Method and System for Navigating Video to an Instant Time

• US 20150121225A1
• Filed: 10/25/2013
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Gopalakrishnan, NarayanaDhoss, Surulinathan, Arunkumar, Palanivelu, Thamilenthi, Sagayaraj, Maria M., Appasani, Ravi Chandra, Somasundaram, Poothabalan, Vijayakumar, Saravanan, Ramanathan, Manjunathan, Venugopal, Rajeswaran
• Granted Patent: US 9,407,964 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/721
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42224 Touch pad or touch panel provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4316 for displaying supplemental content in a region of the screen, e.g. an advertisement in a separate window
• 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

Abstract

A system and method are presented for navigating through image frames of video content to display particular frames of the video content while the video content continues to play. The system provides a viewer the ability to interact with and operate a device playing video content using touch input or input from a peripheral device to permit locating and displaying particular frames of video content concurrently with ongoing display of the video content.

Claims

1. A method for navigating video content comprising a plurality of image frames, the method comprising:

receiving, at an input module, video content to be displayed on a display;

playing, at the display, the video content;

detecting, at an input detection module, a first user input while the video content is being displayed;

displaying, at the display, a first depiction of one or more frames of the video content, in response to detecting the first user input;

detecting, at the input detection module, a second user input while the video content is being displayed; and

displaying, at the display, a second depiction of one or more frames of the video content that is different from the first depiction, in response to detecting the second user input.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first depiction comprises a timeline of the plurality of image frames.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the second depiction comprises an expanded frame of one of the plurality of image frames.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the expanded frame is displayed while the video content continues playing.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the second user input comprises a tapping gesture.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the tapping gesture of the second user input causes a particular frame of the one or more frames to be expanded in size.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second user input comprises one of a pinching gesture, an un-pinching gesture, and a swiping gesture.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the pinching gesture causes additional image frames to be displayed in a timeline of the plurality of image frames, and the un-pinching gesture causes fewer image frames to be displayed in the timeline of the plurality of image frames.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the swiping gesture causes chronologically different frames to be displayed in a timeline of the plurality of image frames.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first depiction comprises a timeline of a first representative portion of the plurality of image frames, the second user input comprises an un-pinching gesture which causes the second depiction to be displayed, the second depiction comprising a second timeline of a second representative portion of the plurality of image frames, the second representative portion being greater than the first representative portion.

11. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising code which when executed causes a computer to perform the method of claim 1.

12. A system for navigating video content comprising a plurality of image frames, the system comprising:

an input module configured to receive video content;

an output module configured to display the video content on a display;

an input detection module configured to detect at least a first and a second user input while the video content is being displayed; and

an image scaling module configured to output at least first and second depictions of one or more of the plurality of image frames to the display in response to the first and second user inputs, respectively, the first and second depictions representing different scalings of the one or more of the plurality of image frames or chronologically different frames of the one or more of the plurality of image frames.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the first depiction comprises a timeline of at least a portion of the plurality of image frames.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the second depiction comprises an expanded frame of one of the plurality of image frames.

15. The system of claim 14, the image scaling module further configured to output the expanded frame to the display while the video content continues playing.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the second user input comprises a tapping gesture.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the tapping gesture of the second user input causes a particular frame of one of the plurality of image frames to be expanded in size.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the second user input comprises one of a pinching gesture, an un-pinching gesture, and a swiping gesture.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the image scaling module is further configured to cause additional image frames to be displayed in a timeline of the plurality of image frames in response to the pinching gesture, and to cause fewer image frames to be displayed in the timeline of the plurality of image frames in response to the un-pinching gesture.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the image scaling module is further configured to cause the chronologically different frames to be displayed in a timeline of the plurality of image frames in response to the swiping gesture.