is provided to show the progression through the primary content. A series of graphic elements, each corresponding to a supplemental content item are associated with a position along the progression bar. As a cursor moves across the progression bar indicating progressing through the primary content, supplemental content associated with the cursors position becomes available for viewing. Graphical enhancements of the graphic elements provide indicators that the supplemental content items are becoming relevant and available for viewing. | 09-23-2010 |
20100241962 | MULTIPLE CONTENT DELIVERY ENVIRONMENT - A content presentation environment enables a primary content source to be presented to a user, along with supplemental content that may relate to the primary content or, may be completely unrelated (such as an advertisement). As the primary content is presented, supplemental content is either automatically presented or made available for selection by a user. In addition, a user may select and add additional supplemental content to be associated with or incorporated into the presentation environment. | 09-23-2010 |
20100251121 | CONTROLLING PLAYBACK OF MEDIA CONTENT - Techniques are disclosed herein for controlling playback of digital media. In one aspect, while playback of the media content is progressing as normal a snapshot such as a thumbnail is displayed to show the user a representation of the media content that is associated with a seek location. In another aspect, the functionality of a transport key is temporarily modified. The temporary modification allows the user to seek to a desired location very accurately and may result in fewer input keys being selected. Moreover, because the modification is temporary a great deal of flexibility is provided. | 09-30-2010 |
20100281371 | Navigation Tool for Video Presentations - Some embodiments provide a method that provides a first display area for displaying a video presentation. The video presentation includes several video clips, each of which includes a particular sequence of consecutive video pictures. The method provides a navigation tool for navigating the video presentation. The navigation tool includes a display of a representative video picture from each video clip in the video presentation. The entire navigation tool is for display at one time in a second display area. In some embodiments the representative video picture for a particular video clip is the first video picture, a particular number of video pictures from the start of the video clip, etc. Some embodiments also provide a third display area for displaying thumbnail images representing a subset of the video clips in the video presentation. | 11-04-2010 |
20100281372 | Tool for Navigating a Composite Presentation - A computer readable medium storing a media editing application for creating media presentations is described. The application includes a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI has (1) a composite display area for displaying graphical representations of a set of media clips that are part of the composite presentation and (2) a navigation tool including several selectable navigation markers associated with several navigable locations in the composite presentation. The selection of a navigation marker causes the composite display area to present the navigable location in the composite presentation that is associated with the selected navigation marker. | 11-04-2010 |
20100306655 | Avatar Integrated Shared Media Experience - A method and system are disclosed in which a group of people are able to replicate the physical world experience of going with a group of friends to pick a movie, watch the movie together, and provide commentary on the movie itself in the virtual world on a virtual couch while each user is sitting in different physical locations. Additionally, the virtual representation of the destination that the group of people are watching the movie together in can be themed to allow users to watch movies in different locations pivoting on special events or by the users choice. | 12-02-2010 |
20100332987 | Graphics analysis techniques - Embodiments provide techniques for the analysis of graphics applications. For instance, an apparatus may include a graphics application program interface (API), a graphics engine, and a graphics analysis tool. The graphics analysis tool may receive multiple draw calls issued to the graphics API, and arrange the draw calls into multiple sequences, each sequence corresponding to a particular render target. From this information various analysis tasks may be performed. For instance, overdraw images may be generated. Such overdraw images may be enhanced to improve their dynamic range. Also, pixel histories may be generated based on corresponding pixel selections. The effect of draw calls on selected pixels may also be determined. Further, such tasks may be performed on a per render target basis. | 12-30-2010 |
20110022959 | Method and system for interactive engagement of a media file - Generally, the present invention provides a method and system for interactive engagement of a media file having a default display. The method and system includes generating a visual landscape of the media file, the visual landscape including a visual display viewable by the default display of the media file and a plurality of peripheral displays of viewable areas outside of the default display. The method and system further includes activating an interactive display of the media file inside the visual landscape, the multi-view display including the ability to view the default display and the peripheral displays, as well as receiving a user input directing a point of view adjustment of the interactive display. And, the method and system includes generating an adjusted display of the interactive display based on the user input, the adjusted display presenting either: a portion of the visual display and a portion of the peripheral display; or a peripheral display. | 01-27-2011 |
20110060993 | Interactive Detailed Video Navigation System - An interactive video within a content hosting website may appear to be a complete GUI. The interactive video may include both a static wrapper UI with interactive features including buttons, links to internal and external information, and dynamically updated text, and a video portion within the wrapper. The interactive video may be a single, annotated video file that includes dynamic links to periodically updated and dynamically updated information. For example, when the interactive video is an apartment finding service, if a community updates information within a database, the corresponding text information within the annotated areas of the interactive video may automatically update and replace the old information on the video. | 03-10-2011 |
20110107220 | USER INTERFACE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A VIDEO STREAM - A graphical user interface, system and method are described controlling a video stream. For example, a data processing apparatus according to one embodiment has a memory for storing program code and a processor for processing the program code to generate a graphical user interface (“GUI”) comprising: a plurality of video thumbnails arranged in a pattern, each of the video thumbnails rendering a compressed version of a real-time video of a particular movie, television series, game, or other type of video content; and a selection graphic highlighting a currently-selected video thumbnail, the thumbnails moving within the GUI in relation to the selection graphic in response to user input from an input device. | 05-05-2011 |
20110119587 | DATA MODEL AND PLAYER PLATFORM FOR RICH INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES - A data model and player platform for playing rich interactive narratives (RINs) is presented. Together, they enable a very broad class of rich interactive applications in a device independent way that is also platform technology proof and can be extended to new kinds of interactive visualization technologies. The RIN data model includes a narrative having a prescribed sequence of scenes, where each scene is made up of one or more RIN segments. Each of the RIN segments includes one or more experience streams (or references thereto), and at least one screenplay. Each experience stream includes data that enables a user employing a RIN player to traverse a particular environment created by an arbitrary media type. In addition, each screenplay includes data to orchestrate when each experience stream starts and stops during the playing of the RIN and to specify how experience streams share display screen space or audio playback configuration. | 05-19-2011 |
20110126105 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, BOOKMARK SETTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a content display unit for displaying movie content on a display screen, and a bookmark setting unit for setting a bookmark in which a display position where a display subject is displayed on the display screen and a temporal position within the movie content where the display subject is displayed on the display screen are mutually related to each other, to the display subject of the movie content displayed on the display screen by the content display unit. | 05-26-2011 |
20110161818 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO CHAPTER UTILIZATION IN VIDEO PLAYER UI - A method, apparatus, user interface and computer program product for detecting a video clip in a mobile communication device, generating video chapter thumbnails from the video clip, providing the video chapter thumbnails in a video player user interface of the mobile communication device, and wherein selection of a video chapter thumbnail will enable a playback from a corresponding video clip chapter. | 06-30-2011 |
20110173538 | Browsing or Searching User Interfaces and Other Aspects - User interfaces for browsing and/or searching are described. In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a first display area for display representations of documents matching a search query, the first display area configured to display content of the documents which can have a plurality of different types of content including at least one of text-based content and a folder, and displaying a second display area for selecting a selected document to be displayed in the first display area. Other embodiments are also described, and computer readable media and apparatuses are also described. | 07-14-2011 |
20110197131 | CONTEXTUAL CHAPTER NAVIGATION - A system and a method are disclosed for on-screen display that indicates to the user the current point in the playback of the video within the context of the chapter delineations. The user can access a chapter selection feature that presents a preview image from each chapter along with a timeline representing the video, and an indication on the timeline of where the chapters fall along the timeline. Alternatively, short video segments replace the still images as representing the chapters for some or all of the chapters. The user can select a chapter in which to resume playing the video by selecting one of the images or video segments. | 08-11-2011 |
