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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 20, 2019
Sony Interactive Entertainment Llc, San Mateo, CA (US);
Christopher Thielbar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Bloom-Carlin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yuji Tsuchikawa, San Francisco, CA (US);
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC, San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for contextual layers for digital content are provided. Contextual information regarding a digital content stream may be stored in memory. Different sets of the contextual information may be associated with different predefined parts of the digital content stream. A request may be received from a user device over a communication network. Such request may concern context for a scene within the digital content stream, The scene may be identified as associated with at least one of the predefined parts of the digital content stream, One of the stored sets of contextual information may be retrieved based on the at least one predefined part of the digital content stream. A contextual layer may be generated based on the retrieved set of contextual information. Such contextual layer may include a presentation of the retrieved set of contextual information to be overlaid on at least part of the scene within the digital content stream.