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US 2010/0162313 A1Published application
Method and system for creating a chapter menu for a video program
AssigneeVerizon Data Services Inc.
InventorsEnrique Ruiz-Velasco, Japan A. Mehta, Laxmi M. Patel, Shafiq Kassam
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Abstract
An approach is provided for the real-time creation of a menu of chapters for navigating a video program. The chaptering process creates at a dynamic chapter navigation menu that enables a user to precisely navigate within a video program by recursively creating chaptering points of finer temporal granularity for selecting a desired point within the video program.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- receiving a request from a user for creating a menu of chapters for a video program;
- creating the menu based on the request;
- presenting a user with the menu;
- and
- receiving input from the user for selecting a particular chapter from the menu.
2 more elements
A set-top box apparatus comprising:
- an input interface configured to receive a request from a user for creating a menu of chapters for a video program;
- a chaptering module configured to create the menu based on the request;
- a presentation module configured to present a user with the menu;
- and
- an input interface further configured to receive input from the user for selecting a particular chapter.
2 more elements
A system comprising:
- a chaptering manager configured to receive a request from a user for creating a menu of chapters for a video program, create the menu based on the request, present a user with the menu, and receive input from the user for selecting a particular chapter,
- wherein the input results in either playback from the particular chapter or presentation of a menu of additional chapters defined at a finer temporal granularity,
- wherein the chaptering manager is coupled to a multimedia system with connectivity to a plurality of video sources.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.