Presentation of media content

• US 7,379,661 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2005
• Issued: 05/27/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Rovi Technologies Corporation (Adeia Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Sonic Solutions (Adeia Inc.)
• Inventors: Lamkin, Allan B., Collart, Todd R., Gewickey, Greg
• Primary Examiner(s): Chevalier, Robert
• Application Number:
  US11/154,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20060117344A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,077 Days
• Field of Search: 386/96, 386/83, 386/46, 386/124, 386/125, 386/104, 386/105
• US Class Current: 386/248
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/10 Protecting distributed programs or content, e.g. vending or licensing of copyrighted material protection in video systems or pay television H04N7/16 ; Digital rights management [DRM]
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 17/00 Methods or arrangements for effecting co-operative working between equipments covered by two or more of main groups G06K1/00 - G06K15/00, e.g. automatic card files incorporating conveying and reading operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/022 Control panels
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/12 by sensing distinguishing features of or on records, e.g. diameter end mark
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 19/16 Manual control
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00086 Circuits for prevention of unauthorised reproduction or copying, e.g. piracy indicating unauthorised use of record carriers in general G11B23/28; scrambling for television signal recording H04N5/913; network architectures or network protocols for network security H04L63/00; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00876 wherein physical copy protection means are attached to the medium, e.g. holograms, sensors, or additional semiconductor circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2545 CDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2220/2562 DVDs [digital versatile discs]; Digital video discs; MMCDs; HDCDs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 23/36 Signals on record carriers or on containers and recorded by the same method as the main recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/764 : at the destination reformatting of additional data in video clients H04N21/4355
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 : based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 : Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 : involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 : in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 : Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 : Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 : Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4147 : PVR [Personal Video Recorder] H04N5/76 takes precedence ; arrangements for broadcast with accumulation-type receivers H04H20/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42646 : for reading from or writing on a non-volatile solid state storage medium, e.g. DVD, CD-ROM
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4325 : by playing back content from the storage medium reproduction of recorded television signals H04N5/76; reproduction of recorded television signals H04N9/79
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4348 : Demultiplexing of additional data and video streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 : Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4381 : Recovering the multiplex stream from a specific network, e.g. recovering MPEG packets from ATM cells transmission of MPEG streams over ATM H04L12/5601
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4408 : involving video stream encryption, e.g. re-encrypting a decrypted video stream for redistribution in a home network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/443 : OS processes, e.g. booting an STB, implementing a Java virtual machine in an STB or power management in an STB
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 : Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47 : End-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 : Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/60 : Network structure or processes for video distribution between server and client or between remote clients; Control signalling between clients, server and network components; Transmission of management data between server and client , e.g. sending from server to client commands for recording incoming content stream; Communication details between server and client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 : involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/64322 : IP
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 : Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85406 : involving a specific file format, e.g. MP4 format
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 : using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 : by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 : Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/775 : between a recording apparatus and a television receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 : on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/9305 : involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 : Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/7921 : for more than one processing mode
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8042 : involving data reduction
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8047 : using transform coding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8063 : using time division multiplex of the PCM audio and PCM video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 : involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 : involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

A method of reproducing an interactive recording medium in a reproducing apparatus, comprising the steps of: checking attribute information for auxiliary contents data of A/V data recorded on the interactive recording medium; and determining a presentation method for the auxiliary contents data based on the attribute information and presenting the auxiliary contents data accordingly.

Claims

1. A method of reproducing an interactive recording medium in a reproducing apparatus, comprising the steps of:

receiving attribute information from a remote source during playback of A/V data recorded on the interactive recording medium;

checking the attribute information for auxiliary contents data of the A/V data recorded on the interactive recording medium during playback of the A/V data; and

determining a presentation method during the playback for the auxiliary contents data based on the attribute information and presenting the auxiliary contents data accordingly.

2. The method set forth in claim 1, wherein the attribute information is included in playback control information for reproducing the auxiliary contents data in synchronization with the A/V data.

