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| 20100284670 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING VIDEO ABSTRACT - The present invention provides a method, system and apparatus for extracting a video abstract. The method includes: A: receiving an input video, dividing the video and obtaining a jump time point sequence; B: filtering out a jump time point sequence from candidate time point sequences by using a shot dividing algorithm; C: extracting a video segment corresponding to each jump time point according to the jump time point sequence, and merging the extracted video segments into a video abstract. In the procedure of extracting the video abstract in the present invention, an eigenvector of each video frame is calculated firstly, a jump time point sequence is filtered out through a hierarchical clustering mode, and then video frames are extracted according to the jump time point sequence to be merged into the video abstract. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20110019972 | VIDEO AND AUDIO RECORDING APPARATUS AND EDITING METHOD - A video and audio recording apparatus includes a recording medium that records base data therein and a control unit that starts and stops destructive editing in response to an instruction to start and stop destructive editing received through an operation unit. When part of the base data is deleted, the control unit writes, using management information for managing a physical area of the base data in the recording medium on the per predetermined recording unit basis, information indicating that the physical area in which the deleted part of the base data was recorded is defined as a reserved area on the per predetermined recording unit basis to the management information. When the edit data is input in response to the instruction to start editing, the edit data is overwritten into the physical area managed using the management information and defined as a reserved area on a preferential basis. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110069939 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SCENE SEGMENTATION - An apparatus and method of segmenting video content received in real-time is provided. Video content may be received through broadcasting or communications, and the video content may be segmented into scenes which are a series of semantic segments. A normalized-cut algorithm may be used for scene segmentation of video content. The normalized-cut algorithm may be applied for detecting locations at which a scene segmentation cost is minimized, and to decide a scene segmentation location based on the appearance frequency of the locations. If captions related to video content are received, a text segmentation algorithm may be applied to the captions to estimate text segmentation costs and scene segmentation may be performed using a merged segmentation cost obtained by linear merging scene segmentation costs and text segmentation costs. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110116767 | SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ALIGNMENT OF VIDEO SEQUENCES - Some embodiments allow a video editor to spatially and temporally align two or more video sequences into a single video sequence. As used in this application, a video sequence is a set of images (e.g., a set of video frames or fields). A video sequence can be from any media, such as broadcast media or recording media (e.g., camera, film, DVD, etc.). Some embodiments are implemented in a video editing application that has a user selectable alignment operation, which when selected aligns two or more video sequences. In some embodiments, the alignment operation identifies a set of pixels in one image (i.e., a “first” image) of a first video sequence and another image (i.e., a “second” image) of a second video sequence. The alignment operation defines a motion function that describes the motion of the set of pixels between the first and second images. The operation then defines an objective function based on the motion function. The operation finds an optimal solution for the objective function. Based on the objective function, the operation identifies a transform, which it then applies to the first image in order to align the first image with the second image. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110135278 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING INTERACTIVE CONTENT DURING WRITING AND PRODUCTION OF A MEDIA ASSET - Systems and methods for providing interactive content during writing and production of a media asset are provided. A script of a media asset that includes natural language textual annotations that define uniquely interactive content and timing contingencies during which to display the interactive content may be received. After the media asset corresponding to the script is produced, computer language instructions may be generated based on the natural language annotations. The computer language instructions and the media asset may be stored on a master storage medium. The media asset and computer language instructions may be transmitted to a media equipment device. Playback time codes may be transmitted with the media asset. When a playback time code corresponds to an event that identifies interactive content, the media equipment device may display the interactive content represented by the computer language instructions during a time interval defined by the computer language instructions. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110135279 | METHOD FOR CREATING AN AUDIOVISUAL MESSAGE - A method for creating an audiovisual message from a subject includes the steps of providing an A/V recording space with a thematic setting; providing A/V recording equipment operable to create an audiovisual recording of a subject; providing computer apparatus including data storage means suitable to receive and hold audiovisual recordings and audiovisual messages of subjects, modem apparatus providing Internet connection, and computer software for processing audiovisual recordings to create audiovisual messages, managing multiple audiovisual messages stored on the data storage apparatus, and selectively making the audiovisual messages of subjects stored on the data storage apparatus available for remote access and at least one of viewing and downloading by remote users through the Internet connection; providing at least one interview script; interviewing the subject in accordance with the script; recording the subject with the A/V equipment during at least a portion of said interviewing step to create an audiovisual recording on the data storage means; processing the audiovisual recording to create an audiovisual message; and, storing the audiovisual message on the data storage means. