Video distribution device, video distribution method, and program

• US 10,219,025 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2015
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd. (Kadokawa Dwango Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Dwango Co., Ltd. (Kadokawa Dwango Corp.)
• Inventors: Kawakami, Nobuo, Hosokawa, Taihei, Miyazaki, Kenichi, Kuroda, Shinya, Kojima, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Lewis, Jonathan V
• Application Number:
  US15/125,341
• Publication Number:
  US 20170078731A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,446 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• 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 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• 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

Abstract

A transmission range determination unit of a video distribution device receives information about a display position for a video gallery display screen from a terminal device and determines, according to the received information, a transmission range for video gallery data in which display images of video data items are arranged, to be a size greater than a possible display range of the terminal device. A video gallery display screen generation unit generates the video gallery display screen in which the display images of the video data items included in the transmission range determined by the transmission range determination unit are arranged according to an arrangement of the display images of the video data items which is defined by the video gallery data, wherein the video gallery display screen generation unit distributes the generated video gallery display screen to the terminal device.

Claims

1. A video distribution device comprising:

a transmission range determinator that receives information, indicating a display position for a video gallery display screen from a terminal device, the transmission range determinator determining, as a transmission range for video gallery data in which display images of video data items are arranged, a range at approximately a center of which the display position indicated by the received information is positioned and which has a size greater than a possible display range of the terminal device; and

a video gallery display screen generator that generates the video gallery display screen in which the display images of the video data items included in the transmission range determined by the transmission range determinator are arranged according to an arrangement of the display images of the video data items which is defined by the video gallery data, wherein the video gallery display screen generator distributes the generated video gallery display screen to the terminal device;

wherein among the display images of the video data items in the video gallery display screen, an outermost image included in the display range of the terminal device in the video gallery display screen is displayed in a manner such that part of the outermost image is cut by an outer periphery of the display range; and

in the video gallery display screen, the display images of the video data items have the same size and are arranged in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction.

2. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

in the video gallery display screen, information which indicates that the display range is movable is additionally displayed for the display range of the terminal device.

3. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

if the video gallery display screen generator has not received a video data item whose display image is to be displayed in the transmission range, the video gallery display screen generator generates the video gallery display screen in which a display image of other content data associated with the relevant video data is arranged instead of the display image thereof.

4. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

a display position receiver that receives, from the terminal device, information utilized to identify video data item whose display image is shown at a predetermined display position; and

a sound distributor that distributes sound data of the video data item identified by the information received by the display position receiver.

5. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

a display position receiver that receives, from the terminal device, information utilized to identify video data item whose display image is shown at a predetermined display position; and

a sound distributor that superimposes sound data of the video data item identified by the information received by the display position receiver on sound data of another video data item whose display image is arranged in a predetermined range measured from the display image of the identified video data item in the video gallery data, where the volume of each sound data item is determined according to the arrangement of the corresponding display image in the video gallery data.

6. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 1, wherein:

the display images of the video data items arranged in the video gallery display screen are reduced display images or trimmed display images of the video data items.

7. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 1, further comprising:

a video display screen generator that receives a display request of a video data item from the terminal device and generates a video display screen in which;

the size of the image of the video data item as a display target indicated by the received display request is greater than the size of each display image on the video gallery display screen; and

information which indicates that another video data item is selectable as the display target is displayed,

wherein the video display screen generator distributes the generated video display screen to the terminal device.

8. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 7, wherein:

the information which indicates that another video data item is selectable as the display target is part or the whole of an image of said another video data item.

9. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 8, wherein:

in the video display screen, in addition to the image of the video data item as the display target having a size greater than that of each display image in the video gallery display screen, an image of said another video data item which is selectable as the display target is displayed adjacent to the video data item as the display target in a manner such that part of the image of said another video data item is cut by an outer periphery of the video display screen.

10. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 8, wherein:

the video display screen generator changes said another video data item, part of which is displayed on the video display screen, at regular time intervals.

11. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 7, wherein:

in the video gallery data, a display image of said another video data item which is selectable as the display target is arranged adjacent to the image of the video data as the display target.

12. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 7, further comprising:

a comment receptor that receives comment information for the video data item as the display target on the video display screen from the terminal device to which the video display screen generator distributes the video display screen; and

a comment distributor that distributes the comment information, which was received by the comment receptor for the video data item as the display target on the video display screen, to the terminal device to which the video display screen generator distributes the video display screen.

13. The video distribution device in accordance with claim 7, wherein:

in the video display screen, said information which indicates that another video data item is selectable as the display target is displayed on left and right sides or upper and lower sides of the image of the video data item as the display target.

14. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium storing a program that makes a computer function as the transmission range determinator and the video gallery display screen generator of the video distribution device in accordance with claim 1.

15. A video distribution method executed by a video distribution device, the method comprising:

receiving information, indicating a display position for a video gallery display screen from a terminal device;

determining, as a transmission range for video gallery data in which display images of video data items are arranged, a range at approximately a center of which the display position indicated by the received information is positioned and which has a size greater than a possible display range of the terminal device;

generating the video gallery display screen in which the display images of the video data items included in the determined transmission range are arranged according to an arrangement of the display images of the video data items which is defined by the video gallery data; and

distributing the generated video gallery display screen to the terminal device;

wherein among the display images of the video data items in the video gallery display screen, an outermost image included in the display range of the terminal device in the video gallery display screen is displayed in a manner such that part of the outermost image is cut by an outer periphery of the display range; and

in the video gallery display screen, the display images of the video data items have the same size and are arranged in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction.