732 results about "Online video" patented technology

Systems and methods for automatically matching in real-time an advertisement with a video desired to be viewed by a user are provided. A database is created that stores one or more attributes (e.g., visual metadata relating to objects, faces, scene classifications, pornography detection, scene segmentation, production quality, fingerprinting) associated with a plurality of videos. Supervised machine learning can be used to create signatures that uniquely identify particular attributes of interest, which can then be used to generate the attributes associated with the plurality of videos. When a user requests to view an on-line video having associated with it an advertisement, an advertisement can be selected for display with the video based on matching an advertiser's requirements or campaign parameters with the stored attributes associated with the requested video, with the user's information, or a combination thereof. The displayed advertisement can function as a hyperlink that allows a user to select to receive additional information about the advertisement. The performance or effectiveness of the selected advertisements can be measured and recorded.

Disclosed herein is a video gaming system having a server and including a processor for executing computer program instructions and having a memory coupled to the processor for storing the computer program instructions, the programming instructions comprising: establishing at least one online video gaming tournament; accepting participants entry into the online video gaming tournament; establishing a tournament pool, which includes a system of rewards and wherein a percentage of rewards is distributed as winnings; distribution of winnings upon completion of the video gaming tournament the distribution being based upon the player's statistical game performance.

Various user behaviors are passively monitored and recorded when a user/viewer interacts with a network video player, e.g. a web video player, while watching an online video clip. For one embodiment, a data collection agent (DCA) is loaded to the player and/or to a web page that displays the video clip. The DCA passively collects detailed viewing and behavior information without requiring any specific input or actions on the part of the user. Indications of user preferences are inferred by user actions leading up to viewing the video, while viewing the video, and just after and still related to viewing the video. The DCA periodically sends this information to a central server where it is stored in a central database and where it is used to determine preference similarities among different users. Recorded user preference information may also be used to rate a video itself.

A system and method implemented as a software tool for generating alpha matte sequences in real-time for the purposes of background or foreground substitution in digital images and video. The system and method is based on a set of modified Poisson equations that are derived for handling multichannel color vectors. Greater robustness is achieved by computing an initial alpha matte in color space. Real-time processing speed is achieved through optimizing the algorithm for parallel processing on the GPUs. For online video matting, a modified background cut algorithm is implemented to separate foreground and background, which guides the automatic trimap generation. Quantitative evaluation on still images shows that the alpha mattes extracted using the present invention has improved accuracy over existing state-of-the-art offline image matting techniques.

An online video advertising platform and marketplace. The present invention enables sellers to enhance the way they market products by providing them with a platform that uses location, images, product information, and Internet video. Because images and text are static and videos are dynamic, a seller can better represent their product and receive a better price and quicker sale as a result of the dynamic presentation. The marketplace uses both a database and “cloud computing” file storage system. So when a new user is created, there is both an entry in the database, and file structure with the username or other unique identifier in the file system. The database then stores pointers to these files. All listings are tied to a central product (listing) Id (PID). Videos can be searched for by both video and product related metrics. Videos file themselves are tagged with product metadata.

A system and apparatus for enabling the end user to schedule the display of online videos and dynamically displaying online videos according to a user preference. The system provides an editorially-selected guide to online videos in which videos from existing online video providers are gathered under a single portal and thereby provides the end user a directory through which the user can view recommended videos as presented by the system, or personalize the selections into a dynamically-generated subset of videos. The system also provides a seamless playlist of multiple videos from various websites, and allows the user to manage and re-sequence this playlist.

An online video fragment broadcasting method includes: setting the fragment time point of video files; acquiring buffering data taking each fragment time point as initiation points; displaying the acquired buffering data, for selection of users; playing the video content starting from the corresponding fragment time point of the buffering data according to the selected buffering data of users. The embodiment of the present invention directly provides a certain number of video fragments (including pictures or part of video contents) to users by automatically setting the fragment time point, so that the users can select the required starting time point of the video fragment by an intuitive mode (such as viewing the actual content of the video screen). Compared with the conventional mode, the present invention can avoid the waste of network transmission resource caused by invalidation dragging of the progress bar.

