Second screen recipes function

• US 9,576,334 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2015
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Max Abecassis, Ryan M. Donahue
• Original Assignee: Max Abecassis, Ryan M. Donahue
• Inventors: Abecassis, Max, Donahue, Ryan M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jones, Heather
• Application Number:
  US14/600,734
• Publication Number:
  US 20150170325A1
• Time in Patent Office: 763 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/20 Processor architectures; Processor configuration, e.g. pipelining
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• 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 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• 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 21/42203 sound input device, e.g. microphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/43079 of additional data with content streams on multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• 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 21/4542 Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• 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 21/4758 for providing answers, e.g. voting
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4781 Games
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4884 for displaying subtitles
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• 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 21/8547 : involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/268 : Signal distribution or switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/24 : Systems for the transmission of television signals using pulse code modulation H04N21/00 takes precedence

Abstract

Systems for, and methods of, displaying video information comprising: a second screen device obtaining current play position data of a video being played on a primary screen device (e.g., obtaining from the primary screen device an identification of a current play position of the video, or obtaining information to generate an acoustic fingerprint of the video); determining a current play position of the video playing on the primary screen device based upon the current play position data (e.g., identification of the current play position or the acoustic fingerprint); downloading information (e.g., video map, subtitles, moral principles, objectionable content, memorable content, performers, geographical maps, shopping, plot point, item, ratings, trivia information, and recipe information) over a computer communications network into the memory of the second screen device; and displaying information on the second screen device synchronized with the contemporaneously played video on the primary screen device.

Claims

1. A second screen device comprising:

a communication interface for downloading, over a communications network and to a memory of the second screen device, recipe information and a display position, and for receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of a video on a primary screen device, the recipe information comprising (i) a video image that is representative of a specific depiction, within the video, that does not depict a food item, the video image being associated with a recipe that is inspired by the specific depiction which does not depict a food item, (ii) a write-up relating to the recipe as inspired by the specific depiction, (iii) a photograph of the recipe as prepared, and (iv) a recipe title, a recipe ingredient list, and a recipe directions; and

a processor for establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video, and for activating on a display screen, responsive to the established synchronization and responsive to the display position, a display of recipe information;

wherein the receiving synchronizing information comprises receiving audio information principally from the playing of the video on the primary screen device; and

wherein the establishing the synchronization to the playing of the video comprises generating an acoustic fingerprint responsive to the received audio information, and comparing the acoustic fingerprint to an acoustic database.

2. A second screen device comprising:

a communication interface for downloading, over a communications network and to a memory of the second screen device, recipe information and a display position, and for receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of a video on a primary screen device; and

a processor for establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video, and for activating on a display screen, responsive to the established synchronization and responsive to the display position, a display of the recipe information, the recipe information comprising (i) a video image that is representative of a specific depiction, within the video, that does not depict a food item, the video image being associated with a recipe that is inspired by the specific depiction which does not depict a food item, (ii) a write-up relating to the recipe as inspired by the specific depiction, and (iii) a photograph of the recipe as prepared.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the recipe information further comprises a recipe title, a recipe ingredient list, and a recipe directions.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the specific depiction, which does not depict a food item, depicts a thematic idea that inspired the recipe.

5. The device of claim 2, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to additional recipe information.

6. An information display method comprising:

downloading, over a communications network, to a second screen device, a display position, and recipe information, the recipe information comprising (i) a video image that is representative of a specific depiction, within the video, that does not depict a food item, the video image being associated with a recipe that is inspired by the specific depiction which does not depict a food item, (ii) a write-up relating to the recipe as inspired by the specific depiction, and (iii) a photograph of the recipe as prepared;

receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of the video on a primary screen device;

establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video; and

displaying, on the second screen device, responsive to the established synchronization and responsive to the display position, the recipe information.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the recipe information further comprises a recipe title, a recipe ingredient list, and a recipe directions.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the specific depiction, which does not depict a food item, depicts a thematic idea that inspired the recipe.

9. The method of claim 6, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to additional recipe information.

10. The method of claim 6, wherein the specific depiction, which does not depict a food item, depicts a thematic idea that inspired the recipe;

wherein the receiving synchronizing information comprises receiving audio information principally from the playing of the video on the primary screen device; and

wherein the establishing the synchronization to the playing of the video comprises generating an acoustic fingerprint responsive to the received audio information, and comparing the acoustic fingerprint to an acoustic database.

11. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiving synchronizing information comprises receiving, from the primary screen device, an identification of a play position in the video playing on the primary screen device.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the receiving synchronizing information comprises receiving audio information principally from the playing of the video on the primary screen device;

and wherein the establishing the synchronization to the playing of the video comprises generating an acoustic fingerprint responsive to the received audio information, and comparing the acoustic fingerprint to an acoustic database.

13. An information display method comprising:

downloading, over a communications network, to a second screen device, and responsive to a video playable on a primary screen device, recipe information comprising (i) a video image that is representative of a specific depiction, within the video, that does not depict a food item, the video image being associated with a recipe that is inspired by the specific depiction which does not depict a food item, (ii) a write-up relating to the recipe as inspired by the specific depiction, and (iii) a photograph of the recipe as prepared; and

displaying, on the second screen device, the recipe information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the specific depiction, which does not depict a food item, depicts a thematic idea that inspired the recipe.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a linkage to additional recipe information.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the recipe information further comprises a recipe title, a recipe ingredient list, and a recipe directions.

17. An information provider system comprising:

a memory for storing data comprising recipe information and a display position, the recipe information comprising (i) a video image that is representative of a specific depiction, within the video, that does not depict a food item, the video image being associated with a recipe that is inspired by the specific depiction which does not depict a food item, (ii) a write-up relating to the recipe as inspired by the specific depiction, and (iii) a photograph of the recipe as prepared;

a communications interface for downloading the data over a communications network to a second screen device;

a processor for causing a downloading of the data to the second screen device;

whereby the second screen device, responsive to a video playing on a primary screen device, and responsive to the display position, displays the recipe information.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the specific depiction, which does not depict a food item, depicts a thematic idea that inspired the recipe.