US 8,799,950 B2Granted

Apparatus and method for providing additional information of media content

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsSung-Jin Park, Won-Sang Kwon, Jin-Guk Jeong, Yun-Je Oh, Joon-Woo Kim

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Abstract

Provided are an apparatus and method for providing additional information of media content. In digital contents management, the apparatus for providing additional information of media content includes a media source, a media renderer, an additional information analyzer, a smart progress bar, and an additional information renderer. The media source receives media and additional information from a local file, a portable storage medium or a network and transfers the received media and additional information into the apparatus. The media renderer renders the received media to a user. The additional information analyzer analyzes the received additional information. The smart progress bar controls the playback of the media based on the analyzed additional information. The additional information renderer displays the additional information to the user by controlling the smart progress bar.

Claims20

Dependent claims

An apparatus for providing additional information of media content in digital contents management, the apparatus comprising:

a media source to receive media and additional information from at least one of a local file, a portable storage medium and a network and to transfer the received media and additional information into the apparatus;
a media renderer operationally connected to the media source to render to a user the received and transferred media in a displayed main renderer window having a display region within window borders of the main renderer window, to render additional information in an additional information renderer window displayed external to the window borders of the main renderer window, and to render a smart progress bar outside the main renderer window;
an additional information analyzer operationally connected to the media source and the media renderer to analyze the received and transferred additional information and output analyzed received and transferred additional information to the media renderer;
the smart progress bar being operationally connected to the media renderer to control displaying of a portion of the additional information selected by the user from the received and transferred additional information, and to control a playback of the received and transferred media on the main renderer window based on the output analyzed received and transferred additional information;
and
an additional information renderer operationally connected to the smart progress bar and the additional information analyzer to display, in a preview pop-up area in the main renderer window, the user-selected portion of the received and transferred additional information in the smart progress bar to the user by controlling the smart progress bar;
wherein the additional information window displays additional information comprising summary information or a representative image of the media contents corresponding to a highlighted segment of the progress bar.

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A method for providing on a display additional information of media content in digital contents management, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving media and additional information from at least one of a local file, a portable storage medium and a network;
transferring the received media and additional information into an apparatus;
displaying the received and transferred media in a main window having a display region within window borders of the main window;
analyzing the received and transferred additional information;
setting the additional information to be displayed on the display in an additional information renderer window displayed external to the window borders of the main window of the display one of all the time and selectively according to a user setting;
displaying a smart progress bar external to the main window;
establishing a default state of a playback indicator for displaying the additional information, to cause said apparatus to continuously playback during the default state the received and transferred media in the main window of the display;
changing a state of the playback indicator away from the default state based on the received and transferred additional information;
receiving a user selection of a portion of the additional information from the received and transferred additional information;
displaying the smart progress bar which includes displaying the user-selected portion of the additional information;
displaying an index of the received and transferred additional information in the additional information renderer window of the display that is external to the main window of the display and a preview pop-up area that is internal to the main window of the display;
selecting for playing back in the main window of the display the preview pop-up by moving the playback indicator;
and
displaying, in the preview pop-up window, the user-selected portion of the received and transferred additional information in the smart progress bar;
and
displaying, in the additional information window, additional information comprising summary information or a representative image of the media contents corresponding to a highlighted segment of the progress bar.

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A method for providing additional information of media content in digital contents management, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, at a media source, media and additional information from at least one of a local file, a portable storage medium and a network;
transferring the received media and additional information into an apparatus;
rendering, to a user in a main renderer window having a display region within window borders of the main renderer window, the receiving and transferred media using a media renderer operationally connected to the media;
rendering the additional information in an additional information renderer window displayed external to the window borders of the main renderer window;
rendering a smart progress bar external to the main renderer window;
analyzing the received and transferred additional information using an additional information analyzer operationally connected to the media source;
outputting the analyzed received and transferred additional information to the main renderer;
receiving a user selection of a portion of the additional information from the received and transferred additional information;
displaying the smart progress bar operationally connected to the media renderer, the smart progress bar being used to control a playback of the received and transferred media on the main renderer window based on the output analyzed received and transferred additional information;
and
displaying to the user, as a preview pop-up area in the main renderer window, the user-selected portion of the received and transferred additional information in the smart progress using an additional information renderer operationally connected to the smart progress bar and the additional information analyzer by controlling the smart progress bar;
and
displaying, in the additional information window, additional information comprising summary information or a representative image of the media contents corresponding to a highlighted segment of the progress bar.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/977,219Filed 24 Oct 2007
Priority: KR 10-2006-010536828 Oct 2006
Published: US 2008/0101773 A11 May 2008
Granted: 5 Aug 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

H04N 21/47
Client devices specifically adapted for the reception of or interaction with content, e.g. set-top-box [STB]; Operations thereof: end-user…
G11B 27/11
Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel: by using information not detectable on the record carrier
G11B 27/34
Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel: indicating arrangements
H04N 21/235
Processing of content or additional data; Elementary server operations; Server middleware: processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of…