DISPLAYING A TEXT-BASED DESCRIPTION OF DIGITAL CONTENT IN A SUB-FRAME

• US 20140033025A1
• Filed: 12/06/2007
• Published: 01/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Mukherjee, Anubhav, Beri, Narinder
• Application Number:
  US11/951,493
• Publication Number:
  US 20140033025A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/246
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/74 using programme related information, e.g. title, composer or interpreter
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/60 Network streaming of media packets
• 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 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• 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

In some example embodiments, a system and method is shown that includes receiving a text request that includes an identifier value that identifies a text-based description associated with a portion of digital content that is part of a larger portion of digital content. Further, the method includes responsive to the text request, retrieving the text-based description associated with the portion of digital content from a data store, the retrieving using the identifier value to identify the text-based description. Additionally, the method includes communicating the text-based description to a user.

Claims

1-4. -4. (canceled)

5. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving a signal, the signal identifying a time point associated with a portion of digital content, the digital content being streamed to a client device and a portion of the digital content not yet streamed to the client device;

retrieving an identifier value based upon the time point in the signal, the identifier value associated with the portion of the digital content not yet streamed;

generating, using one or more processors, a text request based upon the identifier value, the text request containing the identifier value;

in response to the text request, retrieving a text-based description file for the portion of the digital content not yet streamed, the text-based description file including a subtitle of spoken dialogue in the portion of the digital content associated with the time point; and

transmitting the text-based description file for only the portion of the digital content not yet streamed to the client device for display.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the signal results from an execution of a mouse-over operation.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 5, including generating the identifier value using a plug-in associated with a media-player application.

8. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the retrieving of the identifier value is performed by looking up the identifier value in a data store.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the generating of the text request includes a media-player application transmitting the text request as part of a setup request.

28. The computer implemented method of claim 5, further comprising displaying a text-based description from the text-based description file in a sub-frame of a larger frame displaying the portion of the digital content.

29. The computer implemented method of claim 28, wherein the sub-frame is attached to the timeline toolbar used to select the time point.

30. The computer implemented method of claim 5, further comprising displaying the textual representation of the audio portion in a sub-frame of a larger frame displaying the portion of the digital content.

31. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the comprises a written translation of the spoken dialogue in a foreign language.

32. The computer implemented method of claim 5, wherein the subtitle comprises a written rendering in a same language as the spoken dialogue.

10-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A computer system comprising:

an input device;

at least one processor to instantiate;

an input engine to generate a signal based upon an input signal from the input device, the signal generated responsive to a selection of a time point y associated with a portion of digital content, the time point y corresponding to a time in the digital content that is later than a time point x corresponding to a time in the digital content currently being streamed to the computer system, the time point y further corresponding to a portion of the digital content not yet streamed to the computer system, the time point y selected from a timeline toolbar displayed in a user interface;

a media player to download a text-based description file for only the portion of the digital content not yet streamed to the client device, the text-based description file including a subtitle of spoken dialogue in the portion of the digital content associated with the time point; and

a display generator communicatively coupled to the media player to display the text-based description related to the portion of digital content not yet streamed along with display of the digital content corresponding to the time point x;

a native data store to locally store a text-based description file including the text-based description for the portion of the digital content, the text-based description file being retrieved based on a first text request for the digital content at the time point; and

a display device to display the text-based description.

16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the display generator is further configured to transmit a temporal reference value to the media-player application.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the processor is to instantiate the display generator based on at least one of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) code, or Dynamic Hyper Text Markup Language (DHTML) code.

18. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising an interface to receive a data stream that includes the text-based description.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to instantiate a management engine to manage the data stream through an out-of-band protocol.

20. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising an interface to receive a data stream that includes the text-based description, the data stream received from a device that includes at least one of a media server, streaming server, or a web server.

21. (canceled)

22. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by at least one processor of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

receiving a signal, the signal identifying a time point associated with a portion of digital content, the digital content being streamed to a client device and a portion of the digital content not yet streamed to the client device;

retrieving an identifier value based upon the time point in the signal, the identifier value associated with the portion of the digital content not yet streamed;

generating, using one or more processors, a text request based upon the identifier value, the text request containing the identifier value;

in response to the text request, retrieving a text-based description file for the portion of the digital content not yet streamed, the text-based description file including a subtitle of spoken dialogue in the portion of the digital content associated with the time point; and

transmitting the text-based description file for only the portion of the digital content not yet streamed to the client device for display.

23. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the text-based description file further comprises at least one of director commentary or actor commentary.

24. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise displaying a text-based description from the text-based description file in a sub-frame of a larger frame displaying the portion of the digital content.

26. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise displaying the textual representation of the audio portion in a sub-frame of a larger frame displaying the portion of the digital content.

25. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of clam 24, wherein the sub-frame is attached to the timeline toolbar used to select the time point.

27. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of clam 22, wherein the textual representation of an audio portion comprises one of a close-captioned text or subtitles.