Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070220583
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Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The work of Prof. Henry Lieberman and colleagues Glorianna Davenport and Edward Shen at the MIT Media Lab shows how to tag video clips and compose a narrative related to specific clips selected according to a search. This work, which started and was documented prior to the application filing date, seems relevant to at least part of what is claimed. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Online Publication |
| URL | http://web.media.mit.edu/~edwar... |
| Author/Creator | Edward Shen |
| Title | PhD student, MIT |
| Publication Date | January 1, 2006 |
| Publisher | MIT Media Lab |
| Directions to Document Location | |
| Additional Information | the web page doesn't have a date, but related work by researcher Glorianna Davenport in the same team certainly dates back to 2006 or earlier, and was published online at the time. |
Notes / To Do
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Excerpt
Excerpt "In this mode of navigation, media segments are annotated using free text and stored as a collection. To tell a story, the user inputs a free text sentence, and the system suggests possible segments for a storied succession, which helps the users' exploration in the domain of possible stories. This process iterates progressively." |
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Claims
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A method of enhancing a viewer's experience of a video program, comprising:
providing a plurality of selectable alternative video program scenes for a video program being viewed on a display, the selectable alternative program versions being pre-rendered video scenes; and
prompting a user to select at least one of the selectable alternative video program scenes for viewing.
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The MIT work is focused on allowing the viewer to compose his/her own "thread" out of a series of clips that have been annotated by someone, the clips being selected according to their relevance to a search entered by the user.
The MIT work is focused on allowing the viewer to compose his/her own "thread" out of a series of clips that have been annotated by someone, the clips being selected according to their relevance to a search entered by the user.
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The method of Claim 1, further comprising:
storing the user selections selected in response to the prompting as a digital scene selection file.
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Initial work done by G. Davenport to tell the biography of Jerome B. Wiesner included a screen shot gallery through which the user could move, selecting a particular digital content and viewing it. This seems almost identical to Claim 12.
Initial work done by G. Davenport to tell the biography of Jerome B. Wiesner included a screen shot gallery through which the user could move, selecting a particular digital content and viewing it. This seems almost identical to Claim 12.
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The method of Claim 1, wherein the providing step provides the plurality of selectable alternative video program scenes in a grid matrix display format on the display.
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This is exactly the way the Jerome Wiesner biography elements were presented during the research done by G. Davenport, which was published prior to 2007.
This is exactly the way the Jerome Wiesner biography elements were presented during the research done by G. Davenport, which was published prior to 2007.
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The method of Claim 17, wherein the grid matrix display format includes a plurality of selectable elements, a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, with each selectable element corresponding to one of the plurality of selectable alternative video program scenes and positioned so as to correspond to a given one of the plurality of rows and a given one of the plurality of columns within the grid matrix.
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Same remark as for claim 17.
Same remark as for claim 17.
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