Video playback method, device, and system

• US 10,063,803 B2
• Filed: 06/06/2016
• Issued: 08/28/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Zhou, Bin
• Primary Examiner(s): Dang, Hung
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wendmagegn, Girumsew
• Application Number:
  US15/173,869
• Publication Number:
  US 20160337609A1
• Time in Patent Office: 813 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/00 Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• 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 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and storage medium for playing video. The method comprises: providing a video playing interface; determining a first display area and a second display area in the video playing interface; generating a surface around the first display area or around the second display area; acquiring a video file, additional media information related to the video file, and a surface component related to a relationship chain; playing the video file in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area, and displaying the surface component in the surface.

Claims

1. A method for playing video, comprising:

providing a video playing interface;

determining a first display area and a second display area in the video playing interface;

generating a surface around the first display area or around the second display area;

acquiring a video file, additional media information related to the video file, and a surface component related to a relationship chain;

playing the video file in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area, and displaying the surface component in the surface;

wherein the second display area is located around the first display area, the additional media information related to the video file comprises text information and/or image information related to the video file;

displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area comprises;

generating a second surface in the second display area;

displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second surface;

the video file comprises at least two video sub-segments with an ordinal relation; and

playing the video file in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area comprises;

playing the video sub-segments in the first display area according to the ordinal relation;

displaying the additional media information related to the video sub-segments according to the ordinal relation in the second display area; and

after all the video sub-segments are played in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video sub-segments circularly according to the ordinal relation in the second display area.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second display area is located around the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area comprises:

after the video file is played in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area;

or

when the video file is played in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area at the same time;

or

before the video file is played in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the surface component related to the relationship chain comprises a control related to the relationship chain and/or relationship chain information related to the video file.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the control related to the relationship chain comprises at least one of the following:

a trigger control for forwarding to a friend, a control for receiving a friend'"'"'s comments, a control for reminding a friend to attention, and a control for displaying the number of being forwarded;

the relationship chain information related to the video file comprises at least one of the following;

an identifier of a video-file source user, a nickname of the video-file source user, an avatar of the video-file source user, an identifier of a friend of the video-file source user, a nickname of the friend of the video-file source user, an avatar of the friend of the video-file source user, and participation and attention information of the friend of the video-file source user.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the surface component related to the relationship chain further comprises at least one of the following:

an identifier of the video file, a two-dimensional code, promotion information, and page connection information of a microblog activity.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

acquiring correspondence between the video sub-segments and the additional media information related to the video sub-segments.

7. A device, comprising one or more processors, and a memory for storing instructions to be executed by the one or more processors, wherein the instructions are configured to:

acquire a video file, additional media information related to the video file, and a surface component related to a relationship chain;

determine a first display area and a second display area in the video playing interface;

provide a video playing interface, play the video file in the first display area, and display the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area;

generate a surface around the first display area or around the second display area, and display the surface component in the surface;

wherein the second display area is located around the first display area, the additional media information related to the video file comprises text information and/or image information related to the video file;

the instructions are configured to generate a second surface in the second display area;

display the additional media information related to the video file in the second surface;

the video file comprises at least two video sub-segments with an ordinal relation; and

the instructions are configured to play the video sub-segments in the first display area according to the ordinal relation;

display the additional media information related to the video sub-segments according to the ordinal relation in the second display area;

after all the video sub-segments are played in the first display area, display the additional media information related to the video sub-segments circularly according to the ordinal relation in the second display area.

8. The device of claim 7, wherein the second display area is located around the first display area, the instructions are configured to:

after the video file is played in the first display area, display the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area;

or

when the video file is played in the first display area, display the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area at the same time;

or

before the video file is played in the first display area, display the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the surface component related to the relationship chain comprises a control related to the relationship chain and/or relationship chain information related to the video file.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the control related to the relationship chain comprises at least one of the following:

a trigger control for forwarding to a friend, a control for receiving a friend'"'"'s comments, a control for reminding a friend to attention, and a control for displaying the number of being forwarded;

the relationship chain information related to the video file comprises at least one of the following;

an identifier of a video-file source user, a nickname of the video-file source user, an avatar of the video-file source user, an identifier of a friend of the video-file source user, a nickname of the friend of the video-file source user, an avatar of the friend of the video-file source user, and participation and attention information of the friend of the video-file source user.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the surface component related to the relationship chain further comprises at least one of the following:

an identifier of the video file, a two-dimensional code, promotion information, and page connection information of a microblog activity.

12. The device of claim 7, wherein the instructions are further configured to acquire correspondence between the video sub-segments and the additional media information related to the video sub-segments.

13. A non-transitory storage medium, configured to store computer-executable instructions, wherein the computer-executable instructions are configured to:

provide a video playing interface;

determine a first display area and a second display area in the video playing interface;

generate a surface around the first display area or around the second display area;

acquire a video file, additional media information related to the video file, and a surface component related to a relationship chain;

play the video file in the first display area, display the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area, and display the surface component in the surface;

wherein the second display area is located around the first display area, the additional media information related to the video file comprises text information and/or image information related to the video file;

the instructions are further configured to;

generate a second surface in the second display area, display the additional media information related to the video file in the second surface;

the video file comprises at least two video sub-segments with an ordinal relation; and

the instructions are configured to play the video sub-segments in the first display area according to the ordinal relation;

display the additional media information related to the video sub-segments according to the ordinal relation in the second display area;

after all the video sub-segments are played in the first display area, display the additional media information related to the video sub-segments circularly according to the ordinal relation in the second display area.