User interface for video preview creation

• US 9,852,762 B2
• Filed: 04/05/2016
• Issued: 12/26/2017
• 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): Chowdhury, Nigar
• Application Number:
  US15/091,358
• Publication Number:
  US 20160217826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• Field of Search: 386278-284
• 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 creating and displaying portions of videos called video previews. The video previews may be associated with a predefined duration of a video, such that the video preview is generated from a portion of the video. The video previews are configured to play a series of images associated with images from the portion of the video when the video preview is activated.

Claims

1. A method of creating a video preview comprising:

displaying at least a portion of a video in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device, the GUI including an activation object that is associated with a predetermined length of time;

receiving, an activation of the activation object to generate the video preview while at least the portion of the video is being displayed on the GUI of the user device, the activation initiated by a user selection of the activation object on the GUI of the user device, the user selection of the activation object comprising a single user input; and

identifying, by the user device, a timestamp in the video corresponding to when the activation object was activated by the user device, the timestamp specifying the video preview, wherein the video preview is created from the video based on the timestamp, and wherein a duration of the video preview is the predetermined length of time that is associated with the activation object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the activation initiated by the user selection of the activation object identifies a start time and stop time in the video.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the timestamp corresponds to the stop time, and the predetermined length of time specifies the start time.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayed portion of the video is less than all of the video, and wherein the video preview is a shorter duration than the displayed portion of the video.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the GUI includes a plurality of activation objects, the plurality of activation objects corresponding with different predetermined lengths of time.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending the timestamp to a server.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined length of time is 15 seconds.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the timestamp of a location in the video is at an end of the video preview.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing the video preview to the GUI of the user device.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the video preview is a first video preview, wherein the GUI allows a user to adjust a length of time of the first video preview, and the method further comprising:

identifying an adjusted length of time for the first video preview that is shorter than the predetermined length of time; and

generating a second video preview based on the adjusted length of time for the first video preview.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

creating, by the user device, the video preview from the video based on the timestamp, the video preview being the predetermined length of time.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a second user input to alter the video preview, wherein the second user input identifies a new start time, end time, or duration from the video preview; and

altering the video preview according to the second user input.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the single user input includes selecting a button embedded with the GUI of the user device.

14. A computer product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions that when executed control a computer system to generate the video preview to implement the method of claim 1.

15. A method of creating a video preview comprising:

receiving, at a computing device, a timestamp in a video corresponding to when an activation object was activated at the computing device, the timestamp being obtained in response to a user viewing at least a portion of the video within a graphical user interface (GUI) of the computing device that includes the activation object, wherein the activation object is associated with a predetermined length of time, wherein the activation of the activation object is initiated by a user selection of the activation object on the GUI of the computing device, wherein the user selection of the activation object comprises a single user input, and wherein the timestamp specifies the video preview;

requesting at least the portion of the video;

receiving the at least the portion of the video; and

creating, by the computing device, the video preview from the portion of the video based on the timestamp, wherein a duration of the video preview is the predetermined length of time.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the timestamp of a location in the video is centered in the video preview.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the timestamp of a location in the video is at an end of the video preview.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

transmitting the video preview to a user device once the video preview has been created at the computing device;

sending, by the computing device to the user device, a request to confirm that the video preview is acceptable;

receiving a response from the user device; and

when the response indicates that the video preview is acceptable, providing the video preview to the user device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the transmitted video preview is a first video preview, wherein the response indicates a shorter length for the first video preview, and the method further comprising:

generating a second video preview having the shorter length.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

generating a message with the video preview, wherein the video preview is embedded with the message; and

transmitting the message through a messaging service to another device.

21. The method of claim 15, wherein the timestamp is a first timestamp, and further comprising:

receiving a second timestamp for the video preview, the video preview beginning at the first timestamp and the video preview ending at the second timestamp.

22. The method of claim 15, wherein the timestamp is a plurality of timestamps, and further comprising:

receiving the plurality of timestamps, the plurality of timestamps corresponding to a plurality of portions of the video;

retrieving the plurality of portions of the video; and

generating the video preview by concatenating the plurality of portions of the video.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the video is a streaming video, and receiving at least the portion of the video is received as a streaming transmission.

24. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

providing at least the portion of the video to the computing device within the GUI.

25. The method of claim 15, wherein requesting at least the portion of the video is sent to a video server.

26. A computer product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions that when executed control a computer system to generate the video preview to implement the method of claim 15.