Providing an indication of highlights in a video content item

• US 10,575,036 B2
• Filed: 03/02/2016
• Issued: 02/25/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Zhu, Guoliang, Saint-Loubert-Bie, Emmanuel Rene
• Primary Examiner(s): Chae, Kyu
• Application Number:
  US15/058,842
• Publication Number:
  US 20170257651A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,455 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2387 Stream processing in response to a playback request from an end-user, e.g. for trick-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/24 Monitoring of processes or resources, e.g. monitoring of server load, available bandwidth, upstream requests monitoring of server performance or load G06F11/34; arrangements for observation, testing or troubleshooting for broadcast or for distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/12
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• 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 video content item may be identified and a first indicator of a highlight occurring in the video content may also be identified. In response to identifying the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item, a second indicator associated with the highlight may be identified to determine a duration of the highlight that has occurred in the video content item. Furthermore, the video content item and an identification of a location of the highlight in the video content item may be provided based on the determined duration that is associated with the second indicator.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying a video content item associated with a live stream;

identifying a first indicator of a highlight occurring in the video content item based on a number of users using the live stream to view the video content item and a length of content of user comments from the number of users using the live stream during the occurrence of the highlight in the video content item being smaller than a length of content of other user comments received during a time in the video content item that does not include the highlight;

in response to identifying the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item, identifying a second indicator associated with the highlight based on another number of users leaving the live stream;

determining a duration of the highlight that has occurred in the video content item based on the first indicator and the second indicator;

providing, by a processing device, the video content item;

providing a message during a playback of the video content item to indicate that the highlight that has occurred in the video content item is a next highlight in the video content item;

receiving a selection of the message provided during the playback of the video content item; and

in response to receiving the selection of the message, changing the playback of the video content item to the highlight in the video content item based on the determined duration.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first indicator corresponds to a change in a first key portion of the video content item and the second indicator corresponds to another change in a second key portion of the video content item,

wherein the identifying of the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item comprises determining that the first key portion of the video content item has changed, and

wherein the identifying of the second indicator associated with the highlight to determine the duration of the highlight in the video content item comprises determining a time that the second key portion of the video content item changed after the first key portion changed to identify an end time of the highlight.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining of the duration of the highlight comprises:

identifying an end time for the highlight based on a time when the another number of users leave the live stream.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first indicator of the highlight corresponds to a change in a portion of video of the video content item or a change in audio of the video content item and the second indicator corresponds to a change in the other of the portion of the video or the change in the audio of the video content item.

5. The method of claim 1, and wherein the first indicator of the highlight is identified when a rate of the user comments exceeds a threshold rate.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the providing of the video content item with an identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item comprises:

providing the identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item on a seek bar of the video content item, wherein the identification of the location of the highlight identifies a start time and end time of the highlight within the video content item.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is superimposed over a portion of the video content item, and wherein the changing of the playback of the video content item to the highlight corresponds to a skipping of the video content item to a start of the highlight.

8. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed, cause a processing device to perform operations comprising:

identifying a video content item associated with a live stream;

identifying a first indicator of a highlight occurring in the video content item based on a number of users using the live stream to view the video content item and a length of content of user comments from the number of users using the live stream during the occurrence of the highlight in the video content item being smaller than a length of content of other user comments received during a time in the video content item that does not include the highlight;

in response to identifying the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item, identifying a second indicator associated with the highlight based on another number of users leaving the live stream;

determining a duration of the highlight that has occurred in the video content item based on the first indicator and the second indicator;

providing the video content item;

providing a message during a playback of the video content item to indicate that the highlight that has occurred in the video content item is a next highlight in the video content item;

receiving a selection of the message provided during the playback of the video content item; and

in response to receiving the selection of the message, changing the playback of the video content item to the highlight in the video content item based on the determined duration.

9. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the first indicator corresponds to a change in a first key portion of the video content item and the second indicator corresponds to another change in a second key portion of the video content item,

wherein to identify the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item, the operations further comprise determining that the first key portion of the video content item has changed, and

wherein to identify the second indicator associated with the highlight to determine the duration of the highlight in the video content item, the operations further comprise determining a time that the second key portion of the video content item changed after the first key portion changed to identify an end time of the highlight.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the first key portion is a first information overlay associated with the video content item and the second key portion is a second information overlay associated with the video content item.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the first indicator of the highlight corresponds to a change in a portion of video of the video content item or a change in audio of the video content item and the second indicator corresponds to a change in the other of the portion of the video or the change in the audio of the video content item.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, and wherein the first indicator of the highlight is identified when a rate of the user comments exceeds a threshold rate.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein to provide the video content item with an identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item, the operations further comprise:

providing the identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item on a seek bar of the video content item, wherein the identification of the location of the highlight identifies a start time and end time of the highlight within the video content item.

14. A system comprising:

a memory; and

a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory, to;

receive a video content item associated with a live stream;

identify a first indicator of a highlight occurring in the video content item based on a number of users using the live stream to view the video content item and when a first information overlay of the video content item changes and a length of content of user comments from the number of users using the live stream during the occurrence of the highlight in the video content item being smaller than a length of content of other user comments received during a time in the video content item that does not include the highlight;

in response to identifying the first indicator of the highlight occurring in the video content item, identify a second indicator associated with the highlight based on the first indicator and when a second information overlay of the video content item changes;

determine a start time for the highlight based on the first indicator and an end time for the highlight based on the second indicator;

provide the video content item;

provide a message during a playback of the video content item to indicate that the highlight that has occurring in the video content item is a next highlight in the video content item;

receive a selection of the message provided during the playback of the video content item; and

in response to receiving the selection of the message, changing the playback of the video content item to the highlight in the video content item based on the determined start time and end time.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the highlight is further identified as occurring based on a change in audio of the video content item when the first information overlay of the video content item changes.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the determining of the end time for the highlight is further based on a time when the number of users have left the live stream.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein to provide an identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item, the processing device is further to provide a message with the video content item to indicate the highlight in the video content item, and wherein the processing device is further to:

receive a selection of the message; and

in response to the selection of the message, change a playback of the video content item to play the video content item at the start time of the highlight.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein to provide the video content item with an identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item, the processing device is further to:

provide the identification of the location of the highlight in the video content item on a seek bar of the video content item, wherein the identification of the location of the highlight identifies the start time and the end time of the highlight within the video content item on the seek bar.