US 12,096,095 B2
Synoptic video system
Sanal Sundar, Bengaluru (IN); and Raghu Jothilingam, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on May 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/743,090.
Prior Publication US 2023/0370696 A1, Nov. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. H04N 21/8549 (2011.01); G06F 40/279 (2020.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G11B 27/036 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 21/8549 (2013.01) [G06F 40/279 (2020.01); G06F 40/58 (2020.01); G11B 27/036 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a network system, an indication to generate a synoptic video from one or more documents comprising deep chainable segments of text content that provides different levels of depth;
in response to the indication, accessing the one or more documents and user preferences of a user that are derived by the network system and used to customize the synoptic video to the user, the user preferences including an indication a level of interest in one or more topics;
analyzing, by the network system, the one or more documents to determine relevant text content, the analyzing including tagging the relevant text content using generalized tags and specific tags, the generalized tags indicating relevant text content providing an explanation or understanding that can be summarized and the specific tags indicating relevant text content that is a crux of the one or more documents that is used as-is in generating the synoptic video;
based on the user preferences, generating, by the network system, the synoptic video that summarizes the one or more documents, the content of the synoptic video being chosen based on the level of interest in the one or more topics and on a user style indicated by the user preferences; and
causing display of the synoptic video on a device of the user.