Apparatus, medium, and method processing multimedia comments for moving images

• US 20070115256A1
• Filed: 10/23/2006
• Published: 05/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chung, Ji-hye, Kim, Yeun-bae, Lee, Hye-jeong, Park, Min-kyu, Kim, Kee-eung
• Application Number:
  US11/584,494
• Publication Number:
  US 20070115256A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/125 wherein one of the images is motion video
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]

Abstract

An apparatus, medium, and method for processing a multimedia comment for a moving image, where a user can input a comment of various multimedia types while viewing a moving image, and view the moving image along with the input comment. The apparatus for processing multimedia comments for a moving image may include a user input unit allowing a user to input a multimedia type comment for a predetermined moving image, a comment storage unit storing the input comment, and a control unit modifying the stored comment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is played, and outputting the modified comment.

Claims

1. An apparatus for processing multimedia comments for moving images, comprising:

a user input unit for a user to input a multimedia type comment for a particular moving image; and

a control unit to selectively modify the comment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is reproduced.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the multimedia type comment is of at least one type of a text, image, icon, moving image, voice, and sound type.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the input comment is stored together with synchronization information for a corresponding scene of the moving image.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit modifies a multimedia type of the comment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image, which include a theme of the moving image, a keyword, a color distribution, and a position of an object within the moving image.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit selectively outputs a select comment selected from a plurality of user input comments for a predetermined scene of the moving image in accordance with characteristics of the select comment.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, further comprising:

a designated comment storage to store previously designated user input comments in accordance with characteristics of the moving image; and

a viewing environment storage to store at least one viewing environment of the user in accordance with a user'"'"'s indication for input of a comment when the moving image is reproduced.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the user selects at least one of the previously designated user input comments corresponding to the played moving image through the user input unit.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the control unit modifies the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is reproduced.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the control unit modifies the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments in accordance with characteristics of the selected at least one of the previously designated user comments when the moving image is reproduced.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the viewing environment storage stores at least one of a surrounding environment of the user and a viewing appearance of the user when the user views the reproduction of the moving image.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the at least one viewing environment is of at least one type of an image, moving image, voice, and sound type.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the viewing environment storage stores the at least one viewing environment at a predetermined time period or stores the at least one viewing environment according to a predetermined event being generated in the at least one viewing environment.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the control unit modifies the stored at least one viewing environment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is reproduced.

14. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the control unit modifies the stored at least one viewing environment in accordance with characteristics of the at least one viewing environment when the moving image is reproduced.

15. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls a reproduction of the selectively modified comment together with the moving image.

16. A method of processing multimedia comments for moving images, comprising:

inputting a multimedia type comment by a user for a particular moving image; and

selectively modifying the comment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is reproduced.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the multimedia type comment is of at least one type of a text, image, icon, moving image, voice, and sound type.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising storing the comment together with synchronization information for a corresponding scene of the moving image corresponding to the comment.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising outputting the comment through a selective modifying of a multimedia type of the comment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image, which include at least one of a theme of the moving image, a keyword, a color distribution, and a position of an object within the moving image.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the inputting of the multimedia type comment further comprises selecting at least one of a plurality of previously designated user input comments for a predetermined scene of the moving image in accordance with characteristics of the selected comment.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

storing previously designated user input comments in accordance with characteristics of the moving image; and

storing at least one viewing environment of the user in accordance with a user'"'"'s indication for input of a comment when the moving image is reproduced.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the inputting of the multimedia type comment further comprises selecting at least one of the previously designated user input comments corresponding to the reproduced moving image.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising outputting the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments through modifying of the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is reproduced.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising outputting the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments through modifying the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments in accordance with characteristics of the selected at least one of the previously designated user input comments when the moving image is reproduced.

25. The method of claim 21, further comprising viewing the at least one viewing environment through storing at least one of a surrounding environment of the user and a viewing appearance of the user when the user views the reproduction of the moving image.

26. The method of claim 21, wherein the at least one viewing environment is of at least one type of an image, moving image, voice, and sound type.

27. The method of claim 21, wherein the storing of the at least one viewing environment further comprises storing the at least one viewing environment at a predetermined time period or storing the at least one viewing environment if a predetermined event is generated in the at least one viewing environment.

28. The method of claim 21, further comprising outputting the comment through modifying the stored at least one viewing environment in accordance with characteristics of the moving image when the moving image is reproduced.

29. The method of claim 21, further comprising outputting the comment through modifying the stored at least one viewing environment in accordance with characteristics of the at least one viewing environment when the moving image is reproduced.

30. The method of claim 16, further comprising reproducing the selectively modified comment together with the moving image.

31. At least one medium comprising computer readable code to control at least one processing element to implement the method of claim 16.