TECHNIQUES FOR FACILITATING ANNOTATIONS

• US 20140053052A1
• Filed: 02/08/2013
• Published: 02/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Savitzky, Stephen, Rhodes, Bradley, Barrus, John, Kishi, Hidenobu
• Application Number:
  US13/763,432
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/230
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/00 Selective content distribution, e.g. interactive television or video on demand [VOD] real-time bi-directional transmission of motion video data H04N7/14 ; broadcast or conference over packet switching networks H04L12/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image

Abstract

Techniques for facilitating annotation of information. Techniques are provided that enable one or more users to annotate video information being displayed by an output device. Different annotation modes may be provided. For example, in one mode, a device is provided that can capture a video frame from video information being output by an output device. One or more users may then annotate the captured video frame. The annotations may be communicated to the output device such that the output displays the captured video frame along with annotations made to the video frame. Other annotation modes are also provided.

Claims

1. A method of facilitating annotations, the method comprising:

capturing, at a first device, a video frame from a video stream received by the first device from a second device, wherein the capturing is performed in response to a request received by the first device from a client device in a set of one or more client devices, the captured video frame corresponding to a video frame being displayed by an output device; and

enabling the captured video frame to be annotated using a client device from the set of client devices.