Patent ID: 8948568
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for customizing video comprising: causing, by a processing circuit, a portion of video to be presented; identifying, by the processing circuit, a character or personality in the portion of video; detecting, by the processing circuit, a user-specified playback action corresponding to the portion of video; determining that user preferences for playback of video content are associated with the identified character or personality based at least in part on the detected user-specified playback action; providing, by the processing circuit, indicia to an electronic display comprising a notification of a suggested association between the user-specified playback action and the character or personality, wherein the character or personality is associated with the user-specified playback action based on the user preferences; associating, by the processing circuit, the identified character or personality in the portion of video with the user-specified playback action based, in part, on the user preferences; causing a second portion of video to be presented; identifying, by the processing circuit, the character or personality in the second portion of video; and in response to identifying the character or personality in the second portion of video, altering playback of the second portion of video based on the user-specified playback action.