US 2014/0178041 A1 · CONTENT-SENSITIVE MEDIA PLAYBACK

Abstract

Techniques are disclosed for content-sensitive tagging of media streams and smart media playback using generated tagging-data (TD). Tagging-data (e.g., tag index and location information for each content-sensitive tag) may be generated using a smart encoding technique that may be performed by a TD-enabled encoder. In some embodiments, the smart encoding technique may be implemented, for example, as a mechanism to generate tagging-data as part of a motion-estimation engine in a graphics processing unit (GPU). Generated tagging-data may be parsed using a smart decoding technique that may be performed by a TD-enabled decoder to provide a smart media playback experience based on the content-sensitive tags. Thus, for example, a video player application can use the tagging-data to achieve a smart-video-playback experience including a content sensitive search and selective playback options. In some instances, the smart encoding and/or smart decoding techniques may be performed by a GPU.

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Dependent claims

A computer readable medium encoded with instructions that when executed by one or more processors cause a process to be carried out, the process comprising:

receiving one or more raw media streams;
receiving reference data to be located within the one or more media streams;
estimating matches between the reference data and the one or more media streams to identify location information for one or more tags, wherein the one or more tags are individually identified by a tag index;
and
generating tagging-data based on the tag index and location information for the one or more tags, wherein the tagging-data enables content sensitive playback.

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