US 11,678,030 B2
Personalized screencaps for trickplay slider
Vikram Makam Gupta, Karnataka (IN); Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah, Tumkur District (IN); and Reda Harb, Bellevue, WA (US)
Assigned to Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by Rovi Guides, Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/378,281.
Prior Publication US 2023/0017489 A1, Jan. 19, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/8549 (2011.01); H04N 21/472 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); G06V 20/40 (2022.01)
CPC H04N 21/8549 (2013.01) [G06V 20/46 (2022.01); H04N 21/4316 (2013.01); H04N 21/44008 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/47217 (2013.01); G06V 2201/10 (2022.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, while a media asset is being generated for display, a preview scrubbing request from a user to move a virtual slider of a progress bar associated with the media asset;
identifying a scene from the media asset that contains a play position indicated by the virtual slider;
analyzing the scene to identify a frame that best matches user profile data of the user and importance data for the scene, wherein the importance data indicates the importance of frames of the scene to an overall plot of the media asset; and
generating for display the identified frame overlaid over the displayed media asset,
wherein the preview scrubbing request moves the virtual slider without changing a play position of the displayed media asset.