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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 04, 2008
Applicants:

Andreas Girgensohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Frank M. Shipman, Iii, College Station, TX (US);

Lynn D. Wilcox, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Andreas Girgensohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Frank M. Shipman, III, College Station, TX (US);

Lynn D. Wilcox, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/93 (2006.01); G11B 27/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A hypervideo summary comprised of multiple levels of related content and appropriate navigational links can be automatically generated from a media file such as a linear video. A number of algorithms and selection criteria can be used to modify how such a summary is generated. Viewers of an automatically-generated hypervideo summary can interactively select the amount of detail displayed for each portion of the summary. This selection can be done by following explicit navigational links, or by changing between media channels that are mapped to the various levels of related content.


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