PRESENTATION OF METADATA AND ENHANCED ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA CONTENT

• US 20160132217A1
• Filed: 11/23/2015
• Published: 05/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: ASOKAN, ASHWINI, PAYNE, MICHAEL, JOHNSON, BRIAN D., HATALKAR, ATUL, GRENVILLE, DELIA
• Granted Patent: US 10,162,496 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0255 based on user history
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 3/40 Scaling of whole images or parts thereof, e.g. expanding or contracting

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed that involve providing enhanced user experiences involving the consumption and management of content. For instance, embodiments provide user interface elements that present information regarding content that overcomes barriers or silos between application and platforms. Examples of such user interface elements include a three dimensional carousel, a preview stack, a favorites button, and a My Channel user interface. Also, embodiments may provide techniques for obtaining contextual content. Such techniques include, but are not limited to, zooming mechanisms and combining (or “mashup”) mechanisms.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

outputting a zoomed rendering of a content item the content item being entertainment media for a display device;

obtaining metadata corresponding to an object in the zoomed rendering; and

outputting a contextual rendering, wherein the contextual rendering includes the metadata.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining content based on the metadata, and wherein the contextual rendering further includes the content based on the metadata.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item is a television program.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a zooming selection from a user, wherein the zoomed rendering is based on the zooming selection.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the zoomed rendering comprises block scaling an image of the content item.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining additional content using the obtained metadata by searching for the additional content and outputting the additional content as an additional user interface element on the display.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising indexing the obtained additional content according to positions within the content item.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining metadata obtaining metadata comprises searching the zoomed media rendering of the content item using a pattern recognition technique to find an object that is recognized using a database of objects.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the content item is a video and the zoomed rendering represents the video, the method further comprising repeating obtaining and outputting with changes in the rendered video.

5. The method of claim 5, wherein the zooming selection indicates a position on the display device for the zoomed rendering.

11. An article comprising a non-transitory machine-accessible medium having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

outputting a zoomed rendering of a content item the content item being entertainment media for a display device;

obtaining metadata corresponding to an object in the zoomed rendering; and

outputting a contextual rendering, wherein the contextual rendering includes the metadata.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein obtaining metadata obtaining metadata comprises searching the zoomed media rendering of the content item using a pattern recognition technique to find an object that is recognized using a database of objects.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the content item is a video and the zoomed rendering represents the video, the method further comprising repeating obtaining and outputting with changes in the rendered video.

14. An apparatus, comprising:

a zoom management module to generate a zoomed rendering of a content item for a display device based on a user zooming selection;

a metadata retrieval module to obtain metadata corresponding to an object within the zoomed rendering;

a contextual content output module to generate a contextual content rendering, the contextual content rendering including the metadata.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the metadata retrieval module further obtains additional content using the obtained metadata and wherein the contextual content rendering includes content derived from metadata corresponding to the zoomed rendering.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising an output display device to display the zoomed rendering and the contextual content rendering.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a personalization module to select multiple content items based at least on a user profile; and

a user interface management module to render the multiple content items through one or more user interface elements and to receive the user zooming selection to generate the zoomed rendering of one of the multiple content items.

18. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising a user management module to generate a user profile based at least upon previous content selections of the user.

19. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising a database containing metadata corresponding to a plurality of objects and wherein the metadata retrieval module obtains the metadata by searching the database.

20. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising a database of recognized object patterns and wherein the metadata retrieval module obtains metadata by searching the zoomed media rendering of the content item using a pattern recognition technique to find an object that is recognized using the database of objects.