20110231763 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An electronic apparatus includes a first playback module, a moving image information data creating module, a display module, and a second playback module. | 09-22-2011 |
20110276880 | Aggregating Time-Delayed Sessions In A Video Delivery System - In a video network context, video sessions can be aggregated and delivered to users, and smart replay can be provided responsive to user commands. Various and different commands are received from users at different times. Video sessions (e.g., program streams) are identified and/or created based on the commands. Video sessions are multicasted to the users. Joining multiple users to a video session reduces a need to create multiple identical or similar individual sessions, thereby increasing session capacity. Delivering a video session to users likely to be seeking a particular moment of interest in a video, based on an increased tolerance of received user commands, increases the user experience by delivering the moment of interest directly, without requiring multiple commands from users attempting to navigate towards the moment of interest. | 11-10-2011 |
20110289412 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF ADJUSTING AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT TO IMPROVE HEARING - A system for adjusting audiovisual content having a server including a receiver for receiving a first content from a media source, a first circuitry configured to generate a second content based on the first content, the second content having multiple audio channels, a first transceiver for sending the second content to one or more clients, each client including a second transceiver for receiving the second content, and a second circuitry configured to generate a third content based on the second content and provide the third content to an audio device, wherein the second circuitry is configured to provide a graphical user interface to a user, the graphical user interface having a plurality of icons representing the user and the multiple audio channels, wherein movement of any of the plurality of icons will alter the second content. | 11-24-2011 |
20120047437 | Method for Creating and Navigating Link Based Multimedia - A method, in combination with or on a computer, for defining, editing, and jumping to predefined points in time in audio, video and other multimedia playback by selecting a point of interest from a scrolling list of choices, rendered with dynamic transparency if superimposed on motion graphics or video. Additionally, the present invention renders such a system to be easily used on a small screen while maximizing viewable area, as well as on large screen devices with various devices or human input. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066597 | Creation of a Reference Point to Mark a Media Presentation - Methods, systems, and products insert markers into recorded media modules. A pair of reference points is received that marks a position and another position in a recorded media module. A copy of the recorded media module is retrieved from memory. Portions of the copy of the recorded media module occurring before the position, and occurring after the another position, are discarded. The copy of the recorded media module occurring between the position and the another position is then presented to a user. | 03-15-2012 |
20120079386 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING PLAYBACK SPEED OF MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal of controlling playback speed of an image by using a touch gesture and a method for controlling playback speed of a mobile terminal are provided. A direction, such as fast-forward or rewind, and a multiple velocity of a video screen image are determined according to a direction and movement distance of a touch gesture made by moving a user's finger on a video reproduction screen image and the video screen image is moved according to the determined multiple velocity and direction at a corresponding position when the touch gesture is released such that the video can be fast-forwarded or rewound at various speeds. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084653 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT RENDERING CONTROL - A system and method for controlling content rendering. The method includes rendering at a display device a content signal received on a predetermined input and sourced from a computer system and receiving at the display device a content rendering control command from a remote control device. The method further includes translating the content rendering control command to a media player control command recognizable by a media playback application of the computer system and sending the media player command to the computer system over a communication network to alter the content signal. | 04-05-2012 |
20120173983 | SCROLLING METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and apparatus scroll a screen in a device with a touchscreen. A method for scrolling a device with a touchscreen includes determining whether a current touch input is a circular drag touch; if the current touch input is the circular drag touch, determining whether a current page is a scrollable screen; and if the current page is a scrollable screen, scrolling the current page according to a circle drawing action of the circular drag touch. | 07-05-2012 |
20120192073 | MULTIMEDIA VISUAL PROGRESS INDICATION SYSTEM - A position indicator is displayed in a vicinity of a visual indicator to a user the visual indicator visually indicates an available amount of program material through which the user is able to navigate and play back. The position indicator visually indicates a current playback position within the available amount of program material. In response to receiving a single user command, the position indicator is placed in a new current playback position over the visual indicator. The new current playback position visually represents an end position of the visual indicator. | 07-26-2012 |
20120260173 | USER INTERFACE FOR AUDIO VIDEO DISPLAY DEVICE SUCH AS TV - For a graphical user interface (GUI) for an audio video display device (AVDD) showing plural content information panels arranged in a grid, the loading time during which the content information panels are retrieved and presented on the AVDD is used to display, in the area in which the loading information panel will be, a text description of the category of the panel content. The text also explains the meaning of an icon that is displayed next to the content information panel after the loading is completed. | 10-11-2012 |
20120272153 | HIERARCHICAL DISPLAY AND NAVIGATION OF DOCUMENT REVISION HISTORIES - A system and technique for displaying a document's workflow history are disclosed. The system includes a graphical user interface for displaying one or more graphical representations of events generated by an application configured to edit a document. Each of the events generated by the application may be stored in a data structure that is associated with one or more portions of the document. The data structure may also be associated with a digital image that reflects the state of the document at the time the event was generated and one or more frames of digital video captured substantially simultaneously with the generation of the event. The system may display the stored events via graphical representations in the graphical user interface that represent a portion of the total document workflow history. A user may navigate through the graphical events based on a hierarchical algorithm for clustering events. | 10-25-2012 |
20130067332 | MEDIA SEEK BAR - A graphical user interface is output for presentation by a graphical display device. The graphical user interface includes visual aspects of a time-based media content item having a playback axis, and a seek bar having a position along the playback axis. The position of the seek bar along the playback axis indicates a current playback position of the time-based media content item. The seek bar extends perpendicular to the playback axis over the visual aspects of the time-based media content item. A drag command representing a user input directed at the seek bar is received. The drag command is characterized by a drag path. The current playback position of the time-based media content item is moved based on the drag path. | 03-14-2013 |
20130080895 | RAPID PREVIEW OF REMOTE VIDEO CONTENT - An internet client-server method to rapidly preview video files. Source video files are compressed into lower resolution preview video files, thumbnail image files, and stored on a preview internet server. Typically only a small fraction of the source video frames, such as 1 frame in 60, is used for the preview. A user using a touch sensitive computerized device such as a smartphone can view the thumbnail video images while the compressed video files load in the background. When the user touches or swipes an image of interest, or shakes the device, device video preview application software detects the action and directs the device to start playing the preview video file(s). The application software detects when the user swipes the preview video, and changes the rate and direction of playback of the preview video file, and trickplay functionality, often according to the speed and/or direction of the swipe. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086475 | ADAPTING TRICK COMMANDS TO PRIOR USAGE - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to adapting trick commands to prior trick command usage. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of operating a media presentation device, the method including, during playback of a video content item, receiving a user input of a sequence of trick commands that has a net effect on a playback location in the video content item, and in response to the sequence of trick commands, adapting a response to a later trick command based upon the net effect of the sequence of trick commands. | 04-04-2013 |
20130097507 | FILMSTRIP INTERFACE FOR SEARCHING VIDEO - An interface for searching and playing recorded video comprises a filmstrip snapshot sequence, a selection window, a first input device, a second input device, and a third input device. The filmstrip snapshot sequence comprises chronologically ordered snapshots associated with video segments of the recorded video. The snapshots are taken at regular intervals that may be equal to the length of the video segments. The selection window highlights consecutive snapshots from the filmstrip snapshot sequence. The first input device advances the filmstrip snapshot sequence, causing the selection window to highlight a chronologically later set of snapshots. The second input device zooms in on the filmstrip snapshot sequence as a function of time, causing a new set of snapshots to be retrieved at a smaller regular interval. The third input device causes the video segments associated with the highlighted snapshots to be played. | 04-18-2013 |
