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20100284667 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING DEVICE, AND RECORDING METHOD - There is provided a information recording medium containing a title of an AV content formed by a partial section as a part or whole of a digital stream. The information recording medium contains a play list having information for specifying a title by identifying the position of the partial section in the digital stream and the reproduction order, a program for controlling reproduction of the title by calling the play list, an “Index” containing a “Top Menu” for identifying a menu and a “Program IDRef” for identifying a program while correlating them, and an “Extension” containing a “Top Menu” and a “Play List ID” while correlating them. | 11-11-2010 |
20100290757 | Recording / Reproducing Device, System and Server - [PROBLEMS] It is possible for a viewer to quickly locate an aiming program while it is unnecessary to make a program recording reservation. [MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS] A digital recording and reproducing device ( | 11-18-2010 |
20100290758 | MOVING IMAGE ENCODING METHOD AND APPARATUS - A moving image encoding method of encoding a moving image while switching between variable-length encoding schemes. In this method, a continuous unit to be continuously reproduced is determined (S | 11-18-2010 |
20100290759 | METHOD AND APPARATUS TO FACILITATE THE EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION OF TRICK MODES IN A PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM - A method and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating efficient operation of trick modes in a personal video recording (PVR) system. Stream-navigation data from a data stream is captured and pre-processed to generate a frame-correlated NAV table comprising one entry for each frame within the data stream, during recording of the data stream. The stream-navigation data comprises start code data, content rating data, and conditional access data that is embedded in the data stream. During playback of the data stream in a user-selected trick mode, the frame-correlated NAV table is used to generate command packets that are sent to a data decoder along with selected frames of the data stream. The selected frames are decoded based on information in the command packets and certain selected frames may be displayed as part of the trick mode. | 11-18-2010 |
20100296793 | RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING INFORMATION FOR STILL PICTURE, RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor, stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a space having a logically one-dimensional order, rather than in each file, and still picture group information for separating the still picture data into a predetermined maximum number of groups in order to manage the still pictures at a group level. The still picture group information includes general information for still picture groups, and information for still pictures in each still picture group. The general information for each still picture group includes the start position of a first still picture in each still picture group, and the information for still pictures in each still picture group includes the sizes of video data and audio data for each still picture. | 11-25-2010 |
20100303440 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY PLAYING A MEDIA PROGRAM AND AN ARBITRARILY CHOSEN SEEK PREVIEW FRAME - A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for playing a media program and providing a preview frame of the media program in response to a seek command is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of accepting a seek command in the user computer; generating a seek request from the seek command, the seek request including information identifying an arbitrarily chosen seek preview media program frame associated with the media program; retrieving the arbitrarily chosen seek preview media program frame; and rendering the received arbitrarily chosen seek preview media program frame in the playback component of the MPP. | 12-02-2010 |
20100303441 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OVERTIME VIEWING - A method and system for adding overtime to a video recording are described. The method and system include providing a personal video recorder (PVR) operative to record a video stream, providing a multimedia content item on the video stream, providing metadata accessible to the PVR, the metadata being associated with the multimedia content item and including at least a first metadata item and a second metadata item, recording the multimedia content item at the PVR for a first amount of time, the first amount of time being indicated by the first metadata item, continuing to record the multimedia content item after the end of the first amount of time, for a second amount of time based, at least in part, on at least one parameter in the second metadata item. Related methods and apparatus are also described. | 12-02-2010 |
20100303442 | 3D MODE SELECTION MECHANISM FOR VIDEO PLAYBACK - The invention relates to a signal comprising video information and associated playback information, the video information and associated playback information being organized according to a playback format, the video information comprising a primary video stream for two-dimensional (2D) display, and an additional information stream for enabling three-dimensional (3D) display, wherein that the associated playback information comprises display information indicating the types of display possible. The invention also relates to a method and device for playback of such a signal, the method comprising receiving the video information and the associated playback information, processing the display information to determine that both two-dimensional (2D) display possible and three-dimensional (3D) display are possible for the received video information; determining a playback setting of a playback device indicating whether the video information should be displayed two-dimensional (2D) or three dimensional (3D); and processing for display either the primary video stream or the primary video stream and the additional information stream, in accordance with the playback setting of the playback device. | 12-02-2010 |
20100303443 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS AND EXTERNAL TERMINAL - A video recording apparatus capable of recording video data and additional information related to a predetermined position of the video data includes a first recording medium for storing the video data, a second recording medium for storing the additional information, a communication unit operable to communicate with an external terminal, a recording position storage unit operable to record latest information representing a recording position of video data currently being recorded, a recording state management unit operable to send the information representing the recording position to the external terminal via the communication unit, when receiving a predetermined signal from the external terminal via the communication unit, an additional information management unit operable to receive the additional information and information representing the recording position of the video data to which the additional information is to be added from the external terminal via the communication unit, and a recording medium control unit operable to relate the received additional information to the video data based on the received information representing the recording position so as to record the video data to the second recording medium. | 12-02-2010 |
20100310231 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD, AND EDITING PROGRAM - Herein disclosed are an editing apparatus, an editing method, and an editing program allowing quick editing of video data. In order to clip a section in the video data and play it to be broadcasted as a replay, receiving a request to start playback from a desired position, an in-point is set in response to the request, and an out-point is set in response to a request to finish playback. Then, other video data from the video data of a section between the in-point and the out-point is generated. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310232 | IMAGING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an imaging device including, an operating portion on which are input a recording start instruction and a recording stop instruction, a recording portion that records onto a recording medium moving images that are picked up during a recording period from the recording start instruction to the recording stop instruction, a thumbnail generation portion that generates a plurality of thumbnail images that represent each of sections obtained by time division of the moving images, and a display control portion that displays a recorded image verification screen on a display portion immediately after the recording stop instruction, the plurality of thumbnail images being arranged in chronological order on the recorded image verification screen. | 12-09-2010 |
20100310233 | RECORDING MEDIUM FOR STORING INFORMATION FOR STILL PICTURE, RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREFOR - A recording medium for storing information for still pictures, and a recording/reproducing method and apparatus therefor, stores data for a plurality of still pictures and audio data added thereto in one file or a space having a logically one-dimensional order, rather than in each file, and still picture group information for separating the still picture data into a predetermined maximum number of groups in order to manage the still pictures at a group level. The still picture group information includes general information for still picture groups, and information for still pictures in each still picture group. The general information for each still picture group includes the start position of a first still picture in each still picture group, and the information for still pictures in each still picture group includes the sizes of video data and audio data for each still picture. | 12-09-2010 |
20100316351 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING VIDEO FILE - Provided is a method and system for providing a video file. The method includes registering, by a transmitter, a video content and a contents index indicating location information for a given section in the video content, transmitting, by the transmitter, the registered contents index to a receiver, when the registered video content is requested, and transmitting, by the transmitter, the requested video content to the receiver. | 12-16-2010 |
20100316352 | MOVING PICTURE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - In a moving picture reproduction apparatus such as an optical disc player | 12-16-2010 |
20100316353 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDNG STREAM LINKING IN AUDIO/VIDEO DISK MEDIA - A method and apparatus for providing stream linking in audio/video disk media is disclosed. The present invention sets-up an audio/video stream on a disk drive, uses read and write commands for accessing contiguous data and, given an established stream, establishes a linked stream by sending a linked stream request with the number of a primary stream to the drive. The new stream inherits the beginning and ending addresses of the primary stream. Passed pointer detection is enabled for linked stream pointers passing primary stream pointers | 12-16-2010 |
20100322592 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MODIFYING THE PRESENTATION OF CONTENT - Described herein are methods and apparatus for the identification of locations in a presentation stream based on metadata associated with the presentation stream. Locations within a presentation stream are identified using location information and/or signature data associated with the presentation stream. The identified locations within a presentation stream may be utilized to identify boundaries of segments within the presentation stream, such as segments of a show. The boundaries of the segments may then be utilized to change the volume of segments or playback a segment at a non-real time presentation rate. | 12-23-2010 |
20100322593 | Employing Artifacts for Video Indexing - One or more embodiments disclosed herein provide methods and systems for indexing video recordings of scenes using artifacts. More specifically one or more embodiments provide methods which identify artifacts in video recordings and index the video recordings according to the artifacts. These methods and systems also output portions of the video recordings according to the artifact-based indexing. | 12-23-2010 |
20100329633 | Method, system, and apparatus to derive content related to a multimedia stream and dynamically combine and display the stream with the related content - A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed. In one embodiment method includes receiving multimedia data from a source device. Then the method determines one or more pieces of content information from the received multimedia data through a content awareness algorithm. Next, the method searches one or more data repositories for relational information associated with the content information. Then the method retrieves any found relational information from the one or more data repositories. Finally, the method displays the retrieved relational information alongside the multimedia data on a display device. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329634 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY OF A VIDEO FILE - A method and system for display of a video file are provided in which multiple time segments of the video file are displayed simultaneously to enable small changes to be identified in less time than viewing the entire file in a single playback. The method includes dividing a first portion of a video file into multiple segments each of a same time duration and sending each of the multiple segments of the first portion of the video file to be played simultaneously in multiple windows of a display device. The method then includes dividing a second portion of a video file starting at the end of the first portion, into multiple segments each of a same time duration and sending each of the multiple segments of the second portion of the video file to be played simultaneously in multiple windows of the display device. The method is repeated for subsequent portions until the entire video file has been played. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329635 | VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A video reproducing apparatus for reproducing video data, comprises: a group classify unit for classifying the video data into groups upon a degree of similarity of video characteristic; an importance degree determine unit for determining on whether a video belonging to the group is the video or not, being high in a degree of importance, among those within the group, which are classified by the group classifying unit; a reproduction time setup unit for setting up reproduction time of video for each video, depending on the degree of importance, which is determined by the importance degree determine unit; a unit for holding the degree of importance and the reproduction time that are set up; and a video output unit for outputting the video to a video display unit so that it is displayed in accordance with the reproduction time that is set up, or in the above, further comprises: a reproduction order setup unit, which is configured to set up reproduction order of video for each video, by means of the importance degree determine unit and depending on the video a characteristic quantity; and wherein the video output unit, which is configured to output the video to a video display unit so that it is displayed in accordance with the reproduction order that is set up. | 12-30-2010 |
20100329636 | Video playback apparatus - A video playback apparatus includes a first unit which inputs a viewing time of video data to be played back, a second unit which extracts scenes on a basis of a power of audio in the video data or a movement of image in the video data so that a sum of the time of the extracted playback scenes is within the viewing time, and a third unit which plays back the extracted scenes. | 12-30-2010 |
20110008013 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYER TO PLAY BACK AUDIO BACKGROUND, AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYER - A method for controlling an audio/video player to play back audio background includes: after a storage medium storing at least one still image file is loaded into the audio/video player, searching for an audio file corresponding to the still image file; and selectively playing back the audio file as the audio background during playing back of the still image file. An audio/video player includes: at least one loading module arranged to load at least one storage medium into the audio/video player; and a control circuit. After a storage medium storing at least one still image file is loaded into the audio/video player, the control circuit searches for an audio file corresponding to the still image file, and selectively plays back the audio file as audio background during playing back of the still image file when the audio file exists in the storage medium. | 01-13-2011 |
20110013882 | VIDEO AUDIO RECORDING/PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND METHOD - During video audio recording, key frames are temporarily stored from the video audio stream to be recorded, and metadata is later generated from the temporarily stored key frames. Even if a CPU or system configuration of a relatively low performance is used, metadata generation can be carried out in parallel with the video recording operation. | 01-20-2011 |
20110019969 | INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM STORING MULTI-ANGLE DATA AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING THE MULTI-ANGLE DATA - An apparatus and method for reproducing multi-angle data in a seamless manner, even during a change of angle, and an information storage medium on which the multi-angle data is recorded. AV data divided into clips, which are recording units, is recorded on the information storage medium. Additional information regarding jump points is recorded on a space of the information storage medium other than where the clips are recorded. The apparatus for reproducing the multi-angle data includes a reading unit which reads data from the information storage medium, and a reproducing unit which reproduces the data read by the reading unit by searching for and reproducing clips corresponding to the read data when the read data is multi-angle data, and, if there is an angle change command, reproducing clips for a new angle from a jump point of the clip for the new angle. | 01-27-2011 |
20110033168 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR FAST SEEKING WITHIN A MEDIA STREAM BUFFER - A method of seeking within a time shift buffer includes receiving a media stream from a remotely located media source over a network, and generating a time shift buffer associated with the media stream. The time shift buffer includes a number of frames with keyframes provided at a certain intervals. When a seek request associated with a desired time within the media stream is received, the system determines a nearest keyframe within the set of keyframes that is previous to and closest in time to the desired time, displays the nearest keyframe, then considers in turn each of the frames subsequent to the nearest keyframe until a desired frame corresponding to the desired time is reached displayed. The system cancels the previous examining step and determines a new nearest keyframe in the event a second seek request is received. | 02-10-2011 |
20110033169 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING SYSTEM USING INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, there is provided an information reproducing method. The method includes, from an information storage medium storing stream data having a plurality of advanced packs each including a resource file and an advanced ID to identify the resource file, acquiring respective advanced IDs, identifying respective resource files based on the respective advanced IDs, and reproducing the identified respective resource files. | 02-10-2011 |
20110044605 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SURVEILLANCE AND EVENT RECORDING - A data-encoding system includes a source of unencoded data, and a first encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the first encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a first data rate. The data encoding system further includes a second encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the second encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a second data rate in which the second data rate exceeds the first data rate. This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract that allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain subject matter of the technical disclosure. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 02-24-2011 |
20110064381 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING VIDEO TRANSITIONS - The disclosure addresses methods and apparatus for evaluating video presentations, particularly those displaying a succession of generally static images to identify the transition from a first image to a second image. The change of images facilitates the insertion of chapter markers which may be later used to index the content of the video and to facilitate navigation to selected content in the video. In one implementation, a difference measurement will be made between selected frames of the video presentation and evaluated with a statistical measure of the magnitude of the difference measurements, such as a Root Mean Square analysis. In preferred implementations, all processing will be done in the digital domain. | 03-17-2011 |
20110064382 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, REPRODUCTION METHOD - A BD-ROM stores PlayList information. The PlayList information defines a playback section of each of a plurality of AV clips and includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information designates one of the AV clips as a Main Clip and defines a portion of the Main Clip as a primary playback section. The SubPath information designates another one of the AV clips as a SubClip and defines a portion of the SubClip as a secondary playback section that is to be played back in synchronism with the primary playback section. The BD-ROM stores, the one of the AV clips designated as the SubClip along with an EP_map. The EP_map shows a plurality of entry points on the SubClip in a one-to-one correspondence with entry times on the SubClip timeline. | 03-17-2011 |
20110069934 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING OBJECT BASED AUDIO FILE, AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PLAYING BACK OBJECT BASED AUDIO FILE - Provided are an apparatus and method for providing an object based audio file, and an apparatus and method for playing back an object based audio file. The object based audio file producing apparatus may include a bitstream generator to generate a bitstream about an object based audio file including a plurality of audio object frames and a file header for an object based audio service; and a bitstream transmitter to transmit the bitstream to the object based audio file playback apparatus. The plurality of audio object frames may include a frame storing a audio source in which all of a plurality of audio frames is mixed and a frame storing each of the audio objects. | 03-24-2011 |
20110075990 | Video Bookmarking - The video bookmark feature allows a user to tag an item or segment of interest within audio/video content being watched. Each tag, or bookmark, can contain within it metadata associated with the content captured by the receiver at the time the bookmark was recorded; further information can be derived via interaction over the Internet with a service provider. Applications supported by video bookmarks include telescoping ads, capturing screen shots for later review or printing, and retrieving more information about any arbitrary subject being viewed, whether it is a scene in a program, an advertisement, or other associated information about the subject. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 03-31-2011 |
20110075991 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AV STREAMS ONTO A RECORDING MEDIUM WITH REPRODUCTION PATH CHANGE POINT FEATURES - The present invention facilitates reading in advance information on addresses where data of each reproduction path to be reproduced is stored. Clip AV stream | 03-31-2011 |
20110085780 | Systems and Methods for Indexing Media Files Using Brainwave Signals - A method may include selecting a media file and determining if the selected media file has been indexed. If the media file has not been indexed, the method may include playing the selected media file on a media device while simultaneously measure a brainwave signal of a user with a sensor, where the brainwave signal indicates an attention level of the user. Next, the method may include indexing the media file by correlating the measured brainwave signal to the media file and storing the media file and the measured brainwave signal in storage device. | 04-14-2011 |
20110097055 | INFORMATION REPRODUCING APPARATUS - The present invention provides an information reproducing apparatus which can directly and intuitively designate a reproduction point, as desired by a user, on the basis of a change in level of a visually-provided information amount. An optical disk reproducing apparatus | 04-28-2011 |
20110103765 | RECORDING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD,PLAYBACK DEVICE, PLAYBACK METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention relates to a recording device, a recording method, a playback device, a playback method, a program, and a recording medium, which enable the GOP structure of a Dependent view video stream obtained by encoding, for example, in accordance with the H.264 AVC/MVC profile standard to be defined and recorded in a recording medium such as a BD or the like. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103766 | Media Stream Processing | 05-05-2011 |
20110110646 | CREATING AND VIEWING CUSTOMIZED MULTIMEDIA SEGMENTS - A system for creating and viewing customized multimedia segments allows a user to create event identification data from in-band data in a program stream. The in-band data is processed and compiled into event identification data associated with the content stream. The event identification data identifies patterns or sequences of in-band data associated with events in the content stream. Metadata are also included in the event identification data. The event identification data is provided to multimedia devices which receive multimedia content streams containing content streams with in-band data. The in-band data are parsed and compared to the event identification data. If a match occurs, the multimedia device uses the metadata to identify events or perform specified actions. | 05-12-2011 |
20110116761 | BROADCAST RECEIVER - A broadcast receiver ( | 05-19-2011 |
20110116762 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PLAYING DEVICE, PLAYING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relating to an information processing device, information processing method, playing device, playing method, and program that enables playing of stereo image (3D image) contents appropriately. | 05-19-2011 |
20110123169 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO IMAGE DATA RECORDING AND PLAYBACK - A video data recoding method suitable for recording computer sessions. Each video image frame is divided into multiple blocks. A server processes the video frames and transmits only changed blocks for each frame to a video log server. The video log server stores the changed blocks with block indices in a data file. The video log server also maintains a virtual frame table which stores, for each block of the frame, the data location within the data file where the most recent occurrence of that block is stored. The virtual frame table is continuously updated as changed blocks are stored in the data file. The video log server further stores a snapshot file containing snapshots of the virtual frame table at predetermined time points, along with time stamps and a next changed frame location. The data file and the snapshot file are used to reproduce the video images. | 05-26-2011 |
20110123170 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing device and method whereby low-delay transmission synchronous playback of an image can be realized in a surer manner. A timestamp control unit of a transmission device performs adjustment of a timestamp value in which smoothing of a transmission rate by a smoothing unit is taken into consideration according to change in a frame rate (frame thinning-out rate or the like) so as to prevent an image from failure during playback at a reception device. A synchronization control unit calculates synchronized playback point-in-time using point-in-time corresponding to a timestamp value after updating to which encoded data has been added. The device may be applied to an image transmission system, for example. | 05-26-2011 |
20110129199 | FACILITATING PLAYBACK OF RECORDED CONTENT CONTAINING A SERVICE TRANSITION - A method for facilitating playback of recorded content having a service transition point is provided. The method includes recording content containing a pre-transition service and a post-transition service, in which the pre-transition service occurs prior to the service transition point and the post-transition service occurs after the service transition point. The method also includes generating a content change file having content change records associated with the pre-transition service, the service transition point, and the post-transition service, and communicating the content and the content change file to a playback device configured to play the recorded content. | 06-02-2011 |
20110150419 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION ORDER DETERMINATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - A system comprising: a extraction unit that extracts from each content a signal feature series, being a series of signal features caused to correspond to positions on a time axis of the content; a generator for detects mutual similarity sections, being sections in which the signal features for different contents are similar to each other, from said signal feature series for each content, and generates the content to which each mutual similarity section belongs, information for specifying the position of the above mutual similarity section on the time axis of the content, and a link indicative of a correspondence relation of the mutual similarity section as mutual similarity section link information; and a determination unit that determines a reproduction order of the content based upon a relationship of the position of the mutual similarity section on the time axis of the content that said mutual similarity section link information indicates. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150420 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STORING MEDICAL DATA, METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIEWING MEDICAL DATA, CORRESPONDING COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, SIGNALS AND DATA MEDIUM - A method and apparatus are provided for storing medical data comprising at least one fixed image, termed a significant image, and a video sequence to which the significant image belongs. The method includes: tagging of at least one significant image in the video sequence acquired; determination of at least one item of time synchronization information, representative of the position of the significant image in the video sequence, as a function of a synchronization reference; generation of at least two medical imaging information objects, according to a predetermined standard, including a first object, termed the video object, and at least one second object, termed the significant image object; and storage and/or transmission of the medical imaging information objects and of the time synchronization information. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150421 | INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND PLAYBACK DEVICE FOR PLAYING BACK 3D IMAGES - To aim to increase the use efficiency of a screen on which a subtitle is displayed together with a stereoscopic image. A video shift mode is set for each subtitle. When a stereoscopic image is played back, in accordance with the video shift mode of the subtitle, a video plane is shifted upward or downward to perform cropping processing of collecting black frames provided in the upper end and the lower end of the screen in either one of the upper end and the lower end so as to save a display region of the subtitle. | 06-23-2011 |
20110150422 | Recording Medium Containing Moving Picture Data And Additional Information Thereof And Reproducing Method And Apparatus Of The Recording Medium - The present invention relates to a recording medium containing moving picture data and additional information thereof and to reproducing method and apparatus of the recording medium. The present recording medium has script files including additional information about moving picture data, e.g., scene descriptive text and introduction of characters, etc. In addition, information linking each script file with a section of moving picture data to be presented with contents of the script file is included in a link data file or is contained in a filename of the script file. In reproduction of the recording medium, a script file linked with presently reproduced moving picture data section is determined and searched for based on the link data file or every filename of the script files, and contents of the found script file are presented together with the presently reproduced moving picture data. Furthermore, previously presented additional information is removed depending on data or filename of the found script file. | 06-23-2011 |
20110158605 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSOCIATING AN OBJECT TO A MOMENT IN TIME IN A DIGITAL VIDEO - A system and method for associating location data with a marked portion of a digital video. The method includes determining a marked moment in a timeline of a source digital video. The method further includes determining location data related to the marked moment and associating the location data with the marked moment. | 06-30-2011 |
20110164857 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NETWORK-BASED BOOKMARKING - Systems and methods according to the exemplary embodiments provide for bookmarking of content in IPTV systems. Upon receipt of a bookmark storing request, an IPTV server can obtain information associated with the content to be bookmarked from an electronic program guide (EPG). The IPTV server can then determine a position in the content at which the content is to be bookmarked based upon the information received from the EPG. A bookmark can then be stored by the IPTV server including a content identifier and the position. | 07-07-2011 |
20110170838 | METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING SECOND MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS IN A LIST OF FIRST MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT ITEMS - A method of distributing second multi-media content items into a list having at least one first multi-media content item is provided. The list of the first multi-media content item is to be reproduced on a personal TV system. A playlist of first multi-media content items is selected from a plurality of first multi-media content items available on different TV channels. Potential second multi-media content items from a plurality of available second multi-media content items are determined by matching information from the first and second multi-media content items. At least one of the determined second multi-media content items are selected based on a user profile, metadata of the first and second multi-media content items and/or a distribution scheme for distributing the second multi-media content items into the playlist of the first multi-media content items. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170839 | Method and apparatus for synchronizing data streams containing audio, video and/or other data - Several data streams contain video, audio and/or other data. Some of the data streams are pre-recorded in a multiplex on a storage medium while other data streams are located out of the data stream multiplex on the storage medium. The data streams are synchronized using a navigation file (List_of_PlayItems), which comprises descriptors (PlayItems, SubPlayItems) pointing to parts of said data streams, wherein said descriptors define the arrangement in time for said data streams by means of data sub stream paths. | 07-14-2011 |
20110170840 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING PLAYLISTS - Systems and methods for automatically generating a playlist of series assets and systems and methods for grouping assets of a playlist in clusters are provided. In one embodiment, series assets may automatically be included into a playlist for that series. In another embodiment, an interactive media guidance application may group assets in clusters based on one or more user selected parameters or may group assets in cluster based on automatically determined parameters. In yet another embodiment, the interactive media guidance application may group assets in clusters and display at least one identifier in connection with each cluster to indicate a basis for forming the cluster. The identifier may be a key word or catch phrase that succinctly identifies a trait or characteristic of assets in a particular cluster associated with the identifier. | 07-14-2011 |
20110176787 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING ENHANCED RECORDING OPTIONS OF MEDIA CONTENT - Systems and methods for providing enhanced recording options for media content are provided. The systems and methods permit users to view or otherwise access samples of media content before deciding whether to record additional episodes of the media content or to perform other media guidance application functions. An interactive media guidance application implemented at least partially on a user's equipment displays at least one media content listing. A user may then select to record a sample or portion of the media content listing. After the user has subsequently viewed at least a portion of the recorded media content, the interactive media guidance application may provide an option to record an entire version of the recorded sample, record another episode of the media content, record an entire series of the media content, erase the recorded sample, or perform other media guidance application functions. | 07-21-2011 |
20110176788 | Method and System for Associating an Object to a Moment in Time in a Digital Video - A system and method for object association with a digital video. The method includes determining a marked moment in a timeline of a source digital video by a computer. The marked moment is associated with an object, and more particularly, the marked moment is associated with a representation of the object. For instance, in one implementation, the marked moment is associated with a caption including textual commentary related to the marked moment and/or the digital video. | 07-21-2011 |
20110188833 | DISC PLAYBACK DEVICE AND DISC PLAYBACK METHOD - Disclosed is a disc playback apparatus and disc playback method that make it possible to automatically start playing back content such as a BD-J title of a BD-ROM disc, especially the main body of a movie or similar work. In a disc playback apparatus ( | 08-04-2011 |
20110194832 | REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - The present invention provides a technique for easily achieving a resume function for moving image content stored in one file in a removable recording medium. | 08-11-2011 |
20110200300 | CLOSED CAPTION TAGGING SYSTEM - A closed caption tagging system provides a mechanism for inserting tags into an audio or video television broadcast stream prior to or at the time of transmission. The tags contain command and control information that the receiver translates and acts upon. The receiver receives the broadcast stream and detects and processes the tags within the broadcast stream which is stored on a storage device that resides on the receiver. Program material from the broadcast stream is played back to the viewer from the storage device. Tags indicate the start and end points of a program segment. Program segments such as commercials are automatically replaced by the receiver with new program segments that are selected based on various criteria. | 08-18-2011 |
20110200301 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PROGRAM, AND REPRODUCTION METHOD | 08-18-2011 |
20110206346 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND PLAYBACK METHOD - An Interactive Graphics Decoder | 08-25-2011 |
20110211810 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR MOBILE SURVEILLANCE AND EVENT RECORDING - A data-encoding system includes a source of unencoded data, and a first encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the first encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a first data rate. The data encoding system further includes a second encoder interoperably coupled to the source, wherein the second encoder is adapted to receive the unencoded data, encode the unencoded data, and output encoded data at a second data rate in which the second data rate exceeds the first data rate. This Abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an Abstract that allows a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain subject matter of the technical disclosure. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b). | 09-01-2011 |
20110211811 | SELECTING A VIDEO IMAGE - Enabling a selection of a video image is described. A selection of a representative image is received [ | 09-01-2011 |
20110229109 | CHAPTER INFORMATION CREATION APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A chapter information creation apparatus calculates, from field-of-view information, a position of a video image having a narrow field of view whose ratio to the size of a field of view of a video image having the widest field of view, among a plurality of hierarchically-encoded video images, is less than or equal to a threshold value. Chapter information is then created if a moved distance over a fixed period is greater than or equal to a threshold value. Chapter information is created for other video images if, based on a result of analyzing the video image having widest field of view, a change in that video image is detected. Chapter information for the video image of each layer included in video image data obtained by hierarchically encoding video images having different fields of view can thereby be created using a simple method. | 09-22-2011 |
20110235993 | AUDIO-BASED CHAPTER DETECTION IN MULTIMEDIA STREAM - A multimedia processing system identifies chapter breaks in a program represented by multimedia data through an analysis of audio content of a portion of the multimedia data so as to identify an interval that potentially represents a chapter break. This audio analysis can include an analysis to identify changes in high frequency edges in the audio content, an analysis to identify changes in the total energy in a central frequency band of the audio content, an analysis to identify patterns of sequentially repeating values in the audio content, an analysis to identify changes in bitrate, or some combination thereof. One or more variances in the audio information at (e.g., before) the start of the interval and the audio information at (e.g., after) the end of the interval then may be used to identify or otherwise characterize the interval as representing an actual chapter break. Further, a chapter represented by two consecutive chapter breaks can be identified as an advertisement based on the duration between the two consecutive chapter breaks and thus the multimedia processing device can implement a “commercial skip function” by omitting playback of the portion of the multimedia data representing the chapter responsive to the chapter being identified as an advertisement. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235994 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING PLAYING OF MONITORING VIDEO RECORD - The present invention discloses a method and a system for controlling playing of monitoring video record. The controlling playing method includes the following steps: A. during the process of recording a monitoring video record, detecting a picture of a video record in real time and marking a time index for dynamic frame(s) in the video record; B. during the process of playing the monitoring video record, obtaining the lime index and playing the dynamic frame in the monitoring video record according to the time index. The controlling playing system includes: video record recording means, motion detecting means and video record playing means, wherein the video record recording means is configured to record a monitoring video record; the motion detecting means is configured to detect a picture of the video record in real time and mark a time index for a dynamic frame(s) in the video record during the process of recording the monitoring video record by the video record recording means; and the video record playing means is configured to obtain the time index from the motion detecting means and play the dynamic frame(s) in the monitoring video record according to the time index during the process of playing the monitoring video record. The present invention reduces the time of playing monitoring video record greatly without missing any effective information. | 09-29-2011 |
20110235995 | METHODS FOR RESERVING INDEX MEMORY SPACE IN AVI RECORDING APPARATUS - A method for reserving memory space for storing chunk sizes during Audio Video Interleave (AVI) recording, wherein an AVI file contains a plurality of interleaved audio-video (A/V) chunks, includes: recording the AVI file sizes to the second storage; when the second storage reaches capacity, moving at least a first A/V chunk size to the first storage; and after the recording has finished, reading stored A/V chunks from the first storage to the second storage to create an index chunk. | 09-29-2011 |
20110243526 | Video/Audio Player - A video/audio player includes a video/audio data input section that inputs video/audio data, a playback control section that controls playback of the input video/audio data, a chapter point setting section that detects an end point of a given interval of the input video/audio data, and sets a chapter point to the detected end point, and an automatic skip interval setting section that detects the given interval of the input video/audio data as an interval to be automatically skipped. The playback control section automatically skips the given interval set by the automatic skip interval setting section at the time of reproducing the input video/audio data, and upon receiving a skip instruction from a user, skips a reproducing playback position to a chapter point temporally after and closest to the reproducing playback position among the chapter points set by the chapter point setting points. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243527 | VIDEO PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND RESUME PLAYBACK METHOD - In response to a power-off operation occurring during playback of a BD-J Title by a video playback apparatus, data of a resume Movie Object is created and stored for playing an AV data interval between a current playback position of the AV data and a position that is a predetermined time after the current playback position. If the video playback apparatus is turned on again thereafter, the resume Movie Object is played based on the stored data of the resume Movie Object and then playback and output of the BD-J Title having been ready to be played during playback of the resume Movie Object are started from the end position of the AV data interval. | 10-06-2011 |
20110243528 | AUTHORING METHOD, AUTHORING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided an authoring method including the steps of generating a first materialization file not including material data itself and referencing a recording position of the material data to mount a first real image having a stream data structure of a first file system, the first file system including time-division multiplexed material data, generating a second materialization file not including material data itself and referencing a recording position of the material data to mount a second real image having a stream data structure of a second file system, the second file system being different from the first file system including time-division multiplexed material data, and arranging the first materialization file and the second materialization file under a directory of a first virtual image to generate the first virtual image. | 10-06-2011 |
20110249955 | PROGRAM SENDING CONTROLLING APPARATUS, PROGRAM SENDING CONTROLLING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is a program sending controlling apparatus, including: a retaining section adapted to retain a playlist in which cues which are progressing units of a program are disposed in a time series; an apparatus controlling section adapted to control on-air of a broadcasting-related apparatus based on the playlist; an editing section adapted to edit the playlist; a detection section adapted to detect, in response to editing carried out for the playlist corresponding to the program, presence or absence of a syntax error in the playlist; and a display controlling section adapted to cause the playlist corresponding to the program to be displayed and cause, when the syntax error is detected, an error indication to be displayed at a position of that one of the cues of the displayed playlist which corresponds to the detected syntax error. | 10-13-2011 |
