Information processing device, video playback method, program, and video playback system

• US 9,898,764 B2
• Filed: 10/03/2013
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Iida, Akinori, Miya, Yukihisa, Kakinuma, Hidehiko, Sato, Kazumasa
• Primary Examiner(s): RABOVIANSKI, JIVKA A
• Application Number:
  US14/045,635
• Publication Number:
  US 20140040049A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,601 Days
• Field of Search: 725 32, 725 34, 725 35, 725 42, 725 10, 725 63, 725 36, 725105
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/4015 where at least one of the additional parallel sessions is real time or time sensitive, e.g. white board sharing, collaboration or spawning of a subconference
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355

Abstract

A video playback system includes a video distribution server and at least one information processing device. The video distribution server includes a video distribution portion that performs streaming distribution of a video stream, an alternative video distribution portion that distributes an alternative video, and a control information distribution portion that distributes control information. The information processing device includes a receiving portion that receives the video stream, the alternative video, and the control information, a storage portion that stores the alternative video and the control information, a video stream playback portion that performs streaming playback of the video stream, an alternative video playback portion that plays back the stored alternative video, and a playback switching control portion that, based on the stored control information, controls switching between the streaming playback and the playback of the alternative video.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a receiving portion that receives;

a video stream comprising a first video having an associated content data identifier;

alternative videos separate from the video stream; and

control information that includes a plurality of switchability flags that indicate whether or not respective videos of the video stream can be switched and a plurality of playback times for respective videos of the video stream; and

a controller configured to;

perform playback of the first video of the video stream via a display device;

perform playback of the alternative videos via the display device;

during playback of the first video of the video stream via the display device;

identify a first switchability flag of the plurality of switchability flags based on the content data identifier associated with the first video; and

determine whether to perform playback of an alternative video as an alternative to the video stream based at least in part on the identified first switchability flag;

create an alternative video playback list by;

selecting a first alternative video from the received alternative videos based at least in part on the control information;

identifying a first playback time of the plurality of playback times based on the content data identifier associated with the first video;

selecting a second alternative video from the received alternative videos based at least in part on the control information; and

determining whether the identified first playback time is greater than a combined playback time of the first and second alternative videos; and

perform playback of the alternative video playback list via the display device, the alternative video playback list identifying the first alternative video and identifying the second alternative video.

2. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the video stream comprises a first commercial message video, and wherein the alternative video stream comprises a second commercial message video.

3. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the alternative video is acquired from a video distribution server based on the control information.

4. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein log information is stored, and wherein the information processing device further comprises a log transmission portion configured to transmit the log information to a video distribution server.

5. The information processing device of claim 4, wherein the log information is generated based on playback of the alternative video.

6. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising a control information acquisition portion configured to:

determine that receiving of the control information has been completed; and

acquire distribution schedule information based on the control information.

7. The information processing device of claim 6, wherein the alternative video is received based on the acquired distribution scheduled schedule information.

8. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising an alternative video acquisition portion configured to:

acquire a time trigger; and

initiate receiving of the alternative video based on the time trigger.

9. The information processing device of claim 1, further comprising a storage portion,

wherein the alternative video is received by the receiving portion prior to receiving the video stream, and

wherein the storage portion stores the alternative video prior to the receiving portion receiving the video stream.

10. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the control information includes an upper limit on a number of times that the alternative video can be played back.

11. The information processing device of claim 1, wherein the control information includes a priority for the alternative video.

12. A method comprising:

receiving a video stream comprising a first video having an associated content data identifier, a plurality of alternative videos separate from the video stream, and control information that includes a plurality of switchability flags that indicate whether or not respective videos of the video stream can be switched and a plurality of playback times for respective videos of the video stream;

performing streaming playback of the first video of the video stream that is received, playback being performed via a display device;

during the streaming playback of the first video of the video stream via the display device;

identifying a first switchability flag of the plurality of switchability flags based on the content data identifier associated with the first video; and

determining whether to perform playback of an alternative video as an alternative to the video stream based at least in part on the identified first switchability flag;

creating an alternative video playback list by;

selecting a first alternative video from the plurality of received alternative videos based at least in part on the control information;

identifying a first playback time of the plurality of playback times based on the content data identifier associated with the first video;

selecting a second alternative video from the received alternative videos based at least in part on the control information; and

determining whether the identified first playback time is greater than a combined playback time of the first and second alternative videos; and

performing playback of the alternative video playback list via the display device, the alternative video playback list identifying the first alternative video and identifying the second alternative video.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the control information includes an upper limit on a number of times that the alternative video can be played back.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the control information includes a priority for the alternative video.