20130097508 | REAL-TIME SCRUBBING OF ONLINE VIDEOS - A method for traversing a streaming video file includes receiving a representative streaming video file that includes less information than a higher-resolution streaming video file and spans the entire streaming video file. Based on navigation information associated with the representative streaming video file, a playback engine navigates to a different portion of the streaming video file. The navigation information may be based on input information received from a viewer of the streaming video file. One advantage of the disclosed method is that it enables fast and accurate navigation of a streaming video. | 04-18-2013 |
20130145269 | MULTI-MODAL COLLABORATIVE WEB-BASED VIDEO ANNOTATION SYSTEM - A video annotation interface includes a video pane configured to display a video, a video timeline bar including a video play-head indicating a current point of the video which is being played, a segment timeline bar including initial and final handles configured to define a segment of the video for playing, and a plurality of color-coded comment markers displayed in connection with the video timeline bar. Each of the comment markers is associated with a frame or segment of the video and corresponds to one or more annotations for that frame or segment made by one of a plurality of users. Each of the users can make annotations and view annotations made by other users. The annotations can include annotations corresponding to a plurality of modalities, including text, drawing, video, and audio modalities. | 06-06-2013 |
20130145270 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS THEREOF - A computer implemented method of performing video surveillance on a computer system, wherein the computer system comprises a video and a display with a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface including a source window to view play back of the video, the surveillance method comprising: determining an area of interest of a frame of the video based upon a selection of the area of interest within the source window, and generating a plurality of windows within the graphical user interface, each of the windows displaying the area of interest of the frame of the video at a point in time, wherein the graphical user interface includes controls to manipulate the playback of the video from a point in time relative to each displayed portion. | 06-06-2013 |
20130151969 | Content Identification and Linking - Included are embodiments for content identification and linking. More specifically, some embodiments include receiving content from a user and providing a first user interface that comprises the content. The first user interface may include an action identity option to identify an action in the content. The first user interface may further include a time identity option to identify a time that the action occurred in the content. Similarly, some embodiments include provide a second user interface that includes a clip option to provide a subset of the content. The second user interface may include a play clip option to play the subset of the content, beginning at the time the action occurred. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159860 | HEADS-UP-DISPLAY FOR USE IN A MEDIA MANIPULATION OPERATION - Techniques are provided, for generating a heads-up-display to assist users during performance of media manipulation operations. According to one embodiment, a transient heads-up-display is displayed during a media manipulation operation to assist the user in the media manipulation operation. The heads-up-display may, for example, depict three frames of a video clip when an audio clip is being positioned, on a timeline, relative to the video clip. The three frames that are depicted in the heads-up-display may be the frames located at the current starting position, cursor position, and ending position, of the audio clip. As the audio clip is being moved during the positioning operation, the three frames depicted in the heads-up-display change accordingly. | 06-20-2013 |
20130298025 | Interactive Oral Presentation Display System - A computer implemented interactive oral presentation display system provides server computers allowing one or more client devices and one or more administrator devices access to an oral presentation display application which provides client user interfaces having a first image display area and a second image display area concurrently displayed on a display surface allowing the client user to control presentation of streaming media in the first image display area and selection of one or more images for serial display in the second image display area, each of which can be coupled in timed synchronized relation with the streaming media. | 11-07-2013 |
20130332835 | DYNAMIC AUDIOVISUAL BROWSER AND METHOD - This is an invention of computing and its applications, more specifically information systems, in the areas of user interface and interactive systems for distribution of videos and games, with applications in various segments of networking systems and tele-radio digital diffusion. Particularly, it is about to a dynamic visual browser and its method of operation, which allows users to interact with video playlists while videos are being reproduced, ensuring an individualized, intuitive, and continuous experience simulating the behavior of consumption of television content, which can be shared with other users. | 12-12-2013 |
20130339855 | Systems and Methods for Adaptive Streaming Systems with Interactive Video Timelines - Systems and methods for adaptive streaming systems configured to generate interactive video timelines in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for selecting video to stream and playback using an interactive video timeline includes selecting a plurality of frames of video from a first stream of video data using a network client, displaying the plurality of frames of video in an interactive video timeline using the network client, selecting a playback frame of video data from the plurality of frames of video in the interactive video timeline using the network client, receiving a second stream of video data beginning from the playback frame of video data using the network client, and playing the second stream of video data using the network client. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346865 | DYNAMIC WALLPAPER OF MOBILE SYSTEMS - An operating method and device for showing dynamic wallpapers in mobile systems are provided. In one aspect, the disclosed method includes the steps of: displaying a selected video as the dynamic wallpaper; shrinking the display region of the dynamic wallpaper if a user inputs a shrinking command; and expanding the display region of the dynamic wallpaper if a user inputs an expanding command. In another aspect, the disclosed method includes the steps of creating a new display window for new video playback, wherein the dynamic wallpaper is paused when the new video is under a playback operation. A user may control the dynamic wallpaper and the new display window playing the new video to be shrunk, expanded, and/or moved by touching a screen with different gestures. | 12-26-2013 |
20140013228 | Remote Experience Interfaces, Systems and Methods - A remote experience system is presented. The system can include a feed aggregation engine configured to obtain a plurality of feeds from feed acquiring devices associated with an event. The feed aggregation engine can obtain an experience policy related to the event and construct an experience feed having an arrangement of the plurality of feeds according to the experience policy. The experience feed can be presented to a user via an experience feed interface, and can include an indication of a focal or other cluster. | 01-09-2014 |
20140019863 | ONLINE VIDEO DISTRIBUTION - A video player for online video containing tag content is adapted to display the location of the tag content within the video on a timeline which has a variable non-linear scale that expands around a location of a GUI pointer placed over the timeline. | 01-16-2014 |
20140026051 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OF THE SAME - A mobile terminal is disclosed. The mobile terminal recognizes at least one object from video contents including at least one object and displays an object progress bar capable of independently controlling frames including a recognized object. Also, by manipulating the object progress bar according to a predetermined pattern, frames including an object corresponding to the object progress bar from among the whole frames of the video contents can be edited and stored more easily. | 01-23-2014 |
20140047340 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A mobile terminal capable of outputting moving pictures and a control method therefor are provided. A mobile terminal includes a display unit, a user input unit and a control unit. The display unit reproduces a first image corresponding to moving picture data. The user input unit receives at least one of objectives included in the first image, which is selected by a user. The control unit extracts image data related to the selected objective from the moving picture data, and performs a function related to the extracted image data. | 02-13-2014 |
20140059434 | Video Manager for Portable Multifunction Device - A video player for a portable multifunction device is disclosed. In some embodiments, a list of video items is displayed in a portrait orientation of a touch screen display of a portable electronic device. Upon user selection of a respective video item in the list, the user selected video item is automatically displayed in a landscape orientation of the touch screen display. | 02-27-2014 |
20140068439 | Method and System for Visualization Enhancement for Situational Awareness - An after-action, mission review tool that displays camera and navigation sensor data allowing a user to pan, tilt, and zoom through the images from front and back cameras on an vehicle, while simultaneously viewing time/date information, along with any available navigation information such as the latitude and longitude of the vehicle at that time instance. Also displayed is a visual representation of the path the vehicle traversed; when the user clicks on the path, the image is automatically changed to the image corresponding to that position. If aerial images of the area are available, the path can be plotted on the geo-referenced image. | 03-06-2014 |