20110262104 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, REPRODUCTION METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, APPLICATION, AND AUTHORING DEVICE - A playback device plays back a plurality of digital streams constituting a stream sequence while sequentially downloading the streams from an external resource contains time information indicating the current stream sequence playback time and state information indicating whether each stream is in a playable or non-playable state, and comprises an executor operable to execute an application corresponding to the stream sequence and a playback controller operable to control stream sequence playback. The application includes playback interval information for each stream, and specifies the subsequent stream to be played back after the current stream according to the playback interval information. When the state information of the subsequent stream is not the playable state, the playback controller performs one of a trickplay operation for extending the display duration of the current stream or a substitute video playback operation after the current stream in accordance with a request from the application. | 10-27-2011 |
20110268422 | Method, system, and medium for providing broadcasting service using home server and mobile phone - A method, system, and medium of providing various types of broadcast services such as a record, a summary, a navigation and a real-time event service with respect to a broadcast content, utilizing a home server, according to a user's request. A broadcast service providing method includes: storing broadcast summary data, navigation data and real-time event data which is generated by analyzing received broadcast data according to a broadcast record request from a user's portable device, in a database; and providing the user's portable device with a streaming service with respect to the stored broadcast summary data, the navigation data and the real-time event data, according to a summary selection request from the user's portable device. | 11-03-2011 |
20110293242 | RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a recording apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a video stream, a switch indication detecting unit configured to detect a switch indication with reference to the acquired video stream, the switch indication indicating switching of a content type between a 3D video content and a 2D video content, a switch information generating unit configured to, on the basis of the detected switch indication, generate switch information, the switch information indicating switching of the content type between the 3D video content and the 2D video content in the video stream, and a recording unit configured to record the switch information while correlating the switch information with the acquired video stream. | 12-01-2011 |
20110299829 | IMAGE VOICE PLAY APPARATUS - An image voice play apparatus for playing an AVI file includes: a control portion that when an instruction for a time search is issued, estimates the “number of voice chunks in one movi chunk,” determines in which AVI chunk a voice chunk for the time search is situated, reads an idx1 chunk in the “determined AVI chunk” without reading an idx1 chunk in an AVI chunk other than the “determined chunk,” and determines a play start position that corresponds to the time search. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299830 | APPLICATION RUNNING DEVICE - To provide an application life cycle management method for use in switching a movie work that is a playback target within a storage medium on which a plurality of movie works are stored, which is equivalent to one for use in replacement of BD-ROM discs. When a playback target is switched within a local storage on which a plurality of movie works are stored, a playback device, which includes an input unit for issuing a movie work switching request, performs processing with use of a user operation performed on the input unit as a trigger, instead of the medium status change between ejection and insertion. This allows application life cycle management equivalent to one in the case of BD-ROM disc replacement. | 12-08-2011 |
20110299831 | MOVING IMAGE CODING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE CODING DEVICE, MOVING IMAGE RECORDING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK METHOD, MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK SYSTEM - A moving image coding method that can prevent playback discontinuity without an increase in processing load during playback is provided. | 12-08-2011 |
20110305430 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND MOVIE PLAYBACK METHOD - According to one embodiment, an indexing module is configured to analyze a plurality of still images and to generate index information indicative of attributes of the plurality of still images. The index information comprises recognition results of a plurality of face images in the plurality of still images. An extracting module is configured to extract first still images and second still images from the plurality of still images based on the index information. The first still images include face images of a selected person, the second still images are relevant to the selected person, and the second still images comprise at least a still image including a face image of another person relevant to the selected person. A player module is configured to play back a movie using the extracted first still images and the extracted second still images. | 12-15-2011 |
20110305431 | DATA PROCESSOR - To provide means for editing a content data stream quickly. | 12-15-2011 |
20110311197 | PLAYLIST CREATING METHOD, MANAGEMENT METHOD AND RECORDER/PLAYER FOR EXECUTING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, a recorder/player including, a section identifying module configured to set a section designated by an initial point and an end point in an image being played back and to provide identification information to identify the section, a playlist creating module configured to set a playback order of playing back the section set by the section identifying module in accordance with an arrangement of the identification information or in accordance with descriptions of the identification information corresponding to the playback order, and a storage configured to retain the identification information set by the section identifying module. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311198 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an indexing module, a first playback module, a first image select module, an image extraction module, and a second playback module. The indexing module is configured to generate index information indicative of attributes of a plurality of still images. The first playback module is configured to play back a first moving picture by using the plurality of still images. The first image select module is configured to select a first still image from the plurality of still images. The image extraction module is configured to extract a still image group including still images relevant to the first still image, based on the index information. The second playback module is configured to play back, in place of the first moving picture, a second moving picture by using the still image group. | 12-22-2011 |
20110311199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED MEDIA PERSONALIZATION - A method of generating edited video, the method comprises receiving, at a server, an unedited video from a user device; receiving, at the server, user input indicating one or more effects to apply to the unedited video from the user device; generating, at the server, a plurality of intermediate representations of the unedited video; and generating, at the server, an edited video based on, at least in part on the unedited video, the user input, and one of the plurality of intermediate representations. | 12-22-2011 |
20110317979 | BOOKMARK EXCHANGE - A bookmark communicates precisely the location within an asset where a video clip referenced by the bookmark can be found as well as the start and stop times of the video clip. A subscriber watches a program on a video device or other platform. When the subscriber decides to create a bookmark, the subscriber pauses the program. A bookmark interface is initiated, wherein the subscriber creates a bookmark references a video clip of the program. The first subscriber then selects at least one other subscriber to send the bookmark to. A second subscriber receives the bookmark. The receipt of the bookmark activates a bookmark interface that is displayed on the video device of the second subscriber. The second subscriber initiates an action associated with the bookmark, which may include selecting to watch the video clip associated with the bookmark. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317980 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a processor determining whether a basic stream that can be reproduced singly and an extended stream used for reproduction with the basic stream forming a video stream of contents to be copied are interleaved with respect to each data in a predetermined unit and recorded in a first recording medium based on control information recorded in the first recording medium; and a recording controller, in the case of a determination that the basic and extended streams are interleaved with respect to each data in the predetermined unit and recorded, designating a first file among the first file that manages the basic stream and allowing copying of the basic stream to a second recording medium, and designating a second file that manages the extended stream and allowing copying of the extended stream to the second recording medium. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317981 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED MEDIA PERSONALIZATION - A system for generating edited video, the system comprises a storage module configured to store a plurality of video tags; a network interface configured to receive an unedited video clip and a video tag selection from a user device and automatically transmit and edited video to a video sharing website; and a transformer module configured to generate an edited video based on the unedited video clip and the video tag selection. | 12-29-2011 |
20110317982 | VIDEO SEGMENTATION - A method of segmenting a sequence of video images according to scene activity, the method comprising: defining a first series of nodes in a first multi-dimensional space, each node corresponding to an image of the sequence of video images; defining a transformation function that maps each of the first series of nodes to a corresponding node in a second multi-dimensional space having a lower dimensionality than the first multi-dimensional space; applying said transformation function to each of the first series of nodes to define a second series of respective nodes in the second multi-dimensional space; applying a data clustering algorithm to the second series of nodes to identify clusters of nodes within the second multi-dimensional space, the data clustering algorithm being constrained by a measure of feature distance between a pair of clusters of nodes and a measure of temporal distance between the pair of clusters of nodes; determining a representative image from each cluster of nodes and plotting each representative image with respect to a measure of the elapsed time of the sequence of video images to form an scene density curve indicating the underlying scene change activities; and segmenting the sequence of video images in accordance with local minima and/or maxima of the scene density curve. | 12-29-2011 |
20120002939 | RECORDING APPARATUS/METHOD/MEDIUM AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS/METHOD - The present invention relates to recording and reproducing methods, recording and reproducing apparatuses, and a recording medium. In conventional techniques, even when recorded program contents are 3D-(stereoscopic view)-corresponding contents or non-3D-corresponding contents, there has been no means to easily distinguish the difference therebetween. Furthermore, there has been a problem that a virtual play list in which 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed is unintentionally generated. In the present invention, the above described problems are solved by recording a 3D flag in a play list file. Furthermore, upon generation of a virtual play list, the set value of the recorded 3D flag is obtained, and whether 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed or not is checked, thereby solving the problems. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002940 | RECORDING APPARATUS/METHOD/MEDIUM AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS/METHOD - An apparatus which easily discriminates 3D (stereoscopic vision) contents from non-3D contents among recorded program contents can be provided. Further, a unit to prohibit unintentional generation of a virtual play list where 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed can be provided. For these purposes, a 3D flag is recorded in a play list file. Further, upon virtual play list generation, the recorded 3D flag set values are obtained and it is checked whether or not 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002941 | RECORDING APPARATUS/METHOD/MEDIUM AND REPRODUCTION APPARATUS/METHOD - An apparatus which easily discriminates 3D (stereoscopic vision) contents from non-3D contents among recorded program contents can be provided. Further, a unit to prohibit unintentional generation of a virtual play list where 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed can be provided. For these purposes, a 3D flag is recorded in a play list file. Further, upon virtual play list generation, the recorded 3D flag set values are obtained and it is checked whether or not 3D contents and non-3D contents are mixed. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002942 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DECODING DATA FOR PROVIDING BROWSABLE SLIDE SHOW, AND DATA STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - A decoding apparatus and method for producing a browsable slide show and a data storage medium therefor. The decoding apparatus having a mainstream decoder, which decodes mainstream packet data including image data to be reproduced in a browsable slide show; a sub-audio decoder, which decodes sub-audio packet data including audio data attached to the image data; a mainstream system time clock (STC) counter, which provides an STC sequence for controlling the decoding time of the mainstream packet data to the mainstream decoder; and a sub-audio STC counter, which provides an STC sequence for controlling the decoding time of the sub-audio packet data to the sub-audio decoder. Accordingly, it is possible to seamlessly reproduce sub-audio data even when a user selects a forward or reverse play in the middle of reproducing still image data with the sub-audio data attached thereto in a browsable slide show. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002943 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - On a BD-ROM, PlayList information is recorded. The PlayList information includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information and SubPath information include connection_condition information and sp_connection_condition information, respectively. The connection_condition information and sp_connection_condition information indicate that, when the connection state between two MainClips referred to with the MainPath information is seamless connection (CC=5), the connection state between two SubClips referred to with the SubPath information is also seamless connection (SP_CC=5). In the case of CC=5 and sp_CC=5, IN_time of PlayItem is equal to IN_time(SubPlayItem_IN_time) of SubPlayItem. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002944 | REPLAY CONTROL METHOD AND REPLAY APPARATUS - A replay control method of controlling reply means for replaying video content executed by a computer, the method includes: accepting one or more keywords; retrieving, from pieces of correspondence information each containing fraction part information specifying a piece of video content and a fraction part in the piece of video content, and a word string expressed in the fraction part, each piece of correspondence information whose word string contains at least one of the accepted one or more keywords; and making the replay means replay the fraction part specified by each retrieved piece of correspondence information. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002945 | RTP-FORMATTED MEDIA CLIPS - A transmitter ( | 01-05-2012 |
20120008916 | APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR AN IMPROVED VIDEO STREAM - An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for an improved video stream. The method involves taking video of a location and mapping points of interest that are in the range of the camera. Tags are associated with various points of interest and are inserted into the video stream and displayed to the users. Tags may include advertisements and information about particular locations. In certain embodiments, proprietors pay a fee to have a tag associated with their location. The user may be able to remotely control the camera to view a particular area, with the tags appearing at appropriate locations. Video streams from numerous cameras at varying locations may be made available on a website, and end users may select the camera they are interested in and control the camera via the website. | 01-12-2012 |
20120008917 | USER CONTROLLED MULTI-DEVICE MEDIA-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM - A method for providing configurable access to media in a media-on-demand system also can include delivering the media to a first client device in a format compatible with the first client device; interrupting the delivery of the media; recording a bookmark specifying a position in the media where the interruption occurred; and resuming delivery of the media to a second client device, the resumed delivery beginning at a position in the media specified by the recorded bookmark. The method further can include identifying device properties for each of the first and second client devices; delivering the media to the first client device in a format compatible with the identified device properties for the first client device; and, delivering the media to the second client device in a format compatible with the identified device properties for the second client device. | 01-12-2012 |
20120020642 | METHOD FOR DETECTING PROGRAM OVERLAPPING PORTION AND AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE USING THE SAME - A data recorder records (n−1)th episode data and n-th episode data of a drama series, where n is an integer of two ore more. An audio decoder generates respective audio data of these episodes. An overlapping portion determiner extracts and compares a tail portion of the audio data of the (n−1)th episode and a head portion of the audio data of the n-th episode to detect an overlapping portion, and records an overlapping time between the (n−1)th and n-th episodes to an overlapping time storage. A recorded data editor deletes a portion of the (n−1)th episode data corresponding to the overlapping time recorded in the overlapping time storage, from a tail end of the (n−1)th episode data, and records the resulting (n−1)th episode data as (n−1)th episode edited data to the data recorder. | 01-26-2012 |
20120020643 | THUMBNAIL GENERATING APPARATUS AND THUMBNAIL GENERATING METHOD - A thumbnail generating apparatus includes a moving image extracting portion, a reduction and enlargement ratio calculating portion and a reducing and enlarging unit. The moving image extracting portion extracts a moving image corresponding to a period shorter than a reproduction time of moving image based on the number and area of face detection regions obtained from face detection information generated by detecting a face of person included in the moving image. The reduction and enlargement ratio calculating portion integrates the face detection regions at intervals of certain time based on the face detection information of the moving image extracted by the moving image extracting portion, and calculates a reduction and enlargement ratio of the moving image based on the integration result such that a face of person included in the moving image extracted by the moving image extracting portion is largely displayed. The reducing and enlarging unit reduces or enlarges the moving image extracted by the moving image extracting portion based on the reduction and enlargement ratio calculated by the reduction and enlargement ratio calculating portion to generate a moving image thumbnail | 01-26-2012 |
20120027379 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Video processing methods include correlating a video frame in a video stream with event data in a data stream based on a video frame time stamp and an event data time stamp, the time stamps being based on a time scale that is independent, and recording the correlation in a database. Other video processing methods include receiving a query for a video frame and searching for event data in a database. The database has an event data table and a video data table used in locating the video frame. Further video processing methods include receiving a query to retrieve a video clip for each of a plurality of plays, searching for event data in a database, locating the video clip for each of the plurality of plays, and compiling the video clips into a compiled video stream lacking video frames that do not satisfy the query. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027380 | AUTOMATICALLY BOOKMARKING DIGITAL CONTENT - Described herein are embodiments of systems and methods relating to bookmarking digital content. In one such embodiment, a method of bookmarking digital content is described. The method involves locating digital content and obtaining navigation information associated with the digital content. From this navigation information, bookmark information is calculated. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027381 | RECORDING/READING APPARATUS, METHOD OF GENERATING TAG LIST FOR RECORDING/READING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL UNIT FOR RECORDING/READING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a control block including a read control processor for reading designated content, a time information processor for processing time information. A controller returns, to a user terminal, a response signal, and information indicating a second absolute time point when an operation is executed in response to a request signal generated by the user terminal at a first absolute time point. The controller stores time difference information indicating a time difference between the first and the second absolute time points. When responding to a further request signal sent from the requester via the network, the controller sets, as tag time information, time information obtained by correcting, using the time difference information, a current relative time period for which the designated content is read. | 02-02-2012 |
20120027382 | PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME - A picture processing apparatus and a control method of the same are provided. The picture processing apparatus includes a receiver which receives scrambled transport streams constituting different kinds of pictures; a storage unit; a demultiplexer which seizes payload unit start identification (PUSI) contained in a header of the transport stream, and outputs packetized elementary stream (PES) start information and PES interval information about an interval between a first transport stream having a PUSI equal to 1 and a second transport stream having a PUSI equal to 1; and a controller which stores the received transport streams in the storage unit, determines the kind of pictures on the basis of a picture size determined from the PES interval information, and indexes a location where the pictures are stored on the basis of the PES start information. | 02-02-2012 |
20120033940 | REPRESENTING VIDEO CONTENT - Representing a video by a frame of the video. Processing a frame by receiving a first frame of a video; dividing the received first frame into at least one region; and for each region, obtaining a pixel value from a each of a plurality of pixels of the region; and determining variability among the obtained pixel values. For a determined variability less than a predetermined threshold, processing at least one subsequent frame. | 02-09-2012 |
20120033941 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, REPRODUCTION METHOD - A playback apparatus that, when it is incorporated in a home theater system, judges via the HDMI whether an apparatus such as a speaker | 02-09-2012 |
20120033942 | ENHANCED NAVIGATION SYSTEM USING DIGITAL INFORMATION MEDIUM - A new navigation function is added to a legacy DVD-Video. A player unit plays back recorded contents, that include video contents or AV contents and ENAV contents associated with contents (menu, chapter) of the video contents, from a DVD-Video disc. The video contents of the DVD disc are played back by a video playback engine. The ENAV contents of the DVD disc are played back by an ENAV engine. The ENAV engine controls playback of the ENAV contents and that of the video contents in combination, connection, and/or synchronism with each other according to the played-back contents of the ENAV contents. | 02-09-2012 |
20120039581 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a moving image processing apparatus, including a cut transition detection unit configured to detect inter-cut transition from a moving image including a plurality of cuts, a cut grouping unit configured to group the plurality of cuts into cut groups based on a degree of similarity among the cuts, an inter-cut distance calculation unit configured to calculate inter-cut distances based on inter-cut temporal distances in the moving image, an inter-cut group distance calculation unit configured to calculate inter-cut group distances by summing up the inter-cut distances, which are calculated with respect to the plurality of cuts, in each cut group, and a cut structure image generation unit configured to generate a cut structure image including representative images of the cuts belonging to the cut groups and information indicating the inter-cut group distances. | 02-16-2012 |
20120039582 | VERIFICATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION OF FILES OBTAINED SEPARATELY FROM A VIDEO CONTENT - The invention relates to a playback device for playback of a video content and of a file obtained separately from the video content. The invention is for a system wherein a file to be played with a movie is obtained from an uncontrolled source such as the Internet. Obtaining a file from such a source creates a number of issues due to the lack of control. The file obtained may not correspond to the intended movie or to the intended language and may not be synchronized with the movie. The invention proposes: 1) to verify that the separately obtained file corresponds to the movie; 2) if the separately obtained file corresponds to the movie, to determine whether it is synchronized with the movie; 3) if the separately obtained file is not synchronized with the movie, to synchronize it. The correspondence can be verified based on language, key phrases relating to the movie, or timing. | 02-16-2012 |
20120057845 | Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program - An information processing apparatus includes: a selection section to select frames of thumbnail targets, as thumbnail frames, from a moving image including frames continuous in terms of time; a division section to divide the selected thumbnail frames in units of pages each including thumbnail frames continuous in terms of time; a reproduction speed input section to receive a designation of a reproduction speed of the moving image; a reproduction processing section to reproduce the moving image at the designated reproduction speed; and a thumbnail display processing section to display thumbnail images in the units of pages including a latest thumbnail image with a thumbnail image of a thumbnail frame closest to a time of day of the reproduced moving image as the latest thumbnail image, and display the thumbnail images that include at least the latest thumbnail image and are continuous in a time sequence in a distinguishable form. | 03-08-2012 |
20120057846 | MOVING PICTURE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A moving picture processing apparatus including a representative picture selection unit for selecting a predetermined number of representative pictures that are representative of a plurality of pictures from a plurality of pictures of a moving picture, and a configuration image generation unit for generating a configuration image in which the predetermined number of representative pictures are reduced at a fixed ratio and arranged in order of appearance of the representative pictures of the moving picture. The representative pictures are selected as the predetermined number of pictures adjusted to maximize a display occupancy rate of the configuration image in a predetermined range of display area. | 03-08-2012 |
20120063742 | ENTRY POINTS FOR 3D TRICKPLAY - Providing entry points for 3D video data is described. An entry point unit ( | 03-15-2012 |
20120070125 | Method and Apparatus for Scrub Preview Services - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of streaming media with a media preview includes generating a preview data by extracting preview information from a media file to be streamed. The preview data has a multi-dimensional hierarchical data structure having a plurality of layers with increasing content of the preview information in each layer of the plurality of layers. The preview data is configured to provide a differentiated preview service. | 03-22-2012 |
20120082430 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING MOVING PICTURE FILES - A method for playing a moving picture file in which at least one video data and at least one audio file or data is arranged non-sequentially, in order to prevent performance deterioration due to frequent search for video and audio information is provided. The method includes calculating a total reproduction time of the at least one video data and the at least one audio data, calculating an amount of collected data of which total reproduction time is shorter than a predetermined total reproduction time while data of which total reproduction time is longer is reproduced, and collecting the data of which total reproduction time is shorter among the calculated amount of collected data while the data of which total reproduction time is longer is reproduced. | 04-05-2012 |
20120082431 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SUMMARIZING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - In accordance with an example embodiment a method and apparatus is provided. The method comprises calculating an attribute for a set of encoded frames of a multimedia file. A frame attribute of at least one encoded frame of the set of encoded frames is compared with a threshold value, which is based on the attribute for the set of encoded frames. An encoded frame of the set of encoded frames is selected as a primary summary file of the multimedia file based on the comparison of the frame attribute of the at least one encoded frame with the threshold value. | 04-05-2012 |
20120082432 | System and Method of Playback and User Interface for Video Players - A method and a system of displaying a user interface to control playback and features that may be associated with a prerecorded media. A media player, such as a DVD player, a personal computer, a home media server, a high definition video player, an optical player, a hard drive based player, or a software DVD-ROM player receives streams of video from different media and displays its content. Simultaneously, and without interrupting the video playback, a user interface is overlaid on the video image. The user interface may include menu selections to control the playback of the video including scene selection, settings, and viewing rights. The user interface may include menu selections to control features associated with the video such as Documentaries, Games, Purchases, Activities, Commentaries, Outtakes, Karaoke, Trailers, Songs, Wishlists, and Events. | 04-05-2012 |
20120082433 | METHOD OF SETTING A SYSTEM TIME CLOCK AT THE START OF AN MPEG SEQUENCE - Method to enable a local system time clock counter (STC) of a receiving recording device to lock to program clock reference (PCR) information comprised in a received real time sequence of information signal packets, such as MPEG2 Transport Stream packets. The method comprising determining the number of cycles between arrival of the first information signal packet and the arrival of the information signal packet comprising the first Program Clock Reference (PCR) information. This information is stored as an attribute of the stored sequence. | 04-05-2012 |
20120087634 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRANSITIONING MEDIA OUTPUT AMONG TWO OR MORE DEVICES - In at least some embodiments, the present invention relates to methods and systems for enabling media content to be utilized or output by way of media presentation devices. In one such embodiment, a method includes receiving at a first cloud a first signal from a first media presentation device indicative of a request or command that a content signal transmission be paused, and sending a second signal including bookmark information from the first cloud to a second media presentation device. The method further includes receiving a third signal from the second media presentation device, the third signal being indicative of a further request or command that the transmission of the media content signal be resumed, and resuming the transmission. In additional embodiments, the present invention relates to methods of operating a media presentation device so as to perform a resumed displaying of video media content. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087635 | VIDEO PLAYING APPARATUS AND LOCATION SEARCH METHOD THEREOF - A video playing apparatus includes a receiver which receives a video signal comprising a plurality of video frames and having no index information about location and time of the plurality of video frames; a user input unit which receives a target time for searching in the received video signal; a signal processor which processes and outputs a video signal corresponding to the target time; and a controller which calculates an average value of ratios of location change to time change by interpreting time and location of the plurality of video frames processed until receiving the target time among the plurality of video frames, when receiving the predetermined target time through the user input unit, and controls the signal processor to process and output the video signal of location corresponding to the target time on the basis of the calculated average value. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087636 | MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A moving image playback apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire main object information, which is usable to identify a frame image in which an object determined as a main object has appeared, from a moving image. The apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract, based on the acquired main object information, frame images in which the main object is present from sequential sections in which the object determined as the main object is the same and the main object is continuously present in the moving image. The apparatus further includes a display control unit configured to perform control to arrange and display, in order of time, a plurality of frame images extracted by the extraction unit. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087637 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND REPLAYING VIDEO BROADCASTS - A system is presented for replaying a broadcast sports event using a video on demand or personal video recording system. Metadata is created that subdivides the original broadcast into segments, and associates descriptive information with each segment. Playlists that specify an ordered subsequence of the sequence may be selected and used to present a variety of expanded or condensed versions of the sporting event to a viewer. Navigation controls including segment lists, specially formatted screen displays, and special functions under the control of a user-operated remote control, facilitate the interactive selection and control of the presentation. | 04-12-2012 |
20120087638 | PLAYING PROGRESS INDICATING METHOD FOR TIME-SHIFTED TELEVISION AND TELEVISION SET - The present disclosure provides a playing progress indicating method for time-shifted television and a TV set, which can calculate a time value indicated by a program time-shifted progress indicia by use of a time scaling unit and provide a very intuitive time progress indicator for a user. Therefore, the playing progress indicating method for time-shifted television and the TV set of the present disclosure are intuitive and convenient to use. | 04-12-2012 |
20120093481 | INTELLIGENT DETERMINATION OF REPLAYS BASED ON EVENT IDENTIFICATION - A system for intelligently determining replay locations in a multimedia content stream based on identifying events in the multimedia content stream is provided. In one embodiment, events in the multimedia content stream are identified by analyzing information in the multimedia content stream, in real time. In another embodiment, events in the multimedia content stream are identified by analyzing the viewing behavior and an emotional response from users viewing the multimedia content, in real time. One or more replay locations in the multimedia content stream are determined based on the events identified in the multimedia content stream. The multimedia content stream with the replay locations are displayed to a user via a user interface in the user's processing device. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093482 | BOOKMARKING MEDIA PROGRAMS FOR SUBSEQUENT VIEWING - A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to bookmark a media program for subsequent viewing. A first interface is displayed and identifies a first media program. Via the first interface, a user requests that the first media program be recorded as a bookmark in a list of maintained bookmarks. The list of bookmarks is displayed. A user selects one of the bookmarks from the list and in response, the first media program is displayed to the first viewer. | 04-19-2012 |
20120093483 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - A CPU divides a moving image file at a divided frame position, thereby generating a first divided moving image file including a first frame and another divided moving image file. The CPU detects a frame position where an object appears for the first time in the reproduction order from the other divided moving image file, and generates a file that describes the detected position as a new face information management file. The CPU controls a recording/reproduction control circuit to store the generated new face information management file in a recording medium in association with the other divided moving image file. | 04-19-2012 |
20120099837 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, PROGRAM STORING MEDIUM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM - The present invention facilitates reading in advance information on addresses where data of each reproduction path to be reproduced is stored. Clip AV stream | 04-26-2012 |
20120099838 | DATA STREAM STORAGE SYSTEM - A device for recording at least part of a data stream including a recording module to record records divided among a plurality of segments, the records including a record for each instance of an event type of the data stream, each segment covering a range of the positions in the data stream such that different segments cover different ranges of positions in the stream, record the value of each instance, create a refresh region in each segment, the refresh region including data from the most recently recorded instance of each event type, create a plurality of links between the records to enable traversing the records in position order, and create an indexing table including an entry for each segment, the entry for each segment including the range of the positions covered by the records of the one segment. Related apparatus and method claims are also included. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099839 | ENTRY POINT REGISTERING METHOD AND RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS USING THE SAME - According to one embodiment, an information storage medium having an area in which ESOB type A/ESOB type B is recorded and an area in which HDVR_MG (or VMG) for managing ESOB type A/ESOB type B is recorded is used. HDVR_MG includes identification data (SFI_ID/C_TY) for determining whether an object to be managed is of ESOB type A or ESOB type B. HDVR_MG is read from the information storage medium. If the contents of identification data (SFI_ID/C_TY) indicate ESOB type A, entry points are registered at a specific reproducing time (at intervals of L minutes). If the contents of identification data (SFI_ID/C_TY) indicate ESOB type B, entry points are registered at a specific packet arrival time (at intervals of L minutes). | 04-26-2012 |
20120106926 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING DEVICE, RECORDING METHOD AND REPRODUCING METHOD - On a BD-ROM, PlayList information is recorded. The PlayList information includes MainPath information and SubPath information. The MainPath information specifies one of a plurality of AVClips as a MainClip, and defines a primary playback section (PlayItem) on the MainClip. The SubPath information specifies, among the rest of the AVClips, one AVClip as a SubClip, and defines, on the SubClip, a secondary playback section (SubPlayItem) to be synchronized with the primary playback section. The SubPath information includes In_Time information and Out_Time information which indicate In_Time and Out_Time, respectively, of the SubPlayItem. In_Time and Out_Time of the SubPlayItem match In_Time and Out_Time of the PlayItem. | 05-03-2012 |
20120106927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRAVERSING A MULTIPLEXED DATA PACKET STREAM - A method for traversing a multiplexed data packet stream including choosing a starting location in a multiplexed data packet stream; making a hi-directional search from the starting location to locate a nearest system stream object; and traversing the system stream as a doubly-linked list of objects. Traversing the system stream preferably includes traversing object links of the doubly-linked list of objects. The objects are further preferably cached with an LRU process. Multiple disjoint locations in the system stream can be accessed with a virtual linked list. The virtual linked list can be used to search forwardly; backwardly, or both forwardly and backwardly. | 05-03-2012 |
20120114301 | CLOSED CAPTION TAGGING SYSTEM - A closed caption tagging system provides a mechanism for inserting tags into an audio or video television broadcast stream prior to or at the time of transmission. The tags contain command and control information that the receiver translates and acts upon. The receiver receives the broadcast stream and detects and processes the tags within the broadcast stream which is stored on a storage device that resides on the receiver. Program material from the broadcast stream is played back to the viewer from the storage device. Tags indicate the start and end points of a program segment. Program segments such as commercials are automatically replaced by the receiver with new program segments that are selected based on various criteria. | 05-10-2012 |
20120114302 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR USE IN CONTROLLING PLAYBACK OF CONTENT IN RELATION TO RECORDED CONTENT - Some embodiments provide methods of playing back multimedia content relative to a portable storage medium to detect, at a playback device, an initial access to a portable storage medium; request pre-roll content corresponding to content recorded on the portable storage medium; and disguise the requesting of the pre-roll content and receiving of the pre-roll content such that a user of the playback device does not experience a delay in playback of content while the pre-roll content is being received, wherein the disguising comprises: playing back disguise content, locally accessible by the playback device, while requesting and receiving the pre-roll content at the playback device; and halting playback of the disguise content and initiating playback of the pre-roll content received from the remote source such that the user of the playback device does not perceive a delay associated with obtaining the pre-roll content from the remote source. | 05-10-2012 |
20120121232 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING DATA - A method and apparatus for reproducing data are provided. The method and apparatus involve receiving a first signal for marking a desired reproduction position in media data; storing reproduction information for reproducing the media data from the desired reproduction position without searching for reference data in the media data; and reproducing the media data by using the reproduction information if a second signal is received so as to request the media data to be reproduced from the desired reproduction position. | 05-17-2012 |
20120121233 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A reproducing apparatus includes a reproducing section picking up any signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods from a recording medium. The recording medium records the signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods and record management information denoting association of the signals compressed in a plurality of different compression methods with each other, respectively. A decoding section decodes the signal picked up from said recording medium, and a recording section records reproduction management information including reproduction-interruption information in the reproducing section associated with the record management information onto the recording medium. | 05-17-2012 |
20120121234 | PLAYBACK DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING FUNCTIONALITY BASED ON EVENT INFORMATION RETRIEVED FROM A PLAYLIST - Instead of using events stored in the datastream itself applications can retrieve event information from the playlist on a record carrier such as DVD and blu-disc. By retrieving the event information from the playlist changes in the event information do not require reprocessing of the data stream. In addition the application knows before the start of the playback of the data stream where the events are located and what functionality in terms of resources is required. A better scheduling of resources is thus possible. | 05-17-2012 |
20120121235 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM STORING THUMBNAIL IMAGE GENERATION PROGRAM, AND THUMBNAIL IMAGE GENERATION METHOD - In a moving image processing apparatus, a thumbnail image generation unit acquires moving image data stored in a moving image data storage unit, extracts a thumbnail image from the acquired moving image data based on determination data acquired by a determination data acquisition unit, generates thumbnail image data indicating the extracted thumbnail image, and stores the generated thumbnail image data in a thumbnail image data storage unit. A thumbnail image output unit outputs the thumbnail image data stored in the thumbnail image data storage unit. A determination data acquisition unit acquires determination data for determining a transition of enthusiastic backing of a viewer of a broadcast program during a broadcast time of the broadcast program in which moving image data is broadcast. | 05-17-2012 |
20120128322 | Geographical Location Information/Signal Quality-Context Based Recording and Playback of Multimedia Data from a Conference Session - Playback of multimedia data associated with a recorded conference session is simplified, particularly for a person who participated in the conference session from a mobile device. At a recording server that is in communication with a plurality of endpoints in a conference session, multimedia received from the plurality of endpoints participating in the conference session is recorded. The recording server obtains geographical location information for at least one mobile endpoint participating in the conference session as the at least one mobile endpoint moves. The recording server temporally correlates the geographical location information for the at least one endpoint with recorded multimedia data for the conference session. The recording server stores data tags for the geographical location information for the at least one mobile endpoint in association with the recorded multimedia data for subsequent use in indexing to map data to retrieve a portion of the recorded multimedia data for playback. | 05-24-2012 |
20120128323 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING TEXT ONTO MOVING IMAGE CONTENT - A method for rendering text onto moving image content. The method comprises receiving a request to translate dialog associated with moving image content, transmitting an interface, transmitting a time-stamped transcription, and receiving a translation of the dialog. | 05-24-2012 |
20120128324 | 3D AUTHORING TOOL ENSURING NO BUFFER UNDERRUN UPON JUMPS - Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line. | 05-24-2012 |
20120128325 | AUTHORING DEVICE AND AUTHORING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an authoring apparatus configured to generate writing data to be stored in an optical disc from a video content data, includes an indexing processor configured to generate face image indexing information includes face images extracted from the video content data and time stamp information representing a time point at which each extracted face image appears in the video content data, a setting module configured to set segments along with a time axis in the video content data, wherein a number of the segments is not larger than a number of chapters being able to be set in the writing data, and a generation module configured to generate menu screen data for displaying a menu screen displaying buttons on a display screen, the buttons on which face images are displayed respectively and for jumping to the segments in which the face images appearing. | 05-24-2012 |
