Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing – Local trick play processing – With randomly accessible medium
Reexamination Certificate
2006-05-30
2006-05-30
Tran, Thai (Department: 2616)
Motion video signal processing for recording or reproducing
Local trick play processing
With randomly accessible medium
C386S349000, C386S349000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07054547
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus comprising the means for, and a method comprising the steps of: receiving (1) a video program including within a set of parallel segments that provide for at least two versions of a scene of the video program, each parallel segment comprising a sequence of video frames, (2) a user interface, particular to the video program, for a user of the video program to establish a content preference, and (3) data, not created by the user of the video program, directly defining a plurality of segments within the video program; storing the video program, the user interface, and the data; enabling the user of the video program to establish a content preference by utilizing the user interface; selecting, for the user, segments from within the video program by applying the content preference to the data; and playing, by means of a random accessing and a buffering, and without requiring an alternate source of video, the selected segments as a seamless version of, from within, and less in length than the length of, the video program, the playing comprising seamlessly skipping over a non-selected parallel segment included within the video program.
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