Activating a video based on location in screen

• US 9,767,845 B2
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ALC Holdings, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ALC Holdings, Inc.
• Inventors: McIntosh, David, Pennello, Chris
• Primary Examiner(s): Xiao, Di
• Application Number:
  US14/173,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20140223307A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,322 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/47 Detecting features for summarising video content
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00007 Time or data compression or expansion audio compression based on psychoacoustics G10L19/00; data processing for reproducing audio data at different playback speeds G10L21/04; video compression H04N19/00; data compression per se H03M7/30
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• 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 27/105 of operating discs
• 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 21/47217 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 21/482 End-user interface for program selection broadcast systems using EPGs H04H60/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/04 Synchronising for television systems using pulse code modulation H04N7/56

Abstract

Providing a method for browsing portions of videos called video previews. The video previews may be associated with a link or predefined duration of a full video, such that the video preview is generated from a portion of the full video and viewed by a user. The video previews are configured to play a series of images associated with images from the portion of the full video when the video preview is activated.

Claims

1. A method of browsing videos, the method comprising:

receiving a set of video previews, wherein the set of video previews each comprise a set of images;

generating, by a computing device, a series of frame objects for displaying the set of video previews, wherein each of the set of video previews is played simultaneously and at a same start time within a corresponding frame object when the series of frame objects are located at a particular location on a display in a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device;

displaying, by the computing device, the series of frame objects in the GUI, the series of frame objects including the corresponding frame object, wherein the GUI allows motion of the series of frame objects in the GUI;

identifying, by the computing device, that the series of frame objects have moved to the particular location on the display in the GUI; and

playing, by the computing device, the set of video previews within the series of frame objects simultaneously and at the same start time in response to identifying that the series of frame objects moved to the particular location on the display in the GUI.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of video previews is a first set of video previews, the corresponding frame object is a first frame object, and the method further comprises:

receiving a second video preview;

generating a second frame object for displaying the second video preview;

displaying the second frame object next to the first frame object in the GUI; and

in response to identifying that the second frame object is located at the particular location on the display in the GUI of the computing device, playing the second video preview within the second frame object.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising stopping the first set of video previews from playing when the second frame object is located at the particular location on the display in the GUI.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein a user touches a surface of the computing device that displays the GUI and swipes a screen of the computing device to move the second frame object to the particular location on the display and play the second video preview.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein a section of the first frame object is displayed while the second frame object is displayed, so that at least a portion of the first and second frame objects are displayed by the GUI simultaneously.

6. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

in response to identifying that the first frame object is located at the particular location on the display in the GUI of the computing device, fading a first audio file out, wherein the first audio file is associated with the first set of video previews; and

fading a second audio file in, wherein the second audio file is associated with the second video preview.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising in response to receiving a selection of the corresponding frame object from a user, playing a full video.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of video previews play independent of a receiving an activation of the set of video previews from a user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding frame object is activated by placing a selection device in a substantially close proximity to a location of the corresponding frame object.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the selection device is a finger.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the selection device is a mouse pointer.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding frame object is selected by placing a selection device in a substantially close proximity to a location of the corresponding frame object, and clicking the corresponding frame object.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding frame object is selected by placing a selection device in a substantially close proximity to a location of the corresponding frame object, and tapping the corresponding frame object.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of video previews comprise less than five percent of images from a full video.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of frame objects is a first series of frame objects and the method further comprises:

associating the first series of frame objects with a composite of video previews, wherein the composite of video previews includes one or more frame objects that move together when one of the frame objects is moved in the GUI;

displaying a second frame object that is not part of the composite of video previews, wherein the second frame object displays a second video preview; and

in response to identifying that the composite of video previews is located at the particular location in the GUI of the computing device, playing video previews associated with the composite of video previews.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the video previews associated with the composite of video previews play simultaneously and not playing the second video preview associated with the second frame object.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of frame objects is located at the particular location when the GUI is originally displayed by the computing device.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the series of frame objects is a first series of frame objects and the method further comprises:

in response to selecting the first series of frame objects, providing a second frame object that displays additional content that corresponds to the set of video previews, wherein the second frame object is displayed in the GUI.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the corresponding frame object moves linearly on the display in the GUI from one end of the display in the GUI to another.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein each video preview in the set of video previews includes a different set of images.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality set of video previews link to a same full video.

22. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of video previews are associated with a similar category.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of video previews share a visual consistency.

24. A computer product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions that when executed control a computer system to browsing videos, the instructions comprising:

receiving a set of video previews, wherein the set of video previews each comprise a set of images;

generating a plurality of frame objects for displaying a video preview from the set of video previews, wherein each of the set of video previews is played simultaneously and at a same start time within a corresponding frame object when the plurality of frame objects are located at a particular location on a display in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computing device;

displaying a series of frame objects in the GUI, the series of frames objects including the corresponding frame object, wherein the GUI allows motion of the plurality of frame objects in the GUI;

identifying that the plurality of frame objects have moved to the particular location on the display in the GUI; and

playing the set of video previews within the plurality of frame objects simultaneously and at the same start time in response to identifying that the plurality of frame objects moved to the particular location on the display in the GUI.

25. The computer product of claim 24, wherein the set of video previews is a first set of video previews, the corresponding frame object is a first frame object, and the instructions further comprise:

receiving a second video preview;

generating a second frame object for displaying the second video preview;

displaying the second frame object next to the first frame object in the GUI; and

in response to identifying that the second frame object is located at the particular location on the display in the GUI of the computing device, playing the second video preview within the second frame object.

26. The computer product of claim 25, wherein the instructions further comprise stopping the first set of video previews from playing when the second frame object is located at the particular location on the display in the GUI.

27. The computer product of claim 24, wherein in response to receiving a selection of the corresponding frame object from a user, the instructions further comprise playing a full video.

28. The computer product of claim 24, wherein the set of video previews play independent of a receiving an activation of the set of video previews from a user.

29. The computer product of claim 24, wherein the corresponding frame object is a first frame object and the instructions further comprise:

associating the first frame object with a composite of video previews, wherein the composite of video previews includes one or more frame objects that move together when one of the frame objects is moved in the GUI;

displaying a second frame object that is not part of the composite of video previews, wherein the second frame object displays a second video preview; and

in response to identifying that the composite of video previews is located at the particular location in the GUI of the computing device, playing the video previews associated with the composite of video previews.

30. The computer product of claim 29, wherein the video previews associated with the composite of video previews play simultaneously and not playing the second video preview associated with the second frame object.