Intellimarks universal parallel processes and devices for user controlled presentation customizations of content playback intervals, skips, sequencing, loops, rates, zooms, warpings, distortions, and synchronized fusions

• US 9,715,899 B2
• Filed: 04/11/2013
• Issued: 07/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Elizabeth T. Guckenberger, Ronald J. Guckenberger, VR Rehab Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Elizabeth T. Guckenberger, Ronald J. Guckenberger
• Inventors: Guckenberger, Elizabeth T., Guckenberger, Ronald J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Maikhanh
• Application Number:
  US13/986,200
• Publication Number:
  US 20140186010A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,566 Days
• Field of Search: 386248
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/013 Eye tracking input arrangements G06F3/015 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier

Abstract

Improved automated methods of dynamically customizing displayed presentation of media content playback and/or live streams with the users seeking to add, remove, change, and/or fuse displayed information. Specifically, a user or users are able to add, remove, or move IntelliMark (Intelligent Bookmarks) that are separate parallel temporal bookmarks with associate dynamic run-time display manipulations within a separate file(s) that are NOT part of the media content nor live stream, and are stored within media players, enabling customized viewings without violating copyrights or terms of use for the underlying unaltered, un-copied original media content.

In addition to an individual user customizing his own viewing experience, by sharing his IntelliMarks file(s) with others that have access to the same media content, these others can experience the customized playback as constructed by other users. Further, they can evolve their own interpretations and share back to the original user and/or others.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a presentation of media content or live interactions, comprising:

providing a display window on an electronic image display, the display window being used to view content of any type;

providing digitized data representing a value of information, or graphic, or video, or other content with a plurality of content data sources;

altering a presentation of the digitized data as a plurality of data items without altering or illegally copying the original content to at least one accelerate through an undesired portion of the digitized data to be viewed with the sound being suppressed, skip over an undesired portion of the digitized data to be viewed, zooming in at a section in the digitized data to focus on an object of interest, decelerate playback of a section in the digitized data;

including a non-transitory computer software operable within a processor to provide for a single pointer with a time duration included in the pointer that is at least one of a separate date/time-stamp file index, file pointer or stream pointer, a separate file index/position, file size pointer to provide for an addition or at least one of associated script affecting videos, imagery, audio, rapid sequential visual presentation of text and graphics with commanded customizations visible on the display window with an associated command to alter the presentation of at least one of videos, imagery, audio, rapid sequential visual presentation of text and graphics of the data; and

at least one of displaying the data using computer software for presentation at least one of videos, imagery, audio, RSVP of text and RSVP of graphics of the data;

automating customized playback of at least one of videos and audio files, and using indexes with scripts to automate control of at least one of pauses, resume, above real-time forward and rearward scrolling wherein the original of the at least one of video and audio files is affected without altering the original source file.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display window is embodied as a stand-alone device.

3. The method as set forth in claim 2, further comprising permitting operator control of the display onset and offset for a plurality of videos wherein indexes with scripts are associated with multiple videos which in turn are compiled into a playlist viewable at another location with the altered presentation.

4. The method as set forth in claim 2, further including a permitting operator to share the non-transitory computer software and indexes with scripts to provide for the altered presentation to be viewed as altered at a remote location.

5. The method as set forth in claim 4, further comprising permitting operator control at a remote location to delete, modify, and create new indexes with scripts to enable additional customization of the content playback.

6. The method as set forth in claim 2, further comprising permitting operator control of a semi-transparency of at least one of videos, imagery, audio, the RSVP text, RSVP graphics size type and other characteristics within the window.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein said display window is part of a larger integrated display.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, further including means for a permitting operator to share the non-transitory computer software and indexes with scripts to provide for the altered presentation to be viewed as altered at a remote location.

9. The method as set forth in claim 7, further comprising permitting operator control of a semi-transparency of at least one of videos, imagery, audio, the RSVP text, RSVP graphics size type and other characteristics within the window.

10. The method as set forth in claim 1, further including permitting operator control of rate of frame of video playback and rapid sequential visual presentation (RSVP) sequencing from options for the frame duration in the range of 1 ms to 1 hour.

11. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein when characterized by at least one of the semi-transparency of windows, layers, and objects for the purposes of combining for superimposition of at least one of advantages and adjacency advantages placing the objects of interest within a spatial location or several which many be viewed in its entirety without scanning eye movements, said method further comprising:

setting the opacity of at least one of the windows, layers, and objects through the operating system capacities, or graphics level capacities, or even the application level capacities to enable see-through combinations with other at least one of semi-transparent or opaque windows, layers, and objects;

manually or automatically scaling and aligning the items of interest within at least one of windows, layers, and objects to at least one of superimpose and adjacent advantages with other different items of interest with other different within at least one of windows, layers, and objects;

further at least one of superimpose and adjacent advantages of the same items of interest recorded at different times can be at least one of combined and pre-recorded items of interest can be combined with real-time items of interest; and

supporting video based and motion track system driven Avatars objects as exemplar objects of interest;

further, combining totally separate applications is possible.

12. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein when the display is characterized by altering the flow of simulated time within at least one of applications, simulations, games, and operating systems, said method further comprising:

identifying the software parameter reading of the hardware clock typically an operating system or graphic system service date-time parameter that is read at the ‘

tick’

level, or tied to a graphics update;

adding a scalar multiplicative under at least one of automated application control and user control which alters the default value read by at least one of the applications, simulations, games, and operating systems;

increasing the update rate and decoupled from real-time clock time; and

applying a scalar multiplicative under at least one of automated application control and user control which alters the default value read by at least one of the applications, simulations, games, and operating systems to decrease the rate.

13. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

reading in at least one of a user preference file and accessing preference information whereas Smith, Joe, ID-1234, Phone-X, RSVP-font, arial, RSVP-font-style, bold, RSVP-font-size, 50 points, RSVP-display-time-duration, 80 ms, ARTT-rate, 1.5×

, MMT-semi-transparency-of-camera-layer, 0.5, MMT-tint-of-semi-transparency-of-camera-layer, blue, MMT-semi-transparency-of-media-layer, 0.75, MMT-tint-of-semi-transparency-of-media-layer, red, MMT-semi-transparency-of-background-layer, 1.0, MMT-tint-of-semi-transparency-of-background-layer, yellow; and

loading the pointer and preference application at least at one of at initialization and providing real-time modification of the associated parameters to the applications, simulations, games, and/or operating systems;

further media player, TV, virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality are all defined to be applications.