Method and Apparatus for Providing Instant-Review of Multimedia Material

• US 20080222139A1
• Filed: 07/24/2006
• Published: 09/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Van Der Brug, Willem Peter
• Application Number:
  US11/996,613
• Publication Number:
  US 20080222139A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/447 Temporal browsing, e.g. timeline
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/48 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/739 in form of a video summary, e.g. the video summary being a video sequence, a composite still image or having synthesized frames
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2541 Blu-ray discs; Blue laser DVR discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3027 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

A method for organizing data in a multimedia presentation (100) providing for an instant summary review is disclosed. Further disclosed is a method and apparatus for presenting summary information (102, 104) up to a current scene in a multimedia presentation (100). The method of presenting summary information comprises the steps of determining the current scene (420) in a received multimedia presentation (100), determining a summary data block corresponding to the determined current scene (430), and providing information in the corresponding summary data block to a user in response to a received request (450). In one aspect of the invention, each summary data block associated with prior scenes is obtained and filtered based on the current scene to provide a summary length that is substantially constant independent of the current scene.

Claims

1. A method for organizing a summary of multimedia presentation (100) containing a plurality of scenes (100.1, 100.2), the method comprising the steps of:

providing, for each scene (100.1, 100.2) in the multimedia presentation, a data block containing a summary corresponding to the scene (102, 104); and

providing an indicator referencing each of the scenes associated with the summary data.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the summary is associated with information in a corresponding scene.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the summary is associated with information in a previous scene.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the summary is associated with each of the scenes prior to a corresponding scene.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the summary corresponds to a visual portion of each of the scenes of the multimedia presentation.

7. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the summary corresponds to an audio portion of each of the scenes of the multimedia presentation.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the summary further comprises an indicator for filtering the summary based on the current scene in the multimedia presentation.

5. The method as recited in claim 5, wherein the summary includes the corresponding scene.

9. A method for providing a summary of multimedia presentation (100), containing a plurality of scenes (100.1, 100.2) and corresponding summary data blocks (200.1, 200.2), up to a current scene in the presentation, the method comprising the steps of:

determining the current scene (320) in a received multimedia presentation;

determining a summary data block (330) corresponding to the determined current scene; and

providing information in the corresponding summary data block (340) to a user in response to a received request.

10. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the step of determining a corresponding summary data block further comprises the step of:

obtaining each summary data block prior to the determined current scene (430).

11. The method as recited in claim 10, further comprising the step of:

filtering the information in each of the summary data blocks (440).

12. The method as recited in claim 11, wherein the filtering step comprises the steps of:

obtaining an indicator in each of the summary data blocks; and

limiting the information from each of the summary data blocks based on the obtained indicator and the determined current scene.

13. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the information in the summary data blocks is associated with the visual portion of the multimedia presentation.

14. The method as recited in claim 9, wherein the information in the summary data blocks is associated with the audio portion of the multimedia presentation.

15. An apparatus for providing a summary of a multimedia presentation, containing a plurality of scenes and corresponding summary data blocks, up to a current scene in the presentation, the apparatus comprising:

a processor and a memory, the processor executing a code for;

determining the current scene (420) in a received multimedia presentation;

determining a summary data block corresponding to the determined current scene (430); and

providing information in the corresponding summary data block to a user in response to a received request (450).

16. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the processor determines a corresponding summary data block by executing a code for:

obtaining each summary data block prior (430) to the determined current scene.

17. The apparatus as recited in claim 16, the processor further executing a code for:

filtering the information in each of the summary data blocks (440).

18. The apparatus as recited in claim 17, wherein the processor filters the information by executing a code for:

obtaining an indicator in each of the summary data blocks; and

limiting the information from each of the summary data blocks based on the indicator and the determined current scene.

19. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the information in the summary data blocks is associated with the visual portion of the multimedia presentation.

20. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the information in the summary data blocks is associated with the audio portion of the multimedia presentation.

21. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, further comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving the multimedia presentation.

22. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the code is stored in the memory.

23. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the summary is associated with information in a corresponding scene.

24. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the summary is associated with information in a previous scene.

25. The apparatus as recited in claim 15, wherein the summary is associated with each of the scenes prior to a corresponding scene.

26. The apparatus as recited in claim 25, wherein the summary includes the corresponding scene.

27. An apparatus for providing a summary of a multimedia presentation, containing a plurality of scenes, the apparatus comprising:

a processor and a memory, the processor executing a code for;

reviewing the content of the multimedia presentation up to a current scene;

preparing a summary of the content of the multimedia presentation up the current scene; and

providing the summary of the content to a user.

28. The apparatus as recited in claim 27, wherein the processor determines the summary of the content by executing a code for:

reviewing the content of each scene prior to the current scene.

29. The apparatus as recited in claim 28, the processor further executing a code for:

filtering the summary of the content of each of the scenes prior to the current scene.