Method and apparatus to process customized recording contents

• US 8,473,983 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2008
• Issued: 06/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Hong-seok, Seo, Ju-hee, Jeong, Seong-hun
• Primary Examiner(s): CHEN, CAI Y
• Application Number:
  US12/025,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055884A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,968 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/46
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/27 Arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/65 for using the result on users' side
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/73 using meta-information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42209 for displaying non-command information, e.g. electronic program guide [EPG], e-mail, messages or a second television channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4318 by altering the content in the rendering process, e.g. blanking, blurring or masking an image region image enhancement or restoration in general G06T5/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4394 involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• 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 21/44222 Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programs or purchase activity monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33
• 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 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 End-user applications
• 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 21/84 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 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/783 : Adaptations for reproducing at a rate different from the recording rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 : the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

A method and apparatus to process customized recording contents includes generating customized replay control information at a time of recording contents. The method also includes extracting broadcasting-associated additional information from a broadcasting stream, extracting user interaction information by matching the extracted additional information with one or more viewing preferences of a user, selectively parsing the broadcasting stream according to the user interaction information to generate stream parsing information, and generating replay control information corresponding to the broadcasting stream based on the user interaction information and stream parsing information.

Claims

1. A method of processing recording contents, the method comprising:

extracting broadcasting-associated additional information from contents in a broadcasting stream;

extracting user interaction information by matching the broadcasting-associated additional information in the broadcasting stream with one or more viewing preferences of a user and by generating a stream analyzing command to analyze an video/audio stream and a metadata by matching results of viewing behavior analysis with the video/audio stream or the metadata;

selectively parsing the broadcasting stream according to the user interaction information to generate scene analyzing information; and

automatically generating replay control information to control a plurality of modes without a user'"'"'s input depending on at least one user preference for a to-be-recorded broadcasting stream based on the user interaction information and the scene analyzing information.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing the replay control information and the corresponding broadcasting stream.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the replay control information and the corresponding broadcasting stream are stored separately.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

storing an edited broadcast program according to the replay control information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the broadcasting-associated additional information comprises:

EPG (electronic program guide) information and metadata information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the replay control information for the broadcasting stream is linked to a corresponding video/audio signal.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

automatically speed-variable replaying contents linked to the replay control information according to the replay control information at a time of replaying the contents and displaying the linked replay control information in real time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the replay control information is displayed on a screen of a display apparatus in real time while a broadcasting signal is replayed.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein when the user requests the contents in the broadcasting stream to be replayed, the replay control information is displayed on a screen as additional information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

extracting music beat information from the contents;

storing the contents and the music beat information; and

replaying music contents in units of a beat according to a speed-variable replay request.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the music beat information is extracted from metadata of the music contents or a network.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the music beat information is extracted by analyzing waveforms of the music contents.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the replaying of the music contents comprises:

maintaining a pause state for a predetermined time interval in units of a beat according to the extracted music beat information and then processing a next replay section in a normal replay mode.

14. An apparatus to process recording contents, the apparatus comprising:

a program information extraction apparatus to extract program-associated information from a broadcasting stream;

a user viewing behavior analyzing apparatus to generate a stream analyzing command to analyze an video/audio stream and metadata based on user interaction by matching manipulation information of the user with the program-associated information extracted by the program information extraction apparatus and with the video/audio stream or the metadata;

a stream analyzing apparatus to generate scene analyzing information by selectively parsing the broadcasting stream according to the stream analyzing command generated by the user viewing behavior analyzing apparatus; and

a control-information generating apparatus to automatically generate replay control information to control a plurality of modes for the broadcasting stream that is to be recorded without a user'"'"'s input by matching the scene analyzing information of the stream analyzing apparatus with the stream analyzing command of the user viewing behavior analyzing apparatus.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a storage apparatus to store the replay control information linked to the broadcasting stream.

16. The apparatus of claim 14, further comprising:

a display apparatus to display the replay control information in real time while replaying the broadcasting stream.

17. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the stream analyzing apparatus comprises:

a metadata analyzer to selectively parse description information according to the stream analyzing command;

a video analyzer to selectively parse video of the broadcasting stream according to the stream analyzing command;

an audio analyzer to selectively parse audio of the broadcasting stream according to the stream analyzing command.

18. A personal video recording apparatus, comprising:

a personal video recording unit to record content information from a received broadcast stream; and

a processing unit to process customized content information corresponding to the recorded content information, the processing unit to extract user interaction information by matching broadcasting-associated additional information with one or more viewing preferences of a user and to generate a stream analyzing command to analyze an video/audio stream and a metadata by matching results of viewing behavior analysis with the video/audio stream or the metadata,

wherein the customized content information is processed by automatically generating customized replay control information without a user'"'"'s input while the content information is being recorded according to the generated stream analyzing command.

19. A method of processing customized recording contents, the method comprising:

receiving content information in a broadcast signal;

extracting one or more of electronic program guide (EPG) information and metadata from the received content information with a program information extraction unit and generating a stream analyzing command to analyze an video/audio stream and the metadata by matching results of viewing behavior analysis with the video/audio stream or the metadata;

analyzing user viewing behavior using at least one of the EPG information and one or more preferences of a viewing behavior of a user to generate user interaction information with a user behavior analyzing unit;

analyzing the video/audio stream of at least one of the received content information and the metadata according to the stream analyzing command based on the user interaction information with a stream analyzing unit; and

automatically generating replay control information with a control-information generating unit at a time of recording without the user'"'"'s input according to the analyzed video/audio stream to control a plurality of modes.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the replay control information is generated based on at least one of a user preference using the video/audio stream information and the user interaction information, and by matching the analyzed metadata with the user interaction information.

21. The method of claim 19, further comprising:

separately storing the content information and the replay control information in a storage medium.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the content information comprises:

a format of a broadcasting stream encoded in MPEG.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein the user viewing behavior is analyzed with the user behavior analyzing unit using at least one of a statistical framework and a rule-based framework, each based on a history of programs previously watched by the user.

24. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having embodied thereon a computer program to execute a method, wherein the method comprises:

receiving content information;

extracting one or more of EPG information and metadata from the received content information and generating a stream analyzing command to analyze an video/audio stream and the metadata by matching results of viewing behavior analysis with the video/audio stream or the metadata;

analyzing user viewing behavior using at least one of the EPG information and one or more preferences of a viewing behavior of a user to generate user interaction information according to the stream analyzing command;

analyzing a video/audio stream of at least one of the received content information and the metadata according to a stream analyzing command based on the user interaction information; and

automatically generating replay control information at a time of recording without a user'"'"'s input according to the analyzed video/audio stream to control a plurality of modes.