3. The method set forth in claim 2, wherein the playback control information is provided to the reproducing apparatus by an external server where the remote source comprises the external server.

4. The method set forth in claim 2, further comprising:

accessing additional playback control information that is pre-recorded on the interactive recording medium during playback of the A/V data;

checking additional attribute information included in the additional playback control information for additional auxiliary contents data of the A/V data recorded on the interactive recording medium during playback of the A/V data; and

determining a presentation method during the playback for the additional auxiliary contents data based on the additional attribute information and presenting the additional auxiliary contents data accordingly.

5. The method set forth in claim 1, wherein the auxiliary contents data is organized into one or more files.

6. The method set forth in claim 5, wherein the attribute information is included in the names of the files containing the auxiliary contents data.

7. The method set forth in claim 5, wherein the attribute information is included in meta tag information in the header area of the files containing the auxiliary contents data.

8. The method set forth in claim 5, wherein the attribute information is included in tag information arbitrarily positioned within the files containing the auxiliary contents data as image tag information.

9. The method set forth in claim 1, wherein the attribute information includes information indicating image types and/or aspect ratios for the auxiliary contents data.

10. The method set forth in claim 9, wherein the image types indicate whether the images for presenting the auxiliary contents data are square or not.

11. The method set forth in claim 9, wherein the aspect ratios indicate whether the aspect ratios of the images for presenting the auxiliary contents data are either 4:

3 or 16;

9.

12. The method set forth in claim 1, the receiving the attribute information from the remote source during playback comprises receiving the attribute information from an external server through a communication network.

13. The method set forth in claim 1, wherein the determining and presenting step outputs the auxiliary contents data in conjunction with the A/V data reproduced from the interactive recording medium such that at least some of the auxiliary contents data and video data of the A/V data are presented at the same time.

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

determining during the playback whether a first link to the remote source is recorded on the interactive recording medium; and

accessing the remote source using the first link when the first link is recorded on the interactive recording medium.

15. The method set forth in claim 14, further comprising:

determining during the playback whether a default link to the remote source is stored on a reproducing apparatus when the first link is not recorded on the interactive recording medium; and

accessing through the reproducing apparatus the remote source using the default link when the default link is stored on the reproducing apparatus.

16. A method of presenting content stored on a recording medium, comprising:

identifying first attribute information stored on a portable recording medium during playback of audio/video (A/V) data recorded on the portable storage medium;

checking the first attribute information for first auxiliary contents data of the A/V data during playback of the A/V data;

determining a first presentation method for the first auxiliary contents data based on the first attribute information and presenting the first auxiliary contents data accordingly;

accessing during playback second attribute information at a remote source;

checking the second attribute information for second auxiliary contents data of the A/V data recorded on the portable storage medium during playback of the A/V data; and

determining a second presentation method for the second auxiliary contents data based on the second attribute information and presenting the second auxiliary contents data accordingly.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein:

the accessing the remote source comprises accessing the remote source while implementing the presenting of the first auxiliary contents data; and

the checking the second attribute information comprises implementing the checking of the second attribute information for the second auxiliary contents data while implementing the presenting of the first auxiliary contents data.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the accessing the remote source comprises:

determining during the playback whether a first link to the remote source is recorded on the portable storage medium;

implementing the accessing to the remote source using the first link when the first link is recorded on the portable storage medium;

determining during the playback whether a second link to the remote source is stored on a playback device; and

implementing the accessing to the remote source using the second link when the second link is stored on the playback device.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the determining whether the second link to the remote source is stored on the playback device comprises determining during the playback whether the second link to the remote source is stored on a playback device when the first link is not recorded on the portable storage medium;

and

the implementing the accessing to the remote source using the second link comprises implementing the accessing to the remote source using the second link when the second link is stored on the playback device and the first link is not recorded on the portable storage medium.