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In other embodiments, a method to perform image-based searching may include receiving a group of images from a content owner; creating an index using the group of images; receiving a further image from a mobile computing device of a user; determining a correlation between the further image and the index; and / or directing the mobile computing device of the user to content of the content owner, responsive to the determining of the correlation.

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system capable of providing a content viewing experience that does not make a user feel bored.An information processing apparatus according to one aspect of the present technology includes: a content information setting unit that sets content information including content parameter information defining a content of playback control of content;a trigger information setting unit that sets trigger information defining a condition for performing playback control of the content; and a content generation parameter setting unit that sets a content generation parameter by associating the content information with the trigger information. The present technology can be applied to a smartphone and an in-vehicle device.

One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.

In some embodiments, a method of processing image data may include receiving environmental data and associated capture time data from a sensor of a mobile computing device, the capture time data reflecting capture time of the environmental data; processing the environmental data to generate metadata; time stamping the metadata using the capture time data; receiving video data and video time data at a processor; correlating the metadata to the video data using the capture time data and the video time data; receiving a search query; and / or identifying a frame within the video data by performing a search of the metadata using the search criterion.

To provide an adaptive bit rate streaming of a medium stored in a Matroska container file using a hypertext transfer protocol.SOLUTION: A system and a method for adaptive bit rate streaming of a medium stored in a Matroska container file, using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is disclosed. A processor requests a part of a file from a remote server, identifies the EBML container file, and reads the top level index data describing the maximum bit rate of an alternative stream to be contained in the EBML container file.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

The disclosed embodiments are directed toward local emotion detection during live streaming events. A client device receives a video stream from a remote server and captures media content while displaying the video stream. The client device uses a local machine learning / artificial intelligence event detection model to detect events in the media content. The client device then transmits detected events to the remote server involved in the live stream. The client device may additionally stream the locally captured media content to the remote server. In response, the remote server provides an interaction dashboard and, in some embodiments, mixes the local media content with the live stream.

To provide an adaptive bit rate streaming of a medium stored in a Matroska container file using a hypertext transfer protocol.SOLUTION: A system and a method for adaptive bit rate streaming of a medium stored in a Matroska container file, using a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is disclosed. A processor requests a part of a file from a remote server, identifies the EBML container file, and reads the top level index data describing the maximum bit rate of an alternative stream to be contained in the EBML container file.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Systems and methods for performing trick play functionality using trick play streams during adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes requesting a video container index from a video container file containing a video stream from a plurality of alternative streams of video; requesting at least one portion of the video stream using at least one entry from the video container index; decoding the at least one portion of the video stream; receiving at least one user instruction to perform a visual search of the media; requesting a trick play container index from a trick play container file containing a trick play stream; requesting at least one frame of video from the at least one trick play stream; and decoding and displaying the at least one frame of video from the trick play stream.

A method for controlling a treadmill using a workout video comprising receiving a workout video at a treadmill comprising a display, an endless belt, one or more actuators configured to control a speed and incline of the endless belt, and one or more processors. The method may also include displaying, by the one or more processors, the workout video on the display, wherein the workout video includes audio of a song, text of lyrics of the song, and an indication of progress through the lyrics. The method may also include controlling, by the one or more processors, actuators of the treadmill according to control signals associated with the workout video.

Methods and systems of creating a collaborative video for a recipient are disclosed. A video stitching server may receive a collaborative video request from a collaborative video application running on an initiator's mobile device. The video stitching server may store the collaborative video request in a folder that has an identifier. The identifier may be provided to potential contributors. The video stitching server may receive contributor video information—including contributor videos and the identifier—from contributors' collaborative video applications and may store the contributor videos in the folder based on the identifier. The video stitching server may then stitch together at least two videos stored in the folder to create a collaborative video and may deliver the collaborative video to the collaborative video application running on a recipient's mobile device.

To provide a method, and the like, for automatically generating enhancements to audiovisual (AV) content.SOLUTION: A method for automatically generating enhancements to audio-visual (AV) content, a content manager, and a computer program product are provided. The method may comprise: by a processing unit, analyzing data about consumer interactions to generate consumer insights about the original AV content; automatically associating the consumer insights with a segment of original AV content; automatically generating content for the segment responsive to the consumer insights; and injecting the generated content into the original AV content to create modified AV content. The method may further comprise, by a network interface, receiving data about consumer interactions with original AV content and automatically transmitting the modified AV content.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 4

The present disclosure provides a video processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. Said method comprises: upon determination of a target effect style and determination of a target video clip on the basis of the display of a video to be processed on a time axis, establishing, in response to an effect application triggering operation, a binding relationship between the target effect style and the target video clip: and on the basis of the binding relationship, displaying the target video clip to which the target effect style is applied, thereby achieving the effect of applying the target effect style to the target video clip. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, by establishing a binding relationship between a target effect style and a target video clip, the effect of performing effect processing merely on a certain video clip of a video is achieved, thereby satisfying the requirement of a user for performing effect processing merely on a certain video clip, improving the flexibility of performing effect processing on the video, and further improving the user experience of performing effect processing on the video.

