Replaying with supplementary information a segment of a video

• US 6,408,128 B1
• Filed: 11/12/1998
• Issued: 06/18/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: CustomPlay, LLC
• Original Assignee: Nissim Corp.
• Inventors: Abecassis, Max
• Primary Examiner(s): Christensen, Andrew B.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHIEU, PO LIN
• Application Number:
  US09/190,773
• Time in Patent Office: 1,314 Days
• Field of Search: 386/1, 386/45, 386/46, 386/95, 386/97, 386/125-126, 386/69-70, 725/88-89, 725/102, 725/136
• US Class Current: 386/239
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/02 Control of operating function, e.g. switching from recording to reproducing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42208 Display device provided on the remote control
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/426 Internal components of the client ; Characteristics thereof H04N5/44 takes precedence
• 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 21/440281 by altering the temporal resolution, e.g. by frame skipping television signal recording using magnetic recording on tape for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4753 for user identification, e.g. by entering a PIN or password cryptographic authentication protocols H04L9/32; networks authentication protocols H04L63/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4755 for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/478 Supplemental services, e.g. displaying phone caller identification, shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/45 Picture in picture , e.g. displaying simultaneously another television channel in a region of the screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 : between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 : between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/141 : between two video terminals, e.g. videophone telephonic communication systems combined with television receiver for reception of entertainment or information matter H04M11/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/52 : Systems for transmission of a pulse code modulated video signal with one or more other pulse code modulated signals, e.g. an audio signal or a synchronizing signal assembling of a multiplex stream by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, remultiplexing of multiplex streams, insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, assembling of a packetised elementary stream at server side H04N21/236; disassembling of a multiplex stream, remultiplexing of multiplex streams, extraction or processing of Service Information, disassembling of packetised elementary stream at client side H04N21/434

Abstract

A method of, and a system capable of, replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of, and the means for receiving, during a playing of a video, a replay request to replay a portion of a video, the replay request comprising a voice command; storing a request position of the playing of the video responsive to the replay request; skipping, responsive to the replay request, the video to a replay position that is responsive to a preestablished replay preference amount adjusted by segment information subject to an override range; enabling a playing of supplementary information; playing the video and the supplementary information from the replay position; and discontinuing the playing of supplementary information responsive to the request position responsive to a preestablished replay preference amount adjusted by segment information subject to an override range. The supplementary information including, for example, subtitles, substitution of the audio language, different camera angles, other textual, video, and/or audio information that may supplement, complement, the information being played, and/or substitute, the audio dialogue and/or segment of a video; and/or any information which may be utilized to elucidate, illuminate, illustrate, clarify, and/or explain, during a replay, a portion of a video.

Claims

1. A method of replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of:

receiving, during a playing of a video, a replay request to replay a portion of a video;

storing a request position of the playing of the video responsive to the replay request;

skipping, responsive to the replay request, the video to a replay position that is responsive a preestablished replay preference;

enabling a playing of subtitles;

playing the video and the subtitles from the replay position; and

discontinuing the playing of subtitles responsive to the request position.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the replay request is a voice command.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the skipping is responsive to a preestablished replay preference amount adjusted by segment information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the skipping is increased by a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the skipping is responsive to a system preestablished replay preference amount, adjusted by segment information, and increased by a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the replay request is a voice command;

and wherein he subtitles played are in a language different from an audio language played.

7. A method of replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of:

receiving during a playing of the video a replay request, from a user actuation of a single replay request control element, to replay a portion of the video;

replaying, in response to the user actuation of a single replay request control element, the video from a replay position in the video preceding an initial position in the video at which the replay request was received; and

enabling a playing of subtitles for a portion of the video subsequent to the replay position.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein the replay position precedes the initial position by a predetermined period of playback time.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the predetermined period of playback time is established by the user.

10. The method of claim 8 wherein the predetermined period of playback time is increased by a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein the portion of the video in which subtitles are played corresponds to the portion of the video between the replay position and the initial position.

12. The method of claim 7 wherein the portion of the video in which subtitles are played corresponds to a predetermined period of playback time from the replay position.

13. A system for playing a video comprising:

a replay device for playing the video;

a single replay request control element;

the replay device replaying the video from a replay position preceding an initial position at which a replay request was received from a user actuation of the single replay request control element; and

the replay device playing subtitles during a portion of the video subsequent to the replay position.

14. The system defined by claim 13 wherein the replay position precedes the initial position by a predetermined period of playback time.

15. The system defined by claim 14 wherein the predetermined period of playback time is established by the user.

16. The system defined by claim 14 wherein the predetermined period of playback time is increased by a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

17. The system defined by claim 13 wherein the portion of the video in which subtitles are played corresponds to the portion of the video between the replay position and the initial position.

18. The system defined by claim 13 wherein the portion of the video in which subtitles are played corresponds to a predetermined period of playback time from the replay position.

19. A system for playing a laser readable disc containing a video comprising:

a replay device for playing the laser readable disc containing the video;

a single replay request control element;

the replay device replaying the video from a replay position preceding an initial position at which a replay request was received from a user actuation of the single replay request control element; and

the replay device playing subtitles during a portion the video subsequent to the replay position.

20. The system defined by claim 19 wherein the replay position precedes the initial position by a predetermined period of playback time.

21. The system defined by claim 20 wherein the predetermined period of playback time is established by the user.

22. The system defined by claim 20 wherein the predetermined period of playback time is increased by a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

23. The system defined by claim 19 wherein the portion of the video in which subtitles are played corresponds to the portion of the laser readable disc containing a video between the replay position and the initial position.

24. The system defined by claim 19 wherein the portion of the laser readable disc containing a video in which subtitles are played corresponds to a predetermined period of playback time from the replay position.

25. The system defined by claim 19 wherein the laser readable disc is a DVD.

26. A method of replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of:

receiving, during a playing of the video, a replay request to replay a portion of the video;

skipping, responsive to the replay request, the video to a replay position that is responsive to a preestablished replay preference;

enabling, responsive to the replay request, a playing of subtitles;

playing the video and the subtitles responsive to the replay position; and

discontinuing, responsive to the replay request, the playing of subtitles.

27. The method of claim 26, wherein the replay request is a voice command.

28. The method of claim 26 wherein the skipping is responsive to a system preestablished replay preference adjusted by segment information.

29. The method of claim 26, wherein the skipping is responsive to a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

30. The method of claim 26, wherein the subtitles played are in a language different from an audio language played.

31. The method of claim 26, wherein a discontinuing of the playing of subtitles is responsive to the replay request adjusted by a system defined amount.

32. A system capable of replaying a portion of a video comprising:

a user interface means for receiving, during a playing of the video, a replay request to replay a portion of the video;

a random accessing means for skipping, responsive to the replay request, the video to a replay position that is responsive to a preestablished replay preference;

a processing means for enabling, responsive to the replay request, a playing of subtitles;

playing the video and the subtitles responsive to the replay position; and

discontinuing, responsive to the replay request, the playing of subtitles.

33. The system of claim 32, wherein the user interface means comprises a remote control device.

34. The system of claim 32, wherein the skipping is responsive to a user preestablished replay preference adjusted by segment information.

35. The system of claim 32 wherein the skipping is responsive to a contemporaneous subsequent replay request.

36. The system of claim 32 wherein the subtitles played are in a language different from an audio language played.