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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2003
Christopher Dow, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bruce A. Garcia, San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Briggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tai-ming Chen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chuang-chun Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick M. Ellis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Oleg Varshansky, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Dow, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Bruce A. Garcia, San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Briggs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tai-Ming Chen, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Chuang-Chun Liu, San Jose, CA (US);
Patrick M. Ellis, Redwood City, CA (US);
Oleg Varshansky, San Jose, CA (US);
The DirecTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing enhanced navigation of stored digital video content based upon a content-based index. Includes generation and storage of an index, as well as navigation based on the segments defined by the index. An example system is embodied in a digital video recorder that generates an index for locating commercial groups interleaved with program content in a video presentation recorded from a television broadcast. The commercial groups may be viewed without the intervening program content or otherwise navigated based upon information in the index and one or navigation functions. Example user interfaces and several navigation functions are also provided.