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US 2003/0194211 A1Published application
Intermittently playing a video
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InventorMax Abecassis
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A method of, and a system capable of, replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of, and the means for receiving, during a playing of a video, a replay request to replay a portion of a video, the replay request comprising a voice command; storing a request position of the playing of the video responsive to the replay request; skipping, responsive to the replay request, the video to a replay position that is responsive to a preestablished replay preference amount adjusted by segment information subject to an override range; enabling a playing of supplementary information; playing the video and the supplementary information from the replay position; and discontinuing the playing of supplementary information responsive to the request position responsive to a preestablished replay preference amount adjusted by segment information subject to an override range. The supplementary information including, for example, subtitles, substitution of the audio language, different camera angles, other textual, video, and/or audio information that may supplement, complement, the information being played, and/or substitute, the audio dialogue and/or segment of a video; and/or any information which may be utilized to elucidate, illuminate, illustrate, clarify, and/or explain, during a replay, a portion of a video.
A method of replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of:
A method of replaying a portion of a video comprising the steps of:
A system capable of replaying a portion of a video comprising:
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1. Field of the Invention
Systems for, and a methods of, processing, random accessing, buffering, and playing a video utilizing the information provided by a video map, where the source of the video and video map are, for example, a DVD, a DBS, and/or video-on-demand transmission, and where the means for playing the video comprises, for example, a DVD player, a personal computer, a set box, and/or a multimedia player.
2. Description of the Related Art
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a multimedia multisource receiver transmitter player comprising random access and communications capabilities;
FIG. 2 is an illustration of a remote control device;
FIG. 3 is an illustration of a labeling of function keys;
The following are incorporated herein by reference: i) subject-matter-related U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,434,678, 5,589,945, 5,610,643, 5,634,849, 5,664,046, 5,684,918, 5,696,869, 5,717,814, and 5,724,472, by the same inventor; ii) U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,636,200, 5,630,006, 5,778,142, 5,745,643, 5,598,276, 5,644,507, 5,737,479, 5,778,135, and 5,678,012; and iii) the RCA DVD player RC5200P user's manual, 1996.
For purposes of the present disclosure, various terms used in the art are defined as follows:
The term “viewer” as used herein is meant to include and be interchangeable with the words “player” (when referring to a person), “subscriber”, and “user”. That is, the term “viewer” is to be understood in the general sense of a person passively viewing a video, interactively playing a video game, retrieving video from a video provider, and/or actively using multimedia, internet, and/or communication services.