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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2008
Applicants:
Enrique Ruiz-velasco, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Japan A. Mehta, Irving, TX (US);
Laxmi M. Patel, Irving, TX (US);
Shafiq Kassam, Lewisville, TX (US);
Inventors:
Enrique Ruiz-Velasco, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Japan A. Mehta, Irving, TX (US);
Laxmi M. Patel, Irving, TX (US);
Shafiq Kassam, Lewisville, TX (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/445 (2011.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); G11B 27/32 (2006.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/8549 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/8549 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); G11B 27/329 (2013.01); H04N 21/23418 (2013.01);
Abstract
An approach is provided for the real-time creation of a menu of chapters for navigating a video program. The chaptering process creates at a dynamic chapter navigation menu that enables a user to precisely navigate within a video program by recursively creating chaptering points of finer temporal granularity for selecting a desired point within the video program.