SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPILING AND PLAYING A MULTI-CHANNEL VIDEO

• US 20130188923A1
• Filed: 01/23/2013
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Radical Switchcam, LLC
• Original Assignee: SRSLY Inc.
• Inventors: Hartley, Christopher Albert, Welch, Brett Ronald
• Granted Patent: US 9,344,606 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/241
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• 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 21/43072 of multiple content streams on the same device
• 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 21/44016 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for substituting a video clip
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47217 for controlling playback functions for recorded or on-demand content, e.g. using progress bars, mode or play-point indicators or bookmarks specific graphical features in visual interfaces H04N21/4312
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/04 Synchronising for television systems using pulse code modulation H04N7/56
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/91 Television signal processing therefor
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence

Abstract

A system and method including retrieving a multi-channel video file with a first video segment and a second video segment; assigning a rank to the first video segment and second video segment; and rendering at least the first and second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, and comprising: playing the first video segment in an active stream, progressing a timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream, when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel if the rank of the second video segment is greater than the rank of the first video segment, and otherwise displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

retrieving a multi-channel video file with at least a first video segment and a second video segment;

assigning a rank to at least the first video segment and second video segment; and

rendering at least the first and second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, and comprising;

playing the first video segment in an active stream,

progressing a timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream,

when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment and the rank of the second video segment is greater than the first video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel, and

when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment and the rank of the second video segment is less than the first video segment, displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein upon receiving user interface selection of the selectable video channel, playing the video segment displayed as the selectable video channel in the active stream.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising upon receiving user interface selection of the selectable video channel, reverting the timeline to a position prior to the position when the video channel is selected.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein assigning rank to the at least first and second video segment further comprises assigning rank by social promotions of a user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein assigning rank to the at least first and second video segment further comprises assigning rank by number of views of the video segment.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein upon progressing timeline to the end of first video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising streaming the first and second video segments from a remote server.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein streaming the first and second video segment includes loading the stream of the second video segment prior to playing the second video segment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second video segments are played from data in the multi-channel video file.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel further comprises displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel represented in the player interface as a graphic representation of the video segment reduced in size.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel represented in the player interface as a graphic representation of the video segment reduced in size, further comprises playing the video segment reduced in size.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the graphic representation of the video is a marker positioned on a representational map and the position of the marker substantially corresponds to the geographic location associated with video segments of the video channel.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein progressing the timeline comprises representing the timeline as a progress bar that upon user selection of a position of the timeline, displays the number of video segments synchronized to that position.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising playing a main audio track throughout the timeline progression of the multi-channel video file;

and combining audio of a video played in the active stream with the main audio track.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving user augmentation to the multi-channel video file.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein receiving user augmentation to the multi-channel video file includes adjusting the synchronization of a video segment based on user input.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein receiving user augmentation to the multi-channel video file includes adding a new video segment to the multi-channel video file, and synchronizing the new video segment to the timeline.

18. A method comprising:

retrieving a multi-channel video file with at least a first video segment and a second video segment

assigning a rank to at least the first video segment and second video segment based on history of the first and second video segment; and

rendering at least the first and second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, and comprising;

playing the first video segment in an active stream,

progressing a timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream,

upon progressing the timeline to a synchronized time of the second video segment and the second video segment having a rank greater than the first video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel,

upon progressing the timeline to the synchronized time of the second video segment and the second video segment having a rank less than the first video segment, displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel,

upon selectively receiving user interface selection of a selectable video channel, displaying the video segment playing in the active stream as a selectable video channel and playing the video segment of the selected video channel in the active stream, and

upon progressing the timeline to the end of a video segment played in the active stream, playing a video segment from a selectable video channel in the active stream.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising streaming the first video segment for a first video resource of a remote server and streaming the second video segment from a second video resource of a remote server.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel further comprises playing video of the second video segment in the selectable video channel synchronized to the timeline.