Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enabling user interactions with video segments
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Application No.: US14602083Application Date: 2015-01-21
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Publication No.: US10264320B2Publication Date: 2019-04-16
- Inventor: Kirk Christopher Gibbons , David Seymour , Preetinderpal Singh Mangat , William Michael Mozell , William Ben Hanke , Dashan Yue , Jeremy Bruce Kersey , Henry Stuart Denison Watson , Enrico William Guld
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Main IPC: H04N21/431
- IPC: H04N21/431 ; H04N21/845 ; G06F3/0346 ; H04N21/4784 ; H04N21/472 ; G06F3/048 ; A63F13/00 ; H04N21/478

Abstract:
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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150355826A1 ENABLING USER INTERACTIONS WITH VIDEO SEGMENTS Public/Granted day:2015-12-10
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