APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSOCIATING ONE OR MORE FILTER FILES WITH A PARTICULAR MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION

• US 20100195990A1
• Filed: 04/15/2010
• Published: 08/05/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Clearplay Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Clearplay Incorporated
• Inventors: Jarman, Matthew T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,861,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded

Abstract

A method, apparatus, computer program product and computer accessible code configured to link or otherwise associate content filters with a multimedia presentation, e.g., a movie. The content filter data includes an identifier value with an aspect ratio identifier or as a function of an aspect ratio for a particular multimedia presentation associated with the filter information. In one implementation, association between a filter set and a multimedia presentation involves a filtering application that searches a particular multimedia presentation to locate aspect ratio information and further searches filter information for a matching aspect ratio identifier.

Claims

1. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium and computer readable code embodied on the computer useable medium, the computer readable code comprising;

one or more filter files associated with a multimedia presentation, the filter files each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter file further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation, the filtering action including at least of a skipping, blurring, cropping and muting filtering action for the portions of the multimedia presentation; and

the one or more filter files including at least one aspect ratio data value configured to identify an aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation, the one or more filter files to be applied to the multimedia presentation when the at least one aspect ratio data value corresponds with the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein:

the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation comprises a full screen aspect ratio and a widescreen aspect ratio.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein:

the at least one data value comprises at least one data bit configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.

4. The computer program product of claim 3 wherein:

the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 0 to indicate the full screen aspect ratio.

5. The computer program product of claim 4 wherein:

the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 1 to indicate the wide screen aspect ratio.

6. The computer program product of claim 3 wherein the first and second data bits are bits 6 and 7 of a particular 8-bit byte.

7. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the computer readable medium comprises a DVD.

8. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the multimedia presentation comprises a movie.

9. A computer readable storage medium including computer instructions, comprising:

a code segment including one or more filters associated with a multimedia presentation, the filters each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation, the filtering action including skipping, blurring, cropping and/or muting portions of the multimedia presentation; and

a code segment including at least one aspect ratio data value configured to identify an aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation;

the code segment to be applied to the multimedia presentation when the aspect ratio corresponds with the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.

10. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein:

the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation comprises a full screen aspect ratio and a widescreen aspect ratio.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein:

the at least one data value comprises at least one data bit configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 11 wherein:

the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 0 to indicate the full screen aspect ratio.

13. The computer data readable storage medium of claim 12 wherein:

the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 1 to indicate the wide screen aspect ratio.

14. The computer data readable storage medium of 11 wherein the first and second data bits are bits 6 and 7 of a particular 8-bit byte.

15. A computer program product comprising:

a computer readable storage medium including at least one filter file means for triggering at least one filtering action of a portion of a particular multimedia presentation, the filtering action including skipping, blurring, cropping and/or muting portions of the multimedia presentation;

the one or more filter files including at least one aspect ratio data value configured to identify an aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation; and

means for associating the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation with the means for triggering at least one filtering action.

16. A computer program product comprising:

a computer storage medium and computer readable code embodied on the computer useable medium, the computer readable code comprising;

one or more filter files associated with a multimedia presentation, the filter files each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter file further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation, the filtering action including skipping, blurring, cropping and/or muting portions of the multimedia presentation; and

at least one or more filter files including at least one data value configured as a function of at least the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation;

the one or more filter files to be applied to the multimedia presentation when the at least one aspect ratio data value corresponds with the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.

17. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein:

the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation comprises a full screen aspect ratio and a widescreen aspect ratio.

18. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein:

the at least one data value comprises at least one data bit configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.

19. The computer program product of claim 18 wherein:

the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 0 to indicate the full screen aspect ratio.

20. The computer program product of claim 19 wherein:

the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 1 to indicate the wide screen aspect ratio.

21. The computer program product of claim 18 wherein the first and second data bits are bits 6 and 7 of a particular 8-bit byte.

22. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein the computer useable medium comprises an optical disc.

23. The computer program product of claim 16 wherein the multimedia presentation comprises a movie.

24. A method for associating a multimedia presentation with content filter information comprising:

obtaining content filtering data corresponding with a particular multimedia presentation, the content filtering data including at least one multimedia identifier, the multimedia identifier including at least one data value corresponding to an aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation;

analyzing a multimedia presentation to determine an aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation;

comparing the aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation to the at least one multimedia identifier; and

applying the content filtering data to the multimedia presentation as function of the operation of comparing.

25. A multimedia player including a processor configured to perform the operations of claim 24.