Second screen locations function

• US 9,578,370 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2014
• Issued: 02/21/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: CustomPlay, LLC
• Original Assignee: CustomPlay, LLC
• Inventors: Abecassis, Max, Donahue, Ryan M.
• Primary Examiner(s): JONES, HEATHER RAE
• Application Number:
  US14/527,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20150086173A1
• Time in Patent Office: 846 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 21/43079 of additional data with content streams on multiple devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8126 involving additional data, e.g. news, sports, stocks, weather forecasts
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

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, and trivia 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 video information display method comprising:

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

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

retrieving geographic map data comprising an identification of a heading and a pitch, a write-up, and an actual locale identity, each corresponding to a locale depicted within the video;

utilizing the geographic map data to enable a display of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, each of the geographic map views providing a different perspective and individual navigation; and

displaying, at a same time on the second screen device, the multiple geographic map views, the write-up, and the actual locale identity, responsive to a time period offset synchronization to the video playing on the primary screen device, the time period offset synchronization being responsive to a user'"'"'s time period offset preference, whereby the display of multiple geographic map views on the second screen device lags a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

2. A video information display method comprising:

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

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

retrieving geographic map data comprising an identification of a heading and a pitch and corresponding to a locale depicted within the video;

utilizing the geographic map data to enable a display of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, each of the geographic map views providing a different perspective; and

displaying, at a same time on the second screen device, the multiple geographic map views on the second screen device responsive to a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the geographic map data comprises at least two linkages each enabling the display of a different geographic map view each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the utilizing the geographic map data comprises parsing the geographic map data to enable the display of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein each of the geographic map views provide individual independent navigation.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the retrieving further comprises retrieving a write-up that is responsive to the locale, and wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the write-up.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the retrieving further comprises retrieving an actual locale identity corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, and wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the actual locale identity.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the display of multiple geographic map views is further responsive to a time period offset synchronization to the video playing on the primary screen device, the time period offset synchronization being responsive to a user'"'"'s time period offset preference;

and whereby the display of multiple geographic map views on the second screen device lags a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

9. A second screen device comprising:

a communication interface for downloading, over a communications network and to a memory of the second screen device, geographic map data comprising an identification of a heading and a pitch and corresponding to a locale depicted within a video, and for receiving synchronizing information that is responsive to a playing of the video on a primary screen device;

a processor for establishing, responsive to the synchronizing information, a synchronization to the playing of the video on the primary screen device, and for utilizing the geographic map data to enable a display of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, each of the geographic map views providing a different perspective; and

a display screen for displaying, at a same time on the second screen device, the multiple geographic map views responsive to a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the geographic map data comprises at least two linkages each enabling the display of a different geographic map view each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video.

11. The device of claim 9, wherein the utilizing the geographic map data comprises parsing the geographic map data to enable the display of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video.

12. The device of claim 9, wherein each of the geographic map views provide individual independent navigation.

13. The device of claim 9, wherein the retrieving further comprises retrieving a write-up and an actual locale identity, each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, and wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the write-up and the actual locale identity.

14. The device of claim 9, wherein the display of multiple geographic map views is further responsive to a time period offset synchronization to the video playing on the primary screen device;

and whereby the display of multiple geographic map views on the second screen device lags a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

15. A second screen device comprising:

a communication interface for downloading, over a communications network and to a memory of the second screen device, geographic map data comprising an identification of a heading and a pitch and corresponding to a locale depicted within a video;

an integrated microphone for receiving audio information principally from a playing of the video on a primary screen device;

a processor for generating an acoustic fingerprint responsive to the received audio information, and for establishing, responsive to the acoustic fingerprint, a synchronization to the playing of the video, and for utilizing the geographic map data to enable a display of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, each of the geographic map views providing a different perspective; and

a display screen for displaying, at a same time on the second screen device, the multiple geographic map views responsive to a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

16. The device of claim 15, wherein each of the geographic map views provide individual independent navigation.

17. The device of claim 15, wherein the downloading further comprises downloading a write-up and an actual locale identity, each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, and wherein the display further comprises displaying the write-up and the actual locale identity.

18. The device of claim 15, wherein the display of multiple geographic map views is further responsive to a time period offset synchronization to the video playing on the primary screen device, the time period offset synchronization being responsive to a user'"'"'s time period offset preference;

and whereby the display of multiple geographic map views on the second screen device lags a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.

19. An information provider system comprising:

a memory storing synchronization information and geographic map data comprising an identification of a heading and a pitch and corresponding to a locale depicted within a video;

a communications interface for downloading, over a communications network to a second screen device, synchronization information and supplementary information;

a processor for executing a downloading of the synchronization information and the geographic map data to enable the second screen device to synchronize, to a video playing on a primary screen device, a displaying, at a same time on the second screen device and responsive to the geographic map data, of multiple geographic map views each corresponding to the locale depicted within the video, each of the geographic map views providing a different perspective.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the display of multiple geographic map views is further responsive to a time period offset synchronization to the video playing on the primary screen device;

and whereby the display of multiple geographic map views on the second screen device lags a playing, on the primary screen device, of the corresponding locale depicted within the video.