Patent Document ID: 9438876
Application ID: 13824344

Base Claim:
1. A method for controlling replay for video content in a trick mode of operation, the method comprising: receiving a trick mode command; determining a trick mode frame rate as a function of a time interval between consecutive semantics in the video content, a time duration of the video content, a number of occurrences for the semantics in the video content and a frame rate in a normal play mode of the video content; and wherein the video content related to the time interval in the trick mode defined by the received trick mode command is displayed at the trick mode frame rate, said trick mode frame rate, V i , is determined as V i =[T i /T]×(N×L×M), where T i is a time interval between an i th and an (i+1) th consecutive semantics in the video content, T is a time duration of the video content, N is a number of occurrences for the semantics in the video content, and M is a frame rate in a normal play mode.

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Claim 5:
5. The method as defined in claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises: detecting a difference between the trick mode frame rate as calculated and a current trick mode frame rate V i−1 related to a semantic occurrence in time interval T i−1 ; and when a magnitude of said difference exceeds a determined threshold, varying a trick mode frame rate for the i th semantic occurrence from said current trick mode frame rate V i−1 to the trick mode frame rate V i as calculated during display of the i th semantic occurrence.