User control for displaying tags associated with items in a video playback

An apparatus for use with a display device to display a video with one or more sets of tags, the apparatus comprising:

• a hardware processor operatively associated with the display device, the hardware processor configured to:
• cause the display device to display a sequence of video frames depicting a video scene in a tagless mode, wherein the video scene depicts a plurality of visually perceptible items;
• process a signal requesting that the video scene be displayed in a tag mode;
• and
• in response to said signal, generate the one or more visually perceptible tags, position the generated tags in accordance with coordinates that are associated with at least one frame of the sequence of video frames, and cause the display device to display the generated one or more visually perceptible tags in conjunction with the video scene so positioned, wherein each of the generated tags is associated with at least one respective visually perceptible item appearing in the video scene, thereby resulting in display of the video scene in the tag mode;
• wherein the tagless mode does not display any of the visually perceptible tags.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:

• instructions to cause a display device to display a sequence of video frames depicting a video scene in a tagless mode, wherein the video scene depicts a plurality of visually perceptible items;
• instructions to process a signal requesting that the video scene be displayed in a tag mode;
• and
• instructions to, in response to said signal, generate one or more visually perceptible tags, position the generated tags in accordance with coordinates that are associated with at least one frame of the sequence of video frames, and cause the display device to display the generated one or more visually perceptible tags in conjunction with the video scene so positioned, wherein each of the generated tags is associated with at least one respective visually perceptible item appearing in the video scene, thereby resulting in display of the video scene in the tag mode;
• wherein the tagless mode does not display any of the visually perceptible tags.