Video frame bookmarking user interface component
AssigneeThe DIRECTV Group, Inc.
InventorsArpi Mardirossian, Don E. Cansino
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Abstract
A method, system, computer program product, and computer readable storage medium provide the ability to bookmark a frame of media content. A media content user interface component that controls playback of the media content in a media player is activated. The component includes a circular progress bar. A frame within the media content is identified and bookmarked. A bookmark is displayed on the circular progress bar and reflects the location of the bookmarked frame. The bookmark is selected to begin play from the bookmarked frame.
Claims25
A computer-implemented method for bookmarking a frame of media content comprising:
- activating a user interface (UI) component that controls playback of the media content in a media player, wherein the UI component comprises a circular progress bar;
- displaying a scaled circular keyframe within the circular progress bar, wherein the scaled circular keyframe comprises a preview of the frame of the media content located at a time within the media content that is identified by a progress marker;
- accepting user input identifying the frame within the media content;
- accepting user input associating the frame with a bookmark;
- displaying a bookmark indicator on the circular progress bar, wherein the bookmark indicator reflects a location in the media content where the frame is located, and wherein the bookmark indicator is different from the progress marker;
- accepting user input selecting the bookmark indicator;
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- in response to the user input selecting the bookmark indicator, playing the media content from the frame identified by the bookmark.
A system for bookmarking a frame of media content comprising:
- (a) a computer comprising a processor;
- (b) a media player executing on the computer via the processor;
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- (c) a user interface (UI) component that controls playback of the media content in the media player, wherein the UI component comprises:
- (1) a circular progress bar;
- (2) a scaled circular keyframe within the circular progress bar, wherein the scaled circular keyframe comprises a preview of the frame of the media content located at a time within the media content that is identified by a progress marker;
- (3) a bookmark indicator that is displayed on the circular progress bar, wherein the bookmark indicator reflects a location in the media content where the frame is located, and wherein the frame is identified by a user, and wherein the bookmark indicator is different from the progress marker;
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- (4) a UI feature for:
- (i) accepting user input identifying the frame within the media content;
- (ii) accepting user input associating the frame with a bookmark;
- (iii) accepting user input selecting the bookmark indicator;
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- (iv) in response to the user input selecting the bookmark indicator, playing the media content from the frame identified by the bookmark indicator.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium encoded with computer program instructions which when accessed by a computer cause the computer to load the program instructions to a memory therein creating a special purpose data structure causing the computer to operate as a specially programmed computer, executing a method of bookmarking a frame of media content, comprising:
- activating, in the specially programmed computer, a user interface (UI) component that controls playback of the media content in a media player, wherein the UI component comprises a circular progress bar;
- displaying a scaled circular keyframe within the circular progress bar, wherein the scaled circular keyframe comprises a preview of the frame of the media content located at a time within the media content that is identified by a progress marker;
- accepting user input identifying, in the specially programmed computer, the frame within the media content;
- accepting user input associating, in the specially programmed computer, the frame with a bookmark;
- displaying, via the specially programmed computer, a bookmark on the circular progress bar, wherein the bookmark reflects a location in the media content where the frame is located, and wherein the bookmark indicator is different from the progress marker;
- accepting user input selecting, in the specially programmed computer, the bookmark;
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- in response to the user input selecting the bookmark indicator, playing, in the specially programmed computer, the media content from the frame identified by the bookmark.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.