Method and apparatus for content presentation

• US 20060036783A1
• Filed: 08/06/2003
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pace Micro Technology Ltd. (CommScope Holding Company, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Aarts, Ronaldus Maria
• Application Number:
  US10/527,116
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036783A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• 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 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/454 Content or additional data filtering, e.g. blocking advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for content presentation of content signals such as video signals. A content presentation apparatus comprises a content signal receiver (201) receiving a content signal from a content source (203). The signal is stored in a memory (205). The memory is connected to a content analyser (207) which analyses the content and determines to which category of content this belongs. The apparatus further comprises a user preference profile processor (211) which determines a preferred presentation rate for different categories of content in response to a user input or a previous user behaviour. A playback controller (213) controls the playback of the content by setting the presentation rate to the preferred presentation rate of the user preference profile for the content category identified. Specifically, the invention provides for e.g. a fast forward button which fast forwards through unwanted content but plays at normal rate during user preferred content.

Claims

1. A method of content presentation comprising the steps of:

receiving a content signal from a content source;

deriving a content indicator from a content analysis of the content signal; and

adjusting a presentation rate of the content signal in response to the content indicator.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein step of adjusting further comprises adjusting the presentation rate in response to a user preference profile.

3. A method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the user preference profile is determined in response to a previous user behaviour.

4. A method as claimed in claim 2 wherein the user preference profile is determined in response to a user input.

5. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of adjusting the presentation rate comprises selection between a first presentation rate and at least a second presentation rate.

6. A method as claimed in claim 5 wherein the first presentation rate is a fast forward rate and the second presentation rate is a substantially real time presentation rate.

7. A method as claimed in claim 5 wherein at least one presentation rate is a reverse time presentation rate.

8. A method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the step of recording the content signal on a storage medium, and wherein the step of receiving the content signal comprises receiving the recorded content signal from the storage medium, and the step of deriving the content indicator is performed in association with the step of recording the video signal.

9. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the step of deriving the content indicator comprises analysing content information data associated with the content signal.

10. A method of content presentation as claimed in claim 1 wherein the content signal is a video signal.

11. A method as claimed in claim 10 wherein the content source is a video signal storage medium.

12. A method as claimed in claim 11 wherein the content source is a video broadcast source.

13. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the content signal is a multimedia signal.

14. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the content signal is a text signal.

15. A method as claimed in claim 1 wherein the content signal is an audio signal.

16. A computer programme enabling the carrying out of a method according to claim 1.

17. An apparatus for content presentation comprising:

a receiver for receiving a content signal from a content source;

a processor for deriving a content indicator from a content analysis of the content signal; and

a controller for adjusting a presentation rate of the content signal in response to the content indicator.

18. An apparatus as claimed in claim 17 wherein the apparatus is a video signal playback apparatus and the content signal is a video signal.

19. An apparatus as claimed in claim 18 wherein the apparatus is a video recorder unit further comprising a recording controller operable to record the video signal on a storage medium.