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US 2019/0079941 A1Published application
Highlighting portions of a live video broadcast
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsShilpa Sarkar, Ian McIntyre Silber
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for enabling better control over a live video broadcast. For example, systems and methods described herein enable a broadcaster to indicate one or more highlighted portions of a live video broadcast. Systems and method described herein further provide a video broadcast viewer the ability to scrub through the video broadcast directly to the highlighted portions of the live video broadcast.
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A method comprising:
- broadcasting, via a networking system and to one or more co-users of a networking system user, a live video broadcast received from the networking system user;
- determining one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast;
- receiving, from the networking system user, a request to add the one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast to an ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user;
- and
- adding the one or more highlighted portions of the live video broadcast to the ephemeral content collection associated with the networking system user.
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A method comprising:
- providing, by a broadcasting device, a live video broadcasting graphical user interface comprising a display of a feed of image frames captured by an active camera associated with the broadcasting device;
- detecting an initiation of a live video broadcast;
- detecting a user interaction indicating a highlighted portion of the live video broadcast;
- generating, in response to the detected user interaction, metadata representative of a duration of the user interaction relative to the duration of the live video broadcast;
- and
- generating, in response to a detected end of the live video broadcast, a recording of the live video broadcast, and associating the generated metadata with the recording.
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A method comprising:
- providing, by a viewer device, an ephemeral content collection associated with a broadcaster, the ephemeral content collection comprising a recording of a live video broadcast;
- detecting, during playback of the recording of the live video broadcast, a user interaction in association with the ephemeral content collection;
- providing, in response to the detected user interaction and within the ephemeral content collection, a video broadcast recording timeline associated with the recording of the live video broadcast, wherein the video broadcast recording timeline comprises a plurality of highlighted portion indicators;
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- removing, in response to detecting an end of the user interaction, the video broadcast recording timeline from the ephemeral content collection.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.