20120134646 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIGITAL VIDEO HIGH ACCURACY FAST FORWARD, REWIND AND SKIP - In various embodiments, a recording and playback manager of a digital video recorder (DVR), set top box, receiver or other device stores and accesses statistics in a statistics file related to average distances between reference frames (e.g., intra frames or I-frames) within blocks of the video data of the recording. Accessing these statistics during playback enables the system to more accurately locate reference frames to display while executing the playback in a trick mode such as fast forward, rewind or skip. The average distance between reference frames for a particular block of video data may be used to jump from one reference frame to the next reference frame in that block during playback in trick mode. | 05-31-2012 |
20120134647 | DISC PLAYER DEVICE - According to the present invention, provided is a disc player device ( | 05-31-2012 |
20120134648 | VIDEO SEARCH DEVICE, VIDEO SEARCH METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, PROGRAM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A video search device extracts a plurality of objects each contained in a different one of frames of a video, assigns a weight value to each of the extracted objects based on a time-series feature of the frame containing the object, and searches for an object similar to each of the extracted objects based on the extracted objects each having the weight value assigned thereto. | 05-31-2012 |
20120141090 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING DIGITAL DATA RATE AND DIRECTIONAL PLAYBACK CHANGES - Various methods and systems permit digital data, such as video data, audio/video data, audio/video/subpicture data and the like, to be processed in a manner that permits playback at different speeds in both forward and reverse directions. Various embodiments are also directed to handling playback rate changes in a manner that can enhance the experience of a user. | 06-07-2012 |
20120141091 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND DISPLAY METHOD - Disclosed is a display device that makes recording and scheduling programs chosen by a user simpler than was conventionally possible. While viewing a broadcast program of any channel on the display device, a user gives an instruction for different-channel program guide display (S | 06-07-2012 |
20120148213 | VIDEO DISTRIBUTION APPARATUS AND VIDEO DISTRIBUTION METHOD - A video distribution apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a significant scene for each user by weighting on metadata indicating contents of a video, as weighting settable for each user who watches the video, a generation unit configured to generate a timeline indicating a position of a currently reproduced scene in the entire video during a video reproducing operation based on the significant scene extracted by the extraction unit, and a display control unit configured to display the timeline generated by the generation unit on a display unit. The timeline is displayed in such away as to have an expanded time width for an area where extracted significant scenes are present in a concentrated manner, compared to a time width for an area where significant scenes are not present in the concentrated manner. | 06-14-2012 |
20120148214 | INSERTION AND USAGE OF METADATA IN DIGITAL VIDEO - Some embodiments provide a method of capturing digital video. According to this method, the digital video is received at a first rate. The received digital video includes metadata. The method uses the metadata to store the digital video at a second rate that is different from the first rate. In some embodiments, the first rate is an encoded rate, while the second rate is the digital video's native shooting rate. The digital video's native shooting rate can be any arbitrary rate up to, but not including, the encoded rate. Some embodiments provide a method of outputting digital video from a computer. From a storage structure of the computer, this method retrieves a video clip. In this video clip, the method embeds a metadata structure and records a set of metadata in this structure. The method then outputs the video clip with the embedded metadata. | 06-14-2012 |
20120155833 | Method of Processing a Sequence of Coded Video Frames - A method of processing a sequence of coded video frames conveyed by a digital data stream, where each frame represents an image, includes receiving the sequence of coded video frames at a recording device, determining a frame interval between presentation of an ith coded frame of the sequence and an (i+1)th coded frame of the sequence, calculating a stream time stamp for the ith coded frame, and calculating a stream time stamp for the (i+1)th coded video frame based on the stream time stamp for the ith coded video frame and the previously determined frame interval. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155834 | Bookmarks in Recorded Video - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a video recording system including a user interface to enable a user to enter commands. A bookmark manager is to generate bookmarks corresponding to locations in the videos being recorded based on bookmark commands received, to assign end points for the bookmarks, and to generate a program based on selection of one or more of the recorded videos and selection of at least a subset of the bookmarks associated with the one or more recorded videos. A video record/playback manager is to control recording of the videos and the associated bookmarks and to present the program by playing the at least a subset of the associated bookmarks for the one or more of the recorded videos. Playback of each of the at least a subset of the associated bookmarks is to end at the assigned endpoint. | 06-21-2012 |
20120155835 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GENERATING HARMFULNESS MAPS - Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for generating harmfulness maps. The apparatus includes a harmfulness determination unit and a harmfulness map creation unit. The harmfulness determination unit generates harmfulness determination information by determining the degrees of harmfulness of some sections of multimedia content based on the time of playback of the multimedia content. The harmfulness map creation unit generates a harmfulness map of the multimedia content by marking the harmfulness determination information of the sections in a time sequence in graphical information form. | 06-21-2012 |
20120163770 | SWITCHED ANNOTATIONS IN PLAYING AUDIOVISUAL WORKS - In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a link to a video program; obtaining metadata that relates to the program and that defines, for a specified time point in the program, annotations to be invoked at the specified time point; wherein the annotations comprise: a graphic image; one or more filters, each of the filters comprising a key and one or more matching values; and optionally a reference to a video segment, an electronic document, program code statements, or a programmatic call; during playing the video, detecting that the video program is playing at the specified time point; in response to the detecting: for each particular annotation for the specified time point, retrieving a current value for the key, and causing to display the graphic image associated with that particular annotation only when the current value of the key matches one of the matching values of one of the filters. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163771 | METHOD, SYSTEM, USER EQUIPMENT, AND SERVER EQUIPMENT FOR VIDEO FILE PLAYBACK - The present invention provides a video file playing method, and also a corresponding user end. Wherein, a video file is downloaded from a server and added with an index area, where the index area includes a start address, a next file address, a start time; the video file is inserted into a local video file queue, so that a next file address of an index area of a previous video file of the video file is the start address of the index area of the video file, and the next file address of the index area of the video file is a start address of an index area of a next video file of the video file. | 06-28-2012 |
20120163772 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, REPRODUCING METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A reproducing method includes: a keyword specifying step of specifying a plurality of keywords corresponding to one unit being reproduced; a keyword switching step of switching the plural keywords that have been specified, by every constant or different time interval, to choose one keyword; and a list display step of allowing the symbols of the respective contents of video or sound relating to each of the keywords that have been chosen by the keyword switching step to be switched and to be listed. | 06-28-2012 |
20120170906 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADAPTIVE BITRATE STREAMING OF MEDIA INCLUDING SUBTITLES - Systems and methods for adaptive bitrate streaming of media including subtitles utilizing Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes requesting and buffering portions of video from at least one of the alternative streams using a playback device, requesting information indicative of a font utilized by a font-rendering engine to render text from a selected subtitle stream, downloading at least one font file when the font is not present on the playback device, requesting and buffering at least a portion of the selected subtitle stream, decoding the buffered portions of video using a decoder on the playback device, rendering the portions of the subtitle stream corresponding to the buffered portion of video using a font-rendering engine configured by the at least one downloaded font file, and performing synchronized playback of the decoded video and rendered subtitles using the playback device. | 07-05-2012 |
20120170907 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STREAMING CONTENT TO BLU-RAY DEVICES - A standard Clip Information (“CLPI”) file is pre-defined for use in a Blu-ray environment. The CLPI file is structured to specify a set of parameters that are determined independent of any particular content segment. A content segment is structured to conform to the standard CLPI file, including to the set of parameters. The standard CLPI file is used to stream the content segment to the Blu-ray player. | 07-05-2012 |
20120177342 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, PROGRAM, REPRODUCTION METHOD, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A playback apparatus and method that executes an application while playing back a digital stream. A mixer is configured to, when a flag included in a playlist is set to ON, mix an output of a click sound using sound data with an audio output of the digital stream when a user performs an operation on an application while the application is executed. When the flag is set to OFF, the mixer refrains from mixing the output of the click sound with the audio output. | 07-12-2012 |
20120183274 | AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM WITH INTERACTIVE SEAMLESS BRANCHING AND/OR TELESCOPIC ADVERTISING - A method is described for playing stored continuous play content having a temporal flow. At least one segment of the continuous play content is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The method includes playing at least one segment with temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired, linking to and playing the expansion, if desired, or linking to and playing a continuing segment if the expansion is not desired. The method includes an additional link from the expansion to the continuing segment of the first segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played. Other teachings include methods for playing stored content, for capturing and playing content, for capturing segment and linkage descriptions, storage mechanisms referencing the continuous play content and linkages and apparatuses for capturing and playing such content. | 07-19-2012 |
20120189273 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING HIGHLIGHTS FROM SCORED DATA STREAMS - A method and system for generating highlights from scored data streams is disclosed. According to one embodiment, media content containing time-stamped payloads is received in a data stream from one or more sources. The received media content is recorded in a buffer for a predetermined period of time and sliced into data buckets. For each of the data buckets, a score is assigned according to user-provided keywords. The data buckets are recorded along with the assigned score to generate highlights from the one or more sources using the scores of the recorded data buckets. | 07-26-2012 |
20120189274 | RECORDING MEDIUM, RECORDING DEVICE, ENCODING DEVICE, INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, AND REPRODUCTION OUTPUT DEVICE - A pair of main-view and sub-view video streams, a graphics stream, and playlist information are recorded on a BD-ROM disc. The sub-view video stream includes metadata arranged in each GOP. The metadata includes a correspondence table associating offset identifiers and offset information. The offset information defines offset control for each picture in a GOP. Offset control is processing to provide a left offset and right offset for the horizontal coordinates in a graphics plane to generate a pair of graphics planes that are respectively combined with main-view and sub-view video planes. The playlist information includes a stream selection table for each playback section. When the stream selection table associates a stream number with a packet identifier of a graphics stream, one of the offset identifiers is further allocated to the stream number. | 07-26-2012 |
20120195571 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - An image processing apparatus includes a selector. A selector selects a desired frame image from among a plurality of frame images forming each of one or at least two moving images. A creator creates a still image based on the frame image selected by the selector. A first reproducer reproduces any one of one or at least two still image created by the creator, in response to a still-image reproduction instruction. A detector detects, from among one or at least two moving images, a specific moving image having a frame image which is a basis for the still image reproduced by the first reproducer when a predetermined operation for the still image reproduced by the first reproducer is accepted. A second reproducer reproduces the specific moving image detected by the detector by using the frame image noticed by the detector as a reference. | 08-02-2012 |
20120201510 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM - One disclosed aspect of the embodiments relates to a technique, when a moving image file is divided and divisional moving images are reproduced simultaneously in a plurality of display areas, for allowing a user to easily search for a desired scene in the entire moving image more quickly. A moving image reproducing apparatus divides a moving image to generate a plurality of divisional moving images and reproduces the divisional moving images simultaneously. If the user issues an instruction to divide a first divisional moving image that is being reproduced and generate a plurality of second divisional moving images, in response to the instruction, the apparatus acquires a reproduction position of the first divisional moving image. The apparatus starts reproduction of the plurality of second divisional moving images at a position corresponding to the acquired reproduction position. | 08-09-2012 |
20120201511 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RENDERING TEXT ONTO MOVING IMAGE CONTENT - A method for rendering text onto moving image content. The method comprises receiving a request to translate dialog associated with moving image content, transmitting an interface, transmitting a time-stamped transcription, and receiving a translation of the dialog. | 08-09-2012 |
20120201512 | Method and apparatus for executing software applications - Consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. high-definition movie players for removable storage media such as optical discs, may provide possibilities for advanced interactivity for the user, implemented as software applications. A question arising generally with such software applications is what the life cycle of such an application is, and who may control it. The invention provides a method for executing software applications within a playback device for audio-video data, wherein data from a first removable storage medium are read for a software application to be executed within said playback device, and the data comprise an indication defining a termination condition for the application. Based on said termination code and depending on how the medium holding the application is ejected, the application is terminated or may survive. | 08-09-2012 |
20120201513 | Method and apparatus for executing software applications - Consumer electronic devices, such as e.g. high-definition movie players for removable storage media such as optical discs, may provide possibilities for advanced interactivity for the user, implemented as software applications. A question arising generally with such software applications is what the life cycle of such an application is, and who may control it. The invention provides a method for executing software applications within a playback device for audio-video data, wherein data from a first removable storage medium are read for a software application to be executed within said playback device, and the data comprise an indication defining a termination condition for the application. Based on said termination code and depending on how the medium holding the application is ejected, the application is terminated or may survive. | 08-09-2012 |
20120207448 | Audio Device, Video Device and Computer Program - A portable audio player holds a current playback list in which audio files which are playback targets are registered. An audio device holds a creation condition of a current playback list specified by the audio device last in a state where the portable audio player was connected, and a title which was a last playback target, and, when the portable audio player is connected, if information about the current playback list can be acquired from the portable audio player, makes the portable audio player resume playing back the current playback list and, if information cannot be acquired, makes the portable audio player create the current playback list under the held condition and start playing back the held title. | 08-16-2012 |
20120213490 | FACIAL DETECTION, RECOGNITION AND BOOKMARKING IN VIDEOS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facial bookmarking in videos. In one aspect, methods include receiving a digital video comprising video data, processing the video data to detect features indicative of a human face in the digital video, determining, from the video data, a first frame, in which the features indicative of the human face are detected in the digital video, determining first timestamp data corresponding to the first frame, determining, from the video data, a second frame, in which the features indicative of the human face are detected in the digital video, determining second timestamp data corresponding to the second frame, generating an identifier corresponding to the human face, generating a data set including the identifier, the first timestamp data and the second timestamp data, and appending the data set to the video data to provide annotated video data. | 08-23-2012 |
20120213491 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - The recording medium | 08-23-2012 |
20120224833 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SEGMENTING VIDEO DATA IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - In one embodiment, a method for segmenting video data in a mobile communication terminal includes acquiring sensor data periodically together with video data during video shooting, and segmenting the video data based on the acquired sensor data. | 09-06-2012 |
20120230652 | SPLICING SYSTEM - A device including a module to receive a stream including an insertion content item and first timecodes, a module to record the stream, a module to receive a live stream including a timeslot and second and third timecodes, a clock to provide a clock reading updated based on at least some of the third timecodes, a module to retrieve the recorded stream so that the insertion content item can be at least partially rendered during at least part of the timeslot, a module to calculate a desired timecode of the first timecodes from which to start rendering the recorded stream for output at real-time speed based one of the first timecodes, second timecodes, and third timecodes or the clock reading, and a module to render the recorded stream for output at real-time speed from the desired timecode. Related apparatus and methods are also described. | 09-13-2012 |
20120230653 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DIGITAL CINEMA PRESENTATION - A method and system for digital cinema presentation are disclosed. The method provides for automatic comparison of a playlist against at least one attribute relating to digital content, and automatically skipping one or more compositions during playout of content in the playlist based on the comparison results. | 09-13-2012 |
20120237182 | Sport Program Chaptering - In certain implementations, a method consistent with the invention involves at a television receiver device, receiving a television program depicting a sports program, where data associated with the sports program is represented in a score graphic that is displayed on a television display overlaying images of the sports program; storing the television program depicting the sports program; analyzing the score graphic to identify a change in at least one element of data displayed in the score graphic from one video frame to a subsequent video frame; and storing a chapter mark associated with the time that the change in the element of data displayed in the score graphic occurred. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. | 09-20-2012 |
20120237183 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING POPULAR NETWORK VIDEO SEGMENTS - A method for identifying popular segments of a network video comprising: receiving video player operation information for a plurality of video players operated by users accessing the network video; evaluating a popularity measure for one or more segments of the network-video using the received operation information so as to identify popular segments of the network video. | 09-20-2012 |
20120243848 | Augmented Reality System for Re-Casting A Seminar with Private Calculations - Computer-implemented techniques for viewing a recorded presentation are described. The techniques include receiving by one or more computers a request from a user to view a recorded presentation, retrieving, by one or more computing systems, a segment of the recorded presentation that is comprised of plural segments and information specifying times of occurrences of trigger events associated with corresponding segments in the recorded presentation, retrieving by the one or more computers private information of the user relevant to a first segment of the recorded presentation based on a first trigger event, generating, by the one or more computing systems, a re-cast first segment of the recorded presentation, with the re-cast first segment including the private information of the user, and sending by the one or more computing systems, the re-cast segment to a computing device associated with the user. | 09-27-2012 |
20120243849 | Time Shifting by Concurrently Recording and Playing a Data Stream - A video stream may include portions that are stored while other portions are being displayed. In one embodiment, a portion of the video stream may be stored in digital storage media at one instance while in the next instance another portion of the stream is being read out of the storage media. | 09-27-2012 |
20120257872 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes: a recording and reproduction control unit that records content on a predetermined recording medium and that reads and reproduces content from the predetermined recording medium, wherein the recording and reproduction control unit transmits and records information necessary for reproducing deleted content to a different information processing apparatus when it is intended to delete the content as a deletion target recorded on the predetermined recording medium, and synthesizes and reproduces the deleted content on the basis of the information from the different information processing apparatus when it is instructed to reproduce the deleted content. | 10-11-2012 |
20120257873 | RECORDING/REPRODUCTION APPARATUS AND METHOD AS WELL AS RECORDING MEDIUM - The invention provides a recording/reproduction apparatus and method as well as a recording medium wherein, when nondestructive editing is executed for an AV signal, the AV signal can be reproduced seamlessly without suffering from any interruption. Information representative of states (an A type, a C type, a D type, or an E type) of an IN point and an OUT point on a Clip, designated by a Playitem, of a Playlist in which at least more than one Playitems are arranged in the order of reproduction is described in a block Playitem( ). | 10-11-2012 |
20120263433 | Detecting Key Roles and Their Relationships from Video - Tools and techniques for acquiring key roles and their relationships from a video independent of metadata, such as cast lists and scripts, are described herein. These techniques include discovering key roles and their relationships by treating a video (e.g., a movie, television program, music video, and personal video, etc.) as a community. For instance, a video is segmented into a hierarchical structure that includes levels for scenes, shots, and key frames. In some implementations, the techniques include performing face detection and grouping on the detected key frames. In some implementations, the techniques include exploiting the key roles and their correlations in this video to discover a community. The discovered community provides for a wide variety of applications, including the automatic generation of visual summaries or video posters including acquired key roles. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263434 | Per-Subscriber Adaptive Bit Rate Stream Management Method - Consistent with embodiments of the present invention, a system may be provided to provide per-subscriber stream management comprising: a client capable of receiving a playlist containing a subset of segments associated with a video asset; a video application server to request subscriber state information and to build state representations in a subscriber database on a per-subscriber basis; a media segmenter capable of providing the video asset in multiple bit rates; a subscriber state manager capable of managing the current state of one or more subscribers in a subscriber database; and a stream manager capable of requesting the assignment of bandwidth from a wireless infrastructure on a per-subscriber basis. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263435 | AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SIGNALS - An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus comprising a recording unit which is arranged in operation to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged to receive metadata associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording unit being arranged in operation to record the metadata on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The data processor may be arranged to receive signals representative of the time codes of the recorded audio/video signals, and the metadata may include time code data representative of the in and out points of a take of the audio/video signals generated by the data processor. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263436 | AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO GENERATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF GENERATING AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO SIGNALS - An audio and/or video generation apparatus which is arranged in operation to generate audio and/or video signals representative of an audio and/or video source, the audio and/or video generation apparatus including a recording unit which is arranged in operation to record the audio and/or video signals on a recording medium, wherein the audio and/or video generation apparatus is arranged to receive metadata associated with the audio and/or video signals generated by a data processor, the recording unit being arranged in operation to record the metadata on the recording medium with the audio and/or video signals. The data processor may be arranged to receive signals representative of the time codes of the recorded audio/video signals, and the metadata may include time code data representative of the in and out points of a take of the audio/video signals generated by the data processor. | 10-18-2012 |
20120263437 | HUMAN INTERACTION TRAJECTORY-BASED SYSTEM - A method and associated apparatus for using a trajectory-based technique to detect a moving object in a video sequence at incorporates human interaction through a user interface. The method comprises steps of identifying and evaluating sets of connected components in a video frame, filtering the list of connected components by comparing features of the connected components to predetermined criteria, identifying candidate trajectories across multiple frames, evaluating the candidate trajectories to determine a selected trajectory, eliminating incorrect trajectories through use of the interface and processing images in said video sequence responsive to the evaluating and eliminating steps. | 10-18-2012 |
20120269493 | METHOD OF REPRODUCING A STILL PICTURE FROM A RECORDING MEDIUM, METHOD OF DECODING THE STILL PICTURE AND THE RECORDING MEDIUM - In the method, video data is reproduced from the recording medium, and an I-picture and a number of P-pictures are output as a still picture based on the reproduced video data. The output data may then be received and decoded for display. | 10-25-2012 |
20120275762 | Personalized Recordings Including Bookmarks - Personalized recordings may be provided. A first request to record an asset may be received. The first request may be associated with a first user and may include at least one first option. Next, a second request to record the asset may be received. The second request may be associated with a second user and may include at least one second option. Then the asset may be recorded consistent with the at least one first option and the least one second option. Next, a “my recordings list” associated with the first user may be displayed. In response to the displayed “my recordings” list associated with the first user, a request to play the asset may then be received. Next, in response to the received request to play the asset, the asset may be played consistent with the at least one first option. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275763 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a reproduction processing unit executing a process of reproducing a content item from a recording medium. The reproduction processing unit reads scenario data, which is reproduction sequence definition information of the content item stored in the recording medium, and a program, which executes reproduction control of the content item based on the scenario data, from the recording medium and reproduces the content time under the control of the program. The scenario data includes a plurality of different scenarios defining a plurality of different content item reproduction sequences. The reproduction processing unit executes a process of acquiring scenario selection information, a process of selecting the scenario based on the acquired scenario selection information, and the process of reproducing the content item based on the selected scenario. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275764 | CREATION OF VIDEO BOOKMARKS VIA SCRIPTED INTERACTIVITY IN ADVANCED DIGITAL TELEVISION - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for creating and/or altering a video bookmark is described. The method comprises an operation of processing a request from a downloaded scripted object to create a video bookmark. The video bookmark may be information that is used for performing an action involving additional information related to the video content being played at a time of the request. Thereafter, the video bookmark is created based on the request. | 11-01-2012 |
20120275765 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK DEVICE, SYSTEM LSI, PLAYBACK METHOD, GLASSES, AND DISPLAY DEVICE FOR 3D IMAGES - A recording medium in which a left-view video stream and a right-view video stream are recorded in an interleaved transport stream file. The interleaved transport stream file is identified by a combination of (i) an equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a file extension indicating that video streams are stored in the interleaved manner, the equivalent identification number. Among Extents that constitute the interleaved transport stream file, Extents constituting the left-view or right-view video stream are identified as a normal-format transport stream file by a combination of (i) the equivalent identification number being equivalent with the file reference information and (ii) a file extension indicating that video streams are stored in a normal manner. | 11-01-2012 |
20120281965 | L-CUT STREAM STARTUP - One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for starting playback of an audio portion of digital media content before a video portion of the digital media content is received. An advantage of the disclosed technique is that the perceived delay from the time when a user selects the digital media content to when playback of the digital media content begins is reduced. The audio may be faded-in and one or more still frames of video data may be displayed while the video stream is retrieved. Additionally, a license for DRM (Digital Rights Management) encryption of the title content may be retrieved before starting playback of the video stream, so that the digital media content that is retrieved is also protected. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281966 | METHOD FOR SKIPPING MULTIMEDIA FILE AND MULTIMEDIA APPARATUS THEREOF - A multimedia file skipping method. The skipping method adds obtained increased amount of time to a current decoding time stamp to determine a target time stamp, determines a PCR (Program Clock Reference) corresponding to the target time stamp as a PCR prediction value; determines a position offset corresponding to the PCR prediction value as a target position offset according to a linear relationship between the PCR and position offset of the multimedia file; and skips to the target position offset and plays the multimedia file from this position. By the aforementioned, it is not necessary to set a time stamp index file, and calculation is performed by utilizing the linear relationship between the PCR and the position offset, and thus the amount of calculation is reduced, time cost is reduced, and skipping speed is significantly improved. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281967 | Bookmarks and Watchpoints for Selection and Presentation of Media Streams - Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata. | 11-08-2012 |
20120281968 | Bookmarks and Watchpoints for Selection and Presentation of Media Streams - Selection and presentation of media streams, in which presentation is not limited by order imposed by the digital content representative of those media streams, in response to bookmarks and watchpoints settable and usable by a user. Bookmarks reference a location within the media stream, not necessarily pre-selected and possibly dynamically selected, in which a presentation can be started or restarted therefrom. Watchpoints reference a location within the media stream, or a presentation state for the media stream, in which an action can be triggered thereby. Bookmarks and watchpoints provide a general technique for presenting selections from media streams in response to metadata. | 11-08-2012 |
20120288256 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - An image reproduction apparatus sequences and reproduces multiple moving pictures while eliminating linking and editing operations. A list display unit lists on a screen thumbnails corresponding to each of multiple moving pictures recorded on recording media. A selection unit selects and orders, according to selection operations, multiple thumbnails displayed by the list display unit. Based on the multiple thumbnails selected and ordered by the selection unit, a reproduction unit reproduces the moving pictures corresponding to each of the thumbnails by reproducing them in that order. A display displays moving pictures sequenced in order by the reproduction unit on a screen. | 11-15-2012 |
20120294584 | REPRODUCING DEVICE, METHOD OF REPRODUCING STREAM FILE, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a reproducing device including a stream acquiring unit that acquires a stream file, a stream dividing unit that divides the stream file to be appropriate for a predetermined play list and a predetermined clip information file and generates a division stream file, and a stream reproducing unit that reproduces the division stream file based on the predetermined play list and the predetermined clip information file. | 11-22-2012 |
20120301105 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RETRIEVING CASUAL SETS OF EVENTS FROM UNSTRUCTURED SIGNALS - A method for providing improved performance in retrieving and classifying causal sets of events from an unstructured signal can comprise applying a temporal-causal analysis to the unstructured signal. The temporal-causal analysis can comprise representing the occurrence times of visual events from an unstructured signal as a set of point processes. An exemplary embodiment can comprise interpreting a set of visual codewords produced by a space-time-dictionary representation of the unstructured video sequence as the set of point processes. A nonparametric estimate of the cross-spectrum between pairs of point processes can be obtained. In an exemplary embodiment, a spectral version of the pairwise test for Granger causality can be applied to the nonparametric estimate to identify patterns of interactions between visual codewords and group them into semantically meaningful independent causal sets. The method can further comprise leveraging the segmentation achieved during temporal causal analysis to improve performance in categorizing causal sets. | 11-29-2012 |
20120301106 | GENERATING CONTENT DATA FOR A VIDEO FILE - A method for generating content data for a video file ( | 11-29-2012 |
20120301107 | Recording and Reproducing Apparatus - When a recording and reproducing apparatus additionally records a title in a BD, a title number of the recorded title is additionally stored in a management information file and also, order of storage of all the title numbers in the management information file to which the title number has been added is sorted based on attribute information included in title information in accordance with a sort type, and subsequently, the management information file is updated with the sorted data. Consequently, the order of storage of the title numbers in the management information file in the BD is changed in order of a user's intention and the titles are reproduced in accordance with the order of storage of the title numbers. | 11-29-2012 |
20120301108 | VIDEO STREAM INDEX GENERATION AT A VIDEO CONTENT TRANSMITTER - A method of generating and using indexing information for video content is presented. In the method, an index stream for a video stream is generated at a video content transmitter. The video stream includes video frames, and the index stream includes an index for each of at least some of the video frames within the video stream. The video stream and the index stream are transmitted from the video content transmitter to a video content receiver, which receives and stores the video and index streams. Further, at the video content receiver, the index stream is processed to locate the video frames within the video stream that are associated with at least some of the indexes of the index stream, and at least some of the located video frames of the video stream are presented to an output device under control of a user of the video content receiver. | 11-29-2012 |
20120308200 | CONTIGUOUS MEDIA PLAYBACK - In one embodiment of the invention, a method for contiguous media playback comprises recording a first media content and storing the recorded first media content in a first media file; recording a second media content and storing the recorded second media content in a second media file; playing the first media file; determining if the second media content was recorded within a predefined window of and from a same channel as the recording of the first media content; determining a user preference for contiguous playback; and if the second media content was recorded within a predefined window of and from a same channel as the recording of the first media content and if the user preference is for contiguous playback, playing the second media file contiguous with the first media file. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308201 | REPRODUCTION APPARATUS - A reproduction apparatus includes a calculating portion that calculates a packet position corresponding to specified reproduction time based on header information contained in an image and sound file when reproduction time is specified by an operating portion, and a reproducing portion that starts reproduction of image and sound from a packet of the calculated packet position. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308202 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a metadata acquisition unit for acquiring section metadata indicating an appearance section of each target object appearing in a video, a section information display unit for displaying, using the section metadata, section information visually expressing a section in which each target object appears among all sections constituting the video, and a reproduction control unit for causing to be reproduced, in a case one section is selected by a user from sections displayed as pieces of section information regarding a certain target object, a video frame of the selected section. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308203 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A depth map generating unit generates depth information indicating the depth of a subject in each pixel of frames of a moving image. An additional information generating unit generates additional information regarding a change between continuous frames. A reading and writing unit writes a depth map and the additional information on the recording medium and reads the depth map and the additional information from the recording medium. A depth map correcting unit corrects the depth map read by the reading and writing unit based on the additional information read by the reading and writing unit. The reading and writing unit performs overwriting with the depth map corrected by the depth map correcting unit on the recording medium. The present technology is applicable to an image processing apparatus that generates depth information indicating a sense of depth of a stereoscopic image. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308204 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING A DISPLAY OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT USING A TIMELINE-BASED INTERFACE - A touch screen control method for controlling a playback of multimedia content using a timeline-based interface includes detecting a selection at a specific location on the timeline; and selectively zoom-displaying an area around the location where the selection is detected the position on the timeline where the event trigger has occurred. | 12-06-2012 |
20120308205 | Method and mobile terminal for previewing and retrieving video - A method for previewing and retrieving a video is disclosed. The method includes: ( | 12-06-2012 |
20120315012 | Weighted Playlist - The playback of content from a playlist is disclosed. A user may influence the probability of a specific item from a content playlist being selected during the execution of a pseudo-random (shuffle) algorithm. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315013 | CAPTURE, SYNCING AND PLAYBACK OF AUDIO DATA AND IMAGE DATA - A capture device includes a microphone, a camera, a memory, and a processor. The microphone is configured to record audio data, the camera is configured to capture image data, the memory is configured to store the recorded audio data and the captured image data, and the processor is configured to link the recorded audio data with the captured image data based on a timestamp of the image data, and store the linked audio data and image data in a same record in the memory. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315014 | AUDIO FINGERPRINTING TO BOOKMARK A LOCATION WITHIN A VIDEO - A method and system for identifying video segments for subsequent playback. Audio from an audio-visual presentation playing on a primary screen device is retrieved using a secondary screen device. At least one audio fingerprint is generated from the retrieved audio. The at least one audio fingerprint is sent to an audio fingerprint server. The audio fingerprint server obtains information identifying the audio-visual presentation and a relative time within the audio-visual presentation corresponding to the at least one audio fingerprint. The obtained information is used for subsequently retrieving the audio video presentation from a video content server. | 12-13-2012 |
20120315015 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF VIDEO FROM STRUCTURED CONTENT - Apparatus for generation of playable media from structured data, comprises a structured data reading unit for reading in of content of a first structure, a transformation unit for transforming said content into a second structure, said transformation comprising incorporating media play instructions, and a rendering unit for rendering content from the second structure using said media play instructions to generate playable media from the content. | 12-13-2012 |
20120321281 | Systems and Methods for Recording Content within Digital Video - A method for recording user content within a digital video is provided. The method may display a visual timeline associated with the digital video at a user interface, reserve one or more frames of the digital video for insertion of the user content, temporally indicate the reserved frames on the visual timeline using one or more visual tags, retrievably store the user content at a storage device, associate the user content to the reserved frames of the digital video, and enable the user content to be played back in parallel with the digital video at the reserved frames. The user content may include any one or more of text data, audio data, image data and video data. The reserved frames may be selected based on input provided by a user through the user interface. | 12-20-2012 |
20120321282 | INTERESTING SECTION EXTRACTING DEVICE, INTERESTING SECTION EXTRACTING METHOD - Interesting section extracting device | 12-20-2012 |
20130004141 | Method and Device for Locating Video Clips - A example of the present invention disclose a method for locating video clips, comprises receiving target dialogue a user requests to search in the video; determining subtitle data that matches the target dialogue according to a preset matching rule; and locate the video clip corresponding to the target dialogue in the video according to the matched subtitle data. Another example of the present invention discloses a device for locating video clips. Adopting examples of the present invention, the user only needs to input a desirable dialogue to directly watch video starting from the video clip corresponding to the dialogue, so that the user does not have to search for the desirable video manually, and the user's experience of watching a video is improved. | 01-03-2013 |
20130011118 | MANAGING AND EDITING STORED MEDIA ASSETS - Methods and systems are described for providing editing tools that allow a user to manipulate media provided by a media content source. Media editing tools may include content analysis tools capable of extracting information from the media content itself, and may include segment identification and editing tools. Editing tools may be created by a user, and stored or shared with other users. Users may be able to specify and customize a set of storage space requirements that impose constraints on the type, quantity and content of stored assets. Automatic storage management tools provide tools with which stored and to-be-stored assets may be transformed in order to maintain satisfaction of storage preferences and requirements. | 01-10-2013 |
20130011119 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY TAGGING MEDIA CONTENT, MEDIA SERVER AND APPLICATION SERVER FOR REALIZING SUCH A METHOD - Method for automatically tagging media content that includes the steps of a media server obtaining capture tagging information from that media content upon capturing thereof and sending the capture tagging information and said media content to an application server. The application server tagging the media content with tagging information comprising at least part of the capture tagging information. | 01-10-2013 |
20130011120 | CONTENT PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present invention relates to a content processing apparatus and method, and a program capable of more easily grasping details of content of a moving image. | 01-10-2013 |
20130022333 | VIDEO CONTENT PLAYBACK ASSISTANCE METHOD, VIDEO CONTENT PLAYBACK ASSISTANCE SYSTEM, AND INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION PROGRAM - Having the object of facilitating the cued playback of important scenes even for video content on which cue point information has not been conferred, a video content playback assistance method includes steps of: acquiring identical video correspondence information that indicates the correspondence relation of identical video, which are identical partial video contained in common in a plurality of items of video content; when cued playback is instructed, specifying the points of identical video in video content based on the acquired identical video correspondence information and specifying cue points based on the points of identical video that have been specified, and reproducing video from the specified cue points based on the video content. | 01-24-2013 |
20130022334 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A data recording/playing configuration capable of easily acquiring attribute information on a frame constituting a 3D image recorded on a recording medium. The attribute information of the 3D image is recorded in each of hierarchized management information files as an attribute in units of management data of each of the management information files. When a coding method is a frame sequential method, frame identification data indicating whether each frame is a left-eye image (L image) or a right-eye image (R image) are recorded; and when the coding method is an inter-view reference coding method where any one of L and R images is referred to during decoding, base image identification data indicating which one of the L and R images is a base image are recorded. Thereby, a playing apparatus can determine an attribute of a frame without performing analysis of data to be played. | 01-24-2013 |
20130051754 | VIDEO TAGGING SYSTEM - A video tagging system allows users to actively interact with video content. The video staging system includes a server hosting a website providing users with an interface through which users may interact with the video tagging system. The video staging system also includes a tag information database maintaining information regarding tags created by users. The interface includes a video player upon which video content is displayed as a video and a tag display presenting tags associated with the video. The video content and the information regarding tags are maintained separately. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051755 | METHOD FOR TRANSFERRING MEDIA PLAYBACK FROM A DIFFERENT DEVICE - Transfer of media playback from a first device to a second device is based on a media entry point identifier. For example, a movie playing on a source device such as a movie theater screen may be quickly and easily transferred to a user's handheld device for playback on the handheld device or vice versa. Playback of the transferred media begins at or near a point within the transferred media at which the user requested media playback transfer. In one embodiment, media playback transfer relies on information captured from the source device, such as a video frame, a media progress bar, or a visual code. In another embodiment, the user device is associated with a user account that is different from the user account associated with the source device or the source device simply is not associated with a user account. In another embodiment, transfer of the media playback involves applying to the user device the settings of the source device. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051756 | Systems and Methods of Detecting Significant Faces in Video Streams - Systems and methods of processing video streams are described. A face is detected in a video stream. The face is tracked to determine a video clip associated with one of a plurality of individuals. The video segment is assigned to a group of video clips based on the associated individual. A significant face is detected in the group of video clips when the detected face meets one or more significance criteria. The significance criteria describes a face-frame characteristic. A representation of the significant face is displayed in association with a representation of the group of video clips. The order of the significance criteria is adjusted through a user interface. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051759 | Time-shifted Telepresence System And Method - A time-shifted telepresence system is provided. The system includes a first node. The first node includes prerecorded content. The first node transmits the prerecorded content to a node device in at least one other node during an event in accordance with a meta tag associated with the prerecorded content. The prerecorded content comprises a media recording of a non-present user. | 02-28-2013 |
20130051760 | SCREENING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, SCREENING MANAGEMENT METHOD AND PROGRAM PRODUCT - There is provided a screening management system including a content accumulation unit for accumulating a plurality of video contents to be screened, a playlist management unit for managing a playlist defining an order of screening the video contents accumulated in the content accumulation unit and managing a file indicating one or a plurality of video contents to be screened in a specific place in the playlist, and a schedule management unit for managing the playlist according to a screening time. The playlist is a list in which a plurality of frames are arranged, and video content to be screened is indicated by a first frame among the plurality of frames, and the file is indicated by a second frame among the plurality of frames. | 02-28-2013 |
20130058626 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVER-BASED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING AND RETRIEVAL - The disclosed embodiments relate to a method, an apparatus, and computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions for recording and retrieving videos. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058627 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing device including a data processing unit for performing a process of reproducing content including music content. The data processing unit performs the content reproduction process using a scenario in which reproduction control information is recorded and a playlist file including designation information on the content to be reproduced, the playlist file has playitem information including the designation information on a stream file in which the content as reproduction target data is stored, and position information corresponding to an entry mark corresponding to a boundary position between each playitem and a link point set within a reproduction section of each playitem, the scenario has control information for a scene that is a content portion divided by the entry mark and the link point, and the data processing unit performs the reproduction control, performs transitioning of the scene to be reproduced and switching of the control information. | 03-07-2013 |
20130058628 | RECORDING MEDIUM, PLAYBACK APPARATUS, RECORDING APPARATUS, PLAYBACK METHOD, AND RECORDING METHOD - A recording medium enables special playback processing although part of the AV stream recorded therein is transformed. An AV stream, a first EP map, and a second EP map are recorded on the recording medium. In the AV stream, a part of the multiplexed stream including a first video stream and a second video stream is transformed. The first EP map indicates one or more entry points of the first video stream and the second EP map indicates one or more entry points of the second video stream. TS packets constituting I-pictures of the first video stream are indicated by every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map, and TS packets constituting I-pictures of the second video stream are indicated by the entry points whose presentation time is closest to the presentation time of any one of the every 4N-th entry point in the first EP map. | 03-07-2013 |
20130071087 | VIDEO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A system and method for managing video data and metadata associated with the video data is disclosed. In one embodiment, a content management system receives video data and metadata associated with the video data, such as a title, a thumbnail image and a subject matter identifier. Instructions for a media player used to present the video data using a destination site are also generated to simplify distribution of the video data to one or more destination sites. The content management system further enables a user to edit the stored video data to customize placements of advertisements or other data within the video data by identifying one or more cue points in the video data. A data store is coupled to the content management system to store the video data and the metadata associated with the video data. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071088 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING SUMMARY VIDEO - A method and apparatus are provided for displaying a summary video. According to the method, various effects may be automatically determined according to an attribute of a file, and a video may be automatically summarized to have various effects and be displayed. | 03-21-2013 |
20130071089 | CATEGORY CREATING PROGRAM, CATEGORY CREATING APPARATUS, AND CATEGORY CREATING METHOD - A category creating apparatus receives a piece of music, extracts video image information included in the received music, and decomposes the extracted video image information with respect to each characteristic of the extracted video image information. Then, the category creating apparatus creates, with respect to each piece of decomposed video image information, a category representing the characteristic of the piece of video image information. The category creating apparatus extracts, from the video image information in the received music, character information and decomposes the extracted character information into words. The category creating apparatus creates, for each decomposed word, a category associated with the word. | 03-21-2013 |
20130077937 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING REMOTE STREAMING AUDIOVISUAL MONTAGES - An apparatus and method for creating and performing an audio-visual montage assembled from tagged audio files matched with tagged video or graphic or photo image files in a hand held computation device and preferably performed on an external display device such as a television or computer monitor that may also have associated audio performance systems. | 03-28-2013 |
20130077938 | MULTIMEDIA OBJECT CORRELATION USING GROUP LABEL - In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a process for correlating a plurality of multimedia objects with a plurality of recording devices is described. The process may be implemented to generate a group label for a recording group, wherein the group label corresponds to a specific time and a specific location for the recording group. The process may include receiving, from a recording device, a join request seeking to join the recording group. The process may also include, upon approval of the join request, transmitting the group label to the recording device, wherein the group label is used by the recording device during generating of a multimedia object. | 03-28-2013 |
20130084053 | System to merge multiple recorded video timelines - A video recording and playback network comprises a video source, a plurality of recorders, a local server, and a client device. The plurality of recorders records video from the video source. The local server generates a playlist comprising one or more ordered video segments which together cover a desired time range. The playlist associates one of the plurality of recorders with each video segment. The client device plays back video according to the playlist by streaming each video segment, in sequence, from the associated recorder. | 04-04-2013 |
20130084054 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND PLAYBACK CONTROL METHOD - According to at least one embodiment, an electronic apparatus determines whether or not a received packet is a first packet in which a random access indicator flag is set. The random access indicator flag indicates that the first packet is a start packet in a packet group required to carry a randomly accessible video frame. If the received packet is the first packet, the apparatus acquires a time stamp indicating a presentation time of the randomly accessible video frame from the first packet or another received packet having the same packet identifier as the first packet, and generates index information indicating the presentation time and a storage position of the first packet in a buffer. | 04-04-2013 |
20130089300 | Method and Apparatus for Providing Voice Metadata - A method and apparatus associates voice metadata with a content item such as a recorded program using a content guide. In one embodiment, a process presents the content guide to a viewer. The viewer makes a first request to select a content item listed in the content guide, and this first request is received by the processor. In response to the first request, the processor presents content information for the selected content item. The content information may include one or more voice metadata options for the selected content item. The method and apparatus may be implemented in a digital video recorder (DVR). A DVR content searching method is also disclosed. In one embodiment, search parameters are received at the DVR, and the DVR searches through an index of voice metadata associated with one or more content items stored at the DVR. | 04-11-2013 |
20130089301 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO FRAMES IMAGE WITH IMAGE REGISTRATION INFORMATION INVOLVED THEREIN - A method of processing a plurality of video frames includes: obtaining image registration information of the video frames, wherein the image registration information is used to transform different video frames into one coordinate system; and searching for a plurality of target video frames corresponding to a selected scene among the video frames by using the image registration information. A playback method of a video stream includes: receiving a playback request for a selected scene; searching the video stream for target video frames corresponding to image registration information of the selected scene, wherein the image registration information is used to transform different video frames into one coordinate system; and performing a playback operation according to the target video frames found in the video stream. | 04-11-2013 |
20130094835 | RECORDING/READING APPARATUS, METHOD OF GENERATING TAG LIST FOR RECORDING/READING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL UNIT FOR RECORDING/READING APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, there is provided a control block including a read control processor for reading designated content, a time information processor for processing time information. A controller returns, to a user terminal, a response signal, and information indicating a second absolute time point when an operation is executed in response to a request signal generated by the user terminal at a first absolute time point. The controller stores time difference information indicating a time difference between the first and the second absolute time points. When responding to a further request signal sent from the requester via the network, the controller sets, as tag time information, time information obtained by correcting, using the time difference information, a current relative time period for which the designated content is read. | 04-18-2013 |
20130101270 | METHOD OF STORING STATUS INFORMATION ABOUT CONTENT REPRODUCING DEVICE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALLOWING CONTENT TO BE AUTOMATICALLY REPRODUCED USING THE STATUS INFORMATION - Provided are a method of storing status information in a first content reproducing device, and a method of allowing content to be automatically reproduced in a second content reproducing device based on the status information stored in the first content reproducing device. The method of storing status information includes: monitoring an operation of the first content reproducing device; generating status information about the monitored operation; and storing the status information in the first content reproducing device. The method of allowing content to be automatically reproduced includes: checking if the first and second content reproducing devices are connected to each other; reading a log file recording the status information from the first content reproducing device if the first and second content reproducing devices are connected to each other; interpreting the status information; and selectively performing an operation according to a result of the interpreting. | 04-25-2013 |
20130108239 | TIME-BASED VIDEO METADATA SYSTEM | 05-02-2013 |
20130108240 | DISC REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, DISC REPRODUCTION METHOD AND PROGRAM | 05-02-2013 |
20130108241 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT | 05-02-2013 |
20130114940 | PRESENTING LINEAR AND NONLINEAR CONTENT VIA DVR - Embodiments related to the presentation of linear content and non-linear content in an integrated user experience are disclosed. One embodiment provides a method of identifying linear content and non-linear content for presentation via a video recording device. The method includes detecting a trigger to perform a search for content items, and providing, responsive to the trigger, a search request to one or more metadata sources, each metadata source containing locations of one or more of linear content items and non-linear content items available at one or more content sources. The method further includes receiving from each metadata source a search response including metadata associated with available content at one or more of the content sources, and outputting a list of content items identifying one or more linear content items and one or more non-linear content items from one or more metadata sources. | 05-09-2013 |
20130121664 | SYNOPSIS FRAMES AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A synopsis video includes a plurality of synopsis frames manufactured by using plural chronological source frames which include a plurality of foreground objects. Each of the foreground objects appearing in one of the synopsis frames just exists at one position of the synopsis frame. At least one portion of the foreground objects appearing in one of the synopsis frames originates from the source frames of different times. One of the foreground objects that originates from a later source frame appears in a later synopsis frame, and the foreground object that originates from a former source frame appears in a former synopsis frame. | 05-16-2013 |
20130121665 | PLAYBACK APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING APPLICATION-SYNCHRONIZED PLAYBACK - A playback apparatus includes a package management unit operable to generate package information by merging files recorded on a first recording medium and a second recording medium, in accordance with merge management information. A selection unit is operable to detect a plurality of playable titles from the package information and select one of the detected titles as a current title. A processing unit is operable to execute an application specified in the current title and that is included in the package information. A playback control engine is operable to control playback of a digital stream in the current title and that is included in the package information. Status registers each store a parameter relating to a playback status of the digital stream, and backup registers each save one of the status registers. | 05-16-2013 |
20130129316 | Methods and Apparatus for Tutorial Video Enhancement - A plurality of segment transitions in a video data stream is identified. The identifying the plurality of segment transitions includes recognizing an interface feature of a first application interface displayed in the video data stream and generating metadata associating a selected segment transition with a particular point in the video data stream. The interface feature indicates the selected segment transition among the plurality of segment transitions in the video data stream. A navigation system for navigating among the plurality of segment transitions in the video data stream is provided. Responsive to input, navigation to the selected segment transition is performed and the video data stream is displayed from the particular point. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129317 | Client Playback of Streaming Video Adapted for Smooth Transitions and Viewing in Advance Display Modes - Systems and methods are presented for adaptively streaming a time-ordered sequence of video frames from a video server, across a wide area network, to a remote client video device, to accommodate advanced video display modes. Based on indications received from the remote client, the video server obtains and sends to the remote client encodings of video frames adapted to facilitate smooth, timely transitions between display modes at the client, and optimal playback quality across all modes, subject to various operational constraints. Advanced playback modes include fast forward and reverse, slow forward and reverse, frame-by-frame stepping, and other modes that specify displaying video frames on the client at a rate different from the normal display rate, or that specify displaying video frames in a different order than the normal time-ordering of the sequence of video frames. The systems and methods may be incorporated into collaborative online video editing environments. | 05-23-2013 |
20130129318 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA STREAMS CONTAINING AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR OTHER DATA - Several data streams contain video, audio and/or other data. Some of the data streams are pre-recorded in a multiplex on a storage medium while other data streams are located out of the data stream multiplex on the storage medium. The data streams are synchronized using a navigation file (List_of_PlayItems), which comprises descriptors (PlayItems, SubPlayItems) pointing to parts of said data streams, wherein said descriptors define the arrangement in time for said data streams by means of data sub stream paths. | 05-23-2013 |
20130136417 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processor includes: a recording portion configured to record a table describing a correspondence relationship between reproduction information in accordance with which reality information as reality of contents is specified to be reproduced and which is adapted to share the same reality information with any other suitable reproduction information, and the reality information to which the reproduction information refers, with respect to all of pieces of reproduction information recorded in a recording medium, in one file; a deleting portion configured to delete the reproduction information instructed; and an updating portion configured to update the table when the reproduction information is deleted. | 05-30-2013 |
20130136418 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - To more flexibly reproduce moving image data obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition. For example, moving image data, which has been obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition, is stored in a recording portion. When the moving image data is reproduced from the recording portion, a single frame is selected and output by a reproduced frame selecting portion for each period of a single frame of display output. If a user operation instructing to make the displayed image darker, in response to this user operation, a frame having an exposure condition of underexposure is selected and output from the moving image data to be reproduced from the recording portion for each period of a single frame of display output. | 05-30-2013 |
20130142496 | INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD USING MANAGEMENT INFORMATION INCLUDING MAPPING INFORMATION - According to one embodiment, there is provided an information playback method, comprising reading out management information used to manage one or more video titles from an information storage medium, the medium storing an advanced content including the management information in which a title timeline indicating playback timings of objects of each video title being individually defined, and playing back objects of each video title in accordance with the title timeline defined in the readout management information. | 06-06-2013 |
20130156400 | RECORDING EXTENSION OF DELAYED MEDIA CONTENT - Presented herein is a method of extending a recording in a media content receiver of a media event that is delayed. In the method, a recording of media content is begun at an expected start time for the media event based on a recording timer, wherein the recording timer indicates the expected start time and an expected end time for the media event. After beginning the recording, the media content being recorded is analyzed to determine an actual start time for the media event. The actual start time is then compared with the expected start time. If the difference between the actual start time and the expected start time exceeds some predetermined value, the expected end time is adjusted to extend the recording. The recording is then ended at the adjusted end time. | 06-20-2013 |
20130156401 | DISK PLAYBACK APPARATUS - When a disc player device ( | 06-20-2013 |
20130163956 | Method and System for Displaying a Timeline - A method of displaying a timeline of recorded video comprising the steps of dividing the recorded video into timespans, providing a thumbnail and a timestamp for each timespan that has recorded video, providing a gap and a timestamp between thumbnails for each timespan in which there is no recorded video, displaying a first timeline containing the provided thumbnails and timestamps and the provided gaps and timestamps having an uncompressed format, receiving user input requesting that the first timeline be compressed, removing the gaps and their respective timestamps from the first timeline and moving the thumbnails and their timestamps located on either side of the gaps so that the thumbnails on either side of the gaps are adjacent to provide a compressed timeline, and displaying the compressed timeline. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163957 | System and Method for Fingerprinting Video - Disclosed are various embodiments of generating video fingerprints. Scene changes can be detected in a video and a video fingerprint generated based upon a time at which the scene change occurs as well as time intervals between the scene changes relative to adjacent scene changes. A video can be captured and analyzed by comparing scene changes detected in the video to those described by the video fingerprint. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163958 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process including receiving a setting of an anchor to a subject in an image included in a video; determining whether a movement amount between the subject to which the anchor has been set in a predetermined image in the video and the subject in another image included in the video is greater than or equal to a predetermined value; and storing, in a storage unit, an identifier of the another image that is a determination target, and position information of the anchor, when the movement amount is determined to be greater than or equal to the predetermined value. | 06-27-2013 |
20130163959 | CONTENT PLAYING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A content playing apparatus and method are provided, the content playing apparatus including: a receiver which receives content including a video and an audio; a storage unit which stores the received content; a processor which processes the content to play the stored content; an output unit which outputs a video and an audio of the played content; and a controller which generates an index of the video based on properties of the audio, and plays a part of the video corresponding to the properties of the audio at the part of the video by referring to the index. | 06-27-2013 |
20130177294 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA CONTENT SUPPORTING MULTIPLE CAMERA VIEWS - A video file is created from a plurality of video segments according to one or more predefined parameters. Each video segment corresponds to a different camera view of a common temporal event. A computing device initiates playback of the video file within a first video segment corresponding to a first camera view. Responsive to a user input command, the computing device changes a playback position of the video file from a current frame number of the first video segment to a destination frame number of a second video segment of the video file. The destination frame number has a predefined relationship to the current frame number. The computing devices continues playback of the video file from the destination frame number within the second video segment corresponding to a second camera view to provide a different perspective of a subject captured in the plurality of video segments. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177295 | ENABLING COPY AND PASTE FUNCTIONALITY FOR VIDEOS AND OTHER MEDIA CONTENT - Concepts and technologies are described herein for enabling copy and paste functionality for videos and other media content. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, text associated with media content can be displayed in an interface via which the text can be selected, exported, copied, and/or pasted into application programs. In some embodiments, the media content includes a payload and metadata. The metadata can define the text to be displayed. The metadata also can define timing information, styles information, positioning information, actions, and/or other aspects of the text. Output including the payload and the overlay can be generated and presented or stored. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177296 | GENERATING METADATA FOR USER EXPERIENCES - A system and method for efficiently managing life experiences captured by one or more sensors (e.g., video or still camera, image sensors including RGB sensors and depth sensors). A “life recorder” is a recording device that continuously captures life experiences, including unanticipated life experiences, in image, video, and/or audio recordings. In some embodiments, video and/or audio recordings captured by a life recorder are automatically analyzed, tagged with a set of one or more metadata, indexed, and stored for future use. By tagging and indexing life recordings, a life recorder may search for and acquire life recordings generated by itself or another life recorder, thereby allowing life experiences to be shared minutes or even years later. | 07-11-2013 |
20130183022 | Information Processing Device, Information Processing Method and Program - The present invention relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of easily adding an annotation to content and providing an application, which utilizes the annotation. | 07-18-2013 |
20130188923 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING AND PLAYING A MULTI-CHANNEL VIDEO - A system and method including retrieving a multi-channel video file with a first video segment and a second video segment; assigning a rank to the first video segment and second video segment; and rendering at least the first and second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, and comprising: playing the first video segment in an active stream, progressing a timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream, when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel if the rank of the second video segment is greater than the rank of the first video segment, and otherwise displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188924 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COORDINATING PLAYING OF MEDIA STREAMS - Methods and systems are described for coordinating playing of media streams. In one aspect, an access by a media player to a presentation device to play a media stream is detected. Additionally, presentation focus information is accessed for determining whether the media player has presentation focus for playing the media stream. Further, it is determine, based on the presentation focus information, that the media player has presentation focus for playing the media stream. Still further, in response to determining the media player has presentation focus, it is indicated that the media player is allowed to play the media stream via the presentation device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130188925 | DEVICE FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING IMAGE, METHOD FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING IMAGE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - Provided are an image recording and playing method including generating a play list including 3D information and recording the generated play list to a recording medium. | 07-25-2013 |
20130195424 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND INDEX GENERATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus receives a first packet group of a stream of content data. The apparatus includes a first detector, a second detector and an index generator. The first detector detects a first packet of the first packet group, the first packet including program information. The second detector detects a start packet of a second packet group from the first packet group, the second packet group carrying a randomly accessible video frame. The second detector detects a time stamp from the start packet or another packet having the same packet ID. The index generator generates index information indicating a storage position of the first packet in a buffer and the time stamp. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195425 | RECEIVING APPARATUS, RECEIVING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a receiving apparatus, including: a stream receiver unit configured to receive a broadcast transport stream; a partial-transport-stream recorder configured to create a partial transport stream from the received broadcast transport stream, and to record the partial transport stream in a recording medium; an event generating section configured to generate an event, the event relating to the received broadcast transport stream; and a private-descriptor inserting section configured to create a private descriptor, the private descriptor being information on the generated event, and to insert the private descriptor in a section of the partial transport stream. | 08-01-2013 |
20130195426 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND THUMBNAIL GENERATING METHOD - An image editing apparatus includes: a processor that: (i) generates an editing information indicating a content of editing applied to at least one of frames included in a video stream, and performs an editing process in which the editing is applied to the at least one frame; (ii) specifies a subject frame to be edited from among the frames, based on the editing information; and (iii) generates a thumbnail for the subject frame to which the editing has been applied, and outputs the generated thumbnail. | 08-01-2013 |
20130209061 | MULTIMEDIA PLAYING CONTROL METHOD, PLAYING CONTROL MODULE AND PLAYING TERMINAL - The present invention provides a multimedia playing control method, playing control module and playing terminal. The method comprises: detecting a position indicated by a user on a speed bar displaying a playing speed of a multimedia file; and amplifying and displaying the time period to which the position corresponds by a predetermined amplifying parameter, such that the user selects a playing moment according to the amplified and displayed time period. With the embodiments of the present invention, a playing speed may be precisely allocated to a desired position, without being affected by the size of the display screen of the playing terminal, the size and playing time of the played multimedia file, the size of the speed bar, and the playing mode, and solve the technical problems existed in the prior art. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209062 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control apparatus: in a virtual three-dimensional space in which is disposed a three-dimensional model of an object contained in a moving image picked up by performing successive imaging operations once by using an imaging device, draws a plurality of thumbnail images extracted from the moving image to the respective positions of the imaging device at the time when the thumbnail images were picked up and draws information that relates the thumbnail images in order in which they were picked up, thereby generating a bird's eye-display image which provides a bird's-eye-view drawing of the virtual three-dimensional space containing the three-dimensional model and the thumbnail images; and causes a display unit to display the bird's eye-display image. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209063 | DIGITAL RECEIVER AND CONTENT PROCESSING METHOD IN DIGITAL RECEIVER - The present invention relates to a digital receiver and a content processing method in a digital receiver. One embodiment of a digital receiver for 3D service according to the present invention comprises: a download module which performs a control such that a time-stamp is added to an input 3D-video elementary stream, and the input 3D-video elementary stream is stored; a PVR module including an upload module, which extracts the stored 3D-video elementary stream and uploads a system clock on the basis of a time-stamp value of the extracted 3D-video elementary stream; a decoder which decodes the uploaded 3D-video elementary stream; a formatter which formats decoded 3D video data based on an output format; and an output unit which outputs the formatted 3D video data. | 08-15-2013 |
20130209064 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVING METADATA FOR MANAGING VIDEO DATA - A method and an apparatus for retrieving information for managing video data involving link information associating metadata with the video data. A metadata indicator is used to indicate that metadata exists in a stream with the linking information. Link information also associates the metadata with location information to identify where additional information on the video data, which is described by the metadata, may be found. Using the method or apparatus, a single metadata unit is able to be associated with a plurality of video data units, or a plurality of metadata units are able to be associated with a single video data unit, in order to provide more information on the video data. | 08-15-2013 |
20130216201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALIGNING TAGS TO SPECIFIC VIDEO FRAMES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for receiving from a user a tag associated with a specific temporal location in video content. The system then aligns the tag associates the tag with the specific temporal location, and if necessary, modifies the video content to be playable directly from that specific temporal location. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216202 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SUBTITLE SYNCHRONIZATION IN MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises receiving a request for synchronization of a subtitle text data with multimedia content. The method also comprises accessing summarization data associated with at least a portion of the multimedia content. The summarization data comprises text data generated from at least the portion of the multimedia content. The text data is compared with at least a portion of the subtitle text data for determining presence of the text data in the subtitle text data. The subtitle text data is synchronized with the multimedia content based on the determination of the presence of the text data in at least the portion of the subtitle text data. | 08-22-2013 |
20130216203 | KEYWORD-TAGGING OF SCENES OF INTEREST WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT - Extraction of scenes of interest from video content is disclosed, which includes: collecting comments from a comment server, which contain keywords associated with the video content; segmenting the video content into scenes; measuring the number of ones of the comments which were posted for each scene, as a post count; detecting ones of the scenes, each of which has the post count equal to or larger than a predetermined number, as a plurality of scenes of interest; extracting, per each scene-of-interest, at least one of the keywords which is contained in the comments with a number equal to or larger than a pre-selected number, as a comment keyword; and tagging each scene of interest with the comment keyword, per each scene-of-interest. | 08-22-2013 |
20130223813 | MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCTION METHOD - A moving image reproduction apparatus is provided with a reproduction unit that decodes pictures included in a chunk of a video stream and displays the decoded pictures and a control unit that gives an instruction to start the reproduction process. When a reproduction target is switched to a second video stream that corresponds to a second bit rate during the reproduction of a first video stream that corresponds to a first bit rate, the reproduction unit continues to reproduce a chunk of the first video stream that is being reproduced. The control unit instructs, when pictures included in a chunk of the second video stream overlap with pictures included in the chunk that is being reproduced, the reproduction unit to hide the overlapping pictures in a reproduction process performed on the chunk of the second video stream. | 08-29-2013 |
20130243392 | SENTIMENT MAPPING IN A MEDIA CONTENT ITEM - A media content item is evaluated for its “sentiment states.” That is, segments of the content item are determined to be, for example, “happy,” “exciting,” “sad,” “funny,” and the like. A “sentiment map” is created that delimits segments of the content item and contains the sentiment-state keywords associated with the segments. Some maps include an amplitude for each assigned sentiment keyword and a confidence value for the segment delimitation and for each keyword. As an exemplary use of the sentiment map, an advertisement broker matches the sentiments of his advertisement offerings with segments of a content item in order to place appropriate advertisements at times when they would be most favorably received. In another example, a recommender system recommends to a user a content item whose sentiment map compares favorably to that of a content item already enjoyed by the user. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243393 | CLOSED CAPTION TAGGING SYSTEM - A method for displaying a webpage is described. The method involves receiving a broadcast stream including a program, playing the program in the broadcast stream to a viewer, displaying an icon to the viewer and receiving viewer input in response to display of the icon, pausing the playing of the program in response to receiving the viewer input, displaying a web page to the viewer in response to receiving the viewer input, and resuming the playing of the program. | 09-19-2013 |
20130251338 | Providing item information notification during video playing. - An apparatus capable of, and a method comprising, the steps of monitoring a play location within a video; searching a plurality of segment definitions to identify a segment definition that is responsive to the play location, a segment definition defines, responsive to a depiction of a purchasable item, a beginning and an ending of a video segment within the video; displaying, responsive to an identified segment definition, an indication that item purchase information is available for an item being depicted; receiving, from a user, a request for item purchase information in response to the display of an indication that item information is available; identifying a request location that is responsive to the request for item purchase information; and displaying item purchase information associated with a segment definition that is responsive to the request location. | 09-26-2013 |
20130251339 | MEDIA RESOURCE STORAGE AND MANAGEMENT - A computer-implemented method obtains a plurality of image files, each corresponding to an image in a video stream and builds a common file from a contiguous grouping of the plurality of image files. The video stream has a plurality of contiguous video segments, each having a first video frame, and the plurality of image files correspond to the plurality of first video frames of the plurality of video segments. The plurality of video segments are of approximately equal duration. | 09-26-2013 |
20130259445 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a symbol string generating unit configured to generate a symbol string in which symbols representing attributes of a plurality of data are arrayed in time-series, based on time-series data configured of the plurality of data arrayed in time-series; and a dividing unit configured to divide the time-series data into a plurality of segments, based on dispersion of the symbols in the symbol string. | 10-03-2013 |
20130272676 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR KEYWORD-BASED, NON-LINEAR NAVIGATION OF VIDEO STREAMS AND OTHER CONTENT - In one example embodiment, a program navigation system involves a television (TV) set (or other audio/visual presentation device) and a mobile device. While the TV set is playing an audio/visual program, a keyword recognition module may extract keywords from textual data associated with the program. The textual data may include textual words that match words spoken in the program. Time markers for the keywords may also be saved. A time marker may indicate a play time within the program for the corresponding keyword. The TV set may automatically transmit the keywords to the mobile device, and the mobile device may automatically display the keywords in a user interface. A user may then select one of the keywords. In response, the mobile device may automatically cause the TV set to jump to a portion of the program containing the selected keyword. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 10-17-2013 |
20130279881 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TOPIC-SPECIFIC VIDEO PRESENTATION - Systems and methods for summarizing a video assign frames in a video to at least one of two or more groups based on a topic, generate a respective first similitude measurement for the frames in a group relative to the other frames in the group based on a feature, rank the frames in a group relative to one or more other frames in the group based on the respective first similitude measurement of the respective frames, and select a frame from each group as a most-representative frame based on the respective rank of the frames in a group relative to the other frames in the group. | 10-24-2013 |
20130279882 | Coding of Video and Audio with Initialization Fragments - A new file format for coded video data is provided. A decoder may identify patterns in the coded video data in order to make the decoding process and/or display of data more efficient. Such patterns may be predefined and stored at the decoder, may be defined by each encoder and exchanged during terminal initialization, or may be transmitted and/or stored with the associated video data. Initialization information associated with the fragments of video data may also provide for carouseling initialization updates such that the initialization fragments may indicate either that the initialization information should be updated or that the decoder should be re-initialized. Additionally, media files or segments may be broken into fragments and each segment may have an index to provide for random access to the media data of the segment. | 10-24-2013 |
20130287365 | INFORMATION PROCESSING - Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying information relating to a portion of a multimedia presentation. A progress bar is provided and displayed. A length of the progress bar is representative of a duration of the multimedia presentation. A user selects a first and a second point in the multimedia presentation, thereby defining a portion of the presentation. Depending on the selection, one or more communications (e.g., comments, online postings, etc.) may be identified. Each of these communications may have been composed in relation to at least a point of the multimedia presentation that is within the defined portion. Information depending on those identified communications may then be displayed to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130287366 | IDENTIFYING PARAMETER SETS IN VIDEO FILES - An apparatus is configured to store coded video data including a number of sequences of coded video pictures in an electronic file. The apparatus includes at least one processor configured to determine whether a sample description associated with at least one sample includes all parameter sets of a particular type associated with the at least one sample. The at least one sample comprises at least a portion of the plurality of sequences of coded video pictures. The particular type is one of a plurality of different particular types of parameter sets. The at least one processor is also configured to provide, in the electronic file, an indication indicating whether the sample description includes all parameter sets of the particular type based on the determination. | 10-31-2013 |
20130294745 | CREATION OF CUSTOMIZED/PERSONALIZED VIDEO FROM LARGE STOCK AUDIO/VISUAL DATABASES - The present application describes a method for the creation of customized/personalized videos and displays from stock audio/video databases that provide information in a particular subject area. The described method can be applied to many varied fields. For each field, a list of possible applications of customized videos is presented. The customized/personalized videos can be generated from a collection of stock video clips and personal data (i.e. databases) by: 1) collecting and establishing a stock information database 2) collecting personalized information/desired data; 3) parsing, sorting, and indexing stock video segments to meet a particular user's needs; 4) defining a workflow of the contents based on time, location, or cause-effect relationship of contents; and, 5) using video creation tools such as a scripting based approach (e.g., AVISynth©) and/or a playlist interface to stream or assemble the video clips. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF GENERATING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A system arranged to generate multimedia content, constituted of: a textual input module; an audio input module arranged to receive a human generated audio of the text; a contextual analysis module in communication with the textual input module and arranged to extract metadata from the received textual input; a media asset collection module arranged to retrieve a plurality of media assets responsive to the metadata of the received textual input; an alignment module in communication with the audio input module and the textual input module, the alignment module arranged to determine time markers in the received audio input for predetermined words in the received textual input; a video creation module arranged to create a video clip responsive to the received audio input, the determined time markers and the retrieved plurality of media assets of the media asset collection module; and an output module arranged to output the created video clip. | 11-07-2013 |
