Methods and systems for dynamic content modification

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11856262-B2
Application number	US-202217969457-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 19, 2022
Priority date	Mar 17, 2016
Publication date	Dec 26, 2023
Grant date	Dec 26, 2023

Abstract

An example method can comprise receiving content for presentation at a user device. The content can comprise a plurality of sections, and each section can comprise a video portion and an audio portion. The user device can also receive content metadata regarding one or more features of the content, where the features of the content comprise one or more candidate sections of the content for modification. The user device can apply one or more rules to the received content based on the content metadata to modify one or more of the audio portion and the video portion of at least one section of the content, creating modified content, and can cause presentation of the modified content on a display device.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving content comprising a plurality of video sections;
receiving importance information indicating an importance of a video section of the plurality of video sections; and
causing, based on a plurality of modification options for the video section, output of a modified version of the content, wherein the video section is modified based on the importance information.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein causing the output of the modified version of the content comprises one of causing the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified version of the content or causing at least a portion of video in the video section to be modified in the output of the modified version of the content.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein causing the output of the modified version of the content comprises one of causing an audio portion of the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified version of the content or causing at least a portion of the audio portion to be obscured in the output of the modified version of the content.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the importance information satisfies an importance threshold,
wherein causing the output of the modified version of the content comprises causing, based on the importance information satisfying the importance threshold, one of at least a portion of a video portion of the video section to be modified or at least a portion of an audio portion of the video section to be modified in the output of the modified version of the content.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the importance information does not satisfy an importance threshold,
wherein causing the output of the modified version of the content comprises causing, based on the importance information not satisfying the importance threshold, one of the video section to be skipped or at least a portion of an audio portion of the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified version of the content.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the importance information indicates the importance of the video section to an overall plot of the content.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of modification options comprises one or more of: blurring at least a portion of the video section; pixelating at least the portion of the video section; obscuring at least the portion of the video section; blacking out at least the portion of the video section; applying a mask to at least the portion of the video section;
reducing brightness of at least the portion of the video section; obfuscating at least the portion of the video section; or skipping at least the portion of the video section.

8. A method comprising:
receiving content, wherein the content comprises a plurality of video sections;
receiving importance information for a video section of the plurality of video sections, the importance information indicating an importance of the video section to the content;
determining, from a plurality of modification options and based on the importance information, an indication of how to modify the content comprising the video section; and
causing, based on the indication, output of the modified content.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the importance information indicates the importance of the video section to an overall plot of the content.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the indication of how to modify the content comprising the video section comprises an indication of how to modify one of a video portion or an audio portion of the video section.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein causing the output of the modified content comprises one of causing the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified content or causing at least a portion of video in the video section to be modified in the output of the modified content.

12. The method of claim 8 , wherein causing the output of the modified content comprises one of causing an audio portion of the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified content or causing at least a portion of the audio portion to be obscured in the output of the modified content.

13. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
determining the importance information satisfies an importance threshold,
wherein causing the output of the modified content comprises causing, based on the importance information satisfying the importance threshold, one of at least a portion of a video portion of the video section to be modified or at least a portion of an audio portion of the video section to be modified in the output of the modified content.

14. The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
determining the importance information does not satisfy an importance threshold,
wherein causing the output of the modified content comprises causing, based on the importance information not satisfying the importance threshold, one of the video section to be skipped or at least a portion of an audio portion of the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified content.

15. The method of claim 8 , wherein the plurality of modification options comprises one or more of: blurring at least a portion of the video section; pixelating at least the portion of the video section; obscuring at least the portion of the video section; blacking out at least the portion of the video section; applying a mask to at least the portion of the video section; reducing brightness of at least the portion of the video section; obfuscating at least the portion of the video section; or skipping at least the portion of the video section.

16. A method comprising:
receiving content comprising a plurality of video sections;
receiving importance information indicating an importance of a video section of the plurality of video sections to the content; and
causing, based on a plurality of modification options for the video section, output of a modified version of the content, wherein the video section is modified based on the importance information.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
determining the importance information satisfies an importance threshold,
wherein causing the output of the modified version of the content comprises causing, based on the importance information satisfying the importance threshold, one of at least a portion of a video portion of the video section to be modified or at least a portion of an audio portion of the video section to be modified in the output of the modified version of the content.

18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising:
determining the importance information does not satisfy an importance threshold,
wherein causing the output of the modified version of the content comprises causing, based on the importance information not satisfying the importance threshold, one of the video section to be skipped or at least a portion of an audio portion of the video section to be skipped in the output of the modified version of the content.

19. The method of claim 16 , wherein the importance information indicates the importance of the video section to an overall plot of the content.

20. The method of claim 16 , further comprising determining, from the plurality of modification options and based on the importance information, an indication of how to modify the video section.

Assignees

• Comcast Cable Comm Llc

Inventors

• Gattis Galen Trevor
• Schmidt Weston
• Chan James
• Thomason Michael

Classifications

• H04N21/45452 Primary

  applied to an object-based stream, e.g. MPEG-4 streams · CPC title

• H04N21/435

  Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream · CPC title

• H04N21/4394

  involving operations for analysing the audio stream, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in audio streams (arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58) · CPC title

• H04N21/44008

  involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream (arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59) · CPC title

• H04N21/4415

  using biometric characteristics of the user, e.g. by voice recognition or fingerprint scanning {(cryptography using biological data H04L9/3231; authentication in networks using biometric H04L63/0861)} · CPC title