Video playing method and apparatus, device, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12088870-B2
Application number	US-202318468049-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 15, 2023
Priority date	Mar 18, 2021
Publication date	Sep 10, 2024
Grant date	Sep 10, 2024

Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a video playing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a plurality of videos in a form of rows and columns in a first page, a column direction being consistent with a slide direction supported by the page; determining a first target video reaching a corresponding predetermined control line of predetermined control lines among videos in a to-be-played row in response to a trigger operation, the predetermined control lines being in correspondence with the columns in the first page, the predetermined control lines being arranged at intervals along the column direction; and stopping playing of a second target video that is being played in the first page, and playing the first target video in the first page.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A video playing method, comprising:
displaying a plurality of videos in a form of rows and columns in a first page, a column direction being consistent with a slide direction supported by the page, and each of the number of the rows and the number of the columns being not smaller than 2;
determining, in response to a trigger operation, at least one first target video reaching a corresponding predetermined control line of predetermined control lines among videos in a to-be-played row, the predetermined control lines being in one-to-one correspondence with the columns in the first page, the predetermined control lines being arranged at intervals along the column direction, and the number of the predetermined control lines is the same as the number of the columns; and
stopping playing of a second target video that is being played in the first page, and playing the at least one first target video in the first page,
wherein when the columns are two columns, the predetermined control lines comprise a first predetermined control line adjacent to a starting position of the first page and a second predetermined control line adjacent to an end position of the first page, wherein:
when an operation direction of the trigger operation is a forward direction of the slide direction, the first predetermined control line corresponds to a right column of the page, and the second predetermined control line corresponds to a left column of the page; and
when the operation direction of the trigger operation is a backward direction of the slide direction, the first predetermined control line corresponds to the left column of the page, and the second predetermined control line corresponds to the right column of the page.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said determining, in response to the trigger operation, the at least one first target video reaching the corresponding predetermined control line of the predetermined control lines among the videos in the to-be-played row comprises:
determining, based on an operation direction of the trigger operation and a column where each of the videos in the to-be-played row is located, a play control position of the video;
determining whether the play control position of each of the videos in the to-be-played row coincides with a predetermined control line corresponding to the video; and
determining the video with a determination result that the play control position of the video coincides with the predetermined control line corresponding to the video as the at least one first target video.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said determining, based on the operation direction of the trigger operation and the column where each of the videos in the to-be-played row is located, the play control position of the video comprises:
determining a top edge of each of the videos in the to-be-played row as a play control position of the video when the operation direction of the trigger operation is a forward direction of the slide direction, wherein the forward direction is a direction from an end position of the first page to a starting position of the first page, and the top edge is a side edge of the video adjacent to the starting position,
wherein a correspondence between the videos in the to-be-played row and the predetermined control lines is that: the videos in the to-be-played row from a left column of the page to a right column of the page sequentially correspond to the predetermined control lines from adjacent to the end position to adjacent to the starting position.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein said determining, based on the operation direction of the trigger operation and the column where each of the videos in the to-be-played row is located, the play control position of the video comprises:
when the operation direction of the trigger operation is a backward direction of the slide direction, determining a bottom edge of a video in the to-be-played row and a rightmost column of the page as a play control position of the video, and determining a top edge of each remaining video in the to-be-played row as a play control position of the remaining video, wherein the backward direction is a direction from a starting position of the first page to an end position of the first page, and the bottom edge is a side edge of the video adjacent to the end position,
wherein a correspondence between the videos in the to-be-played row and the predetermined control lines is that: a video in the rightmost column of the page corresponds to a predetermined control line closest to the end position; and remaining video from a left column of the page to a right column of the page sequentially correspond to remaining predetermined control lines from adjacent to the end position to adjacent to the starting position.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said playing the at least one first target video in the first page comprises:
playing, when the at least one first target video comprises one first target video, the one first target video in the first page; and
determining, when the at least one first target video comprises a plurality of first target videos, a last first target video among the plurality of first target videos in an opposite direction of the operation direction based on an operation direction of the trigger operation, and playing the determined first target video in the first page.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising, subsequent to said stopping playing of the second target video that is being played in the first page, and playing the at least one first target video in the first page:
determining a third target video reaching a corresponding predetermined control line among the videos in response to another trigger operation; and
stopping the playing of the at least one first target video, and playing the third target video in the first page.

7. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
playing, in a second page and in response to a trigger operation on any fourth target video among the videos in the first page, the fourth target video and all videos arranged after the fourth target video in the first page in a form of video streaming.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising, subsequent to said playing, in the second page and in response to the trigger operation on any fourth target video among the videos in the first page, the fourth target video and all videos arranged after the fourth target video in the first page in a form of video streaming:
determining, in response to a user triggering a return operation on the first page, a fifth target video that is being played in the second page at the time of triggering the return operation, and locating the fifth target video in the first page for playing.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein said displaying the plurality of videos in a form of rows and columns in the first page comprises:
receiving video search information of a user;
determining a plurality of videos corresponding to the video search information; and
playing the plurality of videos in the form of rows and columns in the first page.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein positions of the predetermined control lines in the first page are determined based on video lengths of the videos in the column direction and a length of the first page in the column direction.

11. An electronic device, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory, having a program or instruction stored thereon,
wherein the program or instruction, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to:
display a plurality of videos in a form of rows and columns in

Assignees

• Beijing Bytedance Network Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Wu Shuna
• An Dong
• Qiu Hao

Classifications

• H04N21/4825

  using a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlists · CPC title

• H04N21/482

  End-user interface for programme selection · CPC title

• H04N21/44218

  Detecting physical presence or behaviour of the user, e.g. using sensors to detect if the user is leaving the room or changes his face expression during a TV programme (methods or arrangements for recognising human body or animal bodies or body parts G06V40/10; methods or arrangements for acquiring or recognising human faces, facial parts, facial sketches, facial expressions G06V40/16; methods or arrangements for recognising movements or behaviour G06V40/20; arrangements for identifying users in broadcast systems H04H60/45) · CPC title

• H04N21/44222

  Analytics of user selections, e.g. selection of programmes or purchase activity (monitoring of user selections in data processing systems G06F11/34; arrangements for monitoring the user's behaviour or opinions in broadcast systems H04H60/33) · CPC title

• H04N21/4312 Primary

  involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations · CPC title