METHOD FOR SETTING A WATCHING LEVEL FOR AN AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT

• US 20130254795A1
• Filed: 03/18/2013
• Published: 09/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Madison Patent Holdings (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: Gallardo, Patrick, Demarty, Claire-Helene, Botta, Franck, Penet, Cedric
• Granted Patent: US 9,247,296 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/28
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4751 for defining user accounts, e.g. accounts for children
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4756 for rating content, e.g. scoring a recommended movie
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for setting a watching level to an audiovisual content which some frames are already annotated with watching levels. Upon the reception of the audiovisual content, frames annotated with watching levels are extracted and displayed in a single view. One of the displayed frames is selected by the user, the watching level of the selected frame being set as watching level to the audiovisual content.

Claims

1. A method for setting a watching level for an audiovisual content, wherein the audiovisual content contains a plurality of frames respectively associated to a plurality of watching levels, the method comprising the following steps:

Displaying two or more frames from the plurality of frames;

Selecting a frame from the displayed frames; and

Setting the watching level for the audiovisual content to the watching level associated to the selected frame

2. The method of claim 1, wherein one frame from the two or more displayed frames is associated to an audiovisual segment of the audiovisual content

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the audiovisual segment of the audiovisual content is played back upon the introduction of a command, or upon the displaying step

4. The method of claim 2, wherein several frames from the two or more displayed frames are respectively associated to audiovisual segments of the audiovisual content

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the audiovisual segments are played back simultaneously upon the displaying step

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the audiovisual segments are played back simultaneously upon the introduction of a command

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the watching level associated to each of the frames is determined automatically

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the watching level associated to each of the frames is inputted manually

9. Method according to claim 1, comprising a previous step of setting an initial watching level

10. Method according to claim 1, wherein the two or more frames are displayed in an increasing watching level order

11. Method according to claim 9, wherein a frame belonging to the two or more frames and associated to a watching level higher than the initial watching level is displayed blurred