Apparatus of providing comments and statistical information for each section of video contents and the method thereof

• US 10,210,253 B2
• Filed: 07/23/2014
• Issued: 02/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Veaver, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Veaver, Inc.
• Inventors: Ju, Hyun Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): Bashore, William L
• Assistant Examiner(s): Distefano, Gregory A
• Application Number:
  US14/907,815
• Publication Number:
  US 20160171003A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,672 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate

Abstract

The present invention relates to an apparatus of providing comments and statistical information for each section of a video content and the method thereof, the apparatus and the method thereof being capable of writing and displaying replies for each section of the video content which is edited section by section and providing a user interface which plays each section of the video content respectively, so as to allow a user to access the video content section by section in order to easily grasp the characteristics of the corresponding video and to intuitively search fast and play the wanted parts (or sections) of the video.

Claims

1. An apparatus of providing comments and statistical information for a video contents having a plurality of sections, the apparatus comprising:

an interface for providing comments and statistical information for each section of said video contents, wherein said interface comprises a comment interface and at least one selected from the group consisting of a video editing interface and a video playing interface;

an integrated processing unit for performing a process for providing comments and statistical information for each section of a video contents, wherein said process comprises a comment process and at least one selected from the group consisting of an editing process and a playing process, wherein said comments process saves comments using a tree structure in which comments for the same section of said plurality of sections of said video contents are saved as basic comments in the same file and a comment citing a basic comment is saved as a citing comment in the same file in which the cited basic comment is saved; and

a database,

wherein the apparatus enables to selectively write comments for one section of said plurality of sections of said video contents relative to another section of said plurality of sections of said video contents, and to provide the statistical information for the comments to identify a total number of citing comments for a section of said plurality of sections of said video contents, so that users can search and play a specific section of said plurality of sections of said video contents.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said database comprises:

a video database;

a data file database; and

a comment database,

wherein said database utilizes at least one selected from the group consisting of an internal storage, an external storage, a network storage, and a virtualized storage of cloud computing network connected to network.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each section of said plurality of sections of said video contents comprises a data file storing specific editing information in addition to a source video file, so that said video file is played by referring said data file.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said interface comprises said video editing interface and wherein said editing process generates a data file comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of cue point insertion information, section grouping information, scripts comprising a description for each section of said plurality of sections of said video contents, or the combinations thereof.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said interface comprises said comment interface and wherein said comment process inserts and outputs a comment for the one section of said plurality of sections of said video contents, and extracts and provides the statistical information for the one section of said plurality of sections of said video contents.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein said interface comprises said video playing interface and wherein said playing process plays at least one selected from the group consisting of said video contents, and the one section of said plurality of sections of said video contents corresponding to said comments.

7. A method for providing for comments and statistical information for a video contents having a plurality of sections, the method comprising:

receiving comments for one section of the plurality of sections of said video contents as input;

saving comments using a tree structure in which comments for the same section of said plurality of sections of said video contents as basic comments in the same file and saving a comment citing a basic comment as a citing comment in the same file in which the cited basic comment is saved;

processing said comments and statistical information for the one section of the plurality of sections of said video contents to identify a total number of citing comments for a section of said plurality of sections of said video contents;

outputting said comments and statistical information for the one section of the plurality of sections of said video contents; and

storing processed results in at least one of databases;

wherein the method enables to write comments for one section of said plurality of sections of said video contents relative to another section of said plurality of sections of said video contents, and to provide the statistical information for the comments, so that users can search and play a specific section of said video contents.

8. The method of claim 7, the method further comprising:

playing for each section of said video.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said database comprises:

a video database;

a data file database; and

a comment database;

wherein said database utilizes at least one selected from the group consisting of an internal storage, an external storage, a network storage, and a virtualized storage of cloud computing network connected to network.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein said each section of said plurality of sections of video contents comprises a data file storing specific editing information in addition to a source video file, so that said video file is played by referring said data file.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said data file comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of cue point insertion information, section grouping information, and scripts comprising a description for each section of said video.