20140115476 | WEB-BASED SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL VIDEOS - Systems and methods are provided for adding and displaying interactive annotations for existing online hosted videos. A graphical annotation interface allows the creation of annotations and association of the annotations with a video. Annotations may be of different types and have different functionality, such as altering the appearance and/or behavior of an existing video, e.g. by supplementing it with text, allowing linking to other videos or web pages, or pausing playback of the video. Authentication of a user desiring to perform annotation of a video may be performed in various manners, such as by checking a uniform resource locator (URL) against an existing list, checking a user identifier against an access list, and the like. As a result of authentication, a user is accorded the appropriate annotation abilities, such as full annotation, no annotation, or annotation restricted to a particular temporal or spatial portion of the video. | 04-24-2014 |
20140123015 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing system including a database in which at least one of a name, position information, and an image identifying a predetermined location is associated with specific content, a position identification part configured to identify a current position, a determination part configured to determine whether content corresponding to the current position is present in the database, a notification part configured to, when the determination part determines that the content corresponding to the current position is present, send to a user a notification that the content corresponding to the current position is present, and a controller configured to start playback of the content in accordance with an action of the user with respect to the notification by the notification part. | 05-01-2014 |
20140129942 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY PROVIDING VISUAL ACTION OR ACTIVITY NEWS FEED - The method of presenting and accessing visual, video, stream media or multimedia actions and activities feeds is described. A method includes monitoring, tracking, capturing & recording each user's sequences of a plurality of actions and activities with associate data and metadata from one or more sources based on one or more preferences, privacy settings and filtering of action or activity types, storing and processing each user's said plurality of actions and activities in a database in image frame(s), video, streaming media or multimedia data format with contextual, relevant and location & position specific one or more actions or activities items & associate data and metadata, generating visual, video, stream media or multimedia actions and activities feeds for one or more actions or activities for one or more determined receiving users based on one or more filters, preferences and privacy settings of sender(s) and/or receiver(s), dynamically presenting said visual or video actions and activities feeds from one or more sources or senders to one or more determined receiving or viewing users based on one or more filters, preferences and privacy settings of sender(s) and/or receiver(s), allowing viewing user to select, search, match, load, download, edit, filter, access, process and play, forward, backward, pause, stop said visual or video actions and activities feeds based on one or more preferences and settings, dynamically presenting current image frame(s), video, stream or multimedia data position specific or action or activity item(s) video clip specific one or more contextual, associate and relevant action or activity item(s) with associate data and metadata and allowing user to dynamically access said one or more presented dynamic, contextual, associate and relevant action or activity item(s) and associate data and metadata. | 05-08-2014 |
20140143670 | Video Playback Analytics Collection - In embodiments of video playback analytics collection, an analytics script can be distributed to a client device along with video content that is requested by the client device. The analytics script is implemented to identify a type and/or version of a browser application that supports a video player session to playback the video content for viewing at the client device. The analytics script is also implemented to collect video playback data associated with the video content playback, detect an early end of the video player session before the playback of the video content is completed, and initiate communication of the video playback data to an analytics server. The analytics script can also initiate a timing delay to delay a browser navigation away from the video player session, where the timing delay is effective to allow communication of the video playback data to the analytics server. | 05-22-2014 |
20140181669 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A method for controlling an electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting a first tilt angle between the electronic device and a reference plane, and controlling the electronic device to perform an operating according to the first tilt angle. The operation is associated with a user interface operation or an audio/video playback operation. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181670 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for managing video information - Recorded video information is managed by annotation markers. The recorded video information is annotated with at least one marker and the annotated video information is saved in an electronically searchable file. | 06-26-2014 |
20140201638 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PREVIEWING A RECORDING - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for previewing a recording. In one aspect, the methods and systems are configured to display a video recording/stream in a first viewing window on a display, receive a selection of a time within the video recording/stream at which to preview a portion of the video recording/stream, display a second viewing window on the display, and display the preview of the portion of the video recording/stream that corresponds to the selection within the second viewing window. | 07-17-2014 |
20140208208 | VIDEO NAVIGATION THROUGH OBJECT LOCATION - The present invention relates to a method for navigating in a sequence of images. An image is displayed on a screen. A first object of the displayed image is selected at a first position according to a first input. The first object is moved to a second position according to a second input. At least one image is identified in the sequence of images where the first object is close to the second position. Playback of the sequence of images is started beginning at one of the identified images. | 07-24-2014 |
20140215337 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI), AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME - A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive a user command on a touch screen, and a multimedia apparatus using the same. The method for providing a GUI includes determining whether an enlargement command for a GUI item is received, and enlarging the GUI item. Therefore, it is possible to enable a user to operate the GUI item more correctly, and to provide the superior visual effect when the GUI item is operated. | 07-31-2014 |
20140245151 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AND USING NAVIGABLE SPATIAL OVERVIEWS FOR VIDEO - Systems and methods for generating an overview for videos by reconstructing a representation of underlying content and linking from points in the overview to specific points in the video. Mechanisms are provided to create three different types of navigable overviews for different types of how-to and instructional videos. A two-dimensional overview is generated when content is two-dimensional, such as instructional videos on electronic whiteboard or other flat content. The three-dimensional overview is created when the content is three-dimensional, such as how-to videos illustrating the use of specific three-dimensional tangible articles. In three-dimensional case, when 3D model is available, the video segments are directly linked to corresponding points on the model. When a model is not available, a rough overview is first created from the captured video and camera orientation metadata. When the user selects a specific location within the overview, the related video segment is automatically played to the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140245152 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTENT ANALYSIS TO SUPPORT NAVIGATION AND ANNOTATION IN EXPOSITORY VIDEOS - Online educational videos are often difficult to navigate. Furthermore, most video interfaces do not lend themselves to note-taking. Described system detects and reuses boundaries that tend to occur in these types of videos. In particular, many educational videos are organized around distinct breaks that correspond to slide changes, scroll events, or a combination of both. Described algorithms can detect these structural changes in the video content. From these events the system can generate navigable overviews to help users searching for specific content. Furthermore, these boundary events can help the system automatically associate rich media annotations to manually-defined bookmarks. Finally, when manual or automatically recovered spoken transcripts are available, the spoken text can be combined with the temporal segmentation implied by detected events for video indexing and retrieval. This text can also be used to seed a set of text annotations for user selection or be combined with user text input. | 08-28-2014 |
