US 11,671,675 B2
Augmentation of audio/video content with enhanced interactive content
Jing Sun, King of Prussia, PA (US); and Yunbo Tang, Malvern, PA (US)
Assigned to Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 9, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/92,858.
Application 17/092,858 is a continuation of application No. 16/144,340, filed on Sep. 27, 2018, granted, now 10,863,245.
Prior Publication US 2021/0127174 A1, Apr. 29, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04N 21/488 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/4888 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4884 (2013.01); H04N 21/8133 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method for augmenting audio/video content, the method comprising:
determining, using processing equipment, that the audio/video content is related to a sports broadcast of a particular sport;
identifying, using the processing equipment, enhanced metadata associated with the particular sport in an enhanced metadata database;
identifying, using the processing equipment, a plurality of possible events that may occur during the particular sport and a rule associated with each of the possible events, based on the enhanced metadata associated with the particular sport;
detecting, using the processing equipment, an event and a corresponding rule among the plurality of possible events and rules associated with each of the possible events during a time segment of the audio/video content based on data in the audio/video content corresponding to the time segment;
identifying, using the processing equipment, enhanced metadata associated with the rule corresponding to the event in the enhanced metadata database;
extracting, using the processing equipment, content-specific data from the audio/video content;
augmenting, using the processing equipment, the audio/video content with the identified enhanced metadata associated with the rule corresponding to the event and with the content-specific data to generate augmented content; and
providing the augmented content for display on user equipment during playback of the time segment.