Synchronized presentation of facets of a game event

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9892759-B2
Application number	US-201213729784-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2012
Priority date	Dec 28, 2012
Publication date	Feb 13, 2018
Grant date	Feb 13, 2018

Abstract

Various embodiments are generally directed to use of ancillary information related to play of a game event in which actions in the game are timestamped to enable synchronized presentation alongside an audio/visual program of the game event. An apparatus includes logic to receive a program data comprising a video recording of a game event, receive ancillary data including an indication of an action related to play of the game event, a first timestamp indicating a first time for start of the video recording, and a second timestamp indicating a second time for the action; visually present the video recording in a first portion of the display; and use the first and second timestamps to synchronize a visual presentation of the action in a second portion of the display with a depiction of the action in the visual presentation of the video recording. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A synchronized presentation apparatus comprising:
a processor circuit; and
logic to:
receive an indication of a milestone associated with a video recordation process of a game event;
synchronize a clock to the milestone;
augment, at a timestamping device, an ancillary data with a first timestamp that indicates when the milestone occurred;
augment, at the timestamping device, the ancillary data with a second timestamp that indicates an amount of time indicated by the clock as elapsed since the milestone when an action related to play of the game event occurred relative to the first timestamp; and
transmit the augmented ancillary data and program data, comprising video of the game event, to a presentation device, in response to a request from the presentation device received after the game event has concluded, for visual presentation of the ancillary data alongside visual presentation of the program data synchronized according to the timestamps.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , the logic to:
receive an indication of a current time from a time server;
synchronize the clock to the current time; and
use a first time indicated by the clock in the first timestamp and use a second time indicated by the clock in the second timestamp.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , the game event comprising one of a sporting event, a television game show, a board game, and a card game.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , the milestone comprising one of a start, a pause, a resumption and a stoppage of the recordation of video of the game event.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , the ancillary data comprising a scoreboard data, and the action comprising one of a change in official timekeeping of the game event and a change in score.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , the ancillary data comprising a statistics data of a play of the game event.

7. A computer-implemented method of a synchronized presentation system comprising:
receiving, by a processor circuit of a timestamping device, an indication of a milestone associated with a video recordation process of a game event;
synchronizing a clock to the milestone;
augmenting, by the processor circuit of the timestamping device, a scoreboard data with a first timestamp that indicates when the milestone occurred;
augmenting, by the processor circuit of the timestamping device, the scoreboard data with a second timestamp that indicates an amount of time indicated by the clock as elapsed since the milestone when an action related to scoring of the game occurred relative to the first timestamp; and
transmitting the augmented scoreboard data and program data, comprising video of the game event, to a presentation device, in response to a request from the presentation device received after the game event has concluded, for visual presentation of the scoreboard data alongside visual presentation of the program data synchronized according to the timestamps.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , the method comprising:
augmenting a statistics data with a third timestamp that indicates when the milestone occurred; and
augmenting the statistics data with a fourth timestamp that indicates when an action related to play of the game occurred.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , the method comprising:
receiving an indication of a current time from a time server;
synchronizing the clock to the current time; and
using a first time indicated by the clock in the first timestamp and using a second time indicated by the clock in the second timestamp.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , the game event comprising one of a sporting event, a television game show, a board game, and a card game.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 7 , the milestone comprising one of a start, a pause, a resumption and a stoppage of the recordation of video of the game event.

12. A synchronized presentation apparatus comprising:
a display;
a processor circuit; and
logic to:
receive an indication of a current time from a time server;
synchronize a clock to the current time;
receive a program data comprising a video recording of a game event;
receive an ancillary data comprising an indication of an action related to play of the game event, a first timestamp indicating a first time indicated by the clock associated with a start of the video recording, and a second timestamp indicating a second time indicated by the clock associated with the action relative to the first timestamp;
visually present, at a presentation device, the video recording in a first portion of a display area of the display; and
use, at the presentation device, the first and second timestamps to synchronize a visual presentation of the ancillary data in a second portion of the display area of the display with a depiction of the action in the visual presentation of the video recording according to the timestamps.

13. The apparatus of claim 12 , the logic to:
visually present an advertisement in response to an indication of a pause in play of the game event in the ancillary data; and
use a third timestamp associated with the indication of the pause to synchronize the visual presentation of the advertisement with a visible indication of the pause in the video recording.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 , the logic to time the visual presentation of the advertisement to occur within a period of time determined from a difference in times indicated between the third timestamp and a fourth timestamp associated with an indication of a resumption of play of the game event in the ancillary data.

15. The apparatus of claim 13 , the logic to visually present the advertisement in the first portion.

16. The apparatus of claim 12 , the second portion of the display area does not overlap the first portion.

17. The apparatus of claim 12 , the game event comprising one of a sporting event, a television game show, a board game, and a card game.

18. The apparatus of claim 12 , the ancillary data comprising a scoreboard data, and the action comprising one of a change in official timekeeping of the game event and a change in score.

19. The apparatus of claim 12 , the ancillary data comprising a statistics data of a play of the game event.

20. At least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of a synchronized presentation system comprising instructions that when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:
receive a program data comprising a video recording of a game event;
receive an indication of a current time from a time server;
synchronize a clock to the current time;
receive a scoreboard data comprising an indication of an action related to play of the game event, a first timestamp indicating a first time indicated by the clock associated with a start of the video recording, and a second timestamp indicating a second time indicated by the clock associated with the action relative to the first timestamp;
visually present, at a presentation device, the video recording in a first portion of a display area of a display of the computing device; and
use, at the presentation device, the first and second timestamps to synchronize a visual presentation of the scoreboard data in a second portion of the display area of the display with a depiction of the action in the visual presentation of the video recording according to the timestamps.

21. The at least one non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 20 , the computing device caused to:
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Assignees

• Cbs Interactive Inc

Inventors

• Crossley Brett Marcus

Classifications

• G11B27/105 Primary

  of operating discs · CPC title

• A63F13/44

  involving timing of operations, e.g. performing an action within a time slot · CPC title

• G11B27/034

  on discs (G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence) · CPC title