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110164858 | VIDEO DATA CREATION DEVICE, VIDEO DATA CREATION METHOD, VIDEO DATA CREATION PROGRAM, RECORDING MEDIUM THEREOF, AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - To aim to provide a video data creating apparatus for easily creating multi-angle video data for multi-angle playback. without performing editing that requires a huge amount of effort by handling a plurality of pieces of video data simultaneously, when multi-angle video for multi-angle playback is created. The video data creating apparatus of the present invention detects a set of blocks for multi-angle playback, based on video information included in video data and creates playback path information such that the detected set of blocks are video data for multi-angle playback. | 07-07-2011 |
| 20110188836 | Apparatus and Method for Identifying Insertion Zones in Video Material and for Inserting Additional Material into the Insertion Zones - An apparatus and method for automatic detection of insertion zones within pre-recorded video material are provided. The apparatus includes a video analysis unit configured to automatically determine at least one candidate insertion zone within the pre-recorded video material suitable for receiving additional material to be inserted and configured to generate zone meta data defining attributes of the insertion zone, and an insertion module configured to receive additional material for insertion and arranged to generate an output representative of the pre-recorded video material with the additional material placed on an insertion zone such that the additional material adopts the image attributes of the insertion zone as the pre-recorded video material is played. The automatic determination of at least one insertion zone is based on one or more of feature shape, size, duration, movement, color, and the video analysis unit is configured to automatically detect a plurality of scene changes in the pre-recorded video material, said scene changes identifying a plurality of scenes in the pre-recorded material, such that the pre-recorded video material can be analyzed on a scene-by-scene basis in order to identify instances of an insertion zone in different parts of the pre-recorded video material separated by the detected scene changes. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110217020 | Mobile Movie Editing System - Editing mobile phone style-obtained movies on a remotely-accessible website. Mobile movies are obtained by a thin clients such as a cellular phone. The movies can be uploaded to a website and then edited on the website, via an interface that is accessible from the mode mobile phone. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217021 | Generation of Composited Video Programming - Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for creating a talk shows and other video programming. In one example, a host processor-based facility is configured for: (i) accepting inputs of content and stylistic information for designing a composited video program, (ii); and electronically transferring such content and stylistic information to the processor-based production server; the host processor-based facility and a set of the participant processor-based devices, each associated with a user, are configured: (i) to communicate with each other over an electronic communications network as participating devices in a live conference that includes audio communication, with each of the participating devices transmitting a live first data stream; and (ii) to transmit a second data stream to a processor-based production server; both the first data stream and the second data stream represent a corresponding user's participation in the live conference; and the processor-based production server is configured to receive the second data streams and assemble them into a final composited video program using the content and stylistic information. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110217022 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENRICHING VIDEO DATA - A method for enhancing video data comprises a) extracting said video data into a plurality of segments; b) analyzing said extracted video data with regard to one or more features within or between said segments; c) finding at least one location for placing at least one message in one of said segments; and d) integrating a message at said at least one location according to information obtained from user consumption and/or interaction with the video. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110229110 | MOTION PICTURE EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - A moving image editing device ( | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110229111 | MERGING OF A VIDEO AND STILL PICTURES OF THE SAME EVENT, BASED ON GLOBAL MOTION VECTORS OF THIS VIDEO - It is quite common for users to have both video and photo material that refer to the same event. Adding photos to home videos enriches the content. However, just adding still photos to a video sequence has a disturbing effect. The invention relates to a method to seamlessly integrate photos into the video by creating a virtual camera motion in the photo that is aligned with the estimated camera motion in the video. A synthesized video sequence is created by estimating a video camera motion in the video sequence at an insertion position in the video sequence at which the still photo is to be included, creating a virtual video sequence of sub frames of the still photo where the virtual video sequence has a virtual camera motion correlated to the video camera motion at the insertion position. