APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR REPRODUCING MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

• US 20110106879A1
• Filed: 10/29/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Choo, Hee-Jeong, Lee, Keum-Koo, Kwahk, Ji-Young, SUNG, Ju-Yun
• Granted Patent: US 9,355,682 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/438 Presentation of query results
• 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 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/489 using time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/71 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/80 of semi-structured data, e.g. markup language structured data such as SGML, XML or HTML content-based retrieval of web data G06F16/95
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/14 specially adapted for billing systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/10 Services
• 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: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/178 Metadata, e.g. disparity information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

An apparatus and method for reproducing multimedia content are provided. Content selected through user input unit is reproduced, and if it is requested that part of the reproduced content be registered as content of interest, metadata about the part of the reproduced content is generated and stored using metadata about the reproduced content. The generated metadata is generated and stored as metadata of interest about the content of interest according to input of a user input unit.

Claims

1. A method for reproducing multimedia content provided through the Internet, comprising:

reproducing content selected through user input unit;

if it is requested that a part of the reproduced content be registered as content of interest, generating and storing metadata about the first part of the reproduced content using metadata about the reproduced content; and

re-constructing metadata which is generated with respect to a plurality of content of interest as metadata of interest, according to input of the user input unit and storing the metadata of interest.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a request for adding another part of the reproduced content as the content of interest; and

generating and storing metadata about the additionally requested part of the reproduced content using the metadata about the reproduced content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein storing the metadata of interest updates the metadata of interest by adding the generated metadata to previously stored metadata of interest according to a user request.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sequentially reproducing content registered as the content of interest according to a user request, wherein content to be subsequently reproduced is buffered while sequentially reproducing the content.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata or the metadata of interest includes information about storage location, storage region, type and use rights of content corresponding to the metadata or the metadata of interest.

6. An apparatus for reproducing multimedia content provided through the Internet, comprising:

a user input unit for receiving reproduction information about multimedia content and information about parts desired to be managed as content of interest out of a currently reproduced content;

a metadata generator for generating information about the content of interest selected by the user input unit as metadata and re-constructing metadata which is generated with respect to a plurality of content of interest as metadata of interest;

a metadata storage unit for storing the metadata generated from the metadata generator and the metadata of interest;

a content reproducing unit for confirming the metadata of interest in the metadata storage unit and controlling the content of interest to be reproduced according to the metadata of interest, when a request that the content of interest be reproduced is received through the user input unit; and

a display unit for displaying the content of interest which is reproduced by the control of the content reproducing unit so that a user can view the content of interest.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the user input unit receives a request for adding another part of the reproduced content as the content of interest, and the metadata generator generates metadata about the additionally requested part of the reproduced content using the metadata about the reproduced content and stores the generated metadata in the metadata storage unit.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the metadata generator updates the metadata of interest by adding the generated metadata to previously stored metadata of interest according to a user request.

9. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the metadata generator generates and re-constructs metadata about the parts of the reproduced content by re-constructing metadata about content provided by a content server according to information input through the user input unit.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the content reproducing unit buffers content to be subsequently reproduced while reproducing current content, when content registered as content of interest is sequentially reproduced.

11. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the metadata or the metadata of interest includes information about storage location, storage region, type and use rights of content corresponding to the metadata or the metadata of interest.