20140281996 | VIDEO PIN SHARING - Techniques are provided for assisting users to share specific locations within videos. Specifically, controls are provided to enable a viewer of a video to drop a “video pin” on a location within a video. In response to the user dropping a video pin at a particular location in the video, a “video pin record” that indicates the selected location is automatically generated by a video pin application. The video pins may be used to identify specific time points in the video and/or specific time segments of the video. Video pin records may be shared with other users to allow the other users to immediately jump to the locations, within the video, at which the corresponding video pins were dropped. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281997 | DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR OUTPUTTING CAPTIONS - An electronic device outputs a first caption of a plurality of captions while a first segment of a video is being played, where the first video segment corresponds to the first caption. While outputting the first caption, the device receives a first user input. In response to receiving the first user input, the device determines a second caption in the plurality of captions, distinct from the first caption, that meets predefined caption selection criteria; determines a second segment of the video that corresponds to the second caption; sends instructions to change from playing the first segment of the video to playing the second segment of the video; and outputs the second caption. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281998 | USER INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING AND PLAYING MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS, APPARATUS COMPRISING THE SAME, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A user interface for displaying and playing multimedia contents is capable of allowing the user to easily recognize information about multimedia contents at a glance, and allowing the user to more easily retrieve desired information, through an image pre-play function. An apparatus includes the user interface, and a control method for the apparatus are includes displaying a sorting item of a multimedia content, and arranging file information included in the sorting item and having the form of a playable image. | 09-18-2014 |
20140281999 | DISPLAY DEVICE, TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND DISPLAY INFORMATION USING METHOD - Even in the case of displaying operation display information, an image to be displayed on a display screen is prevented from being difficult to see, and an operation input by using the operation display information is always appropriately conducted. A display device receives an information signal from a base device, and displays main display information that is an image derived from a display signal of the information signal on an LCD. In the case where the display device displays a control panel for accepting an operation input from a user on the LCD, the display device controls a size change processor so that a size and a position of display of the main display information is so changed as not to overlap with display of the control panel. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289628 | NOTIFICATION CONTROL APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING PREDETERMINED FRAME IN MOVING IMAGE - A notification control apparatus is provided with a moving image acquisition unit | 09-25-2014 |
20140298175 | PERSONALIZED TIMELINE PRESENTATION - Described herein are techniques and mechanisms for personalized timeline presentation. Client devices may be presented with video content in association with a content management account. A video content item may be associated with more than one pause point, with each pause point indicating a time at which playback of the video content item was paused. Different profiles associated with the content management account may be associated with different pause points for the same video content item. Playback of the video content item may be resumed at one of the pause points when one of the profiles is selected. | 10-02-2014 |
20140310601 | REAL-TIME SCRUBBING OF VIDEOS USING A TWO-DIMENSIONAL GRID OF THUMBNAIL IMAGES - A computer-implemented method for traversing a video file includes populating a two-dimensional array with representative images corresponding to a portion of the video and causing the two-dimensional array to be displayed. The two-dimensional array includes a location indicator configured to traverse the two-dimensional array in a direction parallel with one dimension of the two-dimensional array in response to navigation information associated with the portion of the video. The location indicator is further configured to indicate a position in the video by highlighting one of the representative images populating the two-dimensional array. Because an end-user is provided with a large set of statically displayed representative images during navigation of a video timeline, the end-user can visually identify a desired target scene, even when traversing a the timeline relatively quickly. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317510 | INTERACTIVE MOBILE VIDEO AUTHORING EXPERIENCE - Devices and methods for creating social media videos based on media assets are disclosed. A computing device displays a graphical user interface (“GUI”) for creating the social media video. The GUI includes a first region for selecting a media asset and a second region for displaying selected media assets. The device receives a user selection of the first media asset for use in a social media video. The device obtains a first metadata information associated with the first media asset, obtains a second media asset based at least in part on the first metadata information, and displays, in the first region, a thumbnail image of the second media asset. The second media asset is obtained based on first metadata information. In this way, related media assets are retrieved and display to optimize the creation of social media videos. | 10-23-2014 |
20140325358 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR CHANGING REPRODUCING TIME POINT AND IMAGING APPARATUS THEREFOR - A method for providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for changing a reproducing time point, and an imaging apparatus incorporating the same are provided. The GUI for changing a reproducing time point displays reduction images of specific time points within a time period including a specific time point selected by a pointer, and changes the reproducing time point to the time point represented by the reduction image selected from the displayed reduction images. Accordingly, a user is able to search for a desired time point without going through a plurality of manipulations to change the reproducing time point on the progress bar using the pointer. | 10-30-2014 |
20140331138 | SENDING APPLICATION INPUT COMMANDS OVER A NETWORK - Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate sending input commands to an application over a network that may have variable latency characteristics. An input command may be obtained from a client over a network. The obtained input command is then provided to the application that is executed in a hosted environment. When a delay is determined to be necessary based at least in part on latency characteristic, the input command is provided to the application after the delay. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337738 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING COLLABORATIVE MEDIA STREAM EDITING - A system and method for editing multimedia content. A server transmits multimedia content to a plurality of electronic devices. Each of the plurality of electronic devices enables a user to perform at least one action in relation to the multimedia content. A a voting engine gathers information concerning the actions performed by users in relation to the multimedia content transmitted to the electronic devices. In response to the information gathered by the voting engine, the multimedia content is modified based upon predefined criteria. The modified multimedia content is subsequently provided to later users. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344697 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND TERMINAL FOR ADJUSTING PLAYBACK PROGRESS - A method, apparatus, and terminal for a user of a touch screen electronic device to readily and conveniently adjust or control multimedia playback progress using the touch screen are disclosed. In some embodiments, a playback progress adjustment method includes: detecting a contact with a touch screen at a multimedia playback window by a device having a processor and a touch screen; acquiring by the device a touch parameter of the contact; determining that the contact is a single contact with the touch screen based on the touch parameter, wherein the single contact is a continuous contact, the touch parameters corresponding to the continuous contact comprises a start position parameter and an end position parameter; adjusting playback progress of the multimedia based on the touch parameters. | 11-20-2014 |
20140344698 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING VIDEO AND INFORMATION ON MOBILE DEVICES - A system and method are operable to receive one or more audio visual streams from an event, collect statistics related to the event, and collect location data of objects related to the event, store the audio visual streams, collected statistics, and collected location data as data elements in files in a memory, combine the data elements into a common time line for analysis of the event, and provide a user interface for presenting one or more synchronized views of the audio visual streams, collected statistics, and collected location data on the common time line. | 11-20-2014 |
20140359447 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Program Product for Generation of Motion Images - In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises facilitating selection of at least one frame from a plurality of frames of a multimedia content. At least one mobile portion associated with the multimedia content is generated based on the selection of the at least one frame. The adjustment of motion of the at least one mobile portion is facilitated. A motion image is generated based on the adjusted motion of the at least one mobile portion. | 12-04-2014 |
20150012828 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROGRESS BAR CONTROL - A method and device for progress bar control is disclosed. The method includes: acquiring an actual and current buffer progress from a data flow in an application; reducing a difference between the actual and current buffer progress to a lower order to obtain a variation of a progress bar; refreshing the progress bar based on the variation of the progress bar; and displaying the refreshed progress bar. The device includes: a buffer progress acquisition module, configured to acquire an actual and current buffer progress from a data flow in an application; a processing module, configured to reduce a difference between the actual and current buffer progress to a lower order to obtain a variation of a progress bar; a refreshing module, configured to refresh the progress bar based on the variation of the progress bar; and a display module, configured to display the refreshed progress bar. | 01-08-2015 |