Systems and methods for performing trick play functionality using trick play streams during adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes requesting a video container index from a video container file containing a video stream from a plurality of alternative streams of video; requesting at least one portion of the video stream using at least one entry from the video container index; decoding the at least one portion of the video stream; receiving at least one user instruction to perform a visual search of the media; requesting a trick play container index from a trick play container file containing a trick play stream; requesting at least one frame of video from the at least one trick play stream; and decoding and displaying the at least one frame of video from the trick play stream.

A method of providing voice feedback to a listener as part of a user interface of a media playback system may include: storing multiple different voice feedback recordings in at least one computer-readable storage device, where each of the multiple different voice feedback recordings is of a different voice artist; receiving a listener command corresponding to a musical selection; determining an identifying musical characteristic of the musical selection; selecting a first voice feedback recording from the multiple different voice feedback recordings, where the first voice feedback recording corresponds to the identifying musical characteristic; and playing the first voice feedback recording to the listener via the media playback system.

The present application describes platform containing a dynamic multilayered media structure which is generated by aggregation of media pieces into a plurality of media layers. The platform allows users to interact with media layers of the dynamic multilayered media structure independently of one another. The platform further provides for a dynamic, customized media channel lineup and a user account that allows individual media pieces within the dynamic multilayered media structure to play across separate devices that are linked to the account. The user account allows for inputs including real-time controls over the media, interaction, preferences, adding additional media content, editing media into a condensed form, and curation options with the dynamic multilayered media structure.

Provided is a disk device, a control method for a disk device, and a program, which enable a rotational latency to be minimized to access a next logical block address (LBA) regardless of which head is used for access in a disk device having a plurality of heads. The disk device of an embodiment includes a storage unit that stores a table in which a track skew value for each head is stored, and a control unit that reads out a track skew value corresponding to a head that is an object of operation from the table and performs track control.

To provide a mechanism for facilitating access to a scene reflecting a specific object in a video.SOLUTION: A video management system for managing a video of a real space photographed by a photographing device is provided. The video management system includes first reading means for radiating an electromagnetic wave into a tag reading range, and utilizing the energy of the electromagnetic wave to read information returned from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, and data management means for associating a result of reading by the first reading means with the video to store the read result in a database so as to allow extraction of a first RFID tag storing first tag identification information and a part corresponding to the time when the first reading means reads the first tag identification information from the first RFID tag in the video photographed by the photographing device.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

A method includes: accessing an interactive digital ad including a sequence of frames; and compiling the sequence of frames into an image file. This method includes, at an electronic document on a computing device: rendering a first region of the image file within a first overlay; in response to a first scroll event locating an ad slot, at a first vertical position within the electronic document, into the viewing window, rendering a second region of the image file within the ad slot; and, in response to a second scroll event moving the ad slot over a sequence of vertical positions above the first vertical position within the viewing window, rendering a sequence of regions of the image file within the ad slot, the sequence of regions of the image file corresponding to the sequence of vertical positions.

A first playback device is configured to (i) place audio frames representative of audio content in a buffer, each frame including respective playback timing information identifying a time to play back the audio frame, (ii) transmit the audio frames in the buffer to a second playback device, (iii) receive a command to adjust playback of the audio content, (iv) based on the command, identify a range of audio frames previously transmitted, (v) select a new start time for the range of audio frames, (vi) cause the second playback device to update the playback timing information for each audio frame in the range based on the new start time, (vii) update, in the buffer, the playback timing information for each audio frame in the range based on the new start time, and (viii) play back the audio content in synchrony with the second playback device based on the updated playback timing information.

Methods and systems of creating a collaborative video for a recipient are disclosed. A video stitching server may receive a collaborative video request from a collaborative video application running on an initiator's mobile device. The video stitching server may store the collaborative video request in a folder that has an identifier. The identifier may be provided to potential contributors. The video stitching server may receive contributor video information—including contributor videos and the identifier—from contributors' collaborative video applications and may store the contributor videos in the folder based on the identifier. The video stitching server may then stitch together at least two videos stored in the folder to create a collaborative video and may deliver the collaborative video to the collaborative video application miming on a recipient's mobile device.

To provide a cartridge management device, a cartridge management system, an operation method of the cartridge management device, and a program that can inhibit unauthorized reuse of a magnetic tape cartridge.SOLUTION: When no registered information indicating that a cartridge has been registered in a cartridge management system is stored in a cartridge memory provided in the cartridge, a library controller equipped with a storage performs first registration processing for registering the identification information identifying the cartridge and the registered information in the cartridge memory, overwrite prohibition processing for prohibiting overwriting the identification information and the registered information registered in the cartridge memory, second registration processing for registering the identification information in the storage, and execution processing to read and write user data to and from the cartridge when the identification information stored in the storage and the identification information stored in the cartridge memory match.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

This disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for synchronizing audio and text, a readable medium, and an electronic device, and relates to the technical field of electronic information, the method including: in response to a first page displayed on a presentation interface being updated to a second page, determining whether the second page includes multimedia content, wherein audio corresponding to text in the first page is played while the first page is displayed; if the second page includes the multimedia content and the multimedia content is in a mute playing state, controlling the audio to be played continuously; determining a first playing identification of the audio when the playing of the multimedia content is stopped, and determining corresponding target text in accordance with the first playing identification; and updating the second page to a third page on the presentation interface, the third page including the target text.

The present disclosure provides a video processing method, apparatus, device, and storage medium. The method includes: displaying a material editing area for video editing according to a first script structure; wherein, the material editing area is divided into multiple sub-areas, one sub-area corresponds to one script node in the first script structure, the first script structure indicates the content paragraph structure of the target video, and one script node indicates one content paragraph of the target video; in the target sub-area among the multiple sub-areas, displaying the target multimedia material according to the time axis track; generating the target video according to the multimedia material displayed in the material editing area; wherein, the target multimedia material is filled in the target content paragraph of the target video. It can be seen that the embodiments of the present disclosure can implement video editing based on the material editing area including multiple sub-areas corresponding to script nodes, enrich the video processing methods, and further meet the diverse video editing needs of people.

In other embodiments, a method to perform image-based searching may include receiving a group of images from a content owner; creating an index using the group of images; receiving a further image from a mobile computing device of a user; determining a correlation between the further image and the index; and / or directing the mobile computing device of the user to content of the content owner, responsive to the determining of the correlation.

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information display method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium. The method includes: receiving a first trigger operation for viewing detection information of a target video; in response to the first trigger operation, displaying the detection information of the target video on a video details page of the target video, where the video details page includes a video playback area and a detection information display area, the detection information display area displays the detection information, and the detection information includes interaction detection information and / or video detection information. By adopting the above technical solution, embodiments of the present disclosure can simplify the operations required for a user to watch the video they have posted and view the detection information of the video they have posted.

One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.

This application discloses a video processing method and a related device. In a scenario of an aggregated video, because different SPs may insert one or more clips into or crop one or more clips from a basic video, offset information of the one or more clips (for example, location information and duration information of insertion / cropping) is calculated during operation of the video; and after detecting a switching operation of a user (for example, an operation of switching a clip video to an entire video, or an operation of switching a source SP instance video to a destination SP instance video), an electronic device may calculate a continuous playback location based on parameters such as the offset information of the one or more clips and played duration of the video during the switching operation of the user, so as to resolve a problem that video images before and after switching are discontinuous because the continuous playback location cannot be accurately calculated. This improves user experience.

There is provided a video management system for managing a video of a real space captured by a capturing apparatus, including: a first reading unit configured to emit an electromagnetic wave to a tag reading range and read information that is sent back from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag utilizing energy of the electromagnetic wave; a first RFID tag that stores first tag identification information; and a data management unit configured to cause a database to store a reading result by the first reading unit in association with the video so that a portion in the video captured by the capturing apparatus corresponding to a time at which the first tag identification information has been read from the first RFID tag by the first reading unit is able to be extracted.

The present application describes platform containing a dynamic multilayered media structure which is generated by aggregation of media pieces into a plurality of media layers. The platform allows users to interact with media layers of the dynamic multilayered media structure independently of one another. The platform further provides for a dynamic, customized media channel lineup and a user account that allows individual media pieces within the dynamic multilayered media structure to play across separate devices that are linked to the account. The user account allows for inputs including real-time controls over the media, interaction, preferences, adding additional media content, editing media into a condensed form, and curation options with the dynamic multilayered media structure.