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System and method for compiling and playing a multi-channel video

AssigneeRadical Switchcam LLC

InventorsChristopher Albert Hartley, Brett Ronald Welch

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Abstract

A system and method including retrieving a multi-channel video file with a first video segment and a second video segment; assigning a rank to the first video segment and second video segment; and rendering at least the first and second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, and comprising: playing the first video segment in an active stream, progressing a timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream, when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel if the rank of the second video segment is greater than the rank of the first video segment, and otherwise displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

retrieving a multi-channel video file with at least a first video segment and a second video segment
correlating an identifier of each of the first video segment and the second video segment by comparing correlation coefficients having a peak correlation coefficient and a threshold correlation coefficient, wherein the peak correlation coefficient greater than the threshold correlation coefficient substantially proves a relationship between the first video segment and the second video segment;
assigning a quantitative rank to at least the first video segment and the second video segment;
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rendering at least the first video segment and the second video segment in a player interface synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, rendering step further comprising:
playing the first video segment in an active stream,
progressing the timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream,
when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment and the quantitative rank of the second video segment is greater than the quantitative rank of the first video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel, and
when the timeline progresses to a synchronized time of the second video segment and the quantitative rank of the second video segment is less than the quantitative rank of the first video segment, displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel.

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A method comprising:

retrieving a multi-channel video file with at least a first video segment and a second video segment
correlating an identifier of each of the first video segment and the second video segment by comparing correlation coefficients having a peak correlation coefficient and a threshold correlation coefficient, wherein the peak correlation coefficient greater than the threshold correlation coefficient substantially proves a relationship between the first video segment and the second video segment;
assigning a quantitative rank to at least the first video segment and the second video segment based on history of the first video segment and the second video segment;
and
rendering at least the first video segment and the second video segment in a player interface, synchronized to a timeline of the multi-channel video file, the rendering step further comprising:
playing the first video segment in an active stream,
progressing the timeline of the multi-channel video file when video is played in the active stream,
upon progressing the timeline to a synchronized time of the second video segment and the second video segment having a quantitative rank greater than a quantitative rank of the first video segment, playing the second video segment in the active stream and displaying the first video segment as a selectable video channel,
upon progressing the timeline to the synchronized time of the second video segment and the second video segment having a quantitative rank less than the quantitative rank of the first video segment, displaying the second video segment as a selectable video channel,
upon selectively receiving user interface selection of the selectable video channel, displaying the video segment playing in the active stream as a selectable video channel and playing the video segment of the selectable video channel in the active stream, and
upon progressing the timeline to the end of video segment played in the active stream, playing a second video segment from a selectable video channel in the active stream.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/748,217Filed 23 Jan 2013 · us provisional application
Priority: 24 Jan 2012
Published: US 2013/0188923 A125 Jul 2013
Granted: 17 May 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification14 codes

H04N 5/04
Details of television systems: synchronising
G11B 27/10
Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel: indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising;…
G11B 27/34
Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel: indicating arrangements
H04N 5/91
Television signal recording: television signal processing therefor