US 11,445,256 B2Granted

Editing timed-text elements

AssigneeHome Box Office, Inc.

InventorHugo Ayala

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Abstract

The described technology is generally directed towards integrated tools for editing and otherwise working with close-captioning captions (or subtitles), including an on-screen editing interface that allows a user to select and edit caption text directly on-screen. Caption editing can include changing positioning metadata associated with a caption, changing timing metadata associated with a caption, and/or changing text content/text style metadata of a caption. A counter is provided to assist the user with respect to how many additional characters can be added to the caption. Also provided is a search interface that locates captions within a large set of captions, such as the full set of captions for a video.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising,

a processor;
and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
displaying a first selected video frame of a video;
overlaying an interactive interface over the first selected video frame;
detecting a first interaction with the interactive interface, and in response to the detecting the first interaction, changing the first selected video frame to a second selected video frame of the video and displaying the second video frame of a video behind the interactive interface;
obtaining text caption data associated with the second selected video frame;
displaying, on the interactive interface, a representation of a remaining character counter element of a remaining character count of the text caption data based on a number of characters of the caption data and a character limit;
rendering a representation of the text caption data in the interactive interface;
detecting a second interaction with the interactive interface that edits the text caption data into modified text caption data;
and
in response to the detecting the second interaction, rendering a representation of the modified text caption data in the interactive interface, and maintaining the modified text caption data in association with the second selected video frame.

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A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

displaying a displayed frame of video content;
rendering an interactive interface over the displayed frame;
obtaining closed captioning text corresponding to the displayed frame;
rendering the closed captioning text on the interactive interface;
rendering a representation on the interactive interface of a character counter element of the closed captioning text based on a number of characters of the closed captioning text;
receiving first input data via the interactive interface that changes the displayed frame to a different displayed frame, and in response to the receiving the first input data, displaying the different displayed frame of video content, rendering the interactive interface over the different displayed frame, obtaining different closed captioning text corresponding to the different displayed frame and rendering the different closed captioning text on the interactive interface;
receiving second input data via the interactive interface that changes the different closed captioning text to modified closed captioning text;
and
rendering a modified representation on the interactive interface of a modified character count of the modified closed captioning text based a number of characters of the modified closed captioning text.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/918,590Filed 1 Jul 2020 · continuation
Priority: 6 Jun 2018
Published: US 2020/0336795 A122 Oct 2020
Granted: 13 Sep 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G11B 27/34
Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel: indicating arrangements
H04N 21/47205
End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content…: for…
G06F 40/166
Text processing: editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
G11B 27/031
Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers: electronic editing of digitised analogue…

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Application62/681,443Us provisional application · filed 6 Jun 2018
Application16/223,836Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Dec 2018
US 2020/0336795 A1Pre-grant publication · published 22 Oct 2020
US 10,728,623 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0379943 A1Published application
US 11,445,256 B2This patent

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