User control for displaying tags associated with items in a video playback

• US 10,043,553 B2
• Filed: 05/09/2017
• Issued: 08/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: TP-Link USA Corporation (TP-Link Technologies Co Limited)
• Original Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Kulas, Charles J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chio, Tat C
• Application Number:
  US15/590,958
• Publication Number:
  US 20170243618A1
• Time in Patent Office: 455 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4725 using interactive regions of the image, e.g. hot spots details of information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/781 on disks or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal

Abstract

A method controls display of one or more visually perceptible tags in association with a video. The method receives a first signal from a user input control device while the video is being presented via a display device without any visually perceptible tags. The first signal is generated by the user input control device in response to activation of a control associated with a function of causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag. In response to receiving the first signal, the method causes the display device to present the video with at least one visually perceptible tag. After causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag, the method changes the function associated with the control to thereafter cause the display device to present the video without any visually perceptible tags.

Claims

1. A method for controlling display of one or more visually perceptible tags in association with a video, the method comprising:

receiving a first signal from a user input control device while the video is being presented via a display device without any visually perceptible tags, wherein the first signal is generated by the user input control device in response to activation of a control associated with a function of causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag;

in response to receiving the first signal from the user input control device, causing the display device to present the video with at least one visually perceptible tag; and

after causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag, changing the function associated with the control to thereafter cause the display device to present the video without any visually perceptible tags.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to receiving the first signal from the user input control device, causing the display device to present the video in an alternate play mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the alternate play mode includes slow forward play.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the alternate play mode includes a reduced frame rate of play.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

after changing the function associated with the control, receiving a second signal from the user input control device, wherein the second signal is generated by the user input control device in response to activation of the control; and

in response to receiving the second signal, causing the display device to present the video without any visually perceptible tags.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

while the video is being presented via the display device without any visually perceptible tags, determining whether the at least one visually perceptible tag is available to be presented via the display device; and

in response to determining that the at least one visually perceptible tag is available to be presented via the display device, causing an indicator to be presented, wherein the indicator is configured to make a viewer aware that the at least one visually perceptible tag is available to be presented via the display device and wherein the first signal is received from the user input control device after the indicator is caused to be presented.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the indicator comprises an icon presented on the display device.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

in response to determining that the at least one visually perceptible tag is not available to be presented via the display device, preventing the indicator from being presented.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the indicator comprises one or more of a light-emitting diode on the input control, a light-emitting diode on the display device, or an audio alert.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein content of each of the at least one visually perceptible tag comprises descriptive information describing a visually perceptible item in the video.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the descriptive information comprises one or more of a brand name associated with the visually perceptible item, a manufacturer of the visually perceptible item, information about a seller of the visually perceptible item, and a price associated with the visually perceptible item.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein a visually perceptible tag further comprises a box and wherein content for a visually perceptible tag appears within the box.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the box of a visually perceptible tag has a rectangular shape.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the box has a background color.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein a visually perceptible tag comprises a content area and a lead line between the content area and an item in the video.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the control is one of multiple controls associated with a function of causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag, and wherein each of the multiple controls is associated with a function of causing the display device to present the video with a different category of visually perceptible tags.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the different categories of visually perceptible tags comprise gadget tags, style tags, and scene tags.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the user input control device is a remote control.

19. An apparatus for controlling display of one or more visually perceptible tags in association with a video, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving component configured to receive one or more signals from a user input control device; and

a hardware processor configured to be operatively associated with the receiving component, the hardware processor configured to;

receive from the receiving component a first indication that the receiving component has received a first signal from the user input control device, wherein the first signal is received while the video is being presented via a display device without any visually perceptible tags, and wherein the first signal is generated by the input control in response to activation of a control associated with a function of causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag; and

in response to receiving from the receiving component the first indication that the receiving component has received the first signal from the user input control device, cause the display device to present the video with at least one visually perceptible tag; and

after causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag, change the function associated with the control to thereafter cause the display device to present the video without any visually perceptible tags.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:

instructions for causing a display device to present a video with at least one visually perceptible tag, wherein the display device is caused to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag in response to receiving a first signal from a user input control device while the video is being presented via the display device without any visually perceptible tags, wherein the first signal is generated by the user input control device in response to activation of a control associated with a function of causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag; and

instructions for, after causing the display device to present the video with the at least one visually perceptible tag, changing the function associated with the control to thereafter cause the display device to present the video without any visually perceptible tags.