20150026575 | NAVIGATING WITHIN A MEDIA ITEM - A method and apparatus for user-controlled navigation within a media item comprising a sequence of elements. The method comprises: defining a line or curve for controlling the navigation; defining a transfer function that associates a plurality of positions along the line or curve with respective elements of the sequence; detecting an input operation by the user, wherein the input operation selects one of the plurality of positions; determining the element of the sequence that corresponds to the user-selected position, according to the defined transfer function; and navigating within the media item to the determined element, wherein the transfer function is a nonlinear one-to-one mapping between the positions along the line or curve and the elements of the sequence. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026576 | Visual Storytelling on a Mobile Media-Consumption Device - Techniques and apparatuses for visual storytelling on a mobile media-consumption device are described. These techniques and apparatuses enable a user to view events central to the story while also viewing context for the story. By so doing, a user may enjoy the story as the story's author intended without sacrificing a user's ability to engage with the story's context. | 01-22-2015 |
20150026577 | MANAGING PLAYBACK OF SYNCHRONIZED CONTENT - A computing device may provide a control interface that enables the user to manage the synchronized output of companion content (e.g., textual content and corresponding audio content). For example, the computing device may display a visual cue to identify a current location in textual content corresponding to a current output position of companion audio content. As the audio content is presented, the visual cue may be advanced to maintain synchronization between the output position within the audio content and a corresponding position in the textual content. The user may control the synchronized output by dragging her finger across the textual content displayed on the touch screen. Accordingly, the control interface may provide a highlight or other visual indication of the distance between the advancing position in the textual content and the location of a pointer to the textual content indicated by the current position of the user's finger. | 01-22-2015 |
20150052437 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SEGMENT-BASED VIEWING OF RECORDED SESSIONS - An approach for providing segment-based viewing of recorded sessions is described. A video platform may determine one or more segments of a communication session based on content of the communication session. The video platform may also associate one or more segments with a recording of the communication session. The video platform may cause, at least in part, a presentation of the recording and one or more indicators for navigating playback of the recording based on the one or more segments, wherein the one or more indicators correspond to the one or more segments. | 02-19-2015 |
20150067514 | MODIFYING A SEGMENT OF A MEDIA ITEM ON A MOBILE DEVICE - Systems and methods for permitting selection and modification of a set of video segments on a mobile device is described. A user interface is provided on a screen of the mobile device to allow a user to select any of a plurality of original video segments of an original video. A selection of at least one of the original video segments is received via the user interface. A request for a modification to the selected at least one original video segment can also be received via the user interface. The systems and methods can cause a modification of the selected at least one original video segment to be performed to provide at least one modified video segment. The at least one modified video segment can be presented via the user interface. | 03-05-2015 |
20150082174 | PRE-PROCESSING METHOD FOR VIDEO DATA PLAYBACK AND PLAYBACK INTERFACE APPARATUS - A pre-processing method for video data playback and a playback interface apparatus are provided, wherein a video receiver module receives a video data with clips, the clips corresponding to numbers in first and second time-sequences, and wherein a display module creates a corresponding GUI component for each clip and arranges the GUI components in the playback interface. When two clips consecutive in the first time-sequence are not consecutive in the second, the display module places their corresponding GUI components separately or distinguishably. By discerning the several time-sequences of the video data, this invention ensures random access of data while being visually intuitive and uniform design-wise. | 03-19-2015 |
20150089372 | METHOD OF USER INTERACTION FOR SHOWING AND INTERACTING WITH FRIEND STATSU ON TIMELINE - A system and method of viewing media content on a timeline is presented. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a companion device user interface provides the user a second screen experience on a companion device by giving the user an opportunity to create secondary supplemental content related to the media content they are watching on a primary screen, such as a television. The user interface provides the user interaction by using visual indicators on a timeline to show the current position of all their friends, who are watching the same media content, along with the status of their media players. Being able to view the current status of all the friends on a timeline enables the users to make relevant comments to each other as the show progresses. | 03-26-2015 |
20150095782 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING USER GENERATED VIDEO REVIEWS - Methods and systems for content aggregation and distribution are described. Video content may be received from a plurality of sources. The video content may be associated with metadata identifying items included within the video content. A video player may be provided which enables video content to be displayed on a user terminal, and a control may be provided enabling the user to quickly navigate to specific portions of the video content. The video player may be embeddable. Tags associated with a given item of video content may be stored and accessed remotely from the system hosting the item of video content. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100885 | VIDEO STREAMING ON A MOBILE DEVICE - A video streaming system for playback of videos, including: a touch screen display defining a playback window; a processor; and non-transitory computer-readable media including instruction that when executed by the processor cause it to: play one or more videos from a current channel of two or more channels, wherein each channel is a simultaneously available but different feed of videos, and wherein the two or more channels are ordered such that for each channel defines at least one of a previous channel and a next channel; receive a directional input through the user interface; determine whether the user has imparted a predetermined gesture on the touch screen display within the playback window along one of a horizontal axis and a vertical axis defined by an orientation of the one or more videos; and if predetermined gesture is along the vertical axis, updating the current channel of the video media. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100886 | MODIFIED MEDIA PRESENTATION DURING SCRUBBING - A computer-implemented method includes displaying, within a user interface in a digital media system, a thumbnail representing at least a portion of a media clip, receiving user input corresponding to a play speed at which a media clip is to be played, determining whether the received user input exceeds one or more predetermined thresholds, and selectively disabling playing of a video portion or an audio portion, or both, based on a result of the determination. | 04-09-2015 |
20150113407 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING BETWEEN MEDIA ITEMS IN A PLURALITY OF SEQUENCES OF MEDIA ITEMS - An electronic device with one or more processors, memory and a display obtains information about a first and second sequence of media items. The device plays an initially-displayed media item of the first sequence and while playing the initially-displayed media item in a respective region of the display, detects a media-change input. In response to the input, when the media-change input corresponds to movement in a first direction, the device ceases to play the initially-displayed media item in the respective region and plays a first media item that is adjacent to the initially-displayed media item in the first sequence. When the media-change input corresponds to movement in a second, different, direction, the device ceases to play the initially-displayed media item in the respective region of the display and plays a second media item in the respective region, where the second media item is from the second sequence of media items. | 04-23-2015 |
20150121224 | Method and System to Control a Seek Position of Multimedia Content Using a Rotatable Video Frame Graphic - A method includes initiating display of a rotatable video frame graphic at a display device. The rotatable video frame graphic enables seeking particular frames of multimedia content and includes a first representation associated with a first segment of the multimedia content and a second representation associated with a second segment of the multimedia content. The first representation is displayed in a first position and the second representation is displayed in a second position. The first position and the second position are arranged vertically with one position above the other position. The method further includes receiving a first input indicating a selection of a navigation control. The method also includes, in response to the first input, updating the rotatable video frame graphic to include a third representation associated with a third segment of the multimedia content and remove the first representation from the rotatable video frame graphic. | 04-30-2015 |
20150128045 | E-MAP BASED INTUITIVE VIDEO SEARCHING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS - An e-map based intuitive video searching system and method for surveillance systems is provided. Methods include displaying an electronic map of a monitored region on a user interface device, receiving user input for selecting an area in the monitored region, and responsive to the received user input, displaying information related to the selected area on the user interface device. | 05-07-2015 |
20150128046 | INTERACTIVE CONTEXTUAL PANELS FOR NAVIGATING A CONTENT STREAM - Displaying a graphical user interface on a second-screen device. The graphical user interface can include a partial video stream displayed in a video display area on a touchscreen of the second-screen device and a contextual panel in an active display area on the touchscreen. The contextual panel can include content associated with the partial video stream. The displayed partial video stream can be associated with a video stream displayed by a primary display with the two displayed video streams being associated with the same content and substantially synchronized. | 05-07-2015 |
