Variation and control of sensory work playback

摘要

Methods and systems are shown which may enable users to create custom playback schemes for sensory works, including television shows, where a community of users may share thin time-based metadata edit control structures that are processed to enable playback devices to reproduce reference programming material according to the edits or cuts made any user.

主权项

1. A sensory work playback system, comprising:
a sensory work input port operable to receive sensory work data; a storage device accessible over a network to members within a community for storing a playback control record that is selectable over the network by one or more members within the community setting forth alterations to the playback of the sensory work data, the playback control record including:
a sensory work applicability identifier usable to determine whether the playback control record is applicable to a sensory work;a user rating, the user rating identifying the user's degree of like or dislike of the playback control record;at least one variation encoding, the variation encoding including a control signal and data to define an alteration to be applied to the playback of the sensory work; a sensory work output port operable to send information to a sensory output device to enable the playback of sensory work data; a processor operable to automatically alter the playback of the sensory work data without user input in accordance with the playback control record based on the at least one variation encoding and the user rating of the playback control record, and to output altered sensory work data through the sensory work output port; and a user interface enabling one or more members of the community to provide ratings feedback to the community.