The invention relates to a classroom teaching recording and video-on-demand method and a system thereof and aims at increasing effects of course review and studying consolidation. During a course recording process, through a time stamp identification, recorded classroom teaching data is segmented; each segment of recorded data corresponds to at least one corresponding course key point; according to the course key point, after each segment of data is recorded or a whole course is recorded, a problem corresponding to each course key point is additionally arranged; further, each course key point and after-class homework or each test question of a classroom test are established corresponding associations, and corresponding relations of the course key points, the segmented identification data, problems and test questions are used to construct a corresponding association database so that if a student has a problem when answering each problem or the test questions after watching a segment of content or all the contents of the online video-on-demand recorded course, he/she can realize high-efficiency course review and the studying consolidation of the recorded course only through the corresponding association of the key points and the segmented identification data and only through reviewing the corresponding segment of recorded data.

An online video search system, including a tag discoverer including a web encyclopedia crawler for (i) accessing a web encyclopedia to find web pages related to at least one designated reference topic, and (ii) retrieving a plurality of web pages by performing an n-level depth recursive traversal of the web pages found, and web pages that are hyper-linked thereto, a concept extractor for extracting important concepts founds in the retrieved plurality of web pages, and a user interface for providing at least of the important concepts extracted by the web page processor to an online video search engine. A method and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.

A system and method for: providing virtual social networking and online dating services; providing collaborative capability between a plurality of members; and providing interactive live multi-point streaming video/audio to the members. The collaborative capability may include auditions. Further, the collaborative capability and interactive live multi-point streaming video/audios may be provided through a single site. The system and method may provide for direct referrals between members and online video dating including speed dating. Further, the social/dating service may also interact with other services.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a DRB mapping method and device. The DRB mapping method comprises the steps that the DRB mapping mode is determined by network equipment and a terminal; According to the DRB mapping mode, whether DRB is allowed to be mapped to a permitted frequency band carrier and/or whether the DRB is allowed to be mapped to a non-permitted frequency band carrier; the network equipment and the terminal send the service data of the DRB on the specific carrier according to the determined DRB mapping mode. According to the DRB mapping method and device, the service data (such as VOIP services or online videos or games) which have a certain requirement for the service quality are not sent on the non-permitted frequency band carrier, service delay increasing caused by non-continuous working of carriers in the non-permitted frequency band and service quality reducing caused by delay variation are avoided, and the service experience of a user can be effectively improved.

A virtual conferencing system is described for implementing a speaker queue. For example, one embodiment of the virtual conferencing system comprises: a plurality of clients, each of the clients comprising state management logic to maintain a current state of a virtual conference; a virtual conferencing service to establish audio and/or video connections between the plurality of clients during the virtual conference, the virtual conferencing service further including a state synchronization service communicatively coupled to the state management logic on each client to ensure that the current state of the virtual conference is consistent on each client; wherein the current state on each client includes a speaker queue comprising an ordered set of participants to be designated as current speakers during the virtual conference, wherein participants are added to the speaker queue in response to input provided by the participants indicating a desire to be a current speaker, wherein one or more participants towards the top of the speaker queue are designated to be current speakers, wherein participants are initially added to the bottom of the speaker queue and are moved towards the top of the speaker queue as other participants are removed from the top of the speaker queue; a virtual conferencing graphical user interface (GUI) to display a video stream of one or more current speakers within one or more current speaker regions, the virtual conferencing GUI further providing a visual representation of the speaker queue to each of the participants, the visual representation comprising an ordered representation of each of the participants in the speaker queue.

The invention belongs to the technical field of video players, in particular relates to a mobile phone terminal-based self-organized video synchronous sharing player. The player consists of a networking module, a video streaming module, a video distribution module, a synchronous module and a playing module. A plurality of mobile phone terminals freely constitute a self-organized wireless playing local area network in a wireless connection mode by using a video synchronous player and a video is loaded among the mobile phone terminals by using a synchronous playing protocol, so that all mobile phones in the entire local area network can play a certain video synchronously. One mobile phone terminal in the local area network serves as a central node and undertakes a video distributing task. A distribution node can stream and distribute a local video file and directly forward an online video stream received from the Internet, so that other mobile phone terminal nodes can receive video data played by the distribution node currently.

