Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Kirk Christopher Gibbons

William Michael Mozell

David Seymour

Jeremy Bruce Kersey

Enrico William Guld

Preetinderpal Singh Mangat

William Ben Hanke

Henry Stuart Denison Watson

Dashan Yue

Embodiments described herein enable user interaction with a video segment. A hit-zone file, which includes hit-zone data, is produced and stored for a video segment, wherein the hit-zone data corresponds to spatial regions that define hit-zones for hidden objects included in the video segment. The hit-zone file is provided to a computing system so that when the computing system displays the video segment the hit-zone file adds hit-zones for the hidden objects included in the video segment. The hit-zone file is produced separate from the video segment. Each of the hit-zones is defined by a different portion of the hit-zone data and corresponds to a different one of the hidden objects included in the video segment. The spatial regions that define the hit-zones for hidden objects are not visible to a user of the computing system that views the video segment with the hit-zones added.

Enabling user interactions with video segments

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Kirk Christopher Gibbons