Multimedia file playback method and apparatus
AssigneeHuawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
InventorsMeixing Chen, Hongkai Zhou
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Abstract
A multimedia file playback method and apparatus where the multimedia file playback method includes: recognizing a face of a viewer to determine an age type of the viewer, where the age type includes an adult type and a juvenile type; obtaining information about a position and length of a sensitive clip in the multimedia file if the determined age type includes a juvenile type; and playing the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is hidden to the viewer according to the information about the position and length of the sensitive clip in the multimedia file. The multimedia file playback method and apparatus can prevent inappropriate videos, images, and other information from adversely affecting juveniles.
Claims16
A multimedia file playback method implemented by an electronic device, comprising:
- recognizing a face of a viewer to determine an age type of the viewer and allocating operation right to the viewer according to the recognized age type, wherein the age type comprises an adult type and a juvenile type;
- obtaining information about a position and a length of a sensitive clip of the multimedia file when the determined age type comprises the juvenile type, wherein the multimedia file is a video file or an audio file, wherein the position and the length of the sensitive clip corresponds to a start frame sequence number and a frame length of the sensitive clip, wherein when the multimedia file is a POWERPOINT file being played, the position and the length of the sensitive clip corresponds to a sequence number of the start POWERPOINT page of the sensitive clip and the number of the POWERPOINT pages of the sensitive clip;
- playing the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is hidden to the viewer according to the information about the position and length of the sensitive clip in the multimedia file when the age type of the viewer is the juvenile type;
- displaying option information asking whether to play the sensitive clip when the age type of the viewer comprises the adult type and the juvenile type, wherein the displayed option information is corresponding to the allocated operation right;
- playing the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is not hidden to the viewer when a selection made by a viewer with the adult type in response to the option information indicates playing the sensitive clip;
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- playing the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is hidden to the viewer according to the information about the position and length of the sensitive clip in the multimedia file when a selection made by a view with the adult type in response to the option information indicates not playing the sensitive clip.
A multimedia file playback apparatus, comprising:
- a computer processor configured to:
- recognize a face of a viewer to determine an age type of the viewer and allocate operation right to the viewer according to the recognized age type, wherein the age type comprises an adult type and a juvenile type;
- obtain information about a position and a length of a sensitive clip in a multimedia file when the age type comprises the juvenile type, wherein the multimedia file is a video file or an audio file, wherein the position and the length of the sensitive clip corresponds to a start frame sequence number and a frame length of the sensitive clip, wherein when the multimedia file is a POWERPOINT file being played, the position and the length of the sensitive clip correspond to a sequence number of a start POWERPOINT page of the sensitive clip and a number of POWERPOINT pages of the sensitive clip;
- play the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is hidden to the viewer according to the information about the position and length of the sensitive clip in the multimedia file when the age type of the viewer is the juvenile type;
- display option information asking whether to play the sensitive clip when the age type of the viewer comprises the adult type and the juvenile type, wherein the displayed option information is corresponding to the allocated operation right;
- play the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is not hidden to the viewer when a selection made by a viewer with the adult type in response to the option information indicates playing the sensitive clip;
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- play the multimedia file in which the sensitive clip is hidden to the viewer according to the information about the position and length of the sensitive clip in the multimedia file when a selection made by a viewer with the adult type in response to the option information indicates not plying the sensitive clip.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.