INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD, PROGRAM, AND VIDEO PLAYBACK SYSTEM

• US 20140040049A1
• Filed: 10/03/2013
• Published: 02/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iida, Akinori, Miya, Yukihisa, Kakinuma, Hidehiko, Sato, Kazumasa
• Granted Patent: US 9,898,764 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.73
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355

Abstract

A video playback system includes a video distribution server and at least one information processing device. The video distribution server includes a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream, an alternative video distribution portion that distributes an alternative video, and a control information distribution portion that distributes control information. The information processing device includes a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information, a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information, a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream, an alternative video playback portion that plays back the stored alternative video, and a playback switching control portion that, based on the stored control information, controls switching between the streaming playback and the playback of the alternative video.

Claims

1-9. -9. (canceled)

10. An information processing device comprising:

a receiving portion that receives;

a video stream;

an alternative video separate from the video stream; and

control information;

a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information; and

a controller configured to;

perform playback of the video stream;

perform playback of the alternative video stored in the storage portion; and

select either the playback of the video stream or the playback of the alternative video based on the control information that is stored in the storage portion when receiving of the alternative video has been completed.

11. The information processing device of claim 10, wherein the video stream comprises a first commercial message video, and wherein the alternative video stream comprises a second commercial message video.

12. The information processing device of claim 10, wherein the alternative video is acquired from a video distribution server based on the control information that is stored in the storage portion.

13. The information processing device of claim 10, wherein log information is stored in the storage portion, and wherein the information processing device further comprises a log transmission portion configured to transmit the log information to a video distribution server.

14. The information processing device of claim 13, wherein the log information is generated based on playback of the alternative video.

15. The information processing device of claim 10, further comprising a control information acquisition portion configured to:

determine that receiving of the control information has been completed; and

acquire distribution schedule information based on the control information.

16. The video playback system of claim 15, wherein the alternative video is received based on the acquired distribution scheduled information.

17. The information processing device of claim 10, further comprising an alternative video acquisition portion configured to:

acquire a time trigger; and

initiate receiving of the alternative video based on the time trigger.

18. The information processing device of claim 10,

wherein the alternative video is received by the receiving portion prior to receiving the video stream, and

wherein the storage portion stores the alternative video prior to the receiving portion receiving the video stream.

19. A method comprising:

receiving a video stream, an alternative video separate from the video stream, and control information;

storing the alternative video and the control information that are received;

performing streaming playback of the video stream that is received; and

subsequent to the receiving of the alternative video being completed, performing playback of the alternative video stored in the storage portion based on the control information that is stored in the storage portion.

20. A video playback system, comprising:

a video distribution server; and

an information processing device,

wherein the video distribution server comprises;

a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream;

an alternative video distribution portion that performs file distribution of an alternative video, separate from the video stream; and

a control information distribution portion that distributes control information, and

wherein the information processing device comprises;

a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information that are distributed from the video distribution server;

a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information;

a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream;

an alternative video playback portion that plays back the alternative video stored in the storage portion; and

a playback switching control portion that selects either the streaming playback in the video stream playback portion or the playback of the alternative video in the alternative video playback portion based on the control information that is stored in the storage portion.

21. The video playback system of claim 20, wherein the video stream comprises a first commercial message video, and wherein the alternative video stream comprises a second commercial message video.

22. The video playback system of claim 20, wherein file distribution of the alternative video is performed in response to a request from the information processing device, and wherein said request is based on the control information that is stored in the storage portion of the information processing device.

23. The video playback system of claim 20, wherein log information is stored in the storage portion, and wherein the information processing device further comprises a log transmission portion configured to transmit the log information to the video distribution server.

24. The video playback system of claim 23, wherein the log information is generated based on playback of the alternative video.

25. The video playback system of claim 20, wherein the information processing device further comprises a control information acquisition portion configured to:

determine that receiving of the control information has been completed; and

acquire distribution schedule information based on the control information.