Apparatus, method and computer program product for providing access to a content

• US 10,296,532 B2
• Filed: 09/18/2012
• Issued: 05/21/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Sathish, Sailesh, Curcio, Igor Danilo Diego
• Primary Examiner(s): Hasan, Syed H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Allen, Nicholas E
• Application Number:
  US14/425,355
• Publication Number:
  US 20150227513A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,436 Days
• Field of Search: 707769
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/15 Conference systems

Abstract

There is provided methods, apparatuses and computer program products for obtaining access to contents. In a method a content for at least one segment of a media presentation is defined. A meta information element for the media presentation is provided. Further, meta data relating to the content of the at least one segment is included to the meta information element. The meta data comprises information on how to access the content of the segment. A reference to the meta data of the content is included in the segment.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus embedded in a mobile user device to perform at least the following:

obtain a media presentation comprising at least one segment;

obtain a meta information element attached with the media presentation;

examine a reference included in the meta information element to a meta data provided for the at least one segment, the meta data comprising information on how to access the content of the segment, location and time stamp information of the content, and one or more contact controls for at least one identical person in a scene cut depicted in the content and at least one alternate content; and

while playing back the at least one segment, obtain and play back on a user interface of the mobile user device at least another segment with the at least one alternate content in conjunction with the playing back of the at least one segment,

wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are captured from different viewpoints by different mobile user devices in time and location proximity with the mobile device,

and

wherein the at least another segment is played back based, at least in part, on at least one of the one or more contact controls for the at least one identical person in the scene cut.

2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one segment and the at least another segment is combined by the mobile user device as a director'"'"'s cut and then played back together, and

wherein the information on how to access the content of the segment comprises information enabling at least one of the following:

multiple presentation options for the content;

interaction with the content, the interaction enabling fetching content from a server dynamically during presenting the media presentation.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

receive a plurality of segments at the mobile user device from one or more other mobile user devices; and

search locally at the mobile user device among the plurality of segments for the at least another segment by matching a location and a time stamp of the at least one segment against the location and time stamp information of the content; and

obtain from the description of the content a connector indicative of how to obtain the content, wherein the connector comprises an indication of a storage location of the content.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the reference to the description of the content is provided as an access object, wherein said at least one memory stored with code thereon, which when executed by said at least one processor, further causes the apparatus to execute the access object to obtain the content when the segment is played back.

9. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the mobile user device receives the at least one alternate content from the one or more other mobile user devices via one or more short range communication channels.

10. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the content and the at least one alternate content further contain similar music, one or more similar objects in a scene cut, or a combination thereof.

11. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the meta data includes an address from which the at least one alternate content to be downloaded.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause an apparatus to at least perform the following steps:

obtain a media presentation comprising at least one segment;

obtain a meta information element attached with the media presentation;

examine a reference included in the meta information element to a meta data provided for the at least one segment, the meta data comprising information on how to access the content of the segment, location and time stamp information of the content, and one or more contact controls for at least one identical person in a scene cut depicted in the content and at least one alternate content; and

while playing back the at least one segment, obtaining and playing back on a user interface of the mobile user device at least another segment with the at least one alternate content in conjunction with the playing back of the at least one segment,

wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are captured from different viewpoints by different mobile user devices in time and location proximity with the mobile device,

and

wherein the at least another segment is played back based, at least in part, on at least one of the one or more contact controls for the at least one identical person in the scene cut.

6. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the information on how to access the content of the segment comprises information enabling at least one of the following:

multiple presentation options for the content;

interaction with the content, wherein the interaction enabling fetching content from a server dynamically during presenting the media presentation.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, comprising one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the apparatus to obtain from the description of the content a connector indicative of how to obtain the content, wherein the connector comprises an indication of a storage location of the content.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 5, wherein the reference to the description of the content is provided as an access object, wherein the computer program comprises one or more sequences of one or more instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause the apparatus to execute the access object to obtain the content when the segment is played back.

12. A method comprising:

obtaining, by a mobile user device, a media presentation comprising at least one segment;

obtaining, by the mobile user device, a meta information element attached with the media presentation;

examining, by the mobile user device, a reference included in the meta information element to a meta data provided for the at least one segment, the meta data comprising information on how to access the content of the segment, location and time stamp information of the content, and one or more contact controls for at least one identical person in a scene cut depicted in the content and at least one alternate content; and

while playing back the at least one segment, obtaining and playing back on a user interface of the mobile user device at least another segment with the at least one alternate content in conjunction with the playing back of the at least one segment,

wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are captured from different viewpoints by different mobile user devices in time and location proximity with the mobile device,

and

wherein the at least another segment is played back based, at least in part, on at least one of the one or more contact controls for the at least one identical person in the scene cut.

13. A method of claim 12, further comprising:

obtaining from the description of the content a connector indicative of how to obtain the content, wherein the connector comprises an indication of a storage location of the content.

14. A method of claim 12, wherein the reference to the description of the content is provided as an access object, wherein said at least one memory stored with code thereon, which when executed by said at least one processor, further causes the apparatus to execute the access object to obtain the content when the segment is played back.

15. A method of claim 14, wherein the mobile user device receives the at least one alternate content from the one or more other mobile user devices via one or more short range communication channels.

16. A method of claim 12, wherein the content and the at least one alternate content further contain similar music, one or more similar objects in a scene cut, or a combination thereof.

17. A method of claim 12, wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are played back on the different mobile user devices depending on context, different viewpoints of a particular perspective, alternate editions of a director'"'"'s cut, or a combination thereof.

18. A method of claim 12, wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are played back on the different mobile user devices depending on multimodal interfaces for a particular segment.

19. A method of claim 12, wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are played back on the different mobile user devices depending on an object and semantic content based service query for segments.

20. A method of claim 12, wherein the content and the at least one alternate content are played back on the different mobile user devices depending on a name of a piece of music included in an audio clip.