User control for displaying tags associated with items in a video playback

An apparatus for use with a display device to display a video with a set of tags selectively overlaid on the video, the apparatus comprising:

• a hardware processor operatively associated with the display device, the hardware processor configured to:
• cause the display device to display a sequence of video frames, wherein the video depicts a plurality of visually perceptible items and wherein the video frames as displayed do not include any tags, thereby depicting the video in a tagless mode;
• process a signal requesting that the video be displayed in a tag mode;
• and
• in response to said signal, overlay one or more visually perceptible tags on the video frames at specified positions, thereby causing the display device to display the video in a tag mode, wherein each of the overlaid tags is associated with at least one respective visually perceptible item appearing in the video.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions comprising:

• instructions to cause a display device to display a sequence of video frames, wherein the video depicts a plurality of visually perceptible items and wherein the video frames as displayed do not include any tags, thereby depicting the video in a tagless mode;
• instructions to process a signal requesting that the video be displayed in a tag mode;
• and
• instructions to, in response to said signal, overlay one or more visually perceptible tags on the video frames at specified positions, thereby causing the display device to display the video scene in a tag mode, wherein each of the overlaid tags is associated with at least one respective visually perceptible item appearing in the video.