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Enabling user interactions with video segments

  • US 10,264,320 B2
  • Filed: 01/21/2015
  • Issued: 04/16/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. On a computing device, a method for providing for user interaction with a video segment, comprising:

  • providing the video segment to a plurality of computing systems so that the video segment is displayable on displays included in or coupled to the plurality of computing systems;

    providing, to the plurality of computing systems, instructions that request that users of the computing systems identify one or more objects within the video segment;

    obtaining, from each computing system of the plurality of computing systems, a user input of an indication of a spatial location of each of the one or more objects;

    identifying, for each of the one or more objects, a respective spatial area within the video segment that a highest percentage of the users of the computing systems identified as corresponding to the spatial location of the object;

    identifying, for each of the one or more objects, a respective spatial region that defines a hit-zone for the object based on the respective spatial area identified within the video segment;

    producing and storing via computer-readable storage hit-zone data that define the hit-zone for each of the one or more objects included in the video segment wherein the hit-zone data is stored separately from the video segment;

    receiving a request for the hit-zone data from a further computing system; and

    transmitting the hit-zone data to the further computing system so that the hit-zone data adds a hit-zone for each of the one or more objects included in the video segment;

    wherein the hit-zone data is transmitted separately from the video segment;

    wherein each hit-zone is defined by a different portion of the hit-zone data and corresponds to a different one of the included in the video segment than other hit-zones; and

    wherein the spatial region that defines the hit-zone for each of the one or more objects is configured not to be visible during presentation of the video segment with the hit-zone.

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