摘要:
The detection and recording of commercials (12) within content (10) to provide viewers with a choice to avoid watching commercials or view commercial content at a selected time. This invention proposes a way to allow the user to navigate through commercials (12) of interest without having to sit linearly through the commercials by recording the commercials and presenting the commercials to the user as a set of thumbnails, a menu or a Table of Contents mechanism. Content analysis algorithms can be used to choose the most representative key frame for the thumbnail. The invention can be used in conjunction with techniques to automatically delete commercials from recordings. The commercials are not watched by the viewer during initial viewing but are presented at user-selected times so the user can selectively view the commercials.
摘要:
An optical disc playing system, comprises a selecting apparatus for receiving a command from a user, which requires to play a part of content of a program in the optical disc; a sending apparatus for sending a request which requires to provide the related information of said part of content; a receiving apparatus for receiving the related information; and a reading-out apparatus for reading out the received related information and said part of content. An optical disc playing method using said system comprises the steps of: receiving a command from a user, which requires to play a part of content of a program in the optical disc; sending a request which requires to provide the related information of said part of content; receiving the related information; and playing the disc in coordination with said part of content using the received related information.
摘要:
A digital broadcast method and system for supporting DVD recording, and relevant receiving and recording method and device are disclosed. A navigation data used for forming a DVD program is loaded into a private data stream of a TS stream transmitted by a broadcast system to let the system of the present invention be compatible with existing digital broadcast systems. A receiving end receives the navigation data when receiving audio data and video data Therefore, it is possible to record the program in a DVD format so that a user enjoys the same feature-rich scanning function as issued DVDs when replaying programs.
摘要:
The present invention provides an extensible disc player that is upgradeable to play new content types. The player's capability can be extended by downloading an appropriate decoder from a web server via the Internet. In this way, the player can play back contents that it does not originally support. If the content type is unknown, the player will check whether the disc contains a URL for linking to a web site containing an appropriate decoder. If the disc contains the URL, the player will access the web site to download the appropriate decoder. In a similar manner, the capability of a recorder can also be expanded by downloading appropriate encoders from the Internet.
摘要:
The present invention provides a WebDVD player to link legacy DVD discs to related web sites and to play normal WebDVD discs. The player includes a database containing a URL list of popular DVD content providers. After the disc is loaded into the player, the player reads the provider unique identification (PVR ID) and uses the PVR ID to find URL of associated content provider from URL list. URL of content provider is indexed to a table containing a list of some popular title identifications (Title IDs) of discs, location of Title ID on the disc, method of deriving Title ID, and URL of a related web site. The player then attempts to derive the Title ID of the disc according to the method in the table and compares the derived Title ID with the data in the Title ID column of the table to find the corresponding URL for locating the web pages of the content provider.
摘要:
The invention describes a method of annotating a timeline file (T) which method comprises identifying distinct key resources (K1, K2, K3, . . . , Km) in the timeline file (T), and describing a number of annotations for one or more key resources (K1, K2, K3, . . . , Km) in an annotation file (A) such that an annotation for a key resource (K1, K2, K3, . . . , Km) is tied to the key resource (K1, K2, K3, . . . , Km) corresponding to that annotation.
摘要:
An optical disc player includes a detecting module and a creating module. The detecting module is used to detect whether to meet a branch point or an interruption point or a pause point; and the creating module is used to create a corresponding bookmark as a navigation for the subsequent broadcast to record the relevant information of a branch point or an interruption point or a pause point when meeting the branch point or the interruption point or the pause point. The playing method of the player includes: detecting whether to meet a branch point or an interruption point or a pause point, creating a corresponding bookmark as a navigation for the subsequent broadcast to record the relevant information of the branch point or the interruption point or the pause point when to meet the branch point or the interruption point or the pause point.
摘要:
A playing of method an optical disc player (10) comprises the steps of: detecting the playing status (s210) searching URLs corresponding to information which is not downloaded yet if the detected playing status is abnormal, yet (s230); downloading the information required in the normal status according to the searched-out URLs (S250) while the player is in the abnormal status.
摘要:
The present invention provides a method of sharing contents among multiple users on the Internet, using the Web-DVD technology. According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for sharing contents on the Internet is provided. In this method, a user accesses a web server via a WebDVD player/recorder and uploads contents to the web server for sharing them with other users. The user can view contents uploaded to the web server by himself or others, via the WebDVD player/recorder and selectively recording the uploaded contents via the player/recorder. The user may also selectively edit the uploaded contents via the player/recorder and submit updated contents to the web server for sharing with other users. Alternatively, the user may use his WebDVD player/recorder as a web server and enable other users to access his player/recorder to view, modify or update the shared contents.