Apparatus, system and method for associating one or more filter files with a particular multimedia presentation
AssigneeClearPlay, Inc.
InventorMatthew T. Jarman
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, computer program product and computer accessible code configured to link or otherwise associate content filters with a multimedia presentation, e.g., a movie. The content filter data includes an identifier value with an aspect ratio identifier or as a function of an aspect ratio for a particular multimedia presentation associated with the filter information. In one implementation, association between a filter set and a multimedia presentation involves a filtering application that searches a particular multimedia presentation to locate aspect ratio information and further searches filter information for a matching aspect ratio identifier.
Claims18
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer readable storage medium and computer readable code embodied on the computer useable medium, the computer readable code comprising:
- one or more filter files associated with a multimedia presentation, the filter files each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter file further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation;
- and
- the one or more filter files including at least one aspect ratio data value configured to identify an aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation, the one or more filter files to be applied to the multimedia presentation when the at least one aspect ratio data value corresponds with the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer storage medium and computer readable code embodied on the computer useable medium, the computer readable code comprising:
- one or more filter files associated with a multimedia presentation, the filter files each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter file further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation, the filtering action including skipping, blurring, cropping and/or muting portions of the multimedia presentation;
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- at least one or more filter files including at least one data value configured as a function of at least the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation;
- the one or more filter files to be applied to the multimedia presentation when the at least one aspect ratio data value corresponds with the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.
A method for associating a multimedia presentation with content filter information comprising:
- obtaining content filtering data corresponding with a particular multimedia presentation, the content filtering data including at least one multimedia identifier, the multimedia identifier including at least one data value corresponding to an aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation;
- analyzing a multimedia presentation to determine an aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation;
- comparing the aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation to the at least one multimedia identifier;
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- applying the content filtering data to the multimedia presentation as function of the operation of comparing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.