20130294747 | CONTENT PLAYING DEVICE, CONTENT PLAYING METHOD, DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, CONTENT PLAYING PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND DATA STRUCTURE - A playing device ( | 11-07-2013 |
20130302010 | VIDEO RECORDER AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING TIMESTAMP OF VIDEO RECORDER - In a method for adjusting a timestamp of a video recorder, a system time of the video recorder and a timestamp of a previous frame recorded by the video recorder are loaded when the video recorder records a new frame. The method determines whether the system time is after the timestamp, and adjusts the system time for a timestamp of the new frame when the system time is after the timestamp of the previous frame. The method further adjusts a time which is the timestamp of the previous frame with an addition of a preset time shift for the timestamp of the new frame when the system time is not after the timestamp of the previous frame, and saves the timestamp of the new frame into a storage device. | 11-14-2013 |
20130302011 | SELECTION OF CONTENT FROM A STREAM OF VIDEO OR AUDIO DATA - A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit ( | 11-14-2013 |
20130302012 | Media Map For Capture Of Content From Random Access Devices - A method and apparatus for storing and displaying information about the capture and/or transfer of digital media is provided, wherein data is stored such that a visual representation indicating characteristics of video data, such as whether portions of the video data have been transferred to another device or captured to a storage device, may be generated and displayed. | 11-14-2013 |
20130308921 | CREATING VIDEO SYNOPSIS FOR USE IN PLAYBACK - Implementing a video synopsis includes using a playback device configured to: receive a video for playing on the playback device; generating a synopsis index of video clips from the video; playing the video until the play is suspending before reaching an end of the video; checkpointing the location in the video timeline at which the video play was suspended; and storing the checkpointed location. | 11-21-2013 |
20130315560 | Integrating Social Media with Recordation of Broadcast Data - Embodiments of the invention relate to social media and recordation of programs scheduled to be broadcast. Media content on one or more sites are gathered and characteristic data, such as associated tags, are extracted. A correlation of the media content with scheduled television programming is performed to identify any television programs that are related to the extracted content. In response to at least one match, a television program associated with the match is selected for a scheduled recording so that it may be viewed at a later point in time. | 11-28-2013 |
20130315561 | MACHINE-IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING A PLAYBACK INTERFACE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A machine-implemented method for establishing a playback interface for a target disc when storing contents of a plurality of original discs into the target disc includes: (A) analyzing each of the original discs for relevant disc information, and recording the disc information of the original discs in a disc information list; (B) analyzing each sequence of each of the original discs for relevant sequence information, and recording the sequence information of the original discs in a playback sequence list; and (C) establishing a playback interface for the target disc according to the disc information list and the playback sequence list. | 11-28-2013 |
20130322848 | AUTOMATIC TRIGGERING OF A ZOOMED-IN SCROLL BAR FOR A MEDIA PROGRAM BASED ON USER INPUT - The present disclosure involves a method of managing media playback. The method includes displaying a media program on a touch screen of an electronic device. The method includes detecting, via the touch screen, an input from a user indicating that the user wishes to fast forward or rewind the media program. The method includes triggering, in response to the detected input from the user, an appearance of a scroll bar including an indicator on the touch screen. The indicator is configured to be moved along the scroll bar. A length of the scroll bar represents a predefined amount of time that is a fraction of a total duration of the media program. A position of the indicator relative to the scroll bar corresponds to a time location of the media program. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322849 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus includes a content reproduction unit, a content part specification unit, a clustering unit, a class detection unit, a common class extraction unit, and a content retrieval unit. The content reproduction unit is configured to reproduce a reproduction content. The content part specification unit is configured to specify a plurality of content parts included in the reproduction content. The clustering unit is configured to classify the plurality of content parts into a plurality of clusters. The class detection unit is configured to detect a class from the plurality of content parts included in each of the plurality of clusters. The common class extraction unit is configured to extract a common class common to the plurality of clusters from the classes detected by the class detection unit. The content retrieval unit is configured to retrieve a content corresponding to the common class. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322850 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PLAYING VIDEO IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method for playing video in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes, in response to a request for displaying the progress bar while playing video on a main screen, displaying a progress bar, if a position on the progress bar is selected, generating a search screen over the main screen with a preset size while continuously playing the video on the main screen, and playing the video on the search screen starting from a playback position corresponding to the selected position. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322851 | PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAY DEVICE, PROGRAM INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE, AND PROGRAM INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD - A program information display device includes: an identification unit which obtains identification information for identifying a video program and a video program scene included in the video program which are being displayed in a television; a program information obtainment unit which obtains program information including first program information and second program information which are relevant to the video program identified by the identification information and are different in content from each other; a display unit which displays the program information obtained by the program information obtainment unit; and a control unit which, in the case where the video program scene identified by the identification information transitions from a non-CM scene to a CM scene, switch the program information being displayed in the display unit, from the first program information to the second program information according to the transition from the non-CM scene to the CM scene. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322852 | METHOD TO HIDE AND RECOVER DATA IN A VIDEO STREAM - The marking of a video stream to impart a unique identifier commences by first identifying portions within the video stream readily susceptible to change in a visually imperceptible manner. Thereafter, a combination of visually imperceptible changes is applied to the identified portions at random intervals for randomly varying intervals to mark the video stream. Each change in the stream correlates a particular bit sequence so that a combination of different changes yields a string of bit sequences that can particularly identify the stream. | 12-05-2013 |
20130322853 | METHOD TO MARK AND EXPLOIT AT LEAST ONE SEQUECE RECORD OF A VIDEO PRESENTATION - The present invention proposes a method to mark and exploit at least one sequence record of a video presentation played on a multimedia unit, said method comprising the steps of:—during the video presentation, receiving a command from a user to mark a currently displayed video sequence, said command initiating the step of:—creating a sequence record comprising a time index or frame index, allowing to locate the proper part of the video presentation, and a reference of the video presentation, At a later stage, requesting the edition of the sequence record by:—adding textual information which corresponds to the actual sequence,—storing the sequence record. | 12-05-2013 |
20130330056 | Identifying A Cinematic Technique Within A Video - A video map comprising a first plurality of segment definitions defining video segments within a video, the defining being responsive to at least one presentation of the video less in length than the length of the video; a first segment definition that defines a first video segment within the video and is associated with an actual identity of a locale depicted within the first video segment, the actual identity of the locale being different than a locale identity as represented in the video; a second segment definition that defines a second video segment within the video and is associated with an identification of a cinematic technique depicted within the second video segment; and a third segment definition that defines a third video segment within the video and is associated with an explanation of a depiction within the third video segment. | 12-12-2013 |
20130330057 | System and Method for Fingerprinting Video - Disclosed are various embodiments of generating video fingerprints. Scene changes can be detected in a video and a video fingerprint generated based upon a time at which the scene change occurs as well as time intervals between the scene changes relative to adjacent scene changes. A video can be captured and analyzed by comparing scene changes detected in the video to those described by the video fingerprint. | 12-12-2013 |
20130330058 | ENHANCED PROGRAM VIEWING METHOD - A user is provided with the capability to view only those segments of TV broadcast programs and/or pre-recorded digital programs that are identified by the user (or other persons, e.g., parents) as acceptable. Preferences for the types of material that is desired for viewing are provided. The provider analyzes a selected program and creates a user specific segmentation file that, when played along with the recorded program, causes the program to automatically skip specific types of material (e.g., commercials, violence, pornography, etc.) and/or jumps to specific material desirable without the user having to intercede during the viewing. The segmentation file is distributed to the user and the user provides a fee to the provider for making and distributing this customized segmentation file. | 12-12-2013 |
20130330059 | CONTENT PLAYBACK DEVICE AND CONTENT PLAYBACK METHOD - A content playback device includes: a video playback unit which plays content having plural scenes; an object appearance information acquisition unit which acquires, for each of the plural scenes, object appearance information of each of one or more objects which appear in the content by analyzing metadata which includes appearance scene data for identifying the one or more objects appearing in at least one of the scenes, the object appearance information indicating whether the object appears at least in or after the scene; and a display unit which presents the object appearance information acquired for a scene being played, when the video playback unit is playing the content. | 12-12-2013 |
20130336632 | RECORDING DEVICE/METHOD/MEDIUM AND REPLAYING DEVICE/METHOD - The present invention is to provide a play list in which information with which 3D contents can be displayed in a display correctly is recorded, a recording/reproducing device/method/medium and a reproducing device/method of the play list. For example, the present invention is to provide the recording/reproducing device/method/medium and the reproducing device/method in which a 3D system is recorded/reproduced in the play list. | 12-19-2013 |
20130336633 | STORING A VIDEO SUMMARY AS METADATA - A method for storing a video summary for a digital video sequence captured with a digital video capture device, comprising: capturing a digital video sequence with the digital video capture device, wherein the digital video sequence includes a plurality of video frames; storing the digital video sequence in a processor-accessible memory; identifying one or more key video snippets, each key video snippet corresponding to a set of video frames from the stored digital video sequence; assembling the key video snippets to form a video summary; and storing the video summary in a processor-accessible memory by storing metadata associated with the stored digital video sequence, wherein the metadata provides an indication of the video frames corresponding to the video summary. | 12-19-2013 |
20130343721 | Playing A Video Presentation With Playback Functions - A video map comprising a first plurality of segment definitions defining video segments within a video, the defining being responsive to at least one presentation of the video less in length than the length of the video; a first segment definition that defines a first video segment within the video and is associated with an actual identity of a locale depicted within the first video segment, the actual identity of the locale being different than a locale identity as represented in the video; a second segment definition that defines a second video segment within the video and is associated with an identification of a cinematic technique depicted within the second video segment; and a third segment definition that defines a third video segment within the video and is associated with an explanation of a depiction within the third video segment. | 12-26-2013 |
20130343722 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL VIDEO EDITING, TAGGING AND INDEXING - A system and method for having a media engine, client, workflow engine and server. The media engine takes digital or analog real-time video or video-on-demand as an input. Clients connect to the media engine, workflow engine and server. Depending on the client's capabilities, including software features, training and location, the workflow engine will drive required units of work to the client asking them to be fulfilled. This system enables efficient offline, real-time or faster than real-time editing, tagging and indexing of media by one or more clients at the same time. Unlimited numbers of users, tags and indexing functions to take place in parallel on a single video feed at the same time and managed through a rule based workflow engine. | 12-26-2013 |
20140023342 | MOVING IMAGE PLAYBACK APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - One of a plurality of skip search modes including a first skip search mode in which the playback position of moving image data currently played back is changed to a frame a predetermined time before or after a frame currently played back, and a second skip search mode in which the playback position of the moving image data currently played back is changed to a frame corresponding to a chapter before or after the frame currently played back is selected according to the moving image data currently played back. | 01-23-2014 |
20140029914 | NON-LINEAR CONTEXTUAL VIDEO PLAYBACK CONTROL - A system for associating a non-linear video path with a video file includes: a controller adapted to: present a video file through the user interface; receive a command through the user interface to associate a first path point with a frame in the video file; receive a command through the user interface to associate a second path point with a second frame in the video file; receive a command through the user interface to associate a third path point with a third frame in the video file, wherein the first path point, second path point, and third path point define a non-linear path, wherein the non-linear path is associated with the video file such that, when presented to a user for playback through a device that receives user input, progress of the video file during playback is controlled by one or more user inputs related to the non-linear path. | 01-30-2014 |
20140029915 | VIDEO-PREVIEWING METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING PREVIEW OF A VIDEO AND MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUMS THEREOF - Video previewing methods for electronic devices with a touch-sensitive display unit for providing preview of a video to be played are provided. First, a resolution of the touch-sensitive display unit of the electronic device is detected. Thereafter, a preview screen is generated on the touch-sensitive display unit according to the resolution of the touch-sensitive display unit, wherein the preview screen includes M level frame bars and each of the M level frame bars displays N video frames, and N for each of the M level frame bars is determined based on the resolution of the touch-sensitive display unit, where M≧1 and N≧1. | 01-30-2014 |
20140044406 | Content Based Partitioning of Digital Media Content - There is provided a content based partitioning system and a method for use in performing content based partitioning of digital media content. In one implementation, such a content based partitioning system includes a system processor, a system memory, and a content based partitioning module stored in the system memory. The content based partitioning module, under control of the system processor, is configured to receive encoded digital media content corresponding to the digital media content, to receive encoding parameters used to encode the encoded digital media content, and to utilize the encoding parameters and the encoded digital media content to identify partition boundaries in the encoded digital media content. | 02-13-2014 |
20140044407 | SEGMENTING VIDEO BASED ON TIMESTAMPS IN COMMENTS - A system, method, and computer program product are provided for segmenting videos in a video hosting service. To determine segments related to timestamps, user generated comments are parsed for timestamps. The timestamps are organized into sets and a segment is identified for each set of timestamps. A start point for each segment is determined based on the timestamps in each set. The segment will have an endpoint that can be either the end of the itself, or optionally can be determined based on the timestamps. Each timestamp is associated with a segment. One or more indicators represent each timestamp and each indicator is coupled to the segment associated with timestamp represented by the indicator. The segments are ranked according to popularity or the submission time of their related timestamp indicators. Responsive to receiving a client request for a video, the comments, indicators, and segments are loaded to the client. | 02-13-2014 |
20140044408 | RANDOMLY ACCESSIBLE VISUAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened. | 02-13-2014 |
20140044409 | RANDOMLY ACCESSIBLE VISUAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I | 02-13-2014 |
20140064698 | Method and Apparatus for Generating Thumbnail File - A method for generation a thumbnail file is provided. The method includes: receiving a command; obtaining time information corresponding to the command and a frame to be output; adjusting the frame to be output to a predetermined resolution according to a resolution of the frame to be output to generate a thumbnail; and generating the thumbnail file according to the time information and the thumbnail. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064699 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APROGRESSIVE PLAYLIST AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM THEREFOR - An information storage medium to be used at a reproduction apparatus for reproducing multimedia data is provided. The information storage medium including information indicating that at least one playlist is a progressive playlist; and progressive playlist description information including information necessary for downloading multimedia data to reproduce the at least one playlist, a reproduction apparatus, a reproduction method, a recording apparatus, and a recording method. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064700 | SCENE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, SCENE REPRODUCTION PROGRAM, AND SCENE REPRODUCTION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a reproduction apparatus includes a communicator module, a selector, a detector, and a reproducer. The communicator is configured to receive, from a server, one or more items regarding scene information corresponding to one or more scenes in one or more content items. The selector is configured to select a first item regarding scene information from the one or more items regarding scene information in response to a selection operation. The detector is configured to detect a first scene in a first content item corresponding to the first item regarding scene information. The reproducer is configured to reproduce the first scene. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064701 | Broadcast Management System - A broadcast management system creates, manages, and streams a broadcast of an event from videos captured from multiple cameras. A video capture system comprising multiple cameras captures videos of the event and transmits the videos to a broadcast management server. The broadcast management server generates a website or other graphical interface that simultaneously displays the captured videos in a time-synchronized manner. A broadcast manager user creates a broadcast by selecting which video to output to the broadcast at any given time. A broadcast map is stored for each broadcast that includes all of the broadcast decisions made by the broadcast manager user such that the broadcast can be recreated at a later time by applying the broadcast map to the raw videos. Using a viewer client, viewers can browse or search for broadcasts and select a broadcast for viewing. | 03-06-2014 |
20140064702 | RANDOMLY ACCESSIBLE VISUAL INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM AND RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING DEVICE AND REPRODUCING METHOD - Access point pictures designated as randomly accessible positions are I pictures or P pictures. Information indicating the decoding sequence (I1, P1, B1, B2, B3, B4, P2, . . . ) of pictures functioning as access points and attribute information (picture_type) indicating whether a picture functions as an access point or is necessary for decoding of the access point following a given access point are recorded on the video information recording medium. Random access is possible even if the GOP interval is lengthened. | 03-06-2014 |
20140072279 | INTERESTING SECTION IDENTIFICATION DEVICE, INTERESTING SECTION IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND INTERESTING SECTION IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM - An interesting section identification device includes an object detection unit that detect an object included in a frame extracted from a video, a motion feature value extraction unit that calculates a motion feature value of the object, a distinctiveness calculation unit that calculates a degree of distinctiveness in terms of motion of the object with respect to the frame, and an interesting section identification unit that identifies an interesting section in the video with use of respective calculated degrees of distinctiveness of successive frames. | 03-13-2014 |
20140072280 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - To more flexibly reproduce moving image data obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition. For example, moving image data, which has been obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition, is stored in a recording portion. When the moving image data is reproduced from the recording portion, a single frame is selected and output by a reproduced frame selecting portion for each period of a single frame of display output. If a user operation instructing to make the displayed image darker, in response to this user operation, a frame having an exposure condition of underexposure is selected and output from the moving image data to be reproduced from the recording portion for each period of a single frame of display output. | 03-13-2014 |
20140079372 | METHOD FOR SYNCHRONIZING MULTIPLE AUDIO SIGNALS - Provided are methods for synchronizing multiple video recordings of the same event using audio signals of the recordings. An algorithm is designed to generate candidate time offsets for pairwise matches of video recordings based on audio signals corresponding to the recordings, and combine the candidate time offsets to obtain the most accurate actual time offset between each pair of recordings. Each candidate time offset for each pairwise match of recordings is assigned a confidence measure indicating how likely it is that the particular time offset is correct for the given pair of recordings. The confidence measure assigned to a particular time offset is based on various components and characteristics of the audio signal pair corresponding to the video recordings. | 03-20-2014 |
20140086554 | VIDEO INDEXING WITH VIEWER REACTION ESTIMATION AND VISUAL CUE DETECTION - Generally, this disclosure provides methods and systems for video indexing systems with viewer reaction estimation based on visual cue detection. The method may include detecting visual cues generated by a user, the visual cues generated in response to the user viewing the video; mapping the visual cues to an emotion space associated with the user; estimating emotion events of the user based on the mapping; and indexing the video with metadata, the metadata comprising the estimated emotion events and timing data associated with the estimated emotion events. The method may further include summarization, partitioning and searching of videos based on the video index. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086555 | MEDIA SCENE PLAYING SYSTEM, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A media scene playing system, method and a recording medium thereof are provided. The system includes a media providing module, an input module, and a media retrieval module. The media providing module is used for providing media data and scene description information corresponding thereto. The input module is used for inputting navigation data. The media retrieval module then compares the navigation data with acquired scene description information to find a scene period matching the navigation data, so as to retrieve scene section media corresponding to the scene period from the media data and play the scene section media. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086556 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit that causes a content view which displays statistic information of characters appearing in video content and a relationship view which displays character-relation information of the characters appearing in the video content, to be displayed on a predetermined display unit. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086557 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A display apparatus and a control method thereof which retrieves a frame of a recorded image corresponding to a frame of a processed image to set the retrieved frame as a key frame and displays the key frame corresponding to a position selected by the user includes an image reception unit, an image processing unit, a display unit, a storage unit, and a controller. The display apparatus may quickly and accurately determine a position of a scene from a recorded TV program, retrieve the scene, and edit the program. | 03-27-2014 |
20140086558 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR COORDINATING PLAYING OF MEDIA STREAMS - Methods and systems are described for coordinating playing of media streams. In one aspect, an access by a media player to a presentation device to play a media stream is detected. Additionally, presentation focus information is accessed for determining whether the media player has presentation focus for playing the media stream. Further, it is determine, based on the presentation focus information, that the media player has presentation focus for playing the media stream. Still further, in response to determining the media player has presentation focus, it is indicated that the media player is allowed to play the media stream via the presentation device. | 03-27-2014 |
20140099071 | Systems and Methods for Instructional Video Navigation and Note Taking - A method for navigating instructional video presentations is disclosed. The method includes determining a pause mode of a video presentation, and playing the video presentation on a display device. The video presentation has one or more predetermined pause positions. The method also includes, while playing the video presentation, determining that the video presentation has reached one of the one or more pause positions. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the video presentation is in a first pause mode, pausing the video presentation at the one of the one or more pause positions and maintaining a display of a paused frame of the video presentation, and, in accordance with a determination that the video presentation is in a second pause mode distinct from the first pause mode, continuing to play the video presentation through the one of the one or more pause positions. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099072 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an information processing apparatus including a recording unit, a chapter generation unit, a metadata acquisition unit, and a setting unit. The recording unit is configured to record a program. The chapter generation unit is configured to generate one or more chapter points based on a feature amount of the recorded program. The metadata acquisition unit is configured to acquire metadata on the program, that includes information on a start time and end time of each section sectioning the program. The setting unit is configured to allocate, when a section to be reproduced in the recorded program is designated, two different chapter points to a start time and end time of the section given by the acquired metadata, and set an interval between the two chapter points as a reproduction range of the designated section. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099073 | CONTENT EDITING APPARATUS, CONTENT EDITING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided a content editing apparatus, content editing method and program capable of easily and rapidly extracting sections corresponding to a reproducing operation of content data. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099074 | VIDEO REPRODUCING APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM THEREFOR - A video reproducing apparatus that allows a user to visually identify a video component taken at a frame rate that is different from the normal frame rate on a time sequence bar. A reproduction unit reproduces a video image in which video components taken at different frame rates are mixed and to display the video image on a display unit. A display control unit displays a sequence bar on the display unit. The display control unit controls so that a ratio of the length of a section indicating a second video component to its taking time is larger than a ratio of the length of a section indicating a first video component to its taking time, when the video image includes the first and second video components taken at first and second (higher) frame rates, respectively, and when the sections are indicated on the sequence bar. | 04-10-2014 |
20140099075 | CONFERENCE RECORDING METHOD AND CONFERENCE SYSTEM - Embodiments of the present invention provide a conference recording method and a conference system. The conference recording method includes: extracting, based on a configuration file, key information of each site at each time point of multiple time points in a conference timeline, where the conference timeline is associated with a conference time, and the configuration file is used to define the key information of the conference and a format of a conference abstract; combining the key information of each site into a key index point, where the key index point is used as an index point for interacting with or editing a conference abstract; and integrating multiple key index points corresponding to multiple time points to form the conference abstract. | 04-10-2014 |
20140105570 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING SCENE CLIP, AND RECORD MEDIUM THEREOF - A system and method for constructing a scene clip, and a record medium thereof are provided. The system includes media supply equipment, a metadata server, a scene server, and an end device. The media supply equipment is used for providing media data. The metadata server is used for providing scene time information corresponding to playback scenes of the media data. A first end device acquires the media data and the scene time information, and extracts, according to capture time information input when playing the media data, at least one piece of target scene time from each piece of the scene time information. The scene server acquires the media data and the target scene time, and according to an alignment result of the target scene time and each piece of the scene time information, extracts local scene clips from the media data to form a piece of media division data. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105571 | SCENE SEGMENT PLAYING SYSTEM, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A scene segment playing system, a scene segment playing method and a recording medium thereof are provided. The system includes media supply equipment, a description generating server, a scene server, and an end device. The media supply equipment is used for supplying media data. Upon receiving the media data, the scene server supplies scene description data corresponding to the media data. The scene server acquires the media data and interval information supplied by the end device, and retrieves scene segment data from the media data according to a comparison result of the interval information and the scene description data, and outputs the scene segment data to the end device for playing. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105572 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SUMMARY COLLECTION AND PLAYING OF SCENES AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A system and a method for summary collection and playing of scenes and a recording medium thereof are provided. The system includes media supply equipment, a scene description server, a scene server, and an end device. The media supply equipment supplies media data. The scene description server supplies scene description information of a scene segment corresponding to the media data, where each piece of scene description information records a playing content of the scene segment corresponding thereto. The scene server obtains the media data and a summary collect command supplied by the end device, and retrieves a plurality of partial scene segments from the media data according to an analysis result of the summary collect command and the playing content recorded by each piece of scene description information, so as to form media summary data and output the media summary data to the end device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105573 | VIDEO ACCESS SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON ACTION TYPE DETECTION - Descriptions of video segments for use to search or select video segments are generated by using a combination of video based action type detection and image based object detection. Action type detection results in detection of action types from a predetermined set of action types, with little or no information about actors involved in the action. Object detection results in detection of individual objects in the images, with little or no information actions. A set of rules is used that define one or more roles associated with action types and conditions on objects that can fill these roles. Detected action types are used to select rules and detected objects are assigned to roles defined the selected rule. Score values are computed for different assignments of detected objects to the role, as a function of the attribute values of the assigned objects. A combination of the detected action type and the detected objects is selected on the basis of the score values. A description of the video segment is generated from the selected combination. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA STREAMS CONTAINING AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR OTHER DATA - Several data streams contain video, audio and/or other data. Some of the data streams are pre-recorded in a multiplex on a storage medium while other data streams are located out of the data stream multiplex on the storage medium. The data streams are synchronized using a navigation file (List_of_PlayItems), which comprises descriptors (Play-Items, SubPlayItems) pointing to parts of said data streams, wherein said descriptors define the arrangement in time for said data streams by means of data sub stream paths. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105575 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATING VIDEO CONTENT - Methods and apparatus for navigating video content. Digital markers may be placed at desired locations within recorded or cached video content. In one embodiment, these markers (or bookmarks) may be used to instantly jump to a particular scene or location within a video presentation. Such markers may be manually or automatically placed during live caching of video content or playback of previously recorded content. In another embodiment, selectable thumbnailed images that are representative of the video content at previously bookmarked locations may be presented to a user. Such selectable thumbnailed images may be integrated with a DVR status bar and, when selected, may be used to begin viewing stored video content from the bookmark corresponding to which ever thumbnail is chosen. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105576 | VIDEO PROCESSING METHOD APPARATUS - Embodiments of the present invention provide a video processing method, including: parsing, by a buffer server, a video file, and creating a video index file, where the index file includes a position of a key frame in the video file; receiving information about a target position of video dragging and sent by a client; determining a key frame closest to the target position according to the index file and the target position; and sending video file data that begins with a position of the closest key frame to the client so that the client starts playing from the target position. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further provide a buffer server, which solves the problem that a video without a file header and a video dragged beyond a storage range of a server cannot be played after being dragged, and improves user experience. | 04-17-2014 |
20140105577 | Method, Device and System for Implementing Video Recording Retrieval - Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, a device, and a system for implementing video recording retrieval. The method includes receiving an alarm event, where the alarm event includes a device identifier of an alarm device and an alarm occurrence time. The method further includes generating a video recording index of a video recording corresponding to the alarm event according to the alarm event, where the video recording index includes video recording time information and video recording acquisition information. The method also includes generating a video recording bookmark of the video recording corresponding to the alarm event according to the alarm event, where the video recording bookmark includes a camera identifier and the alarm occurrence time. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112639 | Method and System for Manipulation of Audio or Video Signals - A method and system for manipulation of audio or video signals. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112640 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing device includes a control unit configured to store in a recording medium a piece of attribute information specified by a user input from among a plurality of sequential pieces of the attribute information in association with a predetermined time period of a content stored in the recording medium. | 04-24-2014 |
20140112641 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - To easily understand the contents of a moving image taken by an image taking apparatus. An image conversion block | 04-24-2014 |
20140119710 | SCENE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF - A scene control system and method and a recording medium thereof are provided. The system includes a media supply module, a time code unit, and a monitoring unit. The media supply module is used for supplying original scene information and spare scene information. The time code unit respectively obtains an original scene time code corresponding to the original scene information and a spare scene time code corresponding to the spare scene information. The monitoring unit is used for obtaining a control signal according to external ratings or through watching the original scene information downloaded in advance, and according to the control signal, processing an original scene picture of a segment unsuitable for watching in the original scene information through retrieval, content insertion, or pixelization, so as to avoid playing of an inappropriate picture. | 05-01-2014 |
20140119711 | Registering of Timing Data in Video Sequences - A well-defined sequence of visual stimuli, (e.g. a video file) is presented via a display unit. In parallel, a recorded video sequence is generated, which preferably represents the face of a subject watching the well-defined sequence of visual stimuli. During the presentation of well-defined sequence of visual stimuli, linked data are read out, which indicate timing information relating to the well-defined sequence of visual stimuli. The linked data are registered as metadata associated with the recorded video sequence to produce a synchronized video file, wherein each image is associated to a particular piece of timing information from the linked data. Thus, for example biometric measures derived from the recorded video sequence can be synchronized with the well-defined sequence of visual stimuli. | 05-01-2014 |
20140126881 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD, CONTENT REPRODUCTION SYSTEM, AND CONTENT IMAGING DEVICE - Each of video content items captured by cameras is associated with metadata describing a time stamp indicating a capturing time and spatial information indicating features of space relating to a camera at the capturing time. In the disclosed content reproduction method, at least one target video content item to be reproduced is selected from the video content items based on the time stamps and pieces of the spatial information described in the respective pieces of metadata, then a reproduction start position of the selected video content item is determined based on a time stamp described in metadata associated with the selected video content item, and the selected video content item is reproduced from the determined reproduction start position. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126882 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes: an interface configured to obtain management information that has been generated along with movie data generated; and a controller configured to generate, as a representative picture representing the movie data, image information including characters or an icon to be determined by reference to the management information. When selected by a user, the representative picture is presented on a display device in order to start playing back movie data represented by the representative picture. | 05-08-2014 |
20140126883 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INDEXING AND ARCHIVING ENCODED AUDIO/VIDEO DATA - Archival storage and retrieval of audio/video information is described. Audio and/or video information is digitized, compressed and stored in an intermediate archive format (IAF), which preserves the content at a high-enough quality for subsequent retrieval and conversion into various formats required at the time of use or distribution. A single capture operation is performed with ancillary metadata being added to facilitate subsequent searching, indexing and format conversion. Captured data content is catalogued and indexed at or subsequent to the creation of an IAF file that includes the archived information. The IAF includes a family of audio-video digital encoding formats based on public standards. The encoding format used in any particular application is determined at encoding time from information provided by the archive system user. At encoding, the particular encoding scheme is selected to optimize a tradeoff between storage constraints and end use quality requirements. | 05-08-2014 |
20140140680 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING A VIDEO WITH ADVERTISING INFORMATION - Embodiments of the present invention provide a client terminal (e.g., user terminal or advertiser terminal) for displaying a video annotated with advertisement information. Specifically, among other things, embodiments of the present invention provide a client terminal including a video player module configured to receive video based on a user request. The client terminal also further includes an advertising information search module configured to receive an advertising information overlay. The client terminal further includes an advertising information display module configured to simultaneously display the requested video and the advertising information overlay on a display of the user terminal. | 05-22-2014 |
20140140681 | VIDEO CONTENT SEARCH METHOD, SYSTEM, AND DEVICE - In a video content search method, dialogue can be tracked and isolated by a keyword being inputted by a user and compared with subtitles of a stored video currently being played in a media player, and subtitles which match or contain the inputted keyword are output to a display device. A subtitle from the display of any matching subtitles can be selected by the user and the media player is controlled to jump a video frame currently being played to a single video frame associated with the selected subtitle. | 05-22-2014 |
20140147095 | SEMI-AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A method for multimedia content generation includes receiving a textual input, and automatically retrieving from one or more media databases a plurality of media items that are relevant to the textual input. User input, which selects one or more of the automatically-retrieved media items and correlates one or more of the selected media items in time with the textual input, is received. A video clip, which includes an audio narration of the textual input and the selected media items scheduled in accordance with the user input, is constructed automatically. | 05-29-2014 |
20140153901 | METHOD OF STORING A REAL TIME STREAM OF INFORMATION SIGNALS ON A DISC LIKE RECORD CARRIER - A method of storing a substantially real time stream of information signals arranged in separate, consecutive data packets of digital format on a disc like record carrier. A new stream pack (S_PCK) is defined comprising a pack header and a multiple of source packets containing said data packets with corresponding added time stamps related to a time of arrival of said data packets. The pack header comprises data packet retrieval information, such as the number of new source packets in the stream pack and the effect of the start location of the first source packet in the stream pack. Preferably private stream 2 of the MPEG-format is employed for this new stream. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153902 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC EDITING - The system provides for the automatic editing of a video comprised of a plurality of content segments. When two or more content clips are available at a particular moment in time, the system will automatically choose at least a portion of one of the clips pursuant to preference metrics determined by a user. The system contemplates the ability of the user to define specific metrics to control the editing, including frequency of edits, content of content clip, level of activity, and the like. In another embodiment, the system has a plurality of pre-defined editing modes that define various metrics for use in the automatic editing system, including guaranteed participation, speaker-centric, quality of clip, and the like. | 06-05-2014 |
20140153903 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPLACEMENT OF AUDIO DATA IN A RECORDED AUDIO/VIDEO STREAM - A method for replacing audio data within a recorded audio/video stream is presented. In the method, a first audio/video stream including audio data, video data, and supplemental data is stored. Location information is received which references the supplemental data to identify a location within the first audio/video stream. The location information is received in a data file separately from the first audio/video stream. Also received is an audio data segment. At least a portion of the audio data of the first audio/video stream is replaced at the identified location with the audio data segment to produce a second audio/video stream. At least a portion of the second audio/video stream is then transferred for presentation. | 06-05-2014 |
