Systems and methods for creating a single video frame with one or more interest points

• US 20020090201A1
• Filed: 01/04/2002
• Published: 07/11/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tamiras Per Pte Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: VM Labs, Inc. (STMicroelectronics NV)
• Inventors: Grunke, James, Betz, David, Lam, Mindy
• Granted Patent: US 7,356,250 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/242
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs

Abstract

Systems and methods for creating virtual stop-off points in a movie title, where the viewer can explore interesting content using zoom, pan and gamma controls are provided. Methods include creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles. Systems include a composer for creating interest points in a video and a viewer for manipulating and displaying the interest points.

Claims

1. A method for creating an interest point from one or more digital video titles, the method comprising:

identifying a video frame from a digital video title;

identifying an interest point in the video frame; and

storing a file on a digital video disc (DVD), said file having identifiers for the single video frame and the interest point.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein said single video frame is a z-frame.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of manipulating the z-frame using a function chosen from the group consisting of zoom, pan and gamma correct.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein said interest point is a vista point.

5. The method of claim 4, the method further comprising:

selecting a pause time for the video frame, wherein the pause time controls the duration of any display of the z-frame.

6. The method of claim 4, the method further comprising:

entering a gamma correction for the interest point of the z-frame.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein said identifying the video frame further comprises identifying a pre-roll time prior to the video frame, wherein said pre-roll time is the amount of time the video plays prior to stopping on the video frame.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein said identifying the interest point further comprises identifying an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate for the interest point.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the identifying the interest point further comprises identifying a zoom level for the interest point.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein said identifying the interest point further comprises selecting a gamma correction for the interest point.

11. A composer for creating a z-frame from an enhanced digital video disk (DVD), said composer comprising:

a user interface for entering information associated with a z-frame of a video, wherein the z-frame is comprised of one or more vista points;

a user interface for entering a control for said z-frame;

a vista point chart for listing the one or more vista points associated with the z-frame; and

a vista point setting area, said vista point setting area having a user interface for entering the x-coordinate and y-coordinate of the one or more vista points.

12. The composer of claim 11, wherein the control for said z-frame comprises a control selected from a group consisting of a pause time and a pre-roll time.

13. The composer of claim 11, wherein the control for said z-frame comprises a pause time and a pre-roll time for the video prior to said pause time.

14. The composer of claim 11, wherein the a vista point setting area further comprises a user interface for entering a zoom level for the one or more vista points.

15. The composer of claim 11, the composer further comprising:

entering a gamma correction level for the one or more vista points.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the computer readable medium is a DVD.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the DVD stores both the title on the DVD and the identifiers.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the identifying the interest point comprises identifying a plurality of interest points.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein displaying the video frame with the interest point comprises displaying the video frame in a first video area of the display and displaying the interest point in a second area of the display.

22. The method of claim 17 wherein the text is a dynamically displayed scene description associated with video frame or with an interest point of the video frame.

23. The method of claim 17 further comprising the steps of:

entering a textual description of the video frame or the interest point associated with the video frame; and

displaying the textual description on the display.

16. A system for displaying a video frame with one or more interest points, the video frame associated with a title on a digital video disk (DVD), said system comprising:

a DVD reference player having an ethernet connection;

a computer coupled to said ethernet connection;

a DVD emulator coupled to said DVD reference player for storing work in progress and for imitating a DVD; and

a display coupled to said DVD reference player.

17. A method for presenting on a viewer a video frame with one or more interest points from a title on a digital video disk (DVD) on a viewer, said method comprising:

identifying a video frame from a title on the DVD;

identifying an interest point comprising a portion of the video frame;

storing a file on a computer readable medium, said file having identifiers for the video frame and the interest point;

providing a menu template having a location for video and a location for text, wherein the text is associated with the video; and

displaying the video frame with the interest point in a video area of a display.