US 10,477,254 B1Granted

Systems and methods for providing media content related to a detected ambiguous situation during a sporting event

AssigneeRovi Guides, Inc.

InventorsThomas Kang-Po Yan, Hong-Qi Jia, Peter Boonstra, Kerui Chen

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Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing media clips that depict referee's decisions that are similar to a decision made in a sporting event being currently consumed by the user. A media guidance application may be configured to perform the actions described herein. Specifically, the media guidance application may determine, that an officiator of the sporting event stopped play for a specific situation. In response, the media guidance application may extract metadata that corresponds to the specific situation and compare the metadata that corresponds to the specific situation with metadata for similar situations that occurred in other similar sporting events. The media guidance application may identify a similar situation or event that occurred in another similar sporting event (e.g., the same sport) and generate for display video of the similar situation.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A method for providing similar media content during stoppage of play when an ambiguous determination occurs at sporting events, the method comprising:

determining, during playback of a sporting event that a stoppage of play has occurred, based on:
comparing one or more of a movement and position of the officiator of the sporting event with a plurality of database entries each including one or more of a pre-determined movement and position of the officiator;
and
determining, based on the comparing, that the officiator of the sporting event is performing a pre-defined action;
and
in response to determining that the officiator of the sporting event is performing the pre-defined action, determining that the stoppage of play has occurred;
in response to determining that the stoppage of play has occurred:
accessing one or more of an audio stream of the sporting, event, a video stream of the sporting event, and a subtitle stream of the sporting event;
determining, based on one or more of the video stream, the audio stream, and the subtitle stream, whether the stoppage of play resulted from an ambiguous determination by an officiator of the sporting event;
in response to determining that the stoppage of play resulted from the ambiguous determination, extracting, from the one or more of audio stream, video stream, and subtitle stream of the sporting event, metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event;
transmitting a request for metadata entries each describing content of a corresponding historical ambiguous event, wherein the request includes at least a portion of the metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination;
receiving, in response to the request, one or more historical ambiguous events that corresponds to the segment;
and
generating for display video comprising a historical ambiguous event of the one or more historical ambiguous events.

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A system for providing similar media content during stoppage of play when an ambiguous determination occurs at sporting events, the system comprising:

control circuitry configured to:
determine, during playback of a sporting event that a stoppage of play has occurred, based on:
comparing one or more of a movement and position of the officiator of the sporting event with a plurality of database entries each including one or more of a pre-determined movement and position of the officiator;
and
determining, based on the comparing, that the officiator of the sporting event is performing a pre-defined action;
and
in response to determining that the officiator of the sporting event is performing the pre-defined action, determining that the stoppage of play has occurred;
in response to determining that the stoppage of play has occurred:
access one or more of an audio stream of the sporting, event, a video stream of the sporting event, and a subtitle stream of the sporting event;
determine, based on one or more of the video stream, the audio stream, and the subtitle stream, whether the stoppage of play resulted from an ambiguous determination by an officiator of the sporting event;
in response to determining that the stoppage of play resulted from the ambiguous determination, extract, from the one or more of audio stream, video stream, and subtitle stream of the sporting event, metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event;
transmit a request for metadata entries each describing content of a corresponding historical ambiguous event, wherein the request includes at least a portion of the metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination;
receive, in response to the request, one or more historical ambiguous events that corresponds to the segment;
and
generate for display video comprising a historical ambiguous event of the one or more historical ambiguous events.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/028,038Filed 5 Jul 2018
Granted: 12 Nov 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04N 21/23424
Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing of video streams or manipulating encoded video stream scene graphs: involving splicing one…
H04N 21/4722
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G10L 15/08
Speech recognition: speech classification or search
G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue