Smooth playing of video

• US 9,275,685 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2010
• Issued: 03/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Demarta, Stanley Peter, Winer, Peter W., Navaneethakrishnan, Rajesh, Sturgis, Jeff, Ovadia, David Jack
• Primary Examiner(s): SALOMON, PHENUEL S
• Application Number:
  US12/814,343
• Publication Number:
  US 20110307782A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,090 Days
• Field of Search: 715/716, 715/719, 715/723
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44526 Plug-ins; Add-ons
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/102 Programmed access in sequence to addressed parts of tracks of operating record carriers access by moving the head G11B3/08, G11B5/54, G11B7/085, G11B21/022; by moving the record carrier G11B15/005, G11B17/005, by driving of both record carrier and head G11B15/1816
• 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 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/431 Generation of visual interfaces for content selection or interaction; Content or additional data rendering
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44504 Circuit details of the additional information generator, e.g. details of the character or graphics signal generator, overlay mixing circuits

Abstract

A computer-implemented method, including detecting an event associated with an image displayed on a display device within a software application, loading a media player into the software application behind the image, where the media player is configured to play a media file associated with the image, and causing a representation of a frame of the media file to be displayed within the media player instead of the image.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

at a time no media players are loaded into computer memory, detecting an event associated with an image displayed within a web browser application on a display device, wherein the image includes a non-functional user interface of a media player superimposed on a frame of a video file, the non-functional user interface including non-functional playback, volume, and resolution controls;

in response to detecting the event;

loading the media player into computer memory and, at the same time that the media player is loading, increasing a transparency of the image from a non-transparent state in which the media player is obscured by the image, to a partially transparent state in which the media player is partially obscured by the image, and then to a fully transparent state in which the media player is not obscured by the image;

retrieving the video file; and

displaying the frame of the video file in the media player, the media player being configured to play the video file in the web browser application at a position contiguous with a position of the image; and

once the media player is fully loaded into computer memory;

removing the image from the web browser interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the event comprises a mouse cursor crossing a boundary associated with the image displayed within the web browser application.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the event comprises at least one finger of a user interacting with the image displayed within the web browser application.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the event comprises a keyboard keystroke.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the video file is referenced by a file identifier associated with the image.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the image includes a first portion representing an interface associated with the media player and a second portion representing the frame of the video file.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the second portion resides within a video playback area of the interface.

8. A computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to manipulate one or more files, by performing the operations comprising:

at a time no media players are loaded into computer memory, detecting an event associated with an image displayed on a display device within a web browser application, wherein the image includes a non-functional user interface of a media player superimposed on a frame of a video file, the non-functional user interface including non-functional playback, volume, and resolution controls;

in response to detecting the event;

loading the media player into computer memory and, at the same time that the media player is loading, increasing a transparency of the image from a non-transparent state in which the media player is obscured by the image, to a partially transparent state in which the media player is partially obscured by the image, and then to a fully transparent state in which the media player is not obscured by the image;

retrieving the video file; and

displaying the frame of the video file in the media player, the media player being configured to play the video file in the web browser application at a position contiguous with a position of the image; and

once the media player is fully loaded into computer memory;

removing the image from the web browser interface.

9. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the event comprises a mouse cursor crossing a boundary associated with the image displayed within the web browser application.

10. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the event comprises at least one finger of a user interacting with the image displayed within the web browser application.

11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the event comprises a keyboard keystroke.

12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the video file is referenced by a file identifier associated with the image.

13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the image includes a first portion representing an interface associated with the media player and a second portion representing the frame of the video file.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the second portion resides within a video playback area of the interface.

15. A computing device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform an operation comprising;

at a time no media players are loaded into computer memory, detecting an event associated with an image displayed on a display device within a web browser application, wherein the image includes a non-functional user interface of a media player superimposed on a frame of a video file, the non-functional user interface including non-functional playback, volume, and resolution controls; and

,

in response to detecting the event;

loading the media player into computer memory and, at the same time that the media player is loading, increasing a transparency of the image from a non-transparent state in which the media player is obscured by the image, to a partially transparent state in which the media player is partially obscured by the image, and then to a fully transparent state in which the media player is not obscured by the image;

retrieving the video file; and

displaying the frame of the video file in the media player, the media player being configured to play the video file in the web browser application at a position contiguous with a position of the image; and

once the media player is fully loaded into computer memory;

removing the image from the web browser interface.