VIDEO ALERTS

• US 20140036152A1
• Filed: 07/31/2012
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Jackson, Dean Kenneth, Klein, Daniel Victor
• Application Number:
  US13/563,543
• Publication Number:
  US 20140036152A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/564
• 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 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47214 for content reservation or setting reminders; for requesting event notification, e.g. of sport results or stock market stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; notification of incoming messages in packet switching networks H04L51/224
• 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 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4882 for displaying messages, e.g. warnings, reminders arrangements for providing short real-time information to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1895
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

Systems and methods for providing a video alert include providing a first portion of video to an electronic display and analyzing a second portion of video while the first portion of video is being provided to the electronic display. A character or personality may be identified in the second portion of video and an alert provided based in part on the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video.

Claims

1. A method for providing an alert comprising:

providing a first portion of video to an electronic display;

analyzing, by a processing circuit, a second portion of video while the first portion of video is being provided to the electronic display;

identifying, by the processing circuit, a character or personality in the second portion of video; and

providing an alert based in part on the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second portions of video comprise video received by the processing circuit from different sources.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the different sources are different channels.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second portions of video comprise different portions of the same video.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the alert comprises an indication of the amount of time until the second portion of video is played.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the processing circuit, a request to view the second portion of video; and

providing the second portion of video to the electronic display in response to receiving the request to view the second portion of video.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the alert comprises an alert provided in conjunction with the first portion of video to the electronic display.

8. A system for providing an alert comprising a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is operable to:

provide a first portion of video to an electronic display;

analyze a second portion of video while the first portion of video is being provided to the electronic display;

identify a character or personality in the second portion of video; and

provide an alert based in part on the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the first and second portions of video comprise video received by the processing circuit from different sources.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the different sources are different channels.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the first and second portions of video comprise different portions of the same video.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the alert comprises an indication of the amount of time until the second portion of video is played.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the processing circuit is further operable to:

receive a request to view the second portion of video; and

provide the second portion of video to the electronic display in response to receiving the request to view the second portion of video.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the alert comprises an alert provided in conjunction with the first portion of video to the electronic display.

15. A computer-readable storage medium having instructions therein, the instructions being executable by one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

providing a first portion of video to an electronic display;

analyzing a second portion of video while the first portion of video is being provided to the electronic display;

identifying a character or personality in the second portion of video; and

providing an alert based in part on the character or personality being identified in the second portion of video.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first and second portions of video comprise video received by the processing circuit from different sources.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the different sources are different channels.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the first and second portions of video comprise different portions of the same video.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the alert comprises an indication of the amount of time until the second portion of video is played.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving a request to view the second portion of video; and

providing the second portion of video to the electronic display in response to receiving the request to view the second portion of video.