The invention discloses a MPEG (moving picture experts group)-DASH protocol based online video playing control system with a code rate switch control and static abstract technology. A client side requests a streaming media server to send a target video, the streaming media server sends abstracted MPD (media presentation description) files of the target video and video clip MPD files of the target video to the client side after receiving a request of the client side, the client side downloads and analyzes the abstracted MPD files from the streaming media server to acquire abstracted images of the target video and positions of the abstracted images in the target video, the abstracted images are displayed in the client side, a user is allowed to select one of the abstracted images, a selection result is recorded in the client side, the client side downloads and analyzes the video clip MPD files from the streaming media server to acquire playing information of the video clips of the target video, and the client side determines the video clip corresponding to the selected abstracted images according to the playing information and the selection result and requests to the streaming media server to send and play the target video starting from the video clip.

The present invention relates to systems and methods for communicating with various people from remote locations, and more particularly to assisting customers through online commercial transactions utilizing a mix of live and pre-recorded video presentations and interactions. Various embodiments of the invention comprise: a) a customer connected to a network by a customer interface; b) an operator connected to a network by an operator interface; c) at least one display window in the customer interface, wherein said display window displays an object selected from a list consisting of: a live video feed of operator and a pre-recorded video clip of an operator; d) at least one interaction between said customer and said operator, wherein the interaction may be selected from a list consisting of: live text chat, live video conference, pre-recorded video messages, third party intervention, and changing the appearance of the customer interface; e) a recording device for recording customer behaviors and customer interactions with operator; f) data storage for retention of said customer behaviors and said customer interactions with operator; and g) recall device for playing at least one prerecorded video clip selected by an operator for said customer, wherein said clip is selected from a list consisting of: a prerecorded video clip of an answer to a frequently asked question, a greeting previously recorded by the operator, an answer previously recorded by said operator and an answer previously recorded by a third party.

A method and apparatus for online video analytics provides a cross-platform, online video analytics solution that enables advertisers and content publishers to assess the effectiveness of their video clips better, gain more insights into viewership demographics and behavior, and track and compare online video viewership across multiple video sharing websites.

Systems and methods for evaluating online videos. One method includes receiving a URL; determining a URL type; detecting whether the URL includes one or more videos; determining at least one of a size of the video, a position of the video on a web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; computing a score based on one or more of the size of the video, the position of the video on the web page of the web page URL, whether the video is set to autoplay, and whether the video is set to mute; obtaining at least two frames of at least part of the video, wherein each frame is obtained at one or more predetermined intervals during playback of the video; and classifying each detected video based on the at least two frames.

The invention discloses a pop-up screen display method and apparatus, and belongs to the field of online video play. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a video identification and a play time point of a video displayed by a client, querying a pop-up screen information set corresponding to the video identification and the play time point, when it is queried that the quantity of pieces of pop-up screen information of the queried pop-up screen information set exceeds a preset threshold, selecting first pop-up screen information from the pop-up screen information set, and if the quantity of the pieces of pop-up screen information does not exceed the preset threshold, providing the first pop-up screen information to the client. According to the invention, the problem of too much pop-up screen information displayed by one video play image at one play time point in the prior art is solved; and for one corresponding play time point, a server only feeds a limited quantity of pop-up screen information to the client, such that the load of the server is reduced, the quantity of the pop-up screen information displayed by the video image at the same play time point is decreased, and the effect of reducing the influence of the pop-up screen information on video play is achieved.

The inversion relates to a self-adapting streaming media displaying method and a self-adapting streaming media displaying system. The displaying steps includes that (1) a self-adapting displaying unit obtains a displaying request and transmits the displaying request to real-time transcoding server, (2) the real-time transcoding server obtains original media stream information which needs to be displayed, (3) the real-time transcoding server produces transcoding transforming information from the original media stream information which is different from displaying pattern of a network terminal player and sends the transcoding transforming information to the self-adapting displaying unit, (4) the self-adapting displaying unit sends the transcoding transforming information to the network terminal displayer, provided that two or more transcoding transforming information with different code rates exist in the self-adapting displaying unit, the two or more transcoding transforming information are combined and then sent to the network terminal displayer, (5) the network terminal player chooses a media stream with appropriate code rate to display according to the transcoding transforming information. The self-adapting streaming media displaying method and the self-adapting streaming media displaying system has the advantage of meeting requirements that a terminal supports displaying of various online videos with different transport protocols and different encapsulation formats existing on the internet.