Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
VIDEO MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD |
| Document Number: |
20100014828 |
| Publication Date: |
January 21, 2010 |
| Appl. No: |
12/503964 |
| Application Filed: |
July 16, 2009 |
| Abstract: |
Systems and methods for video management facilitate operations on a video file based on a transcript or other annotations about the video file. On a stand-alone DVD player, DVD menu components facilitate navigation of a video file in increments corresponding to a portion of a transcript of the video file, for example one page of the transcript at a time. Transcript text may be presented as part of the DVD menu components to enable a user to read the transcript in increments and navigate the video file accordingly. |
| Inventors: |
Sandstrom, Brent B. (Gilbert, AZ, US); Lorenzen, Thomas J. (Chandler, AZ, US); Belicka, Jr., George K. (Gilbert, AZ, US) |
| Assignees: |
INDATA CORPORATION (Gilbert, AZ, US) |
| Claim: |
1. An information management system, comprising: a video file associated with a transcript; and navigation components configured for use by a stand-alone DVD player, wherein the navigation components facilitate selective retrieval of the video file at a granularity defined by a portion of the transcript. |
| Claim: |
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the navigation components are configured to facilitate selective retrieval of the video file at intervals corresponding to one page of the transcript. |
| Claim: |
3. The system of claim 1, wherein the portion of the transcript is one page. |
| Claim: |
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the navigation components comprise DVD menu objects associated with chapter points in a DVD title. |
| Claim: |
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the chapter points corresponding to locations in the video file correspond to page breaks in the transcript. |
| Claim: |
6. The system of claim 1, wherein the navigation components comprise DVD menu objects configured to facilitate navigation of a video file having more than 99 pages of associated transcript. |
| Claim: |
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the navigation components comprise DVD menus. |
| Claim: |
8. The system of claim 7, wherein at least a portion of the DVD menus comprise a portion of text from the transcript. |
| Claim: |
9. The system of claim 8, wherein the portion of text is selected to be legible when the DVD menus are displayed by a stand-alone DVD player. |
| Claim: |
10. The system of claim 1, further comprising exhibits associated with the video file. |
| Claim: |
11. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises an optical disc containing a .UDF partition with additional ROM data. |
| Claim: |
12. The system of claim 1, wherein the video file comprises a composite video file formed from multiple video files having individual timecode information. |
| Claim: |
13. The system of claim 12, wherein the timecode information associated with each of the multiple video files is revised to reflect the position of each of the multiple video files within the composite video file. |
| Claim: |
14. The system of claim 1, wherein the video file is a recording of a legal deposition. |
| Claim: |
15. A method for browsing a video, comprising: providing a video file having a transcript; and creating a DVD menu system configured for navigation of the video file based on contents of the video transcript. |
| Claim: |
16. The method of claim 15, further comprising authoring a DVD comprising the video file and the DVD menu system, wherein the DVD menu system is compatible with a stand-alone DVD player. |
| Claim: |
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the DVD menu system facilitates selective retrieval of the video file in increments corresponding to one page of the transcript. |
| Claim: |
18. A method for video management, comprising: locating a maximum VOB file size within a video file, the video file having a transcript; selecting a portion of the video file prior to the maximum VOB file size; evaluating the portion of the video file to select a first VOB file boundary position; creating a first VOB file corresponding to the contents of the video file from the beginning of the video file to the first VOB file boundary position; and creating a second VOB file corresponding to the contents of the video file from the first VOB file boundary position to at least one of the end of the video file or a second VOB file boundary position. |
| Claim: |
19. The method of claim 18, wherein the evaluating the portion of the video file comprises using at least one of audio energy information, transcript page information, timecode information, or question/answer pair information. |
| Claim: |
20. The method of claim 18, wherein the first VOB file boundary position is selected within a period of low audio energy having a duration of at least one second. |
| Claim: |
21. The method of claim 18, wherein the first VOB file boundary position is selected to prevent dropout of audio data when the video file is played back at the file level. |
| Claim: |
22. A tangible computer-readable medium having stored thereon, computer-executable instructions that, if executed by a system, cause the system to perform a method comprising: providing a video file having a transcript; and creating a DVD menu system configured for navigation of the video file based on contents of the video transcript. |
| Current U.S. Class: |
386/69 |
| Current International Class: |
04 |
| Accession Number: |
edspap.20100014828 |
| Database: |
USPTO Patent Applications |
