Instantaneous preview of data associated with a video

• US 9,373,360 B2
• Filed: 07/02/2014
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gilboa-Solomon, Fora, Porat, Dror, Marder, Mattias
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US14/321,835
• Publication Number:
  US 20160006979A1
• Time in Patent Office: 720 Days
• Field of Search: 386/248, 386/239, 386/245, 386/241, 386/323
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/005 Reproducing at a different information rate from the information rate of recording for television signals H04N5/783
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/19 by using information detectable on the record carrier
• 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

Abstract

A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for receiving a video and metadata associated with the video, indicating, in a video player, a current time in the video, receiving an indication of a different time in the video and responsive to said receiving of the indication, displaying a datum of the metadata, wherein the datum is correlated with the different time in the video.

Claims

1. A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for:

receiving a video and metadata associated with the video wherein the video comprises frames associated with the metadata, the frames being of a plurality of sites, and wherein the metadata comprises geo-references to the plurality of sites correspondingly;

retrieving one or more maps comprising the plurality of sites based on the geo-references;

indicating, in a video player, a current time in the video;

receiving an indication of a different time in the video; and

responsive to said receiving of the indication, displaying a datum of the metadata, wherein the datum is correlated with the different time in the video, wherein the displaying of the datum comprises displaying a geographic location of a site of said plurality of sites of a frame of said frames associated with the datum based on its corresponding geo-reference, and wherein the geographic location is being displayed as a symbol superimposed correspondingly on a map of said one or more maps.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the geo-references comprise geographic coordinates of the plurality of sites correspondingly.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the retrieving of the one or more maps comprises:

determining the maximal and minimal longitudes and latitudes of the geographic coordinates; and

retrieving a map comprising at least an area restricted by said maximal and minimal longitudes and latitudes.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the video comprises one or more frames of one or more sites which are not associated with metadata comprising corresponding geo-references, the method comprising using the at least one hardware processor further for interpolating geo-references for a frame of the one or more frames based on geo-references of metadata associated with adjacent frames of said frames indicated by the video player as temporally adjacent in the video to the frame.

5. The method of claim 1, further using the at least one hardware processor for displaying at least some of the remainder of the metadata, the displaying comprises displaying geographic locations of the associated at least some of the remainder of said plurality of sites as one or more symbols superimposed correspondingly on the map, wherein the displaying of the geographic locations is based on the associated at least some of the remainder of the geo-references and with respect to the displayed datum.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying of the at least some of the remainder of the metadata with respect to the displayed datum is in a temporal manner, wherein the at least some of the remainder of the metadata is correlated with time in the video indicated in the video player.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying of the at least some of the remainder of the metadata comprises color-coding of the one or more symbols according to a temporal sequence of the correlated time in the video indicated in the video player and with respect to the different time.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the displaying of the at least some of the remainder of the metadata comprises determining the thickness of the delimiting line of a symbol of the one or more symbols to be with respect to the time difference between a time in the video corresponding to the symbol and the different time.

9. The method of claim 1, further using the at least one hardware processor for displaying the geographic distribution of at least some of the remainder of the plurality of sites on the map based on the associated at least some of the remainder of the geo-references and with respect to the displaying of the datum.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein said displaying comprises visualizing the datum and wherein visualizing the datum comprises processing the different time and the datum correlated with the different time.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein said processing is performed offline for each possible indication of time in the video.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein said processing is performed online.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving of an indication of a different time in the video comprises receiving a time location on a time bar of the video player indicated by an input device operated by a user of the video player.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata is selected from the group consisting of:

geographic location, a subtitle, a video parameter and a camera parameter.

15. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by at least one hardware processor to:

receive a video and metadata associated with the video;

indicate, in a video player, a current time in the video wherein the video comprises frames associated with the metadata, the frames being of a plurality of sites, and wherein the metadata comprises geo-references to the plurality of sites correspondingly;

retrieve one or more maps comprising the plurality of sites based on the geo-references;

indicate, in a video player, a current time in the video;

receive an indication of a different time in the video; and

responsive to said receiving of the indication, display a datum of the metadata, wherein the datum is correlated with the different time in the video, wherein the display of the datum comprises displaying a geographic location of a site of said plurality of sites of a frame of said frames associated with the datum based on its corresponding geo-reference, and wherein the geographic location is being displayed as a symbol superimposed correspondingly on a map of said one or more maps.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the program code is further executable by said one hardware processor to display the at least some of the remainder of the metadata, the display comprises displaying geographic locations of the associated at least some of the remainder of said plurality of sites as one or more symbols superimposed correspondingly on the map, wherein the displaying of the geographic locations is based on the associated at least some of the remainder of the geo-references and with respect to the displayed datum.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the receipt of an indication of a different time in the video comprises receiving a time location on a time bar of the video player indicated by an input device operated by a user of the video player.