20140161416 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR QUESTION DETECTION BASED VIDEO SEGMENTATION, SEARCH AND COLLABORATION IN A VIDEO PROCESSING ENVIRONMENT - An example method is provided and includes receiving a video bitstream in a network environment; detecting a question in a decoded audio portion of a video bitstream; and marking a segment of the video bitstream with a tag. The tag may correspond to a location of the question in the video bitstream, and can facilitate consumption of the video bitstream. The method can further include detecting keywords in the question, and combining the keywords to determine a content of the question. In specific embodiments, the method can also include receiving the question and a corresponding answer from a user interaction, crowdsourcing the question by a plurality of users, counting a number of questions in the video bitstream and other features. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161417 | Context Driven Video Prioritization and Bookmarking - An apparatus to automatically prioritize and divide a video into a plurality of video segments for a user, wherein the apparatus comprises a processor configured to, obtain a plurality of video content data that describes the content within the video, display the video in a viewable format for the user, receive at least one keyword from a search field, wherein the keyword indicates the type of video content data the user is searching for, search through the video content data using the keyword, divide the video into the plurality of video segments using the keyword, prioritize the video segments using the keyword, and display the prioritize video segments in a priority list. | 06-12-2014 |
20140161418 | APPARATUS AND A RECORD CARRIER FOR, AND A METHOD OF RECORDING A SEQUENCE OF VIDEO DATA SIGNALS - An apparatus for recording a sequence of video data signals on a record carrier has been proposed. The apparatus comprises input means ( | 06-12-2014 |
20140169757 | METHOD FOR QUICKLY DETERMINING A COMPRESSION FORMAT OF AN AUDIO OR VIDEO FILE AND RELATED PLAYBACK DEVICE THEREOF - A method for quickly determining a compression format of an audio-video file by a playback device, where the playback device includes a receiver, a detector, a register, and a processor, is disclosed. The method includes receiving an audio-video file by the receiver; using the detector to detect whether a tag portion exists behind a header of the audio-video file; using the processor to skip the tag portion to set a starting point for loading the audio-video file when the detector detects the tag portion; using the processor to filter out audio-video compression formats not compatible with the tag portion; and using the processor to load a first part to the buffer from the starting point, and determine a compression format of the audio-video file according to the first part. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169758 | Systems and Methods for Tracking Players based on Video data and RFID data - A system and method to track players on a sports field are disclosed. In some embodiments, optical tracks from a video may be generated. An identity of a player corresponding to each of the optical tracks may be determined based on radio-frequency identification (RFID) data. For example, RFID antennas may be positioned relative to a sports field. Timestamps may be generated whenever a player on the sports field passes near an RFID antenna. In some embodiments, the timestamps may be used to identify a player associated with an optical track. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169759 | Systems And Methods For Merging Media Content - A computer implemented method for storing and delivering to a consumer a first commentary and a second commentary comprises the steps of storing in a first commentary record of a commentary database the first commentary and a first set of time indexing data, and storing in a second commentary record of the commentary database the second commentary and a second set of time indexing data. A content delivery device is used to playback the media content for the consumer. The playback of the media content is paused after the playback of the first scene, and the first commentary is played for the consumer on the content delivery device. The second commentary is next played on the content delivery device after the playback of the first commentary has ended. Playback of the media content is resumed on the content delivery device upon conclusion of the second commentary. | 06-19-2014 |
20140169760 | Media Player with Recorder Optimization - A method for creating depth image correction markers for a 3D depth mapping format for a 3D video program, especially useful with an Auto stereoscopic 3DTV, as well as a method of playing the 3D video programs using the correction markers. | 06-19-2014 |
20140178038 | INFORMATION RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS - Module compressing/encoding plural images for recording, or an image recording apparatus or image recording system including the module. At least two first and second image input module types capture an image of frames from a video signal source, and convert into digital image data for output; an image input arbitration module arbitrates to place digital image data provided by the first type before digital image data provided by the second type. The first type image input module is provided with a real-time image. The apparatus or system further includes: a memory module temporarily storing the real-time image by a processing time for the arbitration module to process digital image data provided by the second type of image input module, an image encoding module compressing and encoding the digital image data, and changing a processing speed to perform a process of compression and encoding more in real time. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178039 | RECORDING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A recording apparatus independently sets conditions of information data to be simultaneously recorded in a plurality of recording media in a simultaneous recording mode according to a user instruction. The recording apparatus processes information data according to the set conditions so as to generate a plurality of information data to be recorded in the plurality of recording media in the simultaneous recording mode, and their identification information, and records the plurality of generated information data and identification information in the plurality of recording media. When different conditions are set as the conditions of the information data to be simultaneously recorded in the plurality of recording media, a plurality of pieces of identification information which have different values are generated for the information data to be simultaneously recorded in the plurality of recording media. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178040 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178041 | CONTENT-SENSITIVE MEDIA PLAYBACK - Techniques are disclosed for content-sensitive tagging of media streams and smart media playback using generated tagging-data (TD). Tagging-data (e.g., tag index and location information for each content-sensitive tag) may be generated using a smart encoding technique that may be performed by a TD-enabled encoder. In some embodiments, the smart encoding technique may be implemented, for example, as a mechanism to generate tagging-data as part of a motion-estimation engine in a graphics processing unit (GPU). Generated tagging-data may be parsed using a smart decoding technique that may be performed by a TD-enabled decoder to provide a smart media playback experience based on the content-sensitive tags. Thus, for example, a video player application can use the tagging-data to achieve a smart-video-playback experience including a content sensitive search and selective playback options. In some instances, the smart encoding and/or smart decoding techniques may be performed by a GPU. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178042 | Editing Method and Recording and Reproducing Device - In order to provide a recording and reproducing device that allows a user to select and manage arbitrary play lists, a unit of management for managing all registered play list information and an upper management hierarchical level are added. The unit of management is adapted to be handled on the same level with unified information that indicates a reproduction range of all AV data. User-defined unified information is adapted to be handled on the added management hierarchical level. The user-defined unified information is formed to allow arbitrary reproduction ranges contained on a lower hierarchical level to be registered. | 06-26-2014 |
20140178043 | VISUAL SUMMARIZATION OF VIDEO FOR QUICK UNDERSTANDING - The types and locations of particular types of content in a video are visually summarized in a way that facilitates understanding by a viewer. A method may include determining one or more semantic segments of the video. In addition, the method may include determining one or more emotion objects for at least one of the semantic segments. Further, the method may include generating a user interface on a display screen. The user interface may include one window, and in another embodiment, the user interface may include two windows. Moreover, the method may include displaying first indicia of the emotion object in a first window. The horizontal extent of the first window corresponds with the temporal length of the video and the first indicia are displayed at a location corresponding with the temporal appearance of the emotion object in the video. | 06-26-2014 |
20140186009 | STREAMING MEDIA BUFFER POINTS REFLECTING USER BEHAVIOR AND INTERESTS - A method of handling streaming media includes identifying multiple seek points within media data streamed from a media source to a media player. A segment of the media data stream is buffered at each seek point. A graphical user interface illustrates the positions of the multiple seek points along a progress bar and identifies, for each of the multiple seek points, the source that provided the seek point. The method monitors for user input selecting a seek point from among the multiple seek points, and sets the selected seek point as a current playback point. The source of each seek point may, for example, be illustrated with a source identifying color, icon, or text description. | 07-03-2014 |
20140193135 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus includes a display control unit configured to scroll a plurality of pieces of content data, a prediction unit configured to predict which content data among the plurality of pieces of content data moves from a hidden area to a display area according to a scroll display control condition controlled by the display control unit, and a decoding unit configured to decode the content data predicted by the prediction unit before the predicted content data moves to the display area. | 07-10-2014 |
20140205265 | VIDEO CONTENT DISTRIBUTION PACKAGE - Systems and methods are provided for a content distribution system, packaged as executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The system includes a cross-platform video player, implemented as machine executable instructions executable on a host computer having any of a plurality of different operating environments and a video comprising a plurality of video frames. The system further includes a library of content items associated with the video. The library of content items includes a plurality of content items and metadata relating each of the content items to associated spatial locations in at least one frame of the video. Each of the cross-platform video player, the video, and the library of content items are packaged as a single cross-platform executable file. | 07-24-2014 |
20140212107 | Systems and Methods for Session Recording and Sharing - Systems and methods are provided to record and play back computer-based sessions including events and accompanying audio information. Recording computer-based sessions includes recording an event received at a computer device, the event being recorded in a format that does not involve a video screen shot of the event, recording audio information received at the computer device, the audio information being received in temporal proximity to the event, and storing the recorded event and the recorded audio information as a recorded session. Playing a recorded session includes accessing the recorded session, stepping through the recorded session in a time-based fashion while playing any audio information corresponding to a particular time, detecting a recorded event at a particular point in time, and playing back the recorded event in conjunction with any audio information corresponding in time to the recorded event, such that the recorded event is recreated on a playback device. | 07-31-2014 |
20140212108 | VIDEO RECORDING METHOD AND VIDEO RECORDING DEVICE - A video recording device including: a format control section defining a video file record to produce a file via a format defined having a BDMV directory and at least directories to record the video signal and to record Play List data further arranged below the BDMV directory, and forms the format so one Play Item is produced in each of segments of video scenes to be acquired and a plurality of Play Items are arranged within one piece of the Play List data; and a recording control section recording the video information on the recording medium according to the format formed by the format control section, wherein when video acquired by the camera is recorded where a first piece of Play List data is produced, Items are produced within the first piece of the Play List data without generating a new piece of Play List data. | 07-31-2014 |
20140219629 | USER INTERFACE FOR VIDEO PREVIEW CREATION - Providing a method for creating and displaying portions of videos called video previews. The video previews may be associated with a predefined duration of a full video, such that the video preview is generated from a portion of the full video. The video previews are configured to play a series of images associated with images from the portion of the full video when the video preview is activated. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219630 | Video Map Responsive To A Video Release - An apparatus for and a method of obtaining, responsive to a user video preference and from a remote video provider, a particular one of a plurality of video releases of a video; obtaining a release ID identifying the particular one of the plurality of video releases of the video; obtaining, responsive to the release ID and from a remote information provider, segment information defining a begin video frame and an end video frame of each of a plurality of video segments within the identified particular one of the plurality of video releases of the video; obtaining a presentation preference of the user; applying the presentation preference to the segment information to selectively retrieve video segments within the video; and playing the selectively retrieved video segments as a seamless presentation less in length than the length of the video. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219631 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CLIENT AGGREGATION OF TELEVISION PROGRAMMING IN A NETWORKED PERSONAL VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEM - A networked personal video recording (“PVR”) system couples a plurality of clients to one or more PVR media servers over a network. One or more PVR media servers include television tuners to tune television signals. A storage medium buffers the television signals to implement PVR functionality. For example, the PVR media server records television programs for clients. Clients are assigned to television tuners, and the clients display television programs received at the assigned tuner. The network transfers the buffered television signals to the clients. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219632 | RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING/REPRODUCING APPARATUS, IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A recording apparatus is disclosed. The recording apparatus includes a data input portion configured to input data, a first moving image signal recording portion configured to record, based on the input data, a first moving image signal having a first image quality attribute, a condition detector configured to detect that the input data satisfies a predetermined condition during recording of the first moving image signal, and a second moving image signal recorder configured to record, based on the input data, a second moving image signal having a second image quality attribute when the condition detector detects that the input data satisfies the predetermined condition. | 08-07-2014 |
20140248034 | CONTENT INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTENT INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, CONTENT INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT - An information processing apparatus comprising that includes a reproduction unit to reproduce video content comprising a plurality of frames; a memory to store a table including object identification information identifying an object image, and frame identification information identifying a frame of the plurality of frames that includes the object image; and a processor to extract the frame including the object image from the video content and generate display data of a reduced image corresponding to the frame for display. | 09-04-2014 |
20140248035 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to continuously generate still images from a moving image which is being read out from a recording medium and played back, a detection unit configured to detect a change of a playback state of the moving image which is being read out from the recording medium and played back, and a control unit configured to control an operation of the generation unit. The control unit performs control to stop generating of the still image when the detection unit detects that the playback state of the moving image during playback is changed. | 09-04-2014 |
20140255004 | AUTOMATICALLY DETERMINING AND TAGGING INTENT OF SKIPPED STREAMING AND MEDIA CONTENT FOR COLLABORATIVE REUSE - A method, system, and computer program product for bypassing as portion of content of a media. A history of skipped sections for a media is accumulated. Each portion of skipped content is detected during a display of the media. A reason is automatically determined for each portion of media content that is skipped based on a set of predefined criteria and resulting in a measured value for each portion of skipped content. Each portion of skipped content is tagged with the associated measured value. Information associated with the tagged portions of skipped content is shared across a social network for collaborative reuse. A determination is also made whether or not the previously skipped portion or media content exceeds a predetermined user display threshold. Responsive to a user-configurable policy for bypassing content, the content of the media is automatically displayed on a user device and content exceeding the predetermined display threshold is skipped. | 09-11-2014 |
20140255005 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF CREATION AND CATALOG OF MEDIA RECORDINGS - A method for media recording creation and catalog is provided, that creates media recordings according to a reference time provided. The method allows editing the media recordings during and after recording, catalogs the media recordings, and identifies the media recordings that are related to the same event or a related event, that are close in time or space, but may have been recorded independently. The method displays the media recordings synchronizedly according to a reference time. | 09-11-2014 |
20140270699 | Auto-Summarizing Video Content System and Method - Novel tools and techniques are described for auto-summarizing video and/or audio content. In some embodiments, a summary server might retrieve one or more time codes from a time code database, and might analyze the one or more time codes to determine at least one selected time code among the one or more time codes that exceeds a predetermined number of selections. The one or more time codes might correspond to one or more triggers, which might include user-inputted triggers, triggers associated with actions by a live audience, or broadcaster/distributor/producer-provided triggers (i.e., cue tones). The summary server might determine one or more selected segments of video or audio content corresponding to the at least one selected time code, and might create one or more summary tracks, where each of the one or more summary tracks might comprise each of the one or more selected segments of the video or audio content. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270700 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH MEDIA PROCESSING MECHANISM AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A method of operation of a display system includes: receiving a recap request for a source media; generating source content descriptors for the source media with a control unit; extracting a source recap segment from the source media based on correlation of the source content descriptors with a recap theme associated with the recap request; and generating a custom recap with the source recap segment for displaying on a device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140270701 | METHOD ON INDEXING A RECORDABLE EVENT FROM A VIDEO RECORDING AND SEARCHING A DATABASE OF RECORDABLE EVENTS ON A HARD DRIVE OF A COMPUTER FOR A RECORDABLE EVENT - A method of indexing recordable events from a video recording, a first method of searching a video recording for a recordable event on a hard drive of a computer, and a second method of searching a video recording for a recordable event on a hard drive of a computer is provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140286621 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - There is provided an information processing that acquires captured image data of a subject; and associates a plurality of time points of the image data and a plurality of time points of event information based on sensor time information, the event information acquired based on sensor information acquired in time series by a sensor apparatus and indicating occurrence of an operation of the sensor apparatus. | 09-25-2014 |
20140286622 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOVING PICTURE CLIP AND/OR DISPLAYING CONTENT FILE LIST, AND RECORDING MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM FOR EXECUTING THE METHOD - A recording and reproducing apparatus for displaying a content file list, a content file list displaying method and a recording medium storing a program performing the method, which are capable of easily identifying a paused content file and memorizing a point of the content file which reproducing is paused and content of the content file at the paused point, are provided. The method includes: determining whether or not a paused content file exists; creating a content file list capable of identifying the paused content file with reference to the result of the determination; and displaying the created content file list. | 09-25-2014 |
20140294361 | Clustering Crowdsourced Videos by Line-of-Sight - A method for clustering images includes acquiring initial image data including a scene of interest. A 3D model is constructed of the scene of interest based on the acquired initial image data. Additional image data including the scene of interest is acquired. The additional image data is fitted to the 3D model. A line-of-sight of the additional image data is estimated based on the fitting to the 3D model. The additional image data is clustered according to the estimated line-of-sight. | 10-02-2014 |
20140301714 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording apparatus includes a data recording unit configured to record data in a cartridge which is mounted on a cartridge mounting unit and stores a plurality of recording media, the data recording unit being configured to record a first resolution video data file having a first resolution in a first recording medium of the cartridge and record, in a second recording medium of the cartridge, a second resolution video data file having another resolution lower than the first resolution corresponding to the first resolution video data file recorded in the first recording medium. | 10-09-2014 |
20140301715 | Map Your Movie - A method of displaying an interactive geographical representation associated with a video content item is described. The method includes: playing the video content item, wherein the video content item includes at least one scene; requesting relevant metadata associated with the at least one video scene, the relevant metadata including a geographical representation and geolocation metadata associated with the at least video scene; receiving the relevant metadata; and displaying an interactive geographical representation along with at least one visual indication, wherein the at least one visual indication is associated with the at least one video scene and positioned at a location indicated by the geolocation metadata. Related systems, apparatus and methods are also described. | 10-09-2014 |
20140308020 | MARITAL AID - Systems, methods, and computer readable media for superimposing an image of an individual onto that of an actor are disclosed. A system may comprise a computer-readable medium and a logic stored on the computer readable medium. The logic may comprise instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: matching a video frame with a head shot based on one or more common tags shared by the video frame and the head shot; and superimposing the head shot on a body within the video frame. | 10-16-2014 |
20140308021 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA PLAYBACK - An apparatus and method of managing reproduction of multimedia contents. A multimedia reproduction method includes: receiving identification information on predetermined multimedia contents; receiving first reproduction information on the predetermined multimedia contents, from a multimedia reproduction management apparatus receiving the transmitted identification information; and if first identification information contained in the received first reproduction information corresponds with the transmitted identification information, reproducing the predetermined multimedia contents based on the first reproduction information. According to the apparatus and method, even when a DVD title being played back is replaced by another DVD title, or when the power of a DVD playback apparatus is suddenly interrupted, the reproduction position information is safely maintained. | 10-16-2014 |
20140314389 | SEGMENTED CONTENT REFERENCE CIRCULATION - Aspects of segmented content reference circulation are described. In one embodiment, a marker is received in association with content under display. A type and attribute of the marker are evaluated. The marker may be evaluated as a start, end, or range type of marker, for example. The attribute of the marker may be evaluated as a playback start time or end time, for example. With reference to the start or end time, a segmented resource identifier is generated. The segmented resource identifier may include a uniform resource locator, as a reference to the content under display, and a playback attribute for rendering playback of the content starting at the start time or ending at the end time, for example. After being circulated, a playback device can rely upon the segmented resource identifier to request content for playback based on the start or end time playback attributes. | 10-23-2014 |
20140321831 | VIDEO SERVICE WITH AUTOMATED VIDEO TIMELINE CURATION - The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology in which highlight (curated) videos are automatically generated for users to watch based upon estimated interest levels with respect to segments of a longer video or set of videos. In one aspect, statistics are collected with respect to actions of viewers of the video or set of videos. These may include playback-related actions such as the number of times a particular segment is played, and/or behavioral actions of viewers during the playback. Based upon which segments have the highest estimated interest levels, a subset of the segments are selected for a playback list, which when played provides the highlight/curated video. | 10-30-2014 |
20140328570 | IDENTIFYING, DESCRIBING, AND SHARING SALIENT EVENTS IN IMAGES AND VIDEOS - A computing system for identifying, describing, and sharing salient events depicted in images and videos executes feature detection algorithms on multimedia input (e.g., video and/or images). The computing system applies semantic reasoning techniques to the output of the feature detection algorithms. The computing system identifies salient event segments of the multimedia input as a result of the semantic reasoning. The computing system can incorporate the salient event segments into a visual presentation, such as a video clip. Alternatively or in addition, the computing system can generate a natural language description of the content of the multimedia input. | 11-06-2014 |
20140328571 | COLLABORATIVE PRODUCTION ASSET MANAGEMENT - In an approach, a method of spotting music for a motion picture comprises: receiving music editor (MXE) cue related data defining a plurality of cues each having a start timecode value and an end timecode value; based on the MXE data, creating and storing an MXE timecode path, a composer (CMP) timecode path, and a cue sheet timecode path; copying one or more of the MXE cue related data to CMP cues in the CMP timecode path in a CMP spotting dataset; receiving one or more changes to the CMP cues without also modifying the MXE cue related data; applying an editing lock to the CMP cues; auto-populating the CMP cues to cue sheet cues in the cue sheet timecode path; receiving one or more changes to the cue sheet cues without also modifying the CMP cues; finalizing and distributing a cue sheet based on the cue sheet cues; wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices. | 11-06-2014 |
20140334796 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING POTENTIALLY INTERESTING EVENTS IN EXTENDED RECORDINGS - A system may comprise a trigger creation module configured to provide a set of one or more trigger conditions, satisfaction of each trigger condition being based on sensor data to be received. A sensor interface module may be configured to receive actual sensor data from one or more sensors, the actual sensor data being generated contemporaneously with recording of an activity. A trigger satisfaction module may be configured to determine whether at least one trigger condition of the set of trigger conditions has been satisfied based on the actual sensor data. An event identification module may be configured to identify a potentially interesting event within the recording of the activity based on the satisfied at least one trigger condition. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334797 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal providing a thumbnail enabling overall content of a video to be previewed and a controlling method thereof are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a memory, a display, and a controller for selecting a plurality of video frames of the video to create a plurality of representative images, creating a representative thumbnail image of the video comprising at least the plurality of representative images, and displaying the representative thumbnail image to correspond to the video. | 11-13-2014 |
20140334798 | REPRODUCING APPARATUS AND REPRODUCING METHOD - To more flexibly reproduce moving image data obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition. For example, moving image data, which has been obtained by capturing a plurality of frames within the period of a single frame of display output while changing the exposure condition, is stored in a recording portion. When the moving image data is reproduced from the recording portion, a single frame is selected and output by a reproduced frame selecting portion for each period of a single frame of display output. If a user operation instructing to make the displayed image darker, in response to this user operation, a frame having an exposure condition of underexposure is selected and output from the moving image data to be reproduced from the recording portion for each period of a single frame of display output. | 11-13-2014 |
20140341535 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIDEO PLAYBACK CONTROL - Methods and apparatus are provided for a video playback control system for a vehicle having a front cabin and a rear cabin. The apparatus can include at least one first display located in the front cabin, and at least one second display located in the rear cabin. The apparatus can also include a source of video data for display on the at least one first display and the at least one second display. The apparatus can include a control module that outputs a single still video frame or series of still video frames from a continuous video stream provided by the source of video data for display on the at least one first display. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341536 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341537 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341538 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341539 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341540 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341541 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140341542 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 11-20-2014 |
20140348486 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA STREAMS CONTAINING AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR OTHER DATA - Several data streams contain video, audio and/or other data. Some of the data streams are pre-recorded in a multiplex on a storage medium while other data streams are located out of the data stream multiplex on the storage medium. The data streams are synchronized using a navigation file (List_of_PlayItems), which comprises descriptors (PlayItems, SubPlayItems) pointing to parts of said data streams, wherein said descriptors define the arrangement in time for said data streams by means of data sub stream paths. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348487 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DIVIDING AND DISPLAYING CONTENTS - A method for dividing and displaying a content unit includes: extracting a sub-content unit which is generated by dividing an original content unit by a preset time interval; displaying the entire sub-content unit when receiving a sub-content unit display command; receiving a jump command that selects a replay time point for an arbitrary sub-content unit among the above sub-content units; and replaying and displaying the original content unit from the replay time point. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348488 | CREATION OF VIDEO BOOKMARKS VIA SCRIPTED INTERACTIVITY IN ADVANCED DIGITAL TELEVISION - According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for creating and/or altering a video bookmark is described. The method comprises an operation of processing a request from a downloaded scripted object to create a video bookmark. The video bookmark may be information that is used for performing an action involving additional information related to the video content being played at a time of the request. Thereafter, the video bookmark is created based on the request. | 11-27-2014 |
20140355951 | AUTOMATICALLY SYNCING RECORDINGS BETWEEN TWO OR MORE CONTENT RECORDING DEVICES - This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate synchronizing recordings between a plurality of content recording devices using embedded markers or metadata, and employing the synchronized recordings on a content recording device or a content server to present one or more of the synchronized recordings concurrently in a merged presentation or in a manner that allows for switching between recordings while maintaining synchronization. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355952 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355953 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 12-04-2014 |
20140355954 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND UTILIZING METADATA REGARDING THE STRUCTURE OF PROGRAM CONTENT - Metadata is created in connection with an editing of a copy of a digital media for the purpose of generating a sample of the digital media, such as a ringtone generated from a song. The metadata is published and is retrievable for use in editing another copy of the digital media to automatically recreate the media sample. | 12-04-2014 |
20140363138 | Audio-based annnotatoion of video - A technique for determining annotation items associated with video information is described. During this annotation technique, a content item that includes audio information and the video information is received. For example, a file may be downloaded from a uniform resource locator. Then, the audio information is extracted from the content item, and the audio information is analyzed to determine features or descriptors that characterize the audio information. Note that the features may be determined solely by analyzing the audio information or may be determined by subsequent further analysis of at least some of the video information based on the analysis of the audio information (i.e., sequential or cascaded analysis). Next, annotation items or tags associated with the video information are determined based on the features. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363139 | Multi-Program Playback Status Display - Various arrangements are described that may cause a recording of a television channel to be stored. The recording of the television channel may include a plurality of television programs. A graphical playback status element may be displayed via a display device. The graphical playback status element may indicate a start point for each television program of the plurality of television programs within the recording of the television channel. | 12-11-2014 |
20140363140 | METHODS, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS, AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDINGAUTOMATED VIDEO TRACKING VIA A RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION - Methods, computer program products and systems for providing video tracking. The method includes receiving a first signal from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. A location of the RFID tag is determined in response to the first signal. An image that includes the location of the RFID tag is recorded. The location of the RFID tag is marked on the image, resulting in a marked image. | 12-11-2014 |
20140369665 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGING APPARATUS - An imaging apparatus is controlled in such a manner that, to perform a scenario shooting, a list of the scenes forming the scenario is displayed, and when the scene selected in the list is a captured scene, the selected captured scene is played back, and when the selected scene is an uncaptured scene, the imaging apparatus enters a shooting standby state for capturing the selected uncaptured scene. | 12-18-2014 |
20140369666 | MANAGING TIME-SHIFT DATA - There are provided respective systems and methods for recording and playing back media content. The system for recording media content includes a segmenter ( | 12-18-2014 |
20140376884 | Storing Same Channel Overlapping Recordings - First media segments for a first media program are recorded. The first media program is scheduled to start at a first start time and end at a first end time, whereas a second media program is scheduled to start at a second start time and end at a second end time, the first end time being after the second start time. It is determined whether the first media program and the second media program are on a same channel. If so, one or more shared media segments, one of which is before all other shared media segments in the shared media segments and begins no later than the first time, are recorded. A first media program object is generated to represent a first recording of the first media program, and includes references to the first media segments and the shared media segments. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376885 | METHOD FOR PLAYING VIDEO FILE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for playing audio out of a video file includes the following steps. Open a video file stored in a storage unit. Decode the opened video file. Separate the video file into video data and audio data wherein the audio data comprises a plurality of pieces of music data. A starting position and an ending position of each piece of music data is established and recorded by reference to the spectral characteristics. All indexed passages of music data are then playable according to the recorded starting and ending positions. An electronic device using the same is also provided. | 12-25-2014 |
20140376886 | SCENE CHANGE DETECTION FOR PERCEPTUAL QUALITY EVALUATION IN VIDEO SEQUENCES - There are provided a plurality of methods for detecting a scene change in a streamed video, the streamed video comprising a series of pictures. An example method comprises calculating, for a plurality of positions, a difference between the costs of coding macro-blocks at the same position in successive pictures. The method further comprises identifying a new scene when the sum of the differences for a plurality of positions meets a threshold criterion. There is further provided a method of determining the perceptual impact of a packet loss on a streamed video the method comprising: identifying a packet loss; and determining if the lost packet contained information relating to a picture at the start of a new scene, wherein a new scene is detected using one of the methods disclosed herein. | 12-25-2014 |
20150010289 | MULTIPLE RETAIL DEVICE UNIVERSAL DATA GATEWAY - Auditing images including the steps of acquiring events and images, storing of images for later retrieval and viewing, distributing filmstrips, viewing stored images, viewing distributed images, recycling images on storage media based on business rules, acquiring images from a live or recorded local video source by extracting images from the live or recorded video at particular times based on events acquired from certain devices existing in a local business environment, wherein the images are then compiled into a filmstrip based on business rules along with event metadata based on business rules and then stored on a local electronic storage media(s) and optionally a remote storage media for later retrieval and viewing. The filmstrips are then automatically distributed electronically to interested parties. | 01-08-2015 |
20150016800 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FACILITATING INSTALLMENT-BY-INSTALLMENT CONSUMPTION OF DISCRETE INSTALLMENTS OF A UNITARY MEDIA PROGRAM - An exemplary method includes a computer-implemented media service system 1) dividing a unitary media program into a plurality of contiguous segments, 2) forming, from the plurality of contiguous segments, a plurality of discrete installments of the unitary media program, and 3) providing an end user of a media service with installment-by-installment access to the plurality of discrete installments of the unitary media program. In certain examples, the method may further include the system providing an option for selection by the end user to access the unitary media program by way of a normal-access mode or an installment-access mode. The normal-access mode may be configured to facilitate a start-to-finish consumption of the unitary media program in a single playback session, and the installment-access mode may be configured to facilitate installment-by-installment consumption of the discrete installments of the unitary media program in multiple, discrete playback sessions. | 01-15-2015 |
20150023650 | Small-Screen Movie-Watching Using a Viewport - This document describes techniques and apparatuses for small-screen movie-watching using a viewport. These techniques enable viewers to experience movies and other media programs using a small screen as a viewport to the movie rather than dramatically compressing or cropping the movie to fit the small screen. A viewer may select whatever portion of the movie imagery he or she desires to experience through the small screen at a size sufficient to perceive details of plot elements and an environment in which the plot elements interact. Thus, the viewer may follow plot elements central to the plot while also exploring the environment that provides context for these plot elements. | 01-22-2015 |
20150023651 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF VIDEO FROM STRUCTURED CONTENT - Device for providing a playable sequence in renderable manner comprises: a providing unit for providing defined functions, said functions for applying playable effects to objects, a time unit for adding time boundaries to said functions, to provide time bounded functions, an ordering unit for ordering said time bounded functions into a sequence, and a translation unit for applying translations to said objects in accordance with said effects. | 01-22-2015 |
20150037002 | Synchronizing Navigators To Play Non-Sequential Segments - A method comprising utilizing a first navigator to seek to a navigation point appropriate to a begin frame of a first video segment, to step to the begin frame of the one video segment, and to cue a playing at the begin frame of the one video segment; utilizing a second navigator to seek to a navigation point appropriate to a begin frame of a non-sequential video segment, step to the begin frame of the non-sequential video segment, and cue a playing at the begin frame of the non-sequential video segment; utilizing the first navigator to enable a playing of the first video segment; and synchronizing the second navigator to enable a playing of the non-sequential video segment seamlessly following the playing of the first video segment. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037003 | Synchronizing A Map To Multiple Video Formats. - A method comprising comparing a frame rate of a source video program to a frame rate of a target video program to generate a conversion factor between the two sources; retrieving a target frame and retrieving, responsive to a location of the target video frame within the target video program, and responsive to the conversion factor, a source video frame from within the source video program; determining, by means of an image comparison, equivalence between the target frame and the source frame; and synchronizing, responsive to the determining, the target frame and the source frame, the synchronizing enabling a set of non-sequential segments of the target video program to be equivalent to a set of non-sequential segments of the source video program. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037004 | Video Map Synchronizing Diagnostic Information. - A method comprising comparing a frame rate of a source video program to a frame rate of a target video program to generate a conversion factor between the two sources; retrieving a target frame and retrieving, responsive to a location of the target video frame within the target video program, and responsive to the conversion factor, a source video frame from within the source video program; determining, by means of an image comparison, equivalence between the target frame and the source frame; generating, responsive to the determining of equivalence, synchronization diagnostic information; and synchronizing, responsive to an analysis of the synchronization diagnostic information, the target frame and the source frame, the synchronizing enabling a set of non-sequential segments of the target video program to be equivalent to a set of non-sequential segments of the source video program. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037005 | Video Bookmark Generating Data. - A video map comprising bookmark generating data that enables a user to avoid to manually navigate a menu and a trailer provided with a video; seek/step data identifying, for each of a plurality of video frames within the video, a navigation point and a number of video frames that are required to step to a video frame, the seek/step data enabling a navigator to seek to a navigation point appropriate to a begin video frame of a video segment, to step to the begin video frame of the video segment, and to begin playing at the begin video frame of the video segment; and segment information defining a begin video frame and an end video frame of each of a plurality of video segments within the video, the segment information enabling a playing of a presentation of the video less in length than the length of the video. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037006 | Downloading Video Bookmark Generating Data. - A method comprising initializing playback of a video, the video comprising navigation data, at least one menu, at least one trailer, and a movie; obtaining an identifier of the video; downloading, responsive to the identifier and from a remote source, bookmark generating data that identifies a menu selection that is required to advance towards a playing of the movie; generating, responsive to the bookmark generating data, a bookmark for the movie to be utilized by a navigator, the generating enabling a user to avoid to manually navigate past a menu and a trailer provided with the video; and playing, responsive to the bookmark, the movie. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037007 | VIDEO RECORDING FAILOVER - Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for performing video recorder failover. In a particular embodiment, a system includes a first Network Video Recorder (NVR) configured to receive a video stream and record the video stream to a first long-term storage. The system further includes a second NVR configured to receive the video stream and temporarily stores an amount of the video stream in temporary storage. In response to a detection of a failure of the first NVR, the second NVR is configured to record the video stream to the second long-term storage and transfer at least a portion of the video stream stored in the temporary storage corresponding to the amount of time between detection of the failure and when the second NVR began recording the video stream to the second long-term storage. | 02-05-2015 |
