Adapting video annotations to playback speed

George Frank FITZMAURICE, Tovi Grossman, Justin Frank Matejka
US Patent 10,891,428 · January 2021

Abstract

Embodiments presented herein include a method for altering a first annotation associated with a media file. This method may generally include the technique for receiving the media file wherein the media file contains the first annotation which is associated with a first playback speed of the media file. A second playback speed is received for the media file. A second annotation is generated based on the second playback speed of the media file based on the first annotation associated with the first playback speed of the media file. The second annotation is associated with the second playback speed of the media file and, at the second playback speed, the media file concurrently plays the second annotation.

Patent figure