Video bookmark generating data

摘要

A video map comprising bookmark generating data that enables a user to avoid to manually navigate a menu and a trailer provided with a video; seek/step data identifying, for each of a plurality of video frames within the video, a navigation point and a number of video frames that are required to step to a video frame, the seek/step data enabling a navigator to seek to a navigation point appropriate to a begin video frame of a video segment, to step to the begin video frame of the video segment, and to begin playing at the begin video frame of the video segment; and segment information defining a begin video frame and an end video frame of each of a plurality of video segments within the video, the segment information enabling a playing of a presentation of the video less in length than the length of the video.

主权项

1. A method comprising the steps of:
retrieving (i) bookmark generating data, (ii) seek/step data identifying, for each of a plurality of video frames within a movie, a navigation point and a number of video frames that are required to step to a video frame, and (iii) segment information defining a begin video frame and an end video frame of each of a plurality of video segments within the movie; generating, responsive to the bookmark generating data, a bookmark to be utilized by a navigator to navigate past a menu; utilizing a first navigator to seek to a navigation point appropriate to a begin video frame of a first video segment, to step to the begin video frame of the first video segment, and to cue a playing of the first video segment; utilizing a second navigator to seek to a navigation point appropriate to a begin video frame of a non-sequential video segment, step to the begin video frame of the non-sequential video segment, and cue a playing of the non-sequential video segment; utilizing the first navigator to play the first video segment; and synchronizing the second navigator to play the non-sequential video segment seamlessly following a playing of the first video segment.