20150149903 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING ANIMATED MENU BUTTONS - Optical storage media often contain data structures for a menu suitable for selection of a title, a chapter, a parameter or others. Such menus usually comprise a number of buttons to be displayed, with each button having a state. Possible states of buttons are “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According to the invention, the representation of a menu button may vary, depending on its state. An image or an image sequence, e.g. cartoon, may be associated to a buttons state, providing user animation. Further, a sound or sound sequence, e.g. melody or click, may be associated to a buttons state, and may be played back when the button enters this state. A data structure is disclosed which allows storage of such menu data e.g. on a Blu-ray disc. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149904 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING ANIMATED MENU BUTTONS - Optical storage media often contain data structures for a menu suitable for selection of a title, a chapter, a parameter or others. Such menus usually comprise a number of buttons to be displayed, with each button having a state. Possible states of buttons are “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According to the invention, the representation of a menu button may vary, depending on its state. An image or an image sequence, e.g. cartoon, may be associated to a buttons state, providing user animation. Further, a sound or sound sequence, e.g. melody or click, may be associated to a buttons state, and may be played back when the button enters this state. A data structure is disclosed which allows storage of such menu data e.g. on a Blu-ray disc. | 05-28-2015 |
20150149905 | METHOD FOR REPRESENTING ANIMATED MENU BUTTONS - Optical storage media often contain data structures for a menu suitable for selection of a title, a chapter, a parameter or others. Such menus usually comprise a number of buttons to be displayed, with each button having a state. Possible states of buttons are “unselected”, “selected” or “activated”. According to the invention, the representation of a menu button may vary, depending on its state. An image or an image sequence, e.g. cartoon, may be associated to a buttons state, providing user animation. Further, a sound or sound sequence, e.g. melody or click, may be associated to a buttons state, and may be played back when the button enters this state. A data structure is disclosed which allows storage of such menu data e.g. on a Blu-ray disc. | 05-28-2015 |
20150293676 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR SKIPPING THROUGH MEDIA CONTENT - Technologies for interacting with media content on a media consumption device include playing media content in a first display window displayed on a display screen. In response to receiving an input gesture, the first display window may be shifted on the display screen while the playback of the media content is adjusted based on the input gesture. Additionally, a new display window may be shifted on to the display screen. A frame of the media content occurring at a determined skip point may be displayed in the new display window. | 10-15-2015 |
20150309686 | VIDEO SCROLLING - A system for video scrolling may allow a user to control speed and/or direction of video playback through user inputs. Such user inputs can include swiping one or more fingers on a touch-sensitive surface, clicking and dragging a computer mouse, or other input actions comprising lateral movements. The rate of playback can be configured based on the speed of the input action. In one embodiment, the user may play the video backward by reversing direction of the input action. | 10-29-2015 |
20150324096 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATION AND SHARING OF SELECTIVELY ANIMATED DIGITAL PHOTOS - A method of generating distributable and/or shareable selectively animated images comprising the steps of: (a) opening a client computer program, implemented as client computer program loaded on a mobile device; (b) capturing or accessing a video content; (c) using a user interface of the client computer program, a user drawing a path or region on an image frame from the video content to be animated (“animated region”), wherein the client computer program generated based on the animated region a mask, wherein the mask represents the static portion of a selectively animated image, and the mask is operable to mask underlying animated regions; and (d) the client computer program initiating, at the mobile device or via a server linked to the mobile device, the composition of a series of images including user selected animated regions, by rendering an animated image based on mask and the underlying masked animated regions. A computer program is provided for implementing the steps of the method, which may consist of a mobile application. The computer program may include a server application that cooperates with the mobile application for enabling the animated image composition processes and/or distribution and sharing of the animated images. A computer system is provided that includes a mobile device implementing the mobile application and optionally a server implementing the server application. | 11-12-2015 |
20150326628 | Integrated User Interface for Unified Communications Applications - Techniques are provided for establishing a Unified Communications (UC) session between a client endpoint device and remote endpoint devices, the client endpoint device managing the session using a first-party call control protocol in response to commands from a third-party control protocol and user input. A hosted virtual desktop (HVD) generates an HVD image and communicates it to the client endpoint device for display, via a virtual desktop interface (VDI) protocol. The HVD image comprises a UC user interface generated by a UC application on the HVD, the user interface comprising at least one user interface element and at least one placeholder where a client-provided user interface element may be inserted. A client UC application receives the HVD image and inserts client-provided user interface elements over the placeholders before sending the integrated image to a client operating system to be rendered on the display of client endpoint device. | 11-12-2015 |
20150346984 | VIDEO FRAME LOUPE - Video frame loupes are presented that provide a frame-by-frame video navigation tool. A video frame loupe is a graphical user interface (UI) element that may be displayed over a portion of a display screen, and which may be used by a user to navigate frames of a video clip. For example, a user may provider a user input to activate the video frame loupe to be displayed as a preview window that presents a continuum of frames available at the time corresponding to a point at which the video frame loupe UI was invoked. The user may then navigate forward/backward with frame-level accuracy. | 12-03-2015 |
20150346990 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE (GUI), AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS APPLYING THE SAME - A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive a user command on a touch screen, and a multimedia apparatus using the same. The method for providing a GUI includes determining whether an enlargement command for a GUI item is received, and enlarging the GUI item. Therefore, it is possible to enable a user to operate the GUI item more correctly, and to provide the superior visual effect when the GUI item is operated. | 12-03-2015 |
20150348589 | DIGITAL VIDEO SHOWROOM - The Digital Video Showroom is an interactive video platform used for researching, shopping for and comparing consumer products and services. Informational videos are composed of video chapters containing specific information. Each chapter can be immediately accessed without waiting for the information to appear as in a linear video. | 12-03-2015 |
20150355825 | RECORDED HISTORY FEATURE IN OPERATING SYSTEM WINDOWING SYSTEM - Recording the video display of an application independently of the video displays of other applications and regardless of the characteristics of the video display—for example, regardless of whether the application is running in the foreground or the background or whether its display is fully visible, partially visible, or not visible at all on a monitor or other display device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150355826 | ENABLING USER INTERACTIONS WITH VIDEO SEGMENTS - Embodiments described herein enable user interaction with a video segment. A hit-zone file, which includes hit-zone data, is produced and stored for a video segment, wherein the hit-zone data corresponds to spatial regions that define hit-zones for hidden objects included in the video segment. The hit-zone file is provided to a computing system so that when the computing system displays the video segment the hit-zone file adds hit-zones for the hidden objects included in the video segment. The hit-zone file is produced separate from the video segment. Each of the hit-zones is defined by a different portion of the hit-zone data and corresponds to a different one of the hidden objects included in the video segment. The spatial regions that define the hit-zones for hidden objects are not visible to a user of the computing system that views the video segment with the hit-zones added. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356192 | SOCIAL MEDIA DATA PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A method of displaying social media data is provided. The method includes accessing stored social media data from a plurality of social media outlets and obtaining social media data having associated context information. The obtained social media data includes at least first social media data from a first social media outlet and second social media data from a second social media outlet. The method includes providing a user interface that displays representations of the first and second social media data as a function of the context information. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363099 | AVATAR INTEGRATED SHARED MEDIA EXPERIENCE - A method and system are disclosed in which a group of people are able to replicate the physical world experience of going with a group of friends to pick a movie, watch the movie together, and provide commentary on the movie itself in the virtual world on a virtual couch while each user is sitting in different physical locations. Additionally, the virtual representation of the destination that the group of people are watching the movie together in can be themed to allow users to watch movies in different locations pivoting on special events or by the users choice. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363101 | VIDEO SCROLLING SHORTCUTS FOR TOUCHSCREEN DISPLAY - Video content is displayed on a touchscreen display. A first touch gesture is received, while displaying the video content, which is associated with scrolling through the video content. A set of selectable shortcuts are displayed overlaying the video content in response to receiving the first touch gesture. Each selectable shortcut in the set of selectable shortcuts is associated with a time position. A second touch gesture is received selecting a selectable shortcut from the set of selectable shortcuts. The video content is displayed from the time position associated with the selected shortcut. