Systems and methods for presenting user selected scenes

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016094875-A1
Application number	US-201414502923-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 30, 2014
Priority date	Sep 30, 2014
Publication date	Mar 31, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Systems and methods are described herein for presenting user selected scenes. A media guidance application may generate for display a listing for a media asset, wherein a play length of the media asset includes a non-selectable play length portion and a selectable play length portion. The media guidance application may generate for display a first scene option corresponding to a first scene and a second scene option corresponding to a second scene. The media guidance application may receive a user selection of the first or second scene option and incorporate the selected scene into the selectable play length portion of the media asset. The media guidance application may generate for display the media asset with the selected scene incorporated into the selectable play length portion.

First claim

1 . A method for presenting user selected scenes, the method comprising:
generating for display a progress bar for a media asset that graphically represents a user's progress through a play length of the media asset; determining a location on the progress bar that corresponds to a first point in the play length at which the user is presented with an option to select one of a first scene and a second scene for incorporation into the media asset; and generating for display a graphic representation of the option at the location.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display during playback of the media asset.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display prior to playback of the media asset.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein playback of the media asset is automatically paused at the first point in the play length, and wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display while the playback of the media asset is paused.

5 . The method of claim 4 , further comprising automatically selecting the first scene for display after a period of time subsequent to pausing the playback of the media asset.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein playback of the media asset is automatically paused at the first point in the play length, and wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display prior to the playback of the media asset being paused.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphic representation of the option includes a first thumbnail corresponding to the first scene and a second thumbnail corresponding to the second scene.

8 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphic representation of the option includes a description of the first scene and a description of the second scene.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising graphically accentuating the graphic representation of the option as playback of the media asset nears the first point in the play length.

10 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating for display a description of the first scene and a description of the second scene upon a user selection of the graphic representation of the option.

11 . A system for presenting user selected scenes, the system comprising:
control circuitry configured to:
generate for display a progress bar for a media asset that graphically represents a user's progress through a play length of the media asset;
determine a location on the progress bar that corresponds to a first point in the play length at which the user is presented with an option to select one of a first scene and a second scene for incorporation into the media asset; and
generate for display a graphic representation of the option at the location.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display during playback of the media asset.

13 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display prior to playback of the media asset.

14 . The system of claim 11 , wherein playback of the media asset is automatically paused at the first point in the play length, and wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display while the playback of the media asset is paused.

15 . The system of claim 14 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to automatically select the first scene for display after a period of time subsequent to pausing the playback of the media asset.

16 . The system of claim 11 , wherein playback of the media asset is automatically paused at the first point in the play length, and wherein the graphic representation of the option is generated for display prior to the playback of the media asset being paused.

17 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the graphic representation of the option includes a first thumbnail corresponding to the first scene and a second thumbnail corresponding to the second scene.

18 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the graphic representation of the option includes a description of the first scene and a description of the second scene.

19 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to graphically accentuate the graphic representation of the option as playback of the media asset nears the first point in the play length.

20 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the control circuitry is further configured to generate for display a description of the first scene and a description of the second scene upon a user selection of the graphic representation of the option.

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Assignees

• United Video Properties Inc

Inventors

• Peterson Brian
• Wickenkamp Vanessa
• Wheatley David John
• Klappert Walter R

Classifications

• H04N21/4542

  Blocking scenes or portions of the received content, e.g. censoring scenes · CPC title

• H04N21/44012

  involving rendering scenes according to scene graphs, e.g. MPEG-4 scene graphs · CPC title

• H04N21/44

  Processing of video elementary streams, e.g. splicing a video clip retrieved from local storage with an incoming video stream or rendering scenes according to encoded video stream scene graphs · CPC title

• H04N21/4755

  for defining user preferences, e.g. favourite actors or genre (retrieval personalisation and generation of user profiles for the retrieval of video data G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306) · CPC title

• H04N21/4312

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