Patent ID: 8307273
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F,G06Q,G09B,G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An interactive, electronic method of sharing user perspectives on visual data comprising a plurality of image frames, the method comprising: publishing a web page comprising a listing of one or more traversal records, each of the one or more traversal records comprising a time-based perspective of an authoring user on the visual data, each perspective being a spatial subset of the visual data such that each of the one or more traversal records comprises a set of cropped space and time selections from said visual data, wherein said cropped space comprises, for at least one of said plurality of image frames, a portion of said visual data residing within less than an entirety of said at least one of said plurality of image frames, wherein said one or more traversal records are available for viewing by a viewing user different from said authoring user via said web page, and wherein said web page includes an interactive abstract map in which said one or more traversal records are plotted using one or more data markers; and playing back, for said viewing user, a selected one of the one or more traversal records in response to the viewing user browsing the interactive abstract map and interactively selecting one of said one or more data markers corresponding to said selected one of the one or more traversal records.