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370466 | System and Method for Switching between Media Items in a Plurality of Sequences of Media Items - An electronic device with one or more processors, memory, and a touchscreen plays a first media item in a full-screen mode on the touchscreen. In response to detecting a contact on the touchscreen, the first media item shrinks into a region of the touchscreen and continues to play in the region, while a new media item is displayed outside of the region. In response to detecting movement of the contact, the shrunken first media item moves away from the region and the new media item moves into the region. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371677 | USER INTERFACE FOR VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM - Systems and methods for video editing and playback are provided. In one implementation, a selected portion of a timeline for navigating media content can be repositioned and resized by user input actions received along various axes relative to the timeline. In another implementation, a plurality of signals associated with media content can be intelligently weighted based on user group historical attributes to identify portions of interest in the media content. In a further implementation, an experience map for media content is provided in which a representative signature for the content includes visual signal intensity representations and social interest concentrations over the length of the content. In another implementation, a subset of filters is determined for recommendation to a user based on one or more attributes associated with at least one of media content, the user, a group of users, or a user device. | 12-24-2015 |
20150378462 | Device and Method for Processing User Input - A method for generating display data comprises detecting user input via an input interface. A processor is in communication with the input interface to generate display data comprising a display object for display by a display device. The display object is representative of an action that will subsequently be performed by the processor on continuation of the user input. The display data on the display device is output whilst the user input is being detected. Alternatively, the display object is caused to appear on the display device over time as the user input is being performed, wherein the rate at which the display object appears is different to the rate of performance of the user input. A device and executable computer program for performing the steps of the method is also provided. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378577 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AGENT INTERACTIONS - In a system for recording agent interactions, the system includes: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: initiate a screen recording session on an electronic device; monitor for a media communication occurring on the electronic device; generate a metadata file corresponding to the media communication, wherein the metadata file comprises a start time of the media communication with respect to the screen recording session; display a user interface to display a video of the screen recording session, wherein the user interface includes a progress bar for the video; display a marker based on the metadata file; and navigate to a location of the video corresponding to the media communication in response to detecting a selection of the marker. | 12-31-2015 |
20160006790 | REMOTELY VIEWING IMAGE OR VIDEO CAPTURED BY NODE - Systems and methods for providing registration at a remote site that may include, for example, a monitoring module that may communicate with a remote site. A registration protocol may be used by the monitoring module and the remote site in generating the messages communicated during the registration process. The monitoring module may gather and generate various identification information to be included in the registration protocol messages. The registration information provided by the monitoring module maybe stored at the remote site in a database server having a database. A confirmation message may be communicated from the remote site to the monitoring module that may either acknowledge successful registration or report that an error occurred during the registration process. | 01-07-2016 |
20160018983 | TOUCH SCREEN VIDEO SCROLLING - A configuration method is provided. The method includes receiving a command for configuring touch screen functions associated with scrolling through a video file in a forward direction or a reverse direction at various speeds dependent on a direction and distance of movement of a touch screen gesture performed by a user. A movement distance of the touch screen gesture in a forward direction is associated with a first specified number of video frames of the video file and a forward scrolling speed is determined. An additional movement distance of the touch screen gesture in a reverse direction is associated with a second specified number of video frames of the video file and a reverse scrolling speed is determined. In response, a scrolling process is enabled. | 01-21-2016 |
20160034574 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal includes a display and controller configured to cause the display to display a playback screen of a first multimedia file and cause the display to display a first retrieval screen in response to receiving a first user input during the displaying of the playback screen of the first multimedia file, such that the first retrieval screen includes a plurality of thumbnail images respectively corresponding to one of a plurality of playback points in time on a per first time interval basis of the first multimedia file. The controller also causes the display to play the first multimedia file beginning at a playback point in time that corresponds to a selected one of the plurality of thumbnail images. | 02-04-2016 |
20160086464 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MONITORING THE VIDEO SURVEILLANCE ACTIVITIES - A method and apparatus. The method includes the steps of an activity analysis processor monitoring the activities of a security system protecting a secured area and a human operator of the security system and evaluating the system's and operator's activities, the activity analysis processor detecting an event and saving a summary of the event to a cloud server, a user interface of the cloud server detecting a request from a user for a report of activities and the cloud server downloading the activity report to the user, the activity report displayed to the user including playback features controlling playback of the summary, the playback features further including provision to accept requests for additional data from the user and the playback features downloading and displaying the additional data in response to the requests. | 03-24-2016 |
20160103574 | SELECTING FRAME FROM VIDEO ON USER INTERFACE - A computing apparatus comprises a touch sensitive display, at least one processor, and at least one memory storing program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to: Switch between a video browsing mode and a frame-by-frame browsing mode. The video browsing mode is configured to display an independent static frame of the video. The frame-by-frame browsing mode is configured to display both independent and dependent static frames of the video one by one. A touch on a timeline of the video browsing mode is configured to switch to the video browsing mode and display a static frame of the video corresponding to the touch on the timeline. A release of the touch is configured to switch to the frame-by-frame browsing mode and display a static frame, which is corresponding to the release on the timeline, in the frame-by-frame mode. | 04-14-2016 |
20160104513 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DYNAMIC VIDEO BOOKMARKING - Methods and systems for dynamic bookmarking in branched video are described. An application provides a video tree having a plurality of video segments, with each video segment including a predefined portion of one or more paths in the video tree, and each path being associated with a different video presentation. One of the paths in the video tree is traversed based on one or more decisions made by a user during playback of the video presentation associated with the path being traversed. A selection of a particular location in the path being traversed is received by the application, which stores a bookmark of the location for subsequent retrieval. The bookmark identifies a sequence of video segments in the video tree having been traversed to reach the location. The structure of the video tree is modified, and the bookmark is automatically updated, if necessary. At a later time, the application receives a selection of the stored bookmark and seeks to the bookmarked location. The application further restores the decisions made by the user during the previous playback of the presentation. | 04-14-2016 |
20160127283 | Method and apparatus for creating booklets and the use of the same - Techniques for creating electronic messages with interactive images and audio are described. The electronic messages can be shared with another user or a group of users, published to a whitewall and iteratively commented in voice. According to one aspect of the present invention, an image is interactively marked while recording a spoken commentary to accompany marks provided by a user. A result of such a electronic message is referred to as a booklet herein. | 05-05-2016 |
20160149982 | DYNAMIC RESIZABLE MEDIA ITEM PLAYER - Described herein is a method for managing media item playback. A method includes receiving a media request to play a media item via a first user interface (UI) on a mobile device. The method further includes causing a media player in a second UI to play the media item. The method also includes displaying a representation of the media item in a first portion of the first UI, the first portion of the first UI being associated with the media player in the second UI. The method includes receiving, via a second portion of the first UI, an activity request to perform an activity that is independent of the viewing of the media item. The method further includes and presenting content associated with the requested activity in the first UI while continuing to display, in the first portion of the first UI, the representation of the media item played in the media player in the second UI. | 05-26-2016 |
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