20150037008 | VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION BASED ON AUDIO - A content reproduction screen displays a plurality of content items. A video reproduction processing section reproduces substantially simultaneously videos of a plurality of content items on a screen. An audio reproduction processing section reproduces substantially simultaneously audio signals of a plurality of content items. During reproduction of a plurality of content items, a comparison is made between a current reproduction position of the audio signal in an audio reproduction processing section and a current reproduction position of each video in the video reproduction processing section, and, if a discrepancy between the compared current reproduction positions is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the current reproduction position of the video is corrected on the basis of the current reproduction position of the audio signal. In this way, the current reproduction position of each video is synchronized with the reproduction position of the audio signal. | 02-05-2015 |
20150050004 | SYSTEM EVENT ASSISTED LIVE KEYBOARD, VIDEO AND MOUSE (KVM) CAPTURE - The disclosure relates to system event assisted live video capture. A baseboard management controller (BMC) allocates, in its available memory space of the memory, a first video block and a first node having a video block pointer and a next node pointer, and assigns the video block pointer of the first node to indicate the first video block. The BMC captures video frames of the host computer, and stores frame data and a timestamp generated from each frame in the first video block. When the first video block is full, the BMC allocates a second video block and a second node, and assigns the next node pointer of the first block to indicate the second node, and the video block pointer of the second node to indicate the second video block. The BMC then stores the frame data and the timestamp in the second video block. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050005 | AUTOMATIC PLAYBACK OF ONE OR MORE EXCERPT(S) OF A VIDEO SEQUENCE ON A DATA PROCESSING DEVICE - A method includes initiating, through an interface of a data processing device, generation of one or more excerpt(s) of a video sequence associated with a video file stored in a memory of the data processing device. The method also includes automatically reading, through a processor of the data processing device communicatively coupled to the memory, video frames of the video file corresponding to the one or more excerpt(s) and reference video frames thereof in accordance with the initiation through the interface. Further, the method includes decoding, through the processor, the video frames of the video file corresponding to the one or more excerpt(s) and the reference video frames thereof following the automatic reading for rendering thereof on the data processing device. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050006 | CONTENT-BASED VIDEO SEGMENTATION - In general, video segmentation techniques are described. According to various examples, the video segmentation techniques may be based on video content. An example method includes determining one or more segments into which to divide video content, dividing the video content into the determined number of segments identifying a boundary frame associated with each of the segments, and adjusting the respective boundary frame associated with a first segment of the segments to generate an adjusted boundary frame associated with the first segment, wherein the adjusting is based on an one or more entity representations associated with the adjusted boundary frame. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050007 | PERSONALIZED MULTIGRANULARITY VIDEO SEGMENTING - The invention pertains to method for segmenting an audiovisual content in a semantic manner and in quick way. To achieve that, pre-segmentation data are generated offline and retrieved by an end user. At the level of the end user, a step of clustering segments is performed. The invention allows also to approach a desired semantic granularity by modifying a clustering threshold. The invention also allows to quickly generate a semantic segmenting for a segment, which allows to the user to quickly browse the audiovisual content. | 02-19-2015 |
20150050008 | GENERATING CONTENT DATA FOR A VIDEO FILE - A method for generating content data for a video file ( | 02-19-2015 |
20150055934 | ENHANCING KARAOKE SYSTEMS UTILIZING AUDIENCE SENTIMENT FEEDBACK AND AUDIO WATERMARKING - A digital audio/video (A/V) content can be selected from a data store within a computing device. The content can include a vocal free recording and a subsequently recorded vocal track generated by a user. A digital marker can be embedded into the audio signal of the content. The marker can be associated with a time index of the content and a unique user identity associated with a device. A different A/V content can be identified and can be linked to the marker. The different A/V content can be at a symbol, a shape, an audio, a video, and/or a text content. In one embodiment, facial gesture and/or motion gesture feedback of a consumer can be captured during playback of the digital A/V content. In the embodiment, analysis of the feedback can be utilized to generate recommendations for improvement of A/V digital content and/or status updates. | 02-26-2015 |
20150055935 | GEO-LOCATION VIDEO ARCHIVE SYSTEM AND METHOD - A system and method for recording, uploading, and archiving video recordings, including a front-end and a back-end application. The preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a front-end application wherein video is recorded using a mobile device. The recorded video is embedded with date, time and GPS location data. The video is stored on an online back-end database which catalogues the video according to the embedded data elements. The video may be selectively reviewed by relevant experts or emergency personnel for immediate response to the uploaded video and/or distribution to the proper parties. The video may also be archived for later review and use by any number of end-users. | 02-26-2015 |
20150063780 | Providing Audible Indication During Content Manipulation - An apparatus includes at least one computer readable storage medium that is not a carrier wave and that is accessible to a processor. The computer readable storage medium bears instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to present, on an audio video display device (AVDD), an audible indication of a position of a currently displayed video portion of audio video content within the audio video content. | 03-05-2015 |
20150063781 | NON-LINEAR NAVIGATION OF VIDEO CONTENT - Disclosed is a method for non-linear navigation of video content comprising receiving a video content asset comprising a plurality of video content clips tagged with information tags, the information tags connecting the video content clips to form a plurality of navigation paths; presenting a first video clip from the plurality of video clips; displaying a set of navigation options for selection by a user, each of the navigation options corresponding to a particular navigation path; receiving a navigation option selection from the user; and presenting a second video clip from the plurality of video clips based on the navigation path corresponding to the navigation option selected by the user. | 03-05-2015 |
20150071604 | Electronic Apparatus, Control Method, and Computer-Readable Storage Medium - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a processor and a display controller. The processor is configured to acquire a first attribute and a first keyword of content, and to extract a scene including the first keyword in a caption from stored contents having the first attribute. The display controller is configured to cause a scene image representing an extracted scene to be displayed on a display. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071605 | MOVING IMAGE PLAYER DEVICE - A moving image player device of the present invention includes an interpolated image generating unit that generates an interpolated frame corresponding to a time between two adjacent input frames using two input frames among the plurality of input frames, and a video playing unit that detects a scene change in the video, outputs the plurality of input frames or the interpolated frames in time series based on the detection result, and plays the video at an arbitrary playing speed. When the scene change is detected, the video playing unit skips a display of the interpolated frames corresponding to time between an input frame at the end of a first scene and an input frame at the head of a second scene, and displays an input frame of the second scene or the interpolated frame after the input frame at the end of the first scene or the interpolated frame. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071606 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING MOTION VIDEO - The present invention relates to a method for preparing presentation of recorded motion video. The method preparing and sending a request for recorded video that originates from a specific video source, receiving a video information message including data relating to characteristics of a plurality of motion video recordings captured by the video source, wherein the received characteristics of each motion video recording includes a recording identity, a video quality value, a media address, an indication of start time and end time for the recording, and generating a motion video play scheme based at least on said video quality value, said indication of start time, and said indication of end time for each motion video recording. | 03-12-2015 |
20150071607 | EFFICIENT CONTENT BASED VIDEO RETRIEVAL - Various disclosed embodiments relate to video content analysis based in part upon the detection of shot transitions. In some embodiments, a process and computer system for detecting shot transitions in a video is used to separate a video sequence into a series of “shots” having multiple frames. These shots may then be used for additional processing, e.g., content detection within the video frames. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078729 | Synchronizing videos with frame-based metadata using video content - A transformed video and a source video may be synchronized according to implementations disclosed herein to provide tag information to the device receiving the transformed version of the video. A synchronization signal may be computed on the source video and the transformed video using a statistic such as mean pixel intensity. The synchronization signals computed for the transformed video and source video may be compared to determine a transformed video reference point location for the requested tag information. The requested tag information may be provided to the device receiving the transformed version of the video. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078730 | SIGNAL RECORDING APPARATUS, CAMERA RECORDER, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM - A signal recording apparatus configured to classify video/sound materials is provided with a reduced operational burden. A metadata generator is configured to generate recorded metadata which is metadata recorded with an AV signal. A classification determinator is configured to determine, upon receipt of the recorded metadata, which playlist a portion of the AV signal corresponding to the recorded metadata is classified into by referring to a classification database storing a classification rule and to output classification information indicating a determination result. A playlist generator is configured to generate a playlist according to the classification information. A recorder is configured to record the AV signal, the recorded metadata, and the playlist on a recording medium. | 03-19-2015 |
20150078731 | MOVING IMAGE SELECTION APPARATUS FOR SELECTING MOVING IMAGE TO BE COMBINED, MOVING IMAGE SELECTION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus includes a combination candidate selection processing unit. When one moving image is generated by combining a plurality of moving images, the combination candidate selection processing unit judges a possibility of combination between a moving image which is a basis for combination chosen and another moving image based on a predetermined condition. Furthermore, the combination candidate selection processing unit selects, as a candidate of a moving image for a combination target, a moving image that can be combined with the moving image which is a basis for combination, from among other moving images based on a judgment result. | 03-19-2015 |
20150086178 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR DISPLAYING CUSTOM-TAILORED MUSIC VIDEO CONTENT - Applicants have created systems, methods, and computer readable media for displaying custom-tailored music video content. The method can include the step of providing a first selection of the media content and the step of outputting a first portion of first media data if first media data is selected or a first portion of second media data if second media data is selected. The method can further include the step of providing a second selection of the media content and the step of outputting a selected portion of the media content among second and third portions of the first and second media data. Through the inventions described herein, an end-user can enjoy custom-tailored music video content through a process of dynamically choosing which music video characters and sub-plots to follow through to their various alternative endings. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086179 | TECHNIQUES FOR ANALYZING OPERATIONS OF ONE OR MORE RESTAURANTS - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for using operational data and/or video footage to identify and diagnose operational issues. In some embodiments, business metrics represented in data produced by a restaurant's operational systems are identified and stored, conditions which warrant attention are identified, and the metrics that may indicate potential causes for those conditions are identified. Video footage may be correlated with business metric data to assist in diagnosing and remediating issues. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086180 | System and Method for Delivering Video Program in a Cloud - A video program delivery system comprises a digital television system, various mobile computing and communication devices and a communication network. A video program rendered by the television system or by anyone of the mobile devices can be paused. A bookmark is then created. The bookmark can be transmitted to a bookmark manager in the communication network. A user can access the bookmarks in the communication network through the television system or anyone of the mobile devices. An unfinished program can be resumed after associated bookmark is selected. The bookmark may include a frame associated with the unfinished program. | 03-26-2015 |
20150086181 | METHOD FOR MAKING A CONTENT SENSITIVE VIDEO - A method is described for recording a video. The method comprises receiving one or more user content and then providing a 3D virtual world and a virtual camera having one or more parameters. The optimal 3D flight path of the virtual camera is then determined based on the user content and the virtual camera is then allowed to travel along the optimal 3D flight path and to record the video. | 03-26-2015 |
20150093096 | AUDIO AND VIDEO SYNCHRONIZATION - The invention relates to audio-video-synchronization, where light is captured from a light source. At least a timestamp is determined from the light. Audio stream is received from an audio source, and the audio stream is played from the point defined by the time stamp. The invention relates also to a method and technical equipment for generating data comprising at least time stamp of a video stream and signalling the generated data by means of a light from a light source. | 04-02-2015 |
20150098691 | TECHNOLOGY FOR DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTING VIDEO PLAYBACK SPEED - Technology for enhancing video playback is described. In some embodiments, the technology parses recorded event data into a plurality of segments. Data within each segment may then be analyzed in an attempt to identify the occurrence of potentially interesting events. Based on the analysis, a significance value is assigned to or adjusted for each segment. Based on the comparison of the significance value for a segment with one or more significance thresholds, a playback speed is assigned to the segment. A playback index correlating each segment with the assigned playback speed may then he produced and used to control playback speed during video viewing. This may allow relatively uninteresting portions of video to he automatically bypassed at high playback speed, while interesting portions are played at relatively low speed. | 04-09-2015 |
20150098692 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device includes: a recording unit that records a flag representing that actual state information as an actual state of contents, which is referred to by reproduction information, is referred to by other reproduction information; a search unit that searches for the actual state information that is deletable by using the flag, in a case where deletion of the reproduction information is instructed; and a deletion unit that deletes the reproduction information of an object to be deleted and the deletable actual state information, in a case where the deletion of the reproduction information is instructed. | 04-09-2015 |
20150104148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REPLACING A COMMERCIAL IN A RECORDED PROGRAM - A method of playing back, by an electronic device, a recorded program having a first commercial inserted therein is disclosed. The method comprises steps of if a date of playing back the recorded program is less than a date associated with the recorded program, playing back the recorded program including the first commercial; and if the date of playing back the recorded program is more than the associated date, replacing the first commercial in the recorded program with a second commercial and playing back the recorded program including the second commercial. | 04-16-2015 |
20150104149 | VIDEO SUMMARY APPARATUS AND METHOD - A video summary apparatus and method. The video summary apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: an object extractor to extract an object by separating a background from each of original frames included in a video for a predetermined time; an object analyzer to analyze, according to an original frame sequence, the object extracted by the object extractor and identify noticeable characteristics of time-lapse variation of the object; and a summary image generator to generate a summary image including an indication symbol that visualizes the noticeable characteristics of the object identified by the object analyzer. | 04-16-2015 |
20150104150 | RECORDING APPARATUS, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, REPRODUCING METHOD, RECORDING AND REPRODUCING METHOD, AND RECORD MEDIUM - Changes of a user's emotion that occurs when content is reproduced and a user's surrounding environment that occurs when the content is reproduced are recorded as sensing meta data and content is reproduced in a reproducing mode corresponding to the recorded sensing meta data. Content supplied from a content providing section | 04-16-2015 |
20150104151 | System and Method for Providing Device with Integrated Time Code Generator, Transmitter, and Reader with Interruptible Feedback Monitoring and Talkback - A time code signal is transmitted. An audio input is provided. An audio signal is received through the audio input. A first time code signal is generated. A value of the first time code signal is displayed on a display. A data stream including the audio signal with the first time code signal superimposed on the audio signal is generated. The data stream is transmitted to a first external device. An interruptible feedback signal is transmitted to the first external device or a second external device. A talkback signal is transmitted between a second external device and a third external device. A second time code signal is received from a second external device and the first time code signal is synchronized with the second time code signal. An interface is provided for noting the value of the first time code signal. | 04-16-2015 |
20150110466 | VIDEO INDEXING METHOD, VIDEO INDEXING APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - A video indexing method, a video indexing apparatus, and a computer readable medium are disclosed. The video indexing apparatus comprises a generation module, a calculation module and a construction module. The generation module generates a frame movement analysis graphics according to a plurality of analysis points corresponding to a plurality of video frames of a video record. The calculation module calculates a plurality of frame movement velocities corresponding to the video frames according to the frame movement analysis graphics. The construction module constructs an indexing graphics of the video record according to the frame movement velocities. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110467 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR GENERATING MULTIPLE POINT OF VIEW VIDEO - The present disclosure provides an electronic device for generating a multiple point of view (MPOV) video and the method thereof. The present disclosure involves the electronic device to obtain a plurality of media contents. The electronic device would identify a first media content relating to a second media content in time and location according to time information, audio information, and location information including a geographic tag and a surrounding signal information. Then, the first media content and the second media content are provided as relevant media contents for generating the MPOV video of the event having the relevant media content captured from different point of view. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110468 | Second Screen Plot Info Function - Systems for, and methods of, displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device (e.g., obtaining from the primary screen device an identification of a current play position of the video, or obtaining information to generate an acoustic fingerprint of the video); determining a current play position of the video playing on the primary screen device based upon the current play position data (e.g., identification of the current play position or the acoustic fingerprint); downloading information (e.g., video map, subtitles, moral principles, objectionable content, memorable content, performers, geographical maps, shopping, plot point, item, ratings, and trivia information) over a computer communications network into the memory of the second screen device; and displaying information on the second screen device synchronized with the contemporaneously played video on the primary screen device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110469 | Communication System, Terminal Device, Registration Method, and Storage Medium - There are provided a communication system, a terminal device, a registration method, and a program capable of sharing pseudo camera works performed by the other users without editing uploaded video data itself. The terminal device displays video data acquired from a server device and generates edit data representing a display range designated as a range to be displayed in a plurality of image frames configuring the video data. Then, the terminal device registers the generated edit data in the server device in association with the video data. | 04-23-2015 |
20150110470 | VIDEO PRESENTATION METHOD, DEVICE, SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - Disclosed are a video presentation method, device, system and storage medium, which can present video and video comment content at the same time. The method of the present invention comprises: sending a comment presentation request message to a server, the comment presentation request message comprising a first video identifier and a first video play time stamp, so that the server screens comment content directing to a first video corresponding to the first video identifier and using the first video play time stamp as a time start, and generating a first comment content packet; receiving the first comment content packet sent by the server; presenting the comment content directing to the first video in the first comment content packet at the same time when playing the first video. The solution provided in an embodiment of the present invention is suitable for being adopted during video presentation. | 04-23-2015 |
20150117836 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLEMENTING CONTENT FROM A SERVER - Methods and systems to provide supplemental content to a user who is viewing video or other content. The user's device (through which he will access the video) then provides an identifier of that video to a server or other computing facility. Here, the video identifier is used to identify supplemental content that corresponds to the user's video. The supplemental content is then provided to the user device for the user's consumption. The supplemental content may be structured in such a way that pieces of the supplemental content are accessible at particular points in the video. The piece(s) of the supplemental content available at a particular point in the video will be related to one or more objects that are present at this point. This allows a user to access one or more pieces of supplemental content in a context-specific manner, at a point in the video where the piece(s) of supplemental content are relevant. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117837 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUPPLEMENTING CONTENT AT A USER DEVICE - Methods and systems to provide supplemental content to a user who is viewing video or other content. The user's device (through which he will access the video) then provides an identifier of that video to a server or other computing facility. Here, the video identifier is used to identify supplemental content that corresponds to the user's video. The supplemental content is then provided to the user device for the user's consumption. The supplemental content may be structured in such a way that pieces of the supplemental content are accessible at particular points in the video. The piece(s) of the supplemental content available at a particular point in the video will be related to one or more objects that are present at this point. This allows a user to access one or more pieces of supplemental content in a context-specific manner, at a point in the video where the piece(s) of supplemental content are relevant. | 04-30-2015 |
20150117838 | DISPLAY APPARATUS, OBJECT DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM FOR DISPLAYING OBJECTS CORRESPONDING TO CHARACTERS - There is provided a display apparatus including a relation score calculation unit calculating a relation score indicating closeness of a relation between characters based on a common appearance relation using segment metadata indicating a segment in a moving image where each of the characters appears, and an object display unit displaying an object corresponding to each of the characters appearing in the moving image. Further, the object display unit displays a pair of objects corresponding to a pair of characters with a high relation score to be closely positioned to each other, and displays a pair of objects corresponding to a pair of characters with a low relation score to be positioned far from each other. | 04-30-2015 |
20150125130 | METHOD FOR NETWORK VIDEO RECORDER TO ACCELERATE HISTORY PLAYBACK AND EVENT LOCKING - The present invention is to provide a method applicable to a player of a network video recorder for accelerating history playback and event locking, wherein the player decompresses a compressed file of recorded images when performing history playback of the recorded images, flags the resulting frames with “changed” or “unchanged”, depending on whether variation in image data traffic between the successive frames reaches a certain degree, and then sequentially plays the images of the successive frames on a monitor at different playing speeds which are set in the player and correspond to the successive “changed” and “unchanged” frames respectively. Thus, not only is the time required for history playback significantly shortened, but also a monitoring person is enabled to rapidly see, from among large amount of played back image data, the small number of images that demand attention and to greatly reduce the time, energy and effort required while monitoring. | 05-07-2015 |
20150125131 | Chunk Header Incorporating Binary Flags and Correlated Variable-Length Fields - Playback and distribution systems and methods for multimedia files are provided. The multimedia files are encoded with flags associated with the content data of the multimedia files. Through the use of the flags, playback of the content is enhanced without significantly increasing the file size of the multimedia file. | 05-07-2015 |
20150131966 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL AUDIO RENDERING TECHNIQUES - Three-dimensional (3D) audio content creation and rendering systems and methodologies are presented here. A disclosed method of processing 3D audio assigns audio source objects to 3D video objects, links audio tracks to assigned audio source objects, and performs wave field synthesis on the linked audio tracks to generate 3D audio data representing a 3D spatial sound field. A disclosed method of processing 3D audio during playback of 3D video content obtains 3D audio data and 3D video data for a frame of 3D video content, applies device-specific parameters to the 3D audio data to obtain transformed 3D audio data scaled to a presentation device, and processes the transformed 3D audio data to render audio information for an array of speakers associated with the presentation device. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131967 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING MODELS FOR IDENTIFYING THUMBNAIL IMAGES TO PROMOTE VIDEOS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for generating and using models to select thumbnail images for videos. In one exemplary method, the method comprises extracting at least one thumbnail from a video and determining at least one feature present in the at least one thumbnail. The method further comprises sending the extracted at least one thumbnail to one of an editor or at least one viewer. The method further comprises receiving feedback information related to the at least one thumbnail. The method further comprises generating a model and storing the generated model for use in identifying thumbnails for other videos. The model can be generated based on the determined at least one feature and the received feedback information. | 05-14-2015 |
20150131968 | BOOKMARKS IN RECORDED VIDEO - In general, in one aspect, the disclosure describes a video recording system including a user interface to enable a user to enter commands. A bookmark manager is to generate bookmarks corresponding to locations in the videos being recorded based on bookmark commands received, to assign end points for the bookmarks, and to generate a program based on selection of one or more of the recorded videos and selection of at least a subset of the bookmarks associated with the one or more recorded videos. A video record/playback manager is to control recording of the videos and the associated bookmarks and to present the program by playing the at least a subset of the associated bookmarks for the one or more of the recorded videos. Playback of each of the at least a subset of the associated bookmarks is to end at the assigned endpoint. | 05-14-2015 |
20150139608 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR EXPLORING DIGITAL VIDEO COLLECTIONS - Approaches presented herein enable to the interactive exploration of digital videos. The videos can include digital videos that have casually been captured by consumer devices, such as mobile phone cameras, tablets, and the like. Robust methods and systems are presented that enable such digital videos to be explored in interesting and advantageous ways, including transitions and other such features. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139609 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING USER EXPERIENCE DURING AN ONGOING CONTENT VIEWING ACTIVITY - A method and system for providing immersive user experience in a social experience (SE) environment by allowing users to create content Bookmarks. The SE environment amalgamates content received from various sources available in the network. The method streams the amalgamated content to the users through an SE server. The SE server provides enhanced experience service to the users by allowing the users to store, retrieve, and share the created Bookmarks with other users. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139610 | COMPUTER-ASSISTED COLLABORATIVE TAGGING OF VIDEO CONTENT FOR INDEXING AND TABLE OF CONTENTS GENERATION - Methods and systems for generation of an index and Table-of-Contents (ToC) for videos based on user given labels or a combination of user input and automated indexing techniques are provided. According to one embodiment, an annotation tool and a video player are presented to individual subscribers/users of a video discovery and consumption service. Tags proposed by the subscribers to be associated with various portions of the video content are received, processed and integrated within a global ToC for the video. The service can assist subscribers that intend to tag a certain portion of video by automatically proposing suitable tags and portion boundaries. Subscribers can vote on the suitability of tags constituting the ToC. Responsive to a request to view video content, a customized ToC is presented to a subscriber which include labels selected from the global ToC in accordance with default tag selection/filtering criteria or filtering criteria specified by subscriber. | 05-21-2015 |
20150139611 | APPARATUS, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR STORING PROGRAM EVENTS IN AN ENHANCED HISTORY BUFFER - Enhanced history buffer systems and methods are operable to temporarily store program content for program events. An exemplary embodiment receives program content corresponding to each of the plurality of program events, generates a unique discrete program content file in the enhanced history buffer for each of the plurality of program events, and stores the received program content for each of the plurality of program events in the associated one of the discrete program content files. Each discrete program content file begins at a known starting location in the enhanced history buffer and ends at a known ending location in the enhanced history buffer. | 05-21-2015 |
20150147045 | COMPUTER ECOSYSTEM WITH AUTOMATICALLY CURATED VIDEO MONTAGE - Electronic images of a video stream are programmatically analyzed and metadata associated with the images automatically populated with contextually relevant tags and markers for later referencing the images for curated entertainment. Specifically, a user can specify parameters for a video montage that leverages the metadata for automatic video montage creation based on the metadata. | 05-28-2015 |
20150294688 | APPLICATION TUNE MANIFESTS AND TUNE STATE RECOVERY - In accordance with one or more aspects, a request to run an application is received. The application has an associated tune manifest that identifies one or more resources that the application may use. The tune manifest is compared to a device resource record, and a check is made, based at least in part on the comparing, whether the one or more resources identified in the tune manifest can be satisfied by the device. If the one or more resources identified in the tune manifest can be satisfied by the device, then the application is run; otherwise, a notification of a conflict between the application and the device is presented. Additionally, when the application exits, a device tune state that identifies a content source to which the device was tuned prior to running the application can be retrieved and the device restored to this device tune state. | 10-15-2015 |
20150302896 | METHOD OF STORING A REAL TIME STREAM OF INFORMATION SIGNALS ON A DISC LIKE RECORD CARRIER - A method of storing a substantially real time stream of information signals arranged in separate, consecutive data packets of digital format on a disc like record carrier. A new stream pack (S_PCK) is defined comprising a pack header and a multiple of source packets containing said data packets with corresponding added time stamps related to a time of arrival of said data packets. The pack header comprises data packet retrieval information, such as the number of new source packets in the stream pack and the effect of the start location of the first source packet in the stream pack. Preferably private stream | 10-22-2015 |
20150304597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTION OF CONTENT FROM A STREAM OF DATA - A main stream contains successive content elements of video and/or audio information that encode video and/or audio information at a first data rate. A computation circuit ( | 10-22-2015 |
20150304705 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF A MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - This method for synchronizing two versions of a multimedia content, each version comprising a plurality of video frames, comprises steps of:
| 10-22-2015 |
20150310893 | RECORDING MEDIUM, REPRODUCING APPARATUS, AND REPRODUCING METHOD - In a recording medium on which is recorded a multiplexed stream including a plurality of first packets (V_main) constituting a first I-picture in a first video stream and a plurality of second packets (V_sub) constituting a second I-picture in a second video stream, information for identifying the first I-picture and information for identifying the second I-picture are recorded on the medium. A recording medium can thereby be obtained that enables the rapid detection, from a small amount of information, of a particular picture included in a stream such as a TS in which multiple content streams are multiplexed. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310894 | AUTOMATED VIDEO LOGGING METHODS AND SYSTEMS - Exemplary embodiments of systems and methods are provided for automatically creating time-based video metadata for a video source and a video playback mechanism. An automated logging process can be provided for receiving a digital video stream, analyzing one or more frames of the digital video stream, extracting a time from each of the one or more frames analyzed, and creating a clock index file associating a time with each of the one or more analyzed frames. The process can further provide for parsing one or more received data files, extracting time-based metadata from the one or more parsed data files, and determining a frame of the digital video stream that correlates to the extracted time based metadata. | 10-29-2015 |
20150310895 | METHODS, APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS FOR TIME-BASED AND GEOGRAPHIC NAVIGATION OF VIDEO CONTENT - Methods, apparatus, and systems for time-based and geographic navigation of video content are provided. Video content and associated metadata information are recorded and encoded using a video capture and encoding module. The associated metadata information includes at least one of date and time information of the recording and geographic position information indicative of a recording location. The recorded video content and the associated metadata information are communicated to a remote storage and web server device. A graphical user interface enables the display of an interactive map showing a route and current location of the video capture and encoding module. The video content may be searched using at least one of the graphical user interface and the interactive map by the date and/or time information and the geographic position information. Selected video content can be streamed or downloaded to a select location for display or storage. | 10-29-2015 |
20150318018 | CODE EXECUTION IN COMPLEX AUDIOVISUAL EXPERIENCES - In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a link to a video program; obtaining metadata that relates to the program and that defines, for a specified time point in the program, annotations to be invoked at the specified time point; wherein the annotations comprise: a graphic image; one or more filters, each of the filters comprising a key and one or more matching values; and optionally a reference to a video segment, an electronic document, program code statements, or a programmatic call; during playing the video, detecting that the video program is playing at the specified time point; in response to the detecting: for each particular annotation for the specified time point, retrieving a current value for the key, and causing to display the graphic image associated with that particular annotation only when the current value of the key matches one of the matching values of one of the filters. | 11-05-2015 |
20150326843 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTEXT-AWARE AUTOMATIC ZOOMING OF A VIDEO SEQUENCE - A computer implemented method and apparatus for context-aware automatic zooming of a video sequence. The method comprises receiving a command to alter a selected video clip of a video sequence visualized on a timeline display; automatically adjusting a timeline display representative of the video sequence to a calculated zoom level, wherein the zoom level allows visualization of editable content in the timeline display; receiving an indication that the altering operation is completed; and automatically resetting the timeline display representative of the video sequence to an original zoom level. | 11-12-2015 |
20150331942 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR AGGREGATING AND PRESENTING MULTIPLE VIDEOS OF AN EVENT - Methods, systems, and media for aggregating and presenting multiple videos of an event are provided. In some implementations, a method for identifying related video content is provided, the method comprising: receiving a first video and first video metadata that describes the first video from a first camera device; receiving a second video and second video metadata that describes the second video from a second camera device; comparing the first video metadata and the second video metadata; determining whether the first video and the second video are associated with an event based on the comparison; in response to determining that the first video and the second video are associated with the event, grouping the first video and second video into a plurality of videos associated with the event; and causing the plurality of videos to be displayed to a viewer based on the viewer requesting at least one of the plurality of videos. | 11-19-2015 |
20150332730 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVING COMMERCIAL ADVERTISEMENT FROM RECORDED TV PROGRAMS - A system and method for removing commercials from recorded television programs. The system and method for removing commercials from recorded television programs is defined by a set top box containing instructions embodied in software stored on non-volatile memory which cause a processor in the set top box to identify breaks in television programming while recording, detect the presence of a commercial, flag detected commercials, and delete flagged commercials once recording ends. Conventional program metadata, such as closed captioning and program information metadata, is used by the set top box to detect, verify and flag commercials. The set top box can then playback the recorded television programs with the commercials having been deleted. | 11-19-2015 |
20150340065 | IN-BAND DATA RECOGNITION AND SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEM - A method and apparatus for recognizing and synchronizing to in-band data at a multimedia device is provided. A content stream includes in-band data. The in-band data is processed and in-band data pattern data associated with the content stream are created. Metadata are attached to the event identification data. The event identification data are provided to multimedia devices which receive broadcasted multimedia content streams containing video programs with in-band data. The in-band data are processed and compared to the event identification data. If a match occurs, the multimedia device uses the metadata to perform specified actions. | 11-26-2015 |
20150348590 | Identifying A Locale Depicted Within A Video - A method comprising the steps of monitoring a play location within a playing of a video; selecting, from a plurality of video frame identifiers, a video frame identifier that is responsive to the play location, the selected video frame identifier being associated with information for retrieving, from a remote source, an interactive satellite map relating to a locale depicted within the video, the information further comprising magnification information; providing, during the playing of the video and responsive to the selected video frame identifier, an indication that information is available; receiving a request that is responsive to the indication; and providing, responsive to the request, an interactive satellite map relating to the locale depicted within the video, the interactive satellite map being responsive to the magnification information. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350495 | DETECTING A VERTICAL CUT IN A VIDEO SIGNAL FOR THE PURPOSE OF TIME ALTERATION - A circuit and method for detecting a vertical cut in a sequence of digital video images. Each pixel of a video frame is filtered then compared to a filter threshold. If the threshold is met, a current pixel bit is set as active. A delayed pixel bit is generated from the current pixel bit, and a changed pixel bit is generated if either but not both of the current pixel bit and the delayed pixel bit is active. Active pixels are counted. The count of active pixels in the current image and the count of active pixels in the delayed image are used to weight the active pixel count of the changed image. The counts are used to determine a change value for the current image. The change value may be a large positive value, a large negative value, or neither. A predefined pattern of the change values over a sequence of frames indicates a vertical cut in the sequence. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350496 | Time Compressing Video Content - Methods and systems for compressing video content are presented. The methods and systems include analyzing a sequence of media frames stored in the memory device and calculating a displacement level of each of the media frames. The displacement level indicates how different each of the media frames is to a previous media frame. The sequence of media frames is divided into a plurality of cuts where each cut ends at a media frame having a substantially high displacement level. Frames to be removed from the sequence of media frames are identified in each cut based upon the frame's displacement level. The identified frames are then removed. | 12-03-2015 |
20150350716 | LOCALIZED AUDIO SOURCE EXTRACTION FROM VIDEO RECORDINGS - Technologies are generally described for a system to process a collection of video recordings of a scene to extract and localize audio sources for the audio data. According to some examples, video recordings captured by mobile devices from different perspectives may be uploaded to a central database. Video segments capturing an overlapping portion of the scene at an overlapping time may be identified, and a relative location of each of the video capturing devices may be determined. Audio data for the video segments may be indexed with a sub-frame time reference and relative locations as a function of overlapping time. Using the indices that include the sub-frame time references and relative locations, audio sources for the audio data may be extracted and localized. The extracted audio sources may be transcribed and indexed to enable searching, and may be added back to each video recording as a separate audio channel. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356356 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING THUMBNAIL IMAGE OF MOVING PICTURE - An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a processing unit configured to extract at least one frame selected from a plurality of frames of moving-picture data as a candidate thumbnail image, wherein the at least one frame corresponds to at least one frame selected according to a plurality of thumbnail extraction criteria, and to determine at least one candidate thumbnail image selected from a group comprising candidate thumbnail images obtained by the extracting, as at least one final thumbnail image, based on a thumbnail extraction criterion to which the candidate thumbnail images obtained by the extracting respectively correspond, and a display unit configured to display the at least one final thumbnail image. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356998 | VIDEO PREVIEW BASED BROWSING USER INTERFACE - A first video preview corresponding to a first video program is played back. When it is time to transition from playing back the first video preview to playing back a second video preview corresponding to a second video program, the transition is made from playing back the first video preview to playing back the second video preview. The transition can be made by sliding the first video preview off a display while sliding the second video preview onto the display. Additionally, metadata associated with the first video program can be displayed for an amount of time before playback of the first video preview ceases, and metadata associated with the second video program can be displayed for an amount of time after playback of the second video preview begins. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356999 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AND ANALYZING BROWSER SESSION DATA WITHIN ONLINE VIDEO VIA THE VIXEL DELIVERY MECHANISM - Disclosed herein are methods and systems for new analytic pathways for collecting information regarding video playback by human (and automated) users. This is achieved in part by placing certain elements (Vixels) within the code of a video file prior to it being uploaded by a user who shares the video. Whenever and wherever the video is played, whether it is streamed once, downloaded and played several times thereafter, or played for a mass audience, the analytic pathway is triggered each and every time the video file is played because the elements triggering the collection of analytics exist in the video file itself. By embedding Vixels into video files at or before upload, the analytics mechanisms are triggered by the embedded Vixel regardless of how, where, when, and by whom the video is played back, forming the framework for a simpler and more accurate analytics network. | 12-10-2015 |
