Video user interface

• US 20080115062A1
• Filed: 11/15/2006
• Published: 05/15/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Chalabi, Malek, Lang, Eric, Ngan, William
• Application Number:
  US11/600,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20080115062A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• 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 21/47 End-user applications

Abstract

A video user interface allows video content to be manipulated to accommodate user-interface (UI) navigation and to enable UI customization. The video-user interface incorporates video contents into a user interface, manipulates selected video contents to accommodate UI navigation, and makes the video contents interchangeable so as to enable UI customization. Special effects can be applied to transitions between keyframes associated with selected video content.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a collection of frames that comprise keyframes;

associating navigation commands with the keyframes;

displaying menu items in keyframes to a user; and

displaying a sequence of frames in response to a command from a user received in response to a selection of at least one of the menu items in a displayed keyframe.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising exposing an application programmer interface whereby a service provider provides functionality that are associated with the menu items displayed to the user.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the keyframes are disposed at predetermined locations.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the keyframes are tagged to indicate keyframe location.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising displaying a menu item for controlling the speed at which the sequence of frames is displayed.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the navigation commands comprise transport controls comprising forward and loop commands.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising replacing frames in the frame collection.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the navigation commands comprise menu controls comprising up and down commands.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising applying special effects in response to the received user command.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the special effects are synchronized to the displayed sequence of frames.

11. The method of claim 1 wherein the displayed menu items are displayed in a camcorder.

12. A point-of-sale kiosk, comprising:

a collection of frames that comprise keyframes;

a navigation structure for controlling navigation between keyframes in the collection of frames; and

a user interface for receiving user commands for causing a sequence of frames to be displayed in response to the navigation structure at the time a command is received from a user.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface contains a text layer that is overlaid on a video layer.

14. The system of claim 12 wherein the user interface comprises controls for authoring the navigation structure.

15. The system of claim 12 wherein the kiosk further comprises a render engine for applying special effects in response to a received user command.

16. The system of claim 12 wherein the navigation structure contains commands for navigating upwards and downwards in a menu.

17. The system of claim 12 wherein the wherein the navigation structure contains commands for applying special effects.

18. A tangible medium comprising computer-executable instructions for:

receiving a collection of frames that comprise keyframes;

associating navigation commands with the keyframes;

displaying menu items in keyframes to a user; and

displaying a sequence of frames at the time a command is received from a user wherein the command is a selection of at least one of the menu items in a displayed keyframe.

19. The tangible medium of claim 18 wherein the keyframes are tagged to indicate keyframe location.

20. The tangible medium of claim 18 wherein the keyframes are displayed in response to the time-of-day.