Systems and methods for providing media content related to a detected ambiguous situation during a sporting event

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10477254-B1
Application number	US-201816028038-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jul 5, 2018
Priority date	Jul 5, 2018
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing media clips that depict referee's decisions that are similar to a decision made in a sporting event being currently consumed by the user. A media guidance application may be configured to perform the actions described herein. Specifically, the media guidance application may determine, that an officiator of the sporting event stopped play for a specific situation. In response, the media guidance application may extract metadata that corresponds to the specific situation and compare the metadata that corresponds to the specific situation with metadata for similar situations that occurred in other similar sporting events. The media guidance application may identify a similar situation or event that occurred in another similar sporting event (e.g., the same sport) and generate for display video of the similar situation.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for providing similar media content during stoppage of play when an ambiguous determination occurs at sporting events, the method comprising:
determining, during playback of a sporting event that a stoppage of play has occurred, based on:
comparing one or more of a movement and position of the officiator of the sporting event with a plurality of database entries each including one or more of a pre-determined movement and position of the officiator; and
determining, based on the comparing, that the officiator of the sporting event is performing a pre-defined action; and
in response to determining that the officiator of the sporting event is performing the pre-defined action, determining that the stoppage of play has occurred;

in response to determining that the stoppage of play has occurred:
accessing one or more of an audio stream of the sporting, event, a video stream of the sporting event, and a subtitle stream of the sporting event;
determining, based on one or more of the video stream, the audio stream, and the subtitle stream, whether the stoppage of play resulted from an ambiguous determination by an officiator of the sporting event;
in response to determining that the stoppage of play resulted from the ambiguous determination, extracting, from the one or more of audio stream, video stream, and subtitle stream of the sporting event, metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event;
transmitting a request for metadata entries each describing content of a corresponding historical ambiguous event, wherein the request includes at least a portion of the metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination;
receiving, in response to the request, one or more historical ambiguous events that corresponds to the segment; and
generating for display video comprising a historical ambiguous event of the one or more historical ambiguous events.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining, whether the stoppage of play resulted from the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event comprises:
monitoring one or more of the subtitle stream of the sporting event and the audio stream of the sporting event;
comparing a plurality of words within the one or more of the subtitle stream of the sporting event and the audio stream of the sporting event with keywords associated with an ambiguous determination; and
determining, based on comparing the plurality of words within the one or more of the subtitle stream of the sporting event and the audio stream of the sporting event with the keywords associated with the ambiguous determination, that the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event has occurred.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein extracting metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event comprises:
analyzing, following the stoppage of play, one or more of the subtitle stream and the audio stream; and
extracting, based on the analyzing from the one or more of the subtitle stream and the audio stream, one or more keywords associated with the ambiguous determination.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein analyzing one or more of the subtitle stream and the audio stream following the stoppage of play comprises:
scanning the video stream for a time when the sporting event resumed after the stoppage of play; and
analyzing the one or more of the subtitle stream and the audio stream between a time the stoppage of the sporting event occurred and the time when the sporting event resumed.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein extracting the one or more keywords associated with the ambiguous determination comprises:
extracting, from one or more of the audio stream and subtitle stream, a plurality of words detected following the stoppage of play;
comparing each word of the plurality of words with each of a plurality of keywords known to be associated with ambiguous determinations; and
storing those words of the plurality of words that match one or more of the plurality of keywords known to be associated with the ambiguous determinations.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining that a plurality of historical ambiguous events was received in response to the request; and
selecting the historical ambiguous event of the plurality of ambiguous events based on a number of an amount of extracted keywords matching a number of keywords associated with the historical ambiguous event.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating for display one or more indications for the one or more historical ambiguous events; and
in response to a user selection of an indication of the one or more indications, generating for simultaneous display a historical ambiguous event corresponding to the selected indication and a media segment associated with the ambiguous determination.

8. A system for providing similar media content during stoppage of play when an ambiguous determination occurs at sporting events, the system comprising:
control circuitry configured to:
determine, during playback of a sporting event that a stoppage of play has occurred, based on:
comparing one or more of a movement and position of the officiator of the sporting event with a plurality of database entries each including one or more of a pre-determined movement and position of the officiator; and
determining, based on the comparing, that the officiator of the sporting event is performing a pre-defined action; and
in response to determining that the officiator of the sporting event is performing the pre-defined action, determining that the stoppage of play has occurred;

in response to determining that the stoppage of play has occurred:
access one or more of an audio stream of the sporting, event, a video stream of the sporting event, and a subtitle stream of the sporting event;
determine, based on one or more of the video stream, the audio stream, and the subtitle stream, whether the stoppage of play resulted from an ambiguous determination by an officiator of the sporting event;
in response to determining that the stoppage of play resulted from the ambiguous determination, extract, from the one or more of audio stream, video stream, and subtitle stream of the sporting event, metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event;
transmit a request for metadata entries each describing content of a corresponding historical ambiguous event, wherein the request includes at least a portion of the metadata that corresponds to the ambiguous determination;
receive, in response to the request, one or more historical ambiguous events that corresponds to the segment; and
generate for display video comprising a historical ambiguous event of the one or more historical ambiguous events.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured, when determining, whether the stoppage of play resulted from the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event, to:
monitor one or more of the subtitle stream of the sporting event and the audio stream of the sporting event;
compare a plurality of words within the one or more of the subtitle stream of the sporting event and the audio stream of the sporting event with keywords associated with an ambiguous determination; and
determine, based on comparing the plurality of words within the one or more of the subtitle stream of the sporting event and the audio stream of the sporting event with the keywords associated with the ambiguous determination, that the ambiguous determination by the officiator of the sporting event has occurred.

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Assignees

• Rovi Guides Inc

Inventors

• Yan Thomas Kang-Po
• Jia Hong-Qi
• Boonstra Peter
• Chen Kerui

Classifications

• H04N21/84

  Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors {(systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73)} · CPC title

• H04N21/8133

  specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video programme · CPC title

• H04N21/235

  Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors · CPC title

• H04N21/23424 Primary

  involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement · CPC title

• H04N21/23418

  involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics (television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59) · CPC title