Patent ID: 8799950
Filing Date: 2014-08-05
Classification: G11B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for providing additional information of media content in digital contents management, the apparatus comprising: a media source to receive media and additional information from at least one of a local file, a portable storage medium and a network and to transfer the received media and additional information into the apparatus; a media renderer operationally connected to the media source to render to a user the received and transferred media in a displayed main renderer window having a display region within window borders of the main renderer window, to render additional information in an additional information renderer window displayed external to the window borders of the main renderer window, and to render a smart progress bar outside the main renderer window; an additional information analyzer operationally connected to the media source and the media renderer to analyze the received and transferred additional information and output analyzed received and transferred additional information to the media renderer; the smart progress bar being operationally connected to the media renderer to control displaying of a portion of the additional information selected by the user from the received and transferred additional information, and to control a playback of the received and transferred media on the main renderer window based on the output analyzed received and transferred additional information; and an additional information renderer operationally connected to the smart progress bar and the additional information analyzer to display, in a preview pop-up area in the main renderer window, the user-selected portion of the received and transferred additional information in the smart progress bar to the user by controlling the smart progress bar; wherein the additional information window displays additional information comprising summary information or a representative image of the media contents corresponding to a highlighted segment of the progress bar.