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EP-3942746-B1 - PREVIEWING VIDEO CONTENT REFERENCED BY TYPED HYPERLINKS IN COMMENTS

EP3942746B1EP 3942746 B1EP3942746 B1EP 3942746B1EP-3942746-B1

Inventors

  • FELS, Sol, Sidney
  • YOON, DONGWOOK
  • YARMAND, Matin

Dates

Publication Date
20260506
Application Date
20200331

Claims (14)

  1. A method for execution to be performed by a data processing system (100), the method comprising: causing a user interface, UI (130), to be displayed, the UI (130) comprising a video display area (140) for displaying video content (111) and a comment section (160); causing a comment (170) to be displayed in the comment section (160), the comment (160) comprising a link (171) to a portion of the video content (111), wherein the link (171) has an associated type identifying a content type for the portion of the video content (111); detecting a selection of the link (171) in the comment (170) displayed in the comment section (160); and responsive to the detection of the selection of the link (171): determining the content type for the portion of the video content (111) based on the link (171), and characterized in that the method further comprises, responsive to the detection of the selection of the link (171): presenting a preview (117) of the portion of the video content (111) in the UI (130) based upon the determined content type for the portion of the video content (111); wherein the portion of the video content (111) is a region (201) in a frame of the video content (111); and wherein the region (201) encompasses an object in the frame of the video content.
  2. The method of claim 1, wherein the portion of the video content (111) comprises an interval of the video content (111).
  3. The method of claim 2,wherein the link (171) further comprises link text identifying a time period of the interval of the video content (111).
  4. The method of any preceding claim, wherein the link (171) further comprises link text identifying a time associated with the frame of the video content (111).
  5. The method of any preceding claim, wherein the portion of the video content (111) comprises closed caption text (301) associated with the video content (111).
  6. The method of claim 5, wherein presenting the preview (117) of the portion of the video content (111) comprises playing audio of the closed caption text (301).
  7. The method of any preceding claim, wherein the link (171) further comprises a visual indicator (175) identifying the content type for the portion of the video content (111).
  8. The method of any preceding claim, wherein the link (171) further comprises default link text.
  9. The method of any preceding claim, wherein the comment (170) further comprises user-provided text.
  10. A computer-readable storage medium (694) having computer-executable instructions encoded thereupon which, when executed by a processor (692), cause the processor (692) to: cause a user interface, UI (130), to be displayed, the UI (130) comprising a video display area (140) for displaying video content (111) and a comment section (160); cause a comment (170) to be displayed in the comment section (160), the comment (170) comprising a link (171) to a portion of the video content (111), wherein the link (171) has an associated type identifying a content type for the portion of the video content (111); detect a selection of the link (171) in the comment (170) displayed in the comment section (160); and responsive to the detection of the selection of the link (171): determine the content type for the portion of the video content (111) based on the link (171), and characterized in that the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the processor (692) further cause the processor, responsive to the detection of the selection of the link (171), to: present a preview (117) of the portion of the video content (111) in the UI (130) based upon the determined content type for the portion of the video content (111); wherein the portion of the video content (111) is a region (201) in a frame of the video content (111); and wherein the region (201) encompasses an object in the frame of the video content (111).
  11. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the portion of the video content (111) comprises an interval of the video content (111).
  12. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the link (171) further comprises link text identifying a time period of the interval of the video content (111).
  13. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the portion of video content (111) further comprises closed caption text (301) associated with the video content (111).
  14. The computer-readable storage medium of any of claims claim 10 to 13, wherein the link (171) further comprises link text identifying a time associated with the frame of the video content (111).

Description

BACKGROUND Commenting on videos is becoming popular and ubiquitous on many social, educational, and recreational platforms. Many video-based commenters refer to the video content to contextualize and specify their messages. Commenters can refer to visual entities or specific sound bites in a number of ways. For instance, users can refer to a sound or a quote of a person at a particular time or provide a timestamp, etc. In some systems, users can include a link to their comment and allow users to view a video starting at a particular point in time. Although existing systems provide a platform for users to provide comments, user interfaces that are used today are simplistic in nature and do not provide tools for optimizing the user experience, both from the commenter's point of view and the viewer's perspective. For instance, in some existing systems, when viewers select a video link associated with a comment, current systems often cause the user interface to scroll away from the comment section in order to display the selected video. This feature causes a number of inefficiencies and complications. In particular, when interacting with existing systems, users cannot maintain a view of the comments when they select a comment to view a video. This does not allow users to continually view comments they are interested in while concurrently watching the related video. This can cause a number of inefficiencies by requiring users to scroll back and forth between the comments section and the video section of a user interface, which can be extremely difficult in situations where there are hundreds or thousands of comments. This type of navigation is highly inefficient with respect to the user's productivity and computing resources. It is with respect to these and other technical challenges that the disclosure made herein is presented. JP 2010-79577 A discloses a system for assisting in the preparation of text information linked to video content. US 2013/004138 A1 discloses a computer system which enables commenting tied to user-selected times during play of audio/video content. US 2017/187772 A1 discloses systems and methods for interacting with portions of digital video within a social networking system. Anonymous, https://web.archive.org/web/20180713134812/https://add0n.com/youtube-hover.html discloses a web browser extension which loads a floating YouTube player in response to a mouse hover over a link to YouTube. US 2015/365716 A1 discloses a method of identifying a representative image of a video stream. US 2007/033515 A1 discloses a method and system for tagging, indexing, searching, retrieving, manipulating, and editing video images on a wide area network. SUMMARY In one aspect, the present invention provides a method according to claim 1. In another aspect, the present invention provides a computer-readable storage medium according to claim 10. Certain more specific aspects of the invention are set out in the dependent claims. The technologies disclosed herein provide improvements over existing systems by enabling users to create hyperlinks (referred to herein as "typed hyperlinks," "typed links," or simply "links") to video content that specify a content type for the referenced video content. For instance, the content type might be an interval of video content, a region in a frame of video content, or closed caption text in the video content. Users can insert comments including typed hyperlinks into a comments section of a user interface ("UI") associated with the video content. Users can then select a typed hyperlink, such as by hovering a mouse cursor over a typed hyperlink, to view a preview of the referenced video content without navigating away from the comments section of the UI. In this way, users do not have to return to the original video content and search for the video content as with traditional systems. The technologies described herein enable more efficient use of computing resources. In particular, by controlling aspects of a computing system to enable the definition of typed hyperlinks and to enable use of the hyperlinks to present previews of portions of video content, a system can improve a number of efficiencies with respect to user productivity and promote more efficient use of computing resources. For example, elimination of the manual process described above for returning to video content and searching for content referenced by a comment leads to more efficient use of computing resources, such as memory, network, and processing resources. Technical benefits other than those specifically mentioned herein might also be realized through implementations of the disclosed technologies. Features and technical benefits other than those explicitly described above will be apparent from a reading of the following Detailed Description and a review of the associated drawings. The term "technologies" may refer to system(s), method(s), computer-readable instructions, module(s), algorithms, hardware log