EVENT-BASED MEDIA PLAYBACK

• US 20140373079A1
• Filed: 06/17/2013
• Published: 12/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dish Technologies LLC (Dish Network Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Echostar Technologies LLC (Echostar Corporation)
• Inventors: Friedrich, Alisson, Swain, Kevin
• Granted Patent: US 9,930,404 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 725/88
• 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 21/47217 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 21/4728 for selecting a Region Of Interest [ROI], e.g. for requesting a higher resolution version of a selected region

Abstract

Particular portions or events of recorded television programming identified as having especially significant or interesting detail may be played-back at normal speed without user input; whereas other portions or events of the recorded television programming may be played-back at greater than normal speed.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving a command to playback stored media content at a particular rate;

identifying, at a particular time during playback of the media content at the particular rate, a portion of the media content occurring at a time subsequent the particular time that is tagged as distinguished from other portions of the media content; and

outputting, for presentation by a device in response to the identifying, the media content at a rate less than the particular rate, and at a time prior to a time associated with the portion of the media content.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a command to playback the recorded media content at the rate less than the particular rate prior to receiving the command to playback recorded media content at the particular rate; and

outputting for presentation by the device the media content at the rate less than the particular rate in response to receiving the command to playback the recorded media content at the rate less than the particular rate.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising outputting for presentation by the device the media content at the rate less than the particular rate for a predetermined period of time.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising outputting for presentation by the device the media content at the particular rate following passage of the predetermined period of time.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising recording the media content at a television receiver.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

accessing a computing device over a network connection; and

storing a file associated with the media content from the computing device to the television receiver, wherein the file contains a tag that is associated with the portion of the media content and that distinguishes the portion of the media content from other portions of the media content.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising accessing the file during playback of the media content at the particular rate to identify the portion of the media content occurring at the time subsequent the particular time.

8. The method of claim 6, further comprising updating the file at least one of intermittently and periodically by accessing the computing device over the network connection.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing a file associated with the media content to the television receiver, wherein the file contains a plurality of tags one that is associated with the portion of the media content and that distinguishes the portion of the media content from other portions of the media content.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising each of the plurality of tags associated with a particular portion of the media content different than other ones of the tags.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein each one of the plurality of tags is associated with a corresponding one particular portion of the media content based on input received from an event marking source selected from one of:

a manual marking source;

a monitored event marking source;

an automated event marking source; and

a crowdsourcing marking source.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising at least one of the plurality of tags associated with a corresponding one particular portion of the media content based on input received from multiple event marking sources.

13. A computing system, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory communicatively coupled with and readable by the one or more processors and having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

detect receipt of a command to playback stored media content at a particular rate;

identify, at a particular time during playback of the media content at the particular rate, a portion of the media content occurring at a time subsequent the particular time that is tagged as distinguished from other portions of the media content; and

output, for presentation by a device in response to the identifying, the media content at a rate less than the particular rate, and at a time prior to a time associated with the portion of the media content.

14. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the memory having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

detect receipt of a command to playback the recorded media content at the rate less than the particular rate prior to receipt of the command to playback recorded media content at the particular rate; and

output for presentation by the device the media content at the rate less than the particular rate in response to receiving the command to playback the recorded media content at the rate less than the particular rate.

15. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the memory having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to output for presentation by the device the media content at the rate less than the particular rate for a predetermined period of time.

16. The computing system of claim 15, wherein the memory having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to output for presentation by the device the media content at the particular rate following passage of the predetermined period of time.

17. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the memory having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

access a computing device over a network connection; and

store a file associated with the media content from the computing device to the computing system, wherein the file contains a tag that is associated with the portion of the media content and that distinguishes the portion of the media content from other portions of the media content.

18. The computing system of claim 17, wherein the memory having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

access the file during playback of the media content at the particular rate to identify the portion of the media content occurring at the time subsequent the particular time; and

update the file at least one of intermittently and periodically by accessing the computing device over the network connection.

19. The computing system of claim 13, wherein the memory having stored therein processor-readable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to store a file associated with the media content to the television receiver, wherein the file contains a plurality of tags one that is associated with the portion of the media content and that distinguishes the portion of the media content from other portions of the media content.

20. A non-transitory processor-readable medium comprising processor-readable instructions configured to cause one or more processors to:

detect receipt of a command to playback stored media content at a particular rate;

identify, at a particular time during playback of the media content at the particular rate, a portion of the media content occurring at a time subsequent the particular time that is tagged as distinguished from other portions of the media content; and

output, for presentation by a device in response to the identifying, the media content at a rate less than the particular rate, and at a time prior to a time associated with the portion of the media content.