20150357000 | Motion Picture Processing System - Described herein is a processing apparatus, film scanner and associated method, such as a processing apparatus for processing motion picture film, comprising an identification module for identifying selected regions of one or more digital images or digital video clips of the film; and an image modification module configured to access or produce data; and modify at least one of the one or more digital images or the digital video clip so as to provide the data in at least one of the selected regions. Advantageously, the selected regions correspond to perforations in the film. | 12-10-2015 |
20150357001 | TIMELINE INTERFACE FOR VIDEO CONTENT - Disclosed are various embodiments for presenting a timeline interface in association with video content features. A video content feature may be rendered on a display. A current scene in the video content feature is determined. A user interface is rendered on the display, where the user interface includes a timeline component. The timeline component represents the video content feature and visually segments the video content feature into scenes. The current scene may be visually indicated on the timeline component. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363635 | Rule-Based Video Importance Analysis - The importance of video sections of a video file may be determined from features of the video file. The video file may be decoded to obtain video frames and audio data associated with the video frames. Feature scores for each video frame may be obtained by analyzing features of the video frame or the audio data associated with the video frame based on a local rule, a global rule, or both. The feature scores are further combined to derive a frame importance score for the video frame. Based on the feature scores of the video frames in the video file, the video file may be segmented into video sections of different section importance values. | 12-17-2015 |
20150363648 | DETECTION OF DEMARCATING SEGMENTS IN VIDEO - A method of detecting frames in a video that demarcate a pre-determined type of video segment within the video is provided. The method includes identifying visually distinctive candidate marker frames within the video, grouping the candidate marker frames into a plurality of groups based on visual similarity, computing a collective score for each of the groups based on temporal proximity of each of the candidate marker frames within the group to related events occurring within the video, and selecting at least one of the groups based on the collective proximity scores as marker frames that demarcate the pre-determined type of video segment. A video processing electronic device and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon for performing the method are also provided. | 12-17-2015 |
20150371090 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus comprises a motion vector detection unit, a generation unit for generating information regarding the motion vector as metadata, a recording unit for recording each frame image in association with the metadata; and a control unit for causing the motion vector detection unit to perform motion vector detection by using an image signal on which reduction processing or thinning processing was performed, and causing the motion vector detection unit to determine an image area based on the metadata and to perform motion vector detection by using an image signal on which reduction processing or thinning processing was not performed or on which reduction processing was performed using a smaller reduction ratio than that used during the image capturing operation or thinning processing was performed using a smaller thinning ratio than that used during the image capturing operation. | 12-24-2015 |
20150371679 | SEMI-AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - A method for multimedia content generation includes presenting to a user text that will serve as audio narration in a video clip, and a collection of media items to be selectively included in the video clip. Instructions, which associate one or more selected media items with corresponding elements of the text, are received from the user. The video clip is generated automatically, such that the selected media items appear in the video clip in synchronization with the corresponding elements of the text in accordance with the instructions. | 12-24-2015 |
20150373395 | Systems And Methods For Merging Media Content - A computer implemented method for storing and delivering to a consumer a first commentary and a second commentary comprises the steps of storing in a first commentary record of a commentary database the first commentary and a first set of time indexing data, and storing in a second commentary record of the commentary database the second commentary and a second set of time indexing data. A content delivery device is used to playback the media content for the consumer. The playback of the media content is paused after the playback of the first scene, and the first commentary is played for the consumer on the content delivery device. The second commentary is next played on the content delivery device after the playback of the first commentary has ended. Playback of the media content is resumed on the content delivery device upon conclusion of the second commentary. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379124 | System and Method for Digital Video Retrieval Involving Speech Recognition - Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for retrieving digital images. The method embodiment includes converting a descriptive audio stream of a digital video that is provided for the visually impaired to text and then aligning that text to the appropriate segment of the digital video. The system then indexes the converted text from the descriptive audio stream with the text's relationship to the digital video. The system enables queries using action words describing a desired scene from a digital video. | 12-31-2015 |
20150380052 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING, SYNCHRONIZING, AND EDITING VIDEO FROM A PRIMARY DEVICE AND DEVICES IN PROXIMITY TO THE PRIMARY DEVICE - The disclosed embodiments allow for the capturing, synchronization, and editing of video clips captured by a plurality of devices. In one embodiment, video clips are associated with one another when the devices that captured the video clips are in physical proximity with one another and the video clips are captured during the same time period. Those video clips can be synchronized at a later time and aggregated by a user to form a new video clip. | 12-31-2015 |
20150380055 | TECHNIQUES FOR INDEXING VIDEO FILES - In one embodiment, an apparatus may include a processor circuit and a keyframe indexing module that is operative on the processor circuit to map sensor data from a first sensor to a set of video data, where the sensor data and video data correspond to an event. The keyframe indexing module may be further operative on the processor circuit to identify one or more key portions of the set of sensor data, index the one or more key portions to respective mapped one or more video frames of the video data, and generate a first keyframe index to identify the one or more video frames. | 12-31-2015 |
20160005440 | PROVISION OF VIDEO DATA - Individual time stamp data inputs generated by different viewers of a broadcast or other video output are used to identify parts of the video data to be used to generate a sequence of video clips or “highlights”. The individual time stamps for each event are aggregated to generate a single marker flag ( | 01-07-2016 |
20160007100 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VIDEO SUMMARY - Provided is an imaging apparatus for providing a video summary, the apparatus including: a storage configured to store at least one original video; a metadata generator configured to generate metadata with regard to the original video; a video summary generator configured to generate at least one video summary script with regard to the original video by using the generated metadata and generate a video summary based on the generated video summary script; and an image reproducer configured to control the storage, the metadata generator, and the video summary generator, store the metadata generated by the metadata generator, and reproduce at least one of the original video and the video summary. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012296 | System and Method For Processing A Video Stream To Extract Highlights | 01-14-2016 |
20160012852 | System for Visualizing Data | 01-14-2016 |
20160012853 | CLIP CREATION AND COLLABORATION | 01-14-2016 |
20160012855 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USE IN PLAYING BACK PANORAMA VIDEO CONTENT | 01-14-2016 |
20160012856 | VIDEO REPLAY SYSTEMS AND METHODS | 01-14-2016 |
20160012857 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR EDITING MEDIA CONTENT | 01-14-2016 |
20160012859 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING AND USING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL METADATA | 01-14-2016 |
20160014458 | Systems and Methods for Timing the Recording and Playback of Television Programming | 01-14-2016 |
20160014466 | SEARCH FOR MEDIA MATERIAL | 01-14-2016 |
20160014482 | Systems and Methods for Generating Video Summary Sequences From One or More Video Segments | 01-14-2016 |
20160019934 | CONTINUING MEDIA PLAYBACK AFTER BOOKMARKING - One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, using a processor, a consumer of media content; detecting, using data derived from a device selected from the group consisting of an image capture device and an audio capture device, a trigger event associated with the consumer; and creating, using a processor, a bookmark at a location in the media content associated with the detection of the trigger event. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 01-21-2016 |
20160027470 | SCENE AND ACTIVITY IDENTIFICATION IN VIDEO SUMMARY GENERATION - Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027471 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING RECORDED VIDEOS - Systems and methods for creating, editing and publishing recorded videos based on user selected edit points are described herein. The present invention transforms a recorded video and user selected edit points into a customized presentable video. A video editing tool analyzes a recorded video and flags occurrences of user selected edit points. The video editing tool then creates a customized video that can include video portions based on user selected edit points. The video can also include flags for a user to jump from edit point to edit point. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027474 | Systems and Methods of Detecting Significant Faces in Video Streams - Systems and methods of processing video streams are described. A face is detected in a video stream. The face is tracked to determine a video clip associated with one of a plurality of individuals. The video segment is assigned to a group of video clips based on the associated individual. A significant face is detected in the group of video clips when the detected face meets one or more significance criteria. The significance criteria describes a face-frame characteristic. A representation of the significant face is displayed in association with a representation of the group of video clips. The order of the significance criteria is adjusted through a user interface. | 01-28-2016 |
20160027476 | DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A digital image processing apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The digital image processing apparatus includes: a display controller for displaying first content on a display unit; and an image generator for generating second content based on a photographing signal input, which may be from a user, and third content related to the second content. | 01-28-2016 |
20160028990 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SYNCHRONIZING DATA STREAMS CONTAINING AUDIO, VIDEO AND/OR OTHER DATA - Several data streams contain video, audio and/or other data. Some of the data streams are pre-recorded in a multiplex on a storage medium while other data streams are located out of the data stream multiplex on the storage medium. The data streams are synchronized using a navigation file (List_of_PlayItems), which comprises descriptors (PlayItems, SubPlayItems) pointing to parts of said data streams, wherein said descriptors define the arrangement in time for said data streams by means of data sub stream paths. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034763 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, MOVING IMAGE PUBLISHING SYSTEM, MOVING IMAGE PUBLISHING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A plurality of frame images are extracted from a moving image, and image analysis is performed to determine a scene of each frame image. The plurality of frame images are divided into divided frame image groups according to a replay order of the moving image while taking one frame image different from the scenes of preceding and following frame images in the replay order of the moving image, or two or more frame images, in which the same scene is consecutive, as a divided frame image group. It is determined whether or not to publish each divided frame image group based on the priority of publishing, and frame images included in the divided frame image group determined to be published are combined to generate the digest moving image of the moving image. The digest moving image is uploaded to a server through a network. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035387 | AUTOMATED STORY GENERATION - Automatic story production is implemented by the utilization of theme scripts with user assets to generate a quality finished product with minimum user input or direction. A user chooses a predesigned theme script to be applied to the user's assets to automatically create a story with a particular look and feel. Metadata and feature information, when available, is automatically gathered from the user assets to personalize the generated story. A user can include additional information and/or alter any aspect of the generated story to further personalize the resultant finished product. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035389 | VIDEO-SEGMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Summarization segments of an encoded video can be efficiently identified, without the need to decode the encoded video to obtain image data, by analyzing encoded-buffer-size deltas, each indicating an encoded-buffer-size difference between a pair of intra-coded frames of an encoded video. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035390 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS DISPLAYING INDICES OF VIDEO CONTENTS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus that includes: a storing portion to store video data: and a display portion to display a first thumbnail generated by decoding the video data, wherein if a scroll instruction is received prior to completion of generation of the first thumbnail, the display portion displays a second thumbnail corresponding to the video data. | 02-04-2016 |
20160035392 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CLIPPING VIDEO SEGMENTS - Systems and methods for streaming video, interacting with video content, and sharing video content are disclosed herein. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein. | 02-04-2016 |
20160049173 | TECHNIQUES AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING VIDEO - An apparatus may include a memory to store a recorded video. The apparatus may further include an interface to receive at least one set of sensor information based on sensor data that is recorded concurrently with the recorded video and a video clip creation module to identify a sensor event from the at least one set of sensor information and to generate a video clip based upon the sensor event, the video clip comprising video content from the recorded video that is synchronized to the sensor event. | 02-18-2016 |
20160049175 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CATALOGUING AUDIO-VISUAL DATA - A method for cataloguing audio-visual data including indexing a plurality of audio-visual segments by specifying a storage location and recording time of each segment. A segment hierarchy is created based on the locations and times of each recording. The plurality of audio-visual segments can be recorded with a mobile digital video recorder onto a removable medium located within a vehicle such that the mobile digital video recorder can identify the vehicle in which the removable medium is located in while recording each segment. | 02-18-2016 |
20160055380 | FRAMEWORK FOR COMBINING CONTENT INTELLIGENCE MODULES - A method for analyzing media assets such as video and audio files. The method includes providing access to all the frames of a digital media asset. The method includes, with a microprocessor, running a raw analyzer modules to analyze the asset frames to produce sets of raw analyzer result data that are stored in a data cache in a file associated with the asset. The sets of raw analyzer results are linked to the raw analyzer modules with unique identifiers. The digital media asset is played for the raw analyzer modules, which concurrently analyze the temporally-related frames. The raw analyzer results are stored as data tracks that include metadata for the asset such as immutable parameters including histograms. The method includes using a feature algorithm module to generate an analysis result, such as face identification, for the digital media asset based on the raw analyzer results accessed by the identifiers. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055381 | Scene and Activity Identification in Video Summary Generation Based on Motion Detected in a Video - Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. In one example, best scenes are identified based on the motion values associated with frames or portions of a frame of a video. Motion values are determined for each frame and portions of the video including frames with the most motion are identified as best scenes. Best scenes may also be identified based on the motion profile of a video. The motion profile of a video is a measure of global or local motion within frames throughout the video. For example, best scenes are identified from portion of the video including steady global motion. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055885 | Voice-Based Video Tagging - Video and corresponding metadata is accessed. Events of interest within the video are identified based on the corresponding metadata, and best scenes are identified based on the identified events of interest. A video summary can be generated including one or more of the identified best scenes. The video summary can be generated using a video summary template with slots corresponding to video clips selected from among sets of candidate video clips. Best scenes can also be identified by receiving an indication of an event of interest within video from a user during the capture of the video. Metadata patterns representing activities identified within video clips can be identified within other videos, which can subsequently be associated with the identified activities. | 02-25-2016 |
20160055886 | Method for Generating Chapter Structures for Video Data Containing Images from a Surgical Microscope Object Area - The invention relates to a method for generating a chapter structure constructed from individual chapters (no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, . . . ) for video data from a video data stream containing images captured in successive image frames from an object area of a surgical microscope, for which different operating states can be set. Here, an item of chapter information is determined for some of the successive image frames, and the successively captured image frames of the video data stream are classified in a chapter (no. 1, no. 2, no. 3, . . . ) of the chapter structure depending on the chapter information determined for some of the image frames. The chapter information is determined taking into account meta data containing an item of operating state information relating to the surgical microscope. | 02-25-2016 |
20160064035 | MULTI-SOURCE VIDEO INPUT - A method of merging video files into a consolidated video file includes receiving, by a computer device, plural video files from plural video capture devices. The method also includes determining, by the computer device, an overlapping portion of the plural video files. The method additionally includes creating, by the computer device, a thumbnail image associated with the determined overlapping portion. The method further includes creating, by the computer device, a single video file from the plural video files. The method also includes displaying, by the computer device, the single video file and a thumbnail image. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064036 | CLOUD INFORMATION STORAGE, ACCESS, AND SECURITY - Devices and methods for cloud based management of multi-media files and/or associated data files are presented. Methods for using the device(s) to implement different information management techniques for managing information obtained (e.g., recorded) by a plurality of recording devices are also described. A comprehensive use of multiple distinct surveillance systems in a coordinated manner is described. A set of surveillance devices configured for use by one or more law enforcement agencies or other government agencies may upload and share information using cloud information, storage, access, and security methods. Maintaining information using cloud based techniques allows for sharing access (securely and remotely) without redundant copies of information on physical media and may reduce bandwidth transmission requirements. Further, requirements for both chain of custody of evidence and confidentiality regarding digitally recorded evidence may be complied with. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064037 | VIDEO APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF VIDEO APPARATUS - One embodiment provides a video apparatus including: a recorder configured to record a video content including caption information; a setting register configured to set search parameters including a keyword; and a chapter generator configured to extract chapters each including an interval in which the keyword appears in a caption or captions from the video content. The chapter generator extracts the chapters by setting a start point of a period in which a caption containing the keyword is to be displayed first as a chapter start point, and setting a point that comes first after the end of display of a tail caption containing the keyword among a point when a silent interval starts, a point when a prescribed time elapses, and an end point of a packet concerned of the video content consisting of plural packets as a chapter end point. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064038 | METHOD FOR THE REPRODUCTION OF A FILM - The present invention relates to a method for the reproduction, through an audio/visual means, of a film and an apparatus for the reproduction of the same. More particularly, the method according to the present invention allows more viewings of the same film such that the film itself is automatically composed as to be different at each viewing. The method for the reproduction of a film is finalized to the creation of a “multifilm”, i.e. a film that changes its plot in every reproduction. | 03-03-2016 |
20160064039 | Thumbnail Generation - Thumbnail generation techniques are described. In one or more implementations, at least one thumbnail is generated by a device from video received at the device. The generation of the at least one thumbnail includes decoding at least one I-picture included in the video when present that is to serve as a basis for the at least one thumbnail and skipping decoding of non-I-pictures that describe differences in relation to the at least one I-picture included in the video such that the non-I-pictures are not utilized in the generating of the at least one thumbnail. For robust thumbnail generation, when at least one I-picture has not been identified in the video in a predetermined time, falling back to decoding subsequent non-I-pictures in the video to generate the thumbnail from non-I-pictures. | 03-03-2016 |
20160065885 | METHOD AND TERMINAL FOR REPRODUCING CONTENT - A method of reproducing content is provided. The method performed by a terminal includes operations of obtaining metadata corresponding to a predetermined portion of the content, selecting, based on the metadata, at least one external device to reproduce the predetermined portion of the content, transmitting a control command to the at least one external device, and reproducing the predetermined portion of the content by interoperation of the terminal with the at least one external device to which the control command is transmitted. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066036 | SHOCK BLOCK - A system may include a media processor that categorizes at least one scene of a media stream into a category. The media processor may further provide an output media stream that alters the at least one scene of the media stream based on the category, where the category may be shocking or scary scenes. A method may include categorizing, using a computing device, at least one scene of a media stream into at least one category. The method may further include altering, using the computing device, the at least one scene of the media stream based on the category. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070447 | USER INTERFACES FOR MEDIA APPLICATION - The described technology is directed towards user interface technology that guides users in making content (e.g., video selection) and also navigating within selected content. A selection menu view uses style changes to indicate focus changes, e.g., including animating opacity values to indicate a focused item view versus those items not in focus. In another view, a subset of filmstrip views are displayed, each representing a chapter location in a video, along with a flipbook view that represents a selected scene within a selected chapter. Interaction with the filmstrip views changes the visible subset. Interaction with the flipbook view changes the selected scene; a play command plays the video based upon the selected scene. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070963 | REAL TIME VIDEO SUMMARIZATION - System, apparatus, method, and computer readable media for on-the-fly captured video summarization. A video stream is incrementally summarized in concurrence with generation of the stream by a camera module. Saliency of the video stream summary is maintained as the stream evolves by updating the summary to include only the most significant frames. In one exemplary embodiment, saliency is determined by optimizing an objective function including terms that are indicative of both the diversity of a selection, and how representative the selection is to the processed portion of the video data corpus. A device platform including a CM and comporting with the exemplary architecture may provide video camera functionality at ultra-low power, and/or with ultra-low storage resources, and/or with ultra-low communication channel bandwidth. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071547 | MEDICAL IMAGE DATA INFORMATION EXCHANGE SYSTEM - [Problem] To efficiently and effectively exchange information on medical image data. | 03-10-2016 |
20160071549 | SYNOPSIS VIDEO CREATION BASED ON RELEVANCE SCORE - Embodiments described herein include systems and methods for automatically creating compilation videos from a source video based on metadata associated with the source video. For example, a method for creating a compilation video may include receiving a source video having a set of video frames, each video frame in the set of video frames having associated metadata; generating a relevance score for each video frame in the set of video frames based on the associated metadata; selecting a first video frame from the set of video frames based on a first relevance score for the first video frame; and creating the compilation video that includes the first video frame. | 03-10-2016 |
20160078297 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR VIDEO BROWSING - A method for video browsing includes comparing a current image frame with a previous image frame prior to the current image frame in a video to obtain target block information, identifying the current image frame as a keyframe if the target block information satisfies a predetermined condition, and playing the keyframe. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078899 | CONTENT INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING IDENTIFIED OBJECT IMAGES WITHIN VIDEO CONTENT - An information processing apparatus comprising that includes a reproduction unit to reproduce video content comprising a plurality of frames; a memory to store a table including object identification information identifying an object image, and frame identification information identifying a frame of the plurality of frames that includes the object image; and a processor to extract the frame including the object image from the video content and generate display data of a reduced image corresponding to the frame for display. | 03-17-2016 |
20160078902 | CONTENT REPRODUCTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - The content reproduction method includes receiving a select signal for selecting one or more pieces of content; and reproducing the selected pieces of content and one or more pieces of content which were generated or reproduced together with the selected pieces of content in a temporal space within a range. | 03-17-2016 |
20160086634 | INDEX TABLE GENERATION IN PVR APPLICATIONS FOR AVC VIDEO STREAMS - One or more methods and systems of indexing an AVC video stream are presented. In one embodiment, the method comprises identifying one or more fields within a picture of an AVC video stream. In one embodiment, a field of the one or more fields indicates the beginning of each picture. In a second embodiment, a field of the one or more fields indicates a picture type of a picture. In a third embodiment, a field of the one or more fields indicates whether a picture is a reference or a non-reference picture. By determining that a picture is a non-reference picture, the picture may be discarded, thereby reducing the memory required to implement the indexing system while increasing the available memory size. In one embodiment, a system of indexing an AVC video stream comprises a control processor, a memory, and a set of instructions resident in the memory. | 03-24-2016 |
20160086636 | SUBTITLE PROCESSING DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD AND SUBTITLE PARSING METHOD - A subtitle processing method includes a subtitle parsing step and a subtitle reading step. The subtitle parsing step includes: dividing a subtitle file into a plurality of subtitle blocks, each of the subtitle blocks including a plurality of subtitle contents, each of the subtitle contents corresponding to a subtitle time; generating an index table that records characteristic times of the subtitle blocks. The subtitle reading step, for reading a target subtitle content corresponding to a current time, includes: identifying a target subtitle block corresponding to the current time and the characteristic times recorded in the index table; and reading the target subtitle content of the target subtitle block according to the current time. | 03-24-2016 |
20160093336 | Method and System for Non-Causal Zone Search in Video Monitoring - A computing system processes a video recording to identify a plurality of motion events, each corresponding to a respective video segment along a timeline of the video recording. The computing system identifies at least one object in motion within a scene depicted in the video recording and stores a respective event mask for each event. The computing system receives a definition of a zone of interest within the scene. In response to receiving the definition, the computing system determines, for each motion event, whether the respective event mask of the motion event overlaps with the zone of interest by at least a predetermined overlap factor, and identifies one or more events of interest from the plurality of motion events, wherein the respective event mask of each identified event of interest is determined to overlap with the zone of interest by at least the predetermined overlap factor. | 03-31-2016 |
20160099026 | STORAGE METHOD, PLAYBACK METHOD, STORAGE APPARATUS, AND PLAYBACK APPARATUS - A storage method according to one aspect includes: a reception step of receiving a coded stream including a plurality of files that are of a data unit in a predetermined file format; a storage step of storing the received plurality of files of the coded stream in a memory; and a generation step of generating first control information used to play back the stored plurality of files, the first control information correlating the plurality of files. Therefore, the method for storing data in which one coded stream is divided into a plurality of files is provided. | 04-07-2016 |
20160104511 | Method and Apparatus for Managing Images Using a Voice Tag - An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a voice input module which receives a voice from an outside to generate voice data, a memory which stores one or more images or videos, and a processor which is electrically connected to the voice input module and the memory. The memory includes instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the electronic device to link at least one of the voice data, the first metadata information based on the voice data, or second metadata information generated from the voice data and/or the first metadata information with the second image or video. | 04-14-2016 |
20160105634 | System and Method for Streaming and Recording Video - In at least one embodiment, a method and a computer system for implementing the method are provided. The method may include streaming temporal video to obtain a streamed temporal video having a current incomplete segment and dynamically buffering the current incomplete segment to store data associated thereto and a current incomplete segment buffer. The method may further include receiving first and second inputs to obtain start and end time markers for a first video segment and continuously recording the streamed temporal video based on receipt of the first input and until receipt of the second input to obtain a raw recorded first video segment. A recorded first video segment may be generated based on the raw recorded first video segment and the current incomplete segment data. The method may be used to generate recordings of discontinuous events from streaming video, for example, individual plays during sporting events. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110607 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING VIDEO CONTENT TO IDENTIFY OBJECTS AND ASSOCIATE INFORMATION WITH IDENTIFIED OBJECTS - Systems and methods for identifying objects, such as advertised items or other content, within video content, which may be sequitur or non-sequitur in nature. The identified objects may then be select from within video content by a user to access metadata associated with the objects. The identified objects may be identified to viewers by cues. Cues may be oral, visual or both oral and visual. One or more frames corresponding to a period of video depicting identified objects are displayed in separate object identifiers that may be viewed by the viewer and from within which the identified objects may be selected by the viewer. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110611 | NUMERICAL CONTROL DEVICE - A numerical control device for recording status information indicating status at machine control includes, a display image generation unit configured to generate a display image, a keyboard image generation unit configured to generate a keyboard image, the keyboard image being generated by imaging acquired key depression state, an image combination unit configured to combine the display image and the keyboard image into a combined image, a moving image generation unit configured to generate a moving image based on the combined image generated periodically. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117559 | THUMBNAIL MANAGEMENT - Thumbnail management for video content may include detecting scene change points from video content, prioritizing each frame in each analysis window, selecting a frame in each analysis window based on a respective prioritization score for each frame, and storing the selected frame as the thumbnail for the respective analysis window. | 04-28-2016 |
20160118085 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SYSTEMATIZATION OF PRODUCTION-PROCESS VIDEO DATA - There are disclosed a method and a system for systematization of production-process video data. The method is executable at an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving data regarding a correspondence between at least one service zone of a video-data source and at least one workplace for a performance of a production operation; generating a list of identifier types for marking video data to be received form the video-data source; receiving data regarding the production operation from at least one input device for production-operation data, the data regarding production operation being indicative of at least one identifier of at least one workplace for the production operation; based on the data regarding the production operation and the data regarding the correspondence between at least one service zone and the at least one workplace for the production operation, determining a given at least one video-data source of a given service zone in which the production operation is currently being performed; composing a reference that is indicative of a correspondence between video data generated by the given at least one video-data source at least some of the identifiers in the list of identifier types for marking video data to be received form the video-data source, the at least some of the identifiers being specifically selected for a type of the production operation being performed. | 04-28-2016 |
20160118086 | NON-LINEAR VIDEO REVIEW BUFFER NAVIGATION - In one embodiment, a method for non-linear navigation of video content includes: receiving the video content in a live video review buffer, where the video content is indexed according to a time code index, defining video content windows in the video content according to blocks of time according to the time code index, displaying a grid of video tiles, where each of the video tiles is associated with one of the video content windows in the live video review buffer, defining an in-focus status for one of the video tiles, and in response to user input, navigating the video content window associated with the video tile with the in-focus status. | 04-28-2016 |
20160127710 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTO-DELAY VIDEO PRESENTATION - A computer implemented method for automatic presentation of delayed video. During normal operation real-time video feed is sent to a digital screen for presentation and is also sent to memory for storage. When a delay trigger is issued, the system either freezes the frame presented in that instance or stores a time indicator. The system then monitors delay time and, when the delay time is reached, the system starts fetching frames from the memory, starting either from the frame immediately following the frozen frame or from the frame that was stored at the time indicator, and sends these frames to the digital screen for presentation. The system then monitors delay period and, when the delay period arrive, the system reverts to normal mode wherein real-time video feed is sent to a digital screen for presentation and is also sent to memory for storage. | 05-05-2016 |
20160127761 | COORDINATION OF VIDEO AND/OR AUDIO RECORDING - Approaches described herein provide coordination of audio and/or video recording to minimize any gaps in coverage. In one approach, users of a distributed set of recording devices are invited to join a community with other similar users via a networked application in a loosely collaborative way. The recording coordination application substantially continuously monitors the state of the recording activities and coordinates the community of users to reduce any gaps in coverage. | 05-05-2016 |
20160133294 | VIDEO CREATION PLATFORM - A computer-implemented method for creation of a video project includes uploading a starting video to a data storage of a media management server, the starting video having a plurality of starting frames each having a distinct starting video time stamp, generating a first user interface to a media display of a first client computing device, presenting the starting video through the first user interface, modifying the starting video in response to user input through the first user interface to produce an updated video having a plurality of updated frames each having a distinct updated video time stamp, associating one or more comments to the updated and starting frames, and presenting the one or more comments along with the starting video and the updated video through the first user interface as a topical, chronological thread in accordance with the chronologic indicators. | 05-12-2016 |
20160133299 | VIDEO CONTENT ALIGNMENT - Various embodiments identify differences between frame sequences of a video. For example, to determine a difference between two versions of a video, a fingerprint of each frame of the two versions is generated. From the fingerprints, a run-length encoded representation of each version is generated. The fingerprints which appear only once (i.e., unique fingerprints) in the entire video are identified from each version and compared to identify matching unique fingerprints across versions. The matching unique fingerprints are sorted and filtered to determine split points, which are used to align the two versions of the video. Accordingly, each version is segmented into smaller frame sequences using the split points. Once segmented, the individual frames of each segment are aligned across versions using a dynamic programming algorithm. After aligning the segments at a frame level, the segments are reassembled to generate a global alignment output. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140997 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING MULTIMEDIA CLIP - A method and a device for generating a multimedia clip from multimedia content without interrupting playback of the multimedia content and with no user inputs or at least minimal user inputs are provided. A multimedia content being currently played is stored in a buffer. A current time or a current frame is designated as an end point of the multimedia clip. A start point of the multimedia clip is either computed or received. The multimedia clip is generated by retrieving from the buffer a portion of the multimedia content between the start point and the end point. | 05-19-2016 |
20160141000 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - The present invention comprises an input part for inputting image data, a receiving part for receiving production, information relating to production transmitted from another apparatus, a recording part for recording the production information received by the receiving part and image data input by the input part, a detection part for detecting a recording position on a recording medium at an editing point of image data recorded by the recording part, and a transmission part for transmitting information of the recording position detected by the detection part, whereby identification information for identifying image data and voice data is recorded in a recording medium or a recording device, this relieving a burden on a photographer and an editor and facilitating extraction of image data and voice data. | 05-19-2016 |
20160141001 | MEDIA CLIP CREATION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, AND METHODS - Various embodiments for creating media clips are disclosed. In one embodiment, media clips are created by a server in response to receiving a primary media recording of at least a portion of an event from a first content capture device, and activity identification information from a content tagging device, the activity identification information comprising a selection time when an activity indicator was selected by a user in response to an activity that occurred during the event. A processor executes machine-executable instructions stored in memory that causes the server to determine whether the first primary media recording is associated with the event, and create a first media clip from the first primary media recording when the first primary media recording is determined to be associated with the event. | 05-19-2016 |
20160148055 | CONTENT INTERRUPTION POINT IDENTIFICATION ACCURACY AND EFFICIENCY - Automated content interruption point identification improves the accuracy with which potential content interruption points are identified, and increases the efficiency of content interruption point identification and content distribution. Potential interruption points are automatically identified based on transitions occurring within the content, including changes in the sound level, changes in the light, or brightness, level, changes in people visible in a scene of the content, transitions that are identified by content metadata, and other types of transitions. In providing content to a content consumer, a determination is made whether to interrupt the provision of the content, at one or more of the identified potential content interruption points, based on factors including interruption point metadata, metadata associated with auxiliary content that would be inserted, and user information, which includes explicitly specified user settings, as well as detected user information. | 05-26-2016 |
20160148651 | FACIAL DETECTION, RECOGNITION AND BOOKMARKING IN VIDEOS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facial bookmarking in videos. In one aspect, methods include receiving a digital video comprising video data, processing the video data to detect features indicative of a human face in the digital video, determining, from the video data, a first frame, in which the features indicative of the human face are detected in the digital video, determining first timestamp data corresponding to the first frame, determining, from the video data, a second frame, in which the features indicative of the human face are detected in the digital video, determining second timestamp data corresponding to the second frame, generating an identifier corresponding to the human face, generating a data set including the identifier, the first timestamp data and the second timestamp data, and appending the data set to the video data to provide annotated video data. | 05-26-2016 |
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20160162497 | VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS SUPPORTING SMART SEARCH AND SMART SEARCH METHOD PERFORMED USING VIDEO RECORDING APPARATUS - A video recording apparatus includes: an object classifier configured to classify an object which is included in an input video and related to a detected event, according to a type of the object; an object color extractor configured to extract a representative color of the object; and a search color storage configured to transform the representative color into a search color and store the search color as color information to be used for searching the object or the detected event from the input video. | 06-09-2016 |
20160163354 | Programme Control - A system for controlling the presentation of audio-video programmes has an input for receiving audio-video programmes. A data comparison unit is arranged to produce at intervals throughout the programme a value for each of f features of the audio-video and then to derive from the features a metadata value, the metadata value having M dimensions, the number of dimensions being smaller than the number of features. A threshold is applied to the metadata value to determine points of interest within the audio-video programmes and a controller is arranged to control retrieval and playback of the programmes using the interesting points. | 06-09-2016 |
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20160165173 | Video Preview During Trick Play - Methods and systems are described for displaying a thumbnail preview of video content. In an aspect, one or more mosaic images made up of thumbnails corresponding to frames of the video content at multiple time points can be loaded into the system or created by the methods described. In an aspect, the selected thumbnail, as well as any other thumbnails, can be selected in response to receiving a command (e.g., trick play request) from the viewer. The command can dictate the direction from the selected thumbnail that the next thumbnails will be selected. The command can also dictate the frequency with which thumbnails will be selected from the mosaic image. In an aspect, frames comprised of thumbnails can be encoded to create the video content. | 06-09-2016 |
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