SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GENERATING A VISUAL SUMMARY OF PREVIOUSLY VIEWED MULTIMEDIA CONTENT

• US 20120284094A1
• Filed: 10/19/2010
• Published: 11/08/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: de Léon, David, Lindberg, Bjorn, Mårtensson, Joakim
• Granted Patent: US 8,769,571 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.4
• 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

Abstract

A method (100) and electronic device (10) for resuming multimedia content playback for display on the electronic device. The method includes: receiving a command to render multimedia content from a user input device (20), wherein the multimedia content includes previously viewed multimedia content and un-viewed multimedia content; selecting one or more segments of the previously viewed multimedia content; displaying a thumbnail that corresponds to the selected one or more segments on a display (18) of the electronic device to provide a visual summary of the previously viewed content; and displaying at least a portion of the un-viewed multimedia content after at least a portion of the visual summary is displayed on the display.

Claims

1. A method for resuming multimedia content playback for display on an electronic device (10), the method comprising:

receiving a command to render multimedia content from a user input device (20),

wherein the multimedia content includes previously viewed multimedia content and un-viewed multimedia content;

selecting one or more segments of the previously viewed multimedia content;

displaying a thumbnail that corresponds to the selected one or more segments on a display (18) of the electronic device to provide a visual summary of the previously viewed content; and

displaying at least a portion of the un-viewed multimedia content after at least a portion of the visual summary is displayed on the display.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more segments are selected based upon a segment selection algorithm (14).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more segments are selected based upon dividing the previously viewed multimedia content into a fixed quantity of previously viewed segments.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein a portion of each of the previously viewed segments are aggregated to form the one or more segments.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein each thumbnail of the selected one or more segments are presented on the display in a collage format.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein each thumbnail of the selected one or more segments are presented in a sequential manner based on a temporal order of the previously viewed content.

7. The method of claim 1, further including receiving user input to bypass display of at least a portion of the visual summary.

8. An electronic device (10) comprising:

a memory (16) for storing multimedia content and a content review application (14);

a user input device (20) for receiving a command to render multimedia content stored on the electronic device, wherein the multimedia content includes at least one multimedia application that includes previously viewed multimedia content and un-viewed multimedia content;

a processor (32) coupled to the user input device and the memory, wherein the processor processes the previously viewed multimedia content according to the content review application to select one or more segments to form a visual summary that includes a thumbnail that corresponds to the one or more selected segments of the previously viewed multimedia content; and

a display (18) coupled to the processor, wherein the display presents the visual summary to an associated of the electronic device prior to displaying at least a portion of the un-viewed multimedia content.

9. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the electronic device is a mobile telephone.

10. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the user input device is a keypad.

11. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the user input device is a touch screen.

12. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the content review application processes the previously viewed multimedia content based upon a segment selection algorithm (14).

13. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the one or more segments are selected based upon dividing the previously viewed multimedia content into a fixed quantity of previously viewed segments.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein thumbnails for each of the previously viewed segments are accumulated to form the visual summary.

15. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the visual summary is a collage presented on the display, wherein the collage includes thumbnails associated with each of the selected one or more segments.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein at least one thumbnail is associated with a video clip of the selected segment.

17. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the visual summary includes presenting each thumbnail of the selected one or more segments in a sequential manner based on a temporal order of the previously viewed content.

18. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the visual summary includes one or more advertisements embedded within the visual summary.

19. The electronic device of claim 8, wherein the visual summary includes one or more product placement indexes in the visual summary.