US2006236220A1PendingUtilityA1

Apparatus, System and Method for Associating One or More Filter Files with a Particular Multimedia Presentation

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Assignee: CLEARPLAY INCPriority: Apr 18, 2005Filed: Apr 18, 2006Published: Oct 19, 2006
Est. expiryApr 18, 2025(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Matthew T. Jarman
G11B 27/322G11B 2220/2562G11B 27/105
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Abstract

A method, apparatus, computer program product and computer accessible code configured to link or otherwise associate content filters with a multimedia presentation, e.g., a movie. The content filter data includes an identifier value with an aspect ratio identifier or as a function of an aspect ratio for a particular multimedia presentation associated with the filter information. In one implementation, association between a filter set and a multimedia presentation involves a filtering application that searches a particular multimedia presentation to locate aspect ratio information and further searches filter information for a matching aspect ratio identifier.

Claims

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1 . A computer program product comprising: 
 a computer useable medium and computer readable code embodied on the computer useable medium for identifying a multimedia presentation with an associated aspect ratio, the computer readable code comprising:    one or more filter files associated with the multimedia presentation, the filter files each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter file further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation; and    at least one data value configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.    
   
   
       2 . The computer program product of  claim 1  wherein: 
 the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation comprises a full screen aspect ratio and a widescreen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       3 . The computer program product of  claim 1  wherein: 
 the at least one data value comprises at least one data bit configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.    
   
   
       4 . The computer program product of  claim 3  wherein: 
 the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 0 to indicate the full screen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       5 . The computer program product of  claim 4  wherein: 
 the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 1 to indicate the wide screen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       6 . The computer program product of  claim 3  wherein the first and second data bits are bits  6  and  7  of a particular 8-bit byte.  
   
   
       7 . The computer program product of  claim 1  wherein the computer readable medium comprises a DVD.  
   
   
       8 . The computer program product of  claim 1  wherein the multimedia presentation comprises a movie.  
   
   
       9 . A computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium, comprising: 
 a code segment including one or more filters associated with a multimedia presentation, the filters each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation; and    a code segment including at least one data value configured according to an aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.    
   
   
       10 . The computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium of  claim 9  wherein: 
 the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation comprises a full screen aspect ratio and a widescreen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       11 . The computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium of  claim 9  wherein: 
 the at least one data value comprises at least one data bit configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.    
   
   
       12 . The computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium of  claim 11  wherein: 
 the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 0 to indicate the full screen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       13 . The computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium of  claim 12  wherein: 
 the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 1 to indicate the wide screen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       14 . The computer data signal embodied in a transmission medium of 11 wherein the first and second data bits are bits  6  and  7  of a particular 8-bit byte.  
   
   
       15 . A computer program product comprising: 
 at least one filter file means for triggering at least one filtering action of a portion of a particular multimedia presentation; and    means for associating an aspect ratio of a particular multimedia presentation with the means for triggering at least one filtering action.    
   
   
       16 . A computer program product comprising: 
 a computer useable medium and computer readable code embodied on the computer useable medium for identifying a multimedia presentation with an associated aspect ratio, the computer readable code comprising:    one or more filter files associated with the multimedia presentation, the filter files each identifying a portion of the multimedia presentation, each filter file further identifying a filtering action for the portion of the multimedia presentation; and    at least one data value configured as a function of at least the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.    
   
   
       17 . The computer program product of  claim 16  wherein: 
 the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation comprises a full screen aspect ratio and a widescreen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       18 . The computer program product of  claim 16  wherein: 
 the at least one data value comprises at least one data bit configured to identify the aspect ratio of the multimedia presentation.    
   
   
       19 . The computer program product of  claim 18  wherein: 
 the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 0 to indicate the full screen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       20 . The computer program product of  claim 19  wherein: 
 the at least one data bit comprises a first data bit and a second data bit, wherein the first data bit and the second data bit are set to 1 to indicate the wide screen aspect ratio.    
   
   
       21 . The computer program product of  claim 18  wherein the first and second data bits are bits  6  and  7  of a particular 8-bit byte.  
   
   
       22 . The computer program product of  claim 16  wherein the computer useable medium comprises an optical disc.  
   
   
       23 . The computer program product of  claim 16  wherein the multimedia presentation comprises a movie.  
   
   
       24 . A method for associating a multimedia presentation with content filter information comprising: 
 obtaining content filtering data corresponding with a particular multimedia presentation, the content filtering data including at least one multimedia identifier, the multimedia identifier including at least one data value corresponding to an aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation;    analyzing a multimedia presentation to determine an aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation;    comparing the aspect ratio for the multimedia presentation to the at least one multimedia identifier; and    applying the content filtering data to the multimedia presentation as function of the operation of comparing.    
   
   
       25 . A multimedia player including a processor configured to perform the operations of  claim 24.

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