Method and system for providing interactive video

• US 20080109851A1
• Filed: 10/23/2006
• Published: 05/08/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Alberto Escarlate, Anthony Zeoli, Ashley Heather, Lincoln Brown, Matthew Robinson, V., Charles Darling
• Original Assignee: Alberto Escarlate, Anthony Zeoli, Ashley Heather, Lincoln Brown, Matthew Robinson, V., Charles Darling
• Inventors: V., Charles Darling, Brown, Lincoln, Zeoli, Anthony, Heather, Ashley, Escarlate, Alberto, Robinson, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US11/585,410
• Publication Number:
  US 20080109851A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/60
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0603 Catalogue ordering
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/38 Arrangements for distribution where lower stations, e.g. receivers, interact with the broadcast
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42206 characterized by hardware details
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4438 Window management, e.g. event handling following interaction with the user interface
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A method and system are described for providing an interactive video player. The method may include, responsive to a first user input, generating a secondary display from a primary display, wherein the primary display is an active video and the secondary display is a frame captured from the primary display. The method may also include, responsive to a second user input, generating a tertiary display from the secondary display, said tertiary display including product information about at least one item shown in the secondary display.

Claims

1. A method for obtaining product information from an active video display, comprising:

responsive to a first user input, generating a secondary display from a primary display, wherein the primary display is an active video and the secondary display is a frame captured from the primary display; and

responsive to a second user input, generating a tertiary display from the secondary display, said tertiary display including product information about at least one item shown in the secondary display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second display is captured from the primary display at about the time of the first user input.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing at least one frame captured from the primary display to a user generated web log.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising the at least one captured frame providing an active link for accessing at least a portion of the video of the active video display.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second display is stored to memory that is configured to store a plurality of frames captured from the primary display.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising electronically recognizing at least one item visible in the active video.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to a third user input, initiating a purchase sequence of the item shown in the tertiary display.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

responsive to a fourth user input selecting the product information, displaying a portion of the active video relevant to the product information.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

identifying products shown in the secondary display and associating product information with each identified product.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying product information of other products similar to the product information displayed in the tertiary display.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the active video is broadcast from a broadcast station and received at a client.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the client is selected from the group consisting of:

a set top box,

a television receiver,

a portable media device, and

a media playback device.

13. A computer readable medium storing instructions adapted to be executed by a processor to perform a method comprising:

responsive to a first user input, generating a secondary display from a primary display, wherein the primary display is an active video and the secondary display is a frame captured from the primary display; and

responsive to a second user input, generating a tertiary display from the secondary display, said tertiary display including product information about at least one item shown in the secondary display.

14. The medium of claim 13, wherein the secondary display is a frame captured from the primary display at about the time of the first user input.

15. The medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions providing at least one frame captured from the primary display to a user generated web log.

16. The medium of claim 14, wherein the at least one captured frame includes an active link for accessing at least a portion of the video of the active video display

17. The medium of claim 13, wherein the second display is stored to memory that is configured to store a plurality of frames captured from the primary display.

18. The medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions for electronically recognizing at least one item visible in the active video.

19. The medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

responsive to a third user input, initiating a purchase sequence of the item shown in the tertiary display.

20. The medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

responsive to a fourth user input selecting the product information, displaying a portion of the active video relevant to the product information.

21. The medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

identifying products shown in the secondary display and associating product information with each identified product.

22. The medium of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

displaying product information of other products similar to the product information displayed in the tertiary display.

23. The medium of claim 13, wherein the active video is broadcast from a broadcast station and received at a client.

24. The medium of claim 23, wherein the client is selected from the group consisting of:

a set top box,

a television receiver,

a portable media device, and

a media playback device.

25. An apparatus for obtaining product information from an active video display, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to said processor, said memory storing instructions adapted to be executed by said processor to generate a secondary display from a primary display responsive to a first signal received from a user input device, wherein the primary display is an active video and the secondary display is a frame captured from the primary display at about the time of the first user input, and to generate a tertiary display from the secondary display responsive to a second signal received from the user input device, said tertiary display including product information about at least one item shown in the secondary display.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the secondary display is a frame captured from the primary display at about the time of the first user input.

27. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processor is further configured to provide at least one frame captured from the primary display to a user generated web log.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein the at least one capture frame includes an active link for accessing at least a portion of the video of the active video display.

29. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the second display is stored to memory that is configured to store a plurality of frames captured from the primary display.

30. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the process is further configured to electronically recognize at least one item visible in the active video.

31. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processor is further configured to respond to a third user input, initiating a purchase sequence of the item shown in the tertiary display.

32. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processor is further configured to respond to a fourth user input selecting the product information, displaying a portion of the active video relevant to the product information.

33. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processor is further configured to identify products shown in the secondary display and associating product information with each identified product.

34. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the processor is further configured to display product information of other products similar to the product information displayed in the tertiary display.

35. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the active video is broadcast from a broadcast station and received at a client.

36. The apparatus of claim 35, wherein the client is selected from the group consisting of:

a set top box,

a television receiver,

a portable media device,

and a media playback device.