Patent CA-2756471-A1 (CA)
Inventor: GHAZAL HECHAM
IPC: H04N21/84
Filed: 2011-10-28
Abstract: The current method for navigating a digital video is linear and consists of moving back and forth with a sequential navigational bar. Our navigation system is based on previous viewers interactions and notes about the said video.   Content based browsing and navigation in digital video collections have been centered on sequential and linear presentation of images. To improve search-ability, nonlinear and non-sequential access into video is essential, especially with long programs. For many programs, this can be achieved by identifying underlying story structures. It can also be achieved by identifying single images on a frame. A  new framework of video analysis and associated techniques are proposed to automatically parse long programs, to extract details about every single frame. The proposed analysis and representation contribute to the extraction of frames and scenes and story units, each representing a distinct locale or event, that cannot be achieved by shot boundary detection alone, and cannot be achieved by utilizing merely an algorithmic approach. All of the analysis and representation is organized and easily search able for both individuals and search engines.   Systems and methods are provided that encourage viewers of digital video, to interact with the video and describe what they are seeing and their emotions at the time of viewing. The system will encourage viewers with rewards and loyalty points to make comments throughout the video. Comments will be of different types and have different functionality, such as letting subsequent viewers see them and navigate to a specific scene within a video. Our system also encourages viewers with rewards and loyalty points make personal bookmarks within a video and describe the details of the video during the bookmark. The system will have a range selector that viewers will utilize to crop parts of the video and to create their personal bookmarks. The system will also encourage viewers with rewards and loyalty points to share their bookmarks with their friends and their reward will increase if friends actually view the bookmarked area. Authentication of a user desiring to interact with the video will be performed in various manners, such as OAUTH Platforms or a proprietary system described within. Once a user is authenticated they will be afforded various privileges such as, organizing into groups with other viewers, and seeing how other viewers have interacted with video, and seeing which viewers have earned points and loyalty rewards, and who top point and reward earners are.  The system will also, collect all of the aggregate data that has been input from viewers and present it visually in a variety of different ways such as a heat map, where all of the most interacted sections are highlighted. The system will also collect all of the aggregate user input data and create a map of the video which will be accessible to viewers and internet searches. The system will also take all of the data input by users and share it with search engines in a manner that increases the search ranking of a video. Additionally, the system will allow Internet searchers to navigate directly to a specific scene or frame within a video. Also, Internet searchers will be able to navigate directly to the video map.