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110243532 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VIDEO STABILIZATION DURING MOVEMENT - Methods for video stabilization during movement include capturing a video stream by an imaging system of a video stabilization system. The video stream includes a plurality of image frames. As the video stream is captured, a motion sensor of the video stabilization system detects a pattern of recurring motion. Motion sensor data is generated for the sequence of image frames that characterizes the pattern of recurring motion. At least one image frame of the sequence of image frames is edited based on a comparison of the motion sensor data for the sequence of image frames to motion sensor data for a region of interest for the imaging system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243533 | USE OF MULTIPLE EMBEDDED MESSAGES IN PROGRAM SIGNAL STREAMS - Methods of generating video streams including advertisement information sufficient to support advertisement countdown times and other functions such as advertisement auto pause functions are described. In accordance with various embodiments, advertisement duration is determined from one or more messages included in a video stream, e.g., prior to the corresponding advertising segment. A countdown timer is generated from the advertisement information and displayed along with the content of the advertisement segment. Restrictions for different subscribers may be indicated in the advertisement information messages, e.g., with some end users being permitted to fast forward or skip advertisements with other users being required to allow the full normal playback of one or more advertisement segments. The auto pause function, when activated, pauses an ad segment or set of ad segments at a predetermined time before output of the main program resumes thereby making sure none of the main program is missed. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110243534 | INTERACTIVE MEDIA SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING PAUSE-TIME CONTENT - Interactive media systems and methods are provided for substituting pause-time content in place of media that has been paused. The user may pause media such as real-time media, video-on-demand media, near video-on-demand, or recorded media. If the user pauses real-time media or near video-on-demand media, the interactive media application may store the media. The interactive media application may also provide the user with the ability to rewind, resume play of, and fast-forward the media. The pause-time content may be audio or video media and may be an advertisement, trivia, program summaries or any other suitable pause-time content. The interactive media application may provide customized pause-time content specific to the user or specific to the media paused by using media data associated with the media. The interactive media application may also prevent the user from accessing features (e.g., fast-forward) of the system. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110255844 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PARSING A VIDEO SEQUENCE - A system and method are provided for parsing a digital video sequence, having a series of frames, into at least one segment including frames having a same camera motion quality category, selected from a predetermined list of possible camera motion quality categories. The method includes obtaining, for each of the frames, at least three pieces of information representative of the motion in the frame. The information includes: translational motion information, representative of translational motion in the frame; rotational motion information, representative of rotational motion in the frame; and scale motion information, representative of scale motion in the frame. The method further includes processing the at least three pieces of information representative of the motion in the frame, to attribute one of the camera motion quality categories to each of the frames. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110255845 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS AND VIDEO EDITING METHOD - A video editing apparatus comprises an input unit that inputs first video data and second video data; a subject size detection unit that detects a representative size of the subject in both the first video data and the second video data as a subject size; a subject size change amount calculation unit that calculates a subject size change amount; a playback speed correction amount setting unit that sets a correction amount for correcting a playback speed of the second video data in accordance with the subject size change amount; a playback speed correction unit that generates third video data by correcting the playback speed of the second video data in accordance with the correction amount; and a video data concatenation unit that concatenates the first video data and the third video data. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110268426 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS AND VIDEO EDITING METHOD - A video editing apparatus capable of generating edited video data includes a video data selection unit configured to select a plurality of pieces of video data based on a set selection condition, an estimation unit configured to estimate correlation between video frames of the plurality of pieces of the video data selected by the video data selection unit, a cut-point setting unit configured to set the video frames estimated with a predetermined high correlation by the estimation unit as a cut-point, if the plurality of pieces of the video data selected by the video data selection unit are connected, and a generation unit configured to connect the plurality of pieces of the video data selected by the video data selection unit based on the cut-point set by the cut-point setting unit, and generate the edited video data. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110274411 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An information processing device for analyzing motion and color of an image of a program and detecting shot sound and cheering of golf includes an extraction unit that extracts a notable interval which is a notable time interval of the program based on the motion of the image, a computation unit that computes a play scene level indicating a degree to which the notable interval is a play scene of the golf based on the motion, color and shot sound of the notable interval extracted by the extraction unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the notable interval is a play scene of the golf based on the play scene level computed by the computation unit. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110293246 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF MANAGING NETWORK VIDEO RECORDING SYSTEMS - A system and method for managing a network video recording system are provided. The method includes interfacing a network video recording system with an end user operating system, and managing the network video recording system via the end user operating system. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110293247 | Video matting based on foreground-background constraint propagation - A method for propagating user-provided foreground-background constraint information for a first video frame to subsequent frames allows extraction of moving foreground objects with minimal user interaction. Video matting is performed wherein constraints derived from user input with respect to a first frame are propagated to subsequent frames using the estimated alpha matte of each frame. The matte of a frame is processed in order to arrive at a rough foreground-background segmentation which is then used for estimating the matte of the next frame. At each frame, the propagated constraints are used by an image matting method for estimating the corresponding matte which is in turn used for propagating the constraints to the next frame, and so on. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110305436 | Systems and Methods for Semantic Editorial Control and Video/Audio Editing - A media content management application that allows a user to create and customize a version of media content based on semantic criteria is provided. Based on semantic criteria, the media content management application may use editing/assembly software packages to construct a version of the media content for an intended audience. In addition, the media content management application uses semantic criteria to provide the user with options for optimizing the cost of the version of media content, options for delivering the version of media content, and/or options for delivery mediums to transmit the version of media content. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110305437 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND INDEXING CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes an indexer, a photomovie processor and an indexing controller. The indexer is configured to generate index information about still images. The photomovie processor is configured to generate a photomovie constituted by the still images based on the index information, and to display the generated photomovie. The indexing controller is configured to monitor whether new still images are added, about which the indexer should generate the index information, to cause the photomovie processor to start displaying of a slide show displaying new still images one after another and cause the indexer to start generating of the index information about the new still images, when the new still images are added. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110311201 | RECASTING A LEGACY WEB PAGE AS A MOTION PICTURE WITH AUDIO - A computer identifies audio objects in a web page and video objects in the web page based, at least in part, on markups in the web page. Layout locations of the video objects and the audio objects are determined. The layout locations correspond to display locations in a web browser. One or more of the video objects is associated with one or more of the audio objects based, at least in part, on the layout locations. Playback times are determined for the video objects and the audio objects based, at least in part, on association between the one or more of the video object with one or more of the audio objects. Content of each of the video objects is rendered with content of associated ones of the audio objects in accordance with the playback times. Recording, as the motion picture with audio, the rendering of the content. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120002951 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROGRESSIVELY DELETING MEDIA OBJECTS FROM STORAGE - A system for managing storage space on an electronic storage medium is provided in which a file format for stored data allows for progressive deletion of low-significance data, for example in a video or audio file, while allowing the remaining portions of the file to be subsequently retrieved. The file format allows for the ready deletion of low-significance data without having to open, edit and subsequently rewrite the data. Furthermore, rules-based algorithms for the deletion of low-significance data allow a user to store and progressively delete such low-significance data in accordance with time parameters, available storage space and the like, without having to delete the full file. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120014671 | MOVING IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An apparatus for editing a series of moving images recorded across a plurality of recording media including at least a first and second recording media, comprising: an editing unit which performs editing processing on a part of the series of moving images recorded on the first recording medium; a storage control unit which performs control such that the editing processing is stored; a determination unit which determines whether or not a detachable recording medium has been attached; and a control unit which, in a case where it has been determined that the second recording medium has been attached, performs control for applying the editing processing that has been performed on the part of the series of moving images recorded on the first recording medium and has been stored by the storage control unit, to a part of the series of moving images that is recorded on the second recording medium. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120020648 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The image processing device includes an image data input unit for receiving data of moving images and still images; an image grouping unit for classifying the moving images and the still images into groups; an image analyzer for analyzing the moving images and the still images classified by group, and obtaining analysis information of the images, and information on relationship between the moving images and the still images; a frame image extractor for extracting frame images from the moving images according to at least one of the analysis information and the relationship information; a layout determining unit for determining a layout of the still images and the frame images according to at least one of the analysis information and the relationship information; and an image arranging unit for arranging the still images and the frame images according to the layout. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120027384 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes: a display control unit causing a displaying unit to show an editing area; a receiving unit receiving a command from a user; an editing unit placing, in the editing area, one or more images selected according to a selection command received by the receiving unit; an encoding unit which provides a result of encoding data to be encoded after the receiving unit receives a predetermined command to generate the result of encoding all the data to be encoded including image data corresponding to the one or more images accommodated in the editing area; and an encoding control unit which causes the encoding unit to start encoding partial data before the receiving unit receives the predetermined command, the partial data being at least a part of the data to be encoded. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120039584 | MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOVING IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is a moving image processing apparatus including a cut transition detection unit configured to detect inter-cut transition from a moving image including a plurality of cuts; a cut pair specifying unit configured to specify cut pairs repeated as a series of different cuts based on a feature amount of each cut; and a cut structure image generation unit configured to generate a cut structure image including a representative image of each cut arranged in an order of the cut transition and indicating a boundary between the cut pairs. | 02-16-2012 |
| 20120057850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING AND EMBEDDING PERSONALIZED MEDIA CONTENT - Systems and methods for generating and/or displaying personalized video content are provided. In some embodiments, a video asset made up of a set of frames, including a preliminary frame with an object region, is received at user equipment. A media element is identified and transmitted to a remote server, where it is processed to produce a modified version of the media element and then transmitted back to the user equipment. The video asset is displayed at the user equipment, except that a modified frame incorporating the modified version of the media element is displayed in place of the preliminary frame. The modified version of the media element is incorporated in an area of the modified frame corresponding to the object region of the preliminary frame. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057851 | DATA-PROVIDING APPARATUS, DATA-PROVIDING METHOD AND PROGRAM-SORTING MEDIUM - In the present invention, image data is edited in response to a demand transmitted from a data-processing apparatus through a network. A moving-picture server ( | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120057852 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR THE AUTONOMOUS PRODUCTION OF VIDEOS FROM MULTI-SENSORED DATA - An autonomous computer based method and system is described for personalized production of videos such as team sport videos such as basketball videos from multi-sensored data under limited display resolution. Embodiments of the present invention relate to the selection of a view to display from among the multiple video streams captured by the camera network. Technical solutions are provided to provide perceptual comfort as well as an efficient integration of contextual information, which is implemented, for example, by smoothing generated viewpoint/camera sequences to alleviate flickering visual artefacts and discontinuous story-telling artefacts. A design and implementation of the viewpoint selection process is disclosed that has been verified by experiments, which shows that the method and system of the present invention efficiently distribute the processing load across cameras, and effectively selects viewpoints that cover the team action at hand while avoiding major perceptual artefacts. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120063746 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EXTRACTING KEY FRAMES FROM A VIDEO - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for extracting key frames from a video. The method includes: dividing the video into multiple levels of video segments, wherein each video segment at a non-lowest level comprises one or more video segments at the next lower level, the multiple levels range from a first level to an N-th level, N is an integer greater than 1, the first level is the lowest level, and the N-th level is the highest level; extracting from video segments of the video at a non-highest level candidate frames at the non-highest level; for each level from a next higher level to the highest level, selecting zero, one or more candidate frames at the level from candidate frames at the next lower level in each video segment at the level; and outputting the candidate frames at the highest level as the key frames of the video. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120070129 | Method and Apparatus for Scrub Preview Services - In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of streaming a media preview includes delivering a preview data having preview information from a media file to be streamed. The preview data has a multi-dimensional hierarchical data structure has a plurality of layers with increasing content of the preview information in each layer of the plurality of layers. The preview data is configured to provide an adaptive and scalable preview service. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120070130 | RECEIVERS FOR TELEVISION SIGNALS - A television signals receiver for receives and stores television signals encoded at a variable data rate. Time information is generated based on the time of receipt of the signals that defines the duration of the television signals when output in decompressed form at a substantially constant data rate. The received signals are then written to a file on a hard disk | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120076471 | IMAGE CAPTURE AND MANIPULATION - Systems and techniques to provide image capture and manipulation. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes receiving an input stream including image data from a source, displaying the input stream in real-time including displaying a plurality of instantiations of the stream at a same time, each stream different, the step of displaying including applying a filter to each instantiation of the input stream, and receiving a prompt to select one of the instantiations of the stream. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120093485 | EDITING DEVICE, EDITING METHOD, AND EDITING PROGRAM - An editing device includes an editing unit that partially edits content constituted of a plurality of clips using the clip as a unit, the clip including a moving image; a measurement unit that, each time the edited part of the content is reproduced by the editing unit, by measuring the part as each single reproduction of the clip which includes the interior portions or the connection points, measures the total count of the respective plurality of clips; a clip setting unit that sets each of the plurality of clips to at any of a plurality of types of clip based on the measured total count; a mark adding unit that performs an image process for adding a mark in accordance with the set type to at least a part of the content; and a reproduction control unit that controls reproduction of the content being subjected to the image process. | 04-19-2012 |
| 20120099842 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIA - An editing apparatus is disclosed. A story determination block determines a story expressed by a time function and provides a reference for selecting an image from among candidate images. An evaluation value computation block computes an evaluation value for each of the candidate images for each selection time in the story based on the story determined by the story determination block and at least one feature value indicative of a feature of each of candidate images set to each thereof. An image selection block selects an image for each selection time from among the candidate images based on the computed evaluation value. An editing processing block links selection images that are images selected by the image selection block for each selection time to each other in a time-dependent manner. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120106930 | SHARED SURFACE HARDWARE-SENSITIVE COMPOSITED VIDEO - In a low-power device a runtime hands video capture and other markup language video objects to a video service, which renders them onto a shared surface. An application-specific compositor manipulates the shared surface, e.g., by texture wrapping or animation. A system compositor composites the manipulated shared surface with other data, such as rendered frames from other application-specific compositors and/or computer generated text. The device then displays the attendant rendered, manipulated, and composited video frames. In some cases, only a single copy of the shared surface is utilized. When the video object's shape, alignment, and opacity satisfy predetermined criteria, the video service renders the video object onto the shared surface using a hardware scaler; otherwise, rendering is done without using the hardware scaler. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120106931 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD - An image processing device reads a video consisting of a plurality of image frames from a storage device. A stable region along a Y-axis direction in each image frame is determined according to pixel information of an edge row of each image frame. The device then aligns all the image frames according to the stable region along a Y-axis direction in each image frame, and trims all the image frames by cutting additional image regions excepting the stable region along the Y-axis direction in each image frame, to reduce a shaking degree of each image frame along the Y-axis direction. Furthermore, the device reduces a shaking degree of each image frame along an X-axis direction using similar method by reducing the shaking degree along the Y-axis direction. At last, the device displays stable playback of the video consisting of the aligned and trimmed image frames. | 05-03-2012 |
| 20120114307 | ALIGNING AND ANNOTATING DIFFERENT PHOTO STREAMS - A method for organizing and annotating individual collections of images or videos captured for the same event by different cameras into a master collection, wherein each individual collection forms a media stream in chronological order, includes using a processor to provide the following steps: extracting image features for each image or video of the media stream of each individual collection; analyzing the extracted features to align the media streams in chronological order of the event over a common timeline; transferring annotation from one individual collection to another individual collection based on alignment of the media streams; and storing, displaying or transmitting the transferred annotation. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120114308 | Method and Apparatus for Virtual Editing of Multimedia Presentations - A method and apparatus for viewing desired portions of a multimedia presentation. Desired portions of a multimedia presentation are determined. In one embodiment, an editor may determine which portions of the presentation are desired. Alternatively, or additionally, specified criteria may be applied to the presentation to determine the desired portions. An annotation file is then created based upon the determined desired portions of the multimedia presentation. The annotation file contains pointers corresponding to the desired portions of the multimedia presentation. Annotation management software may be use the annotation file to cause a display device to display only desired portions of the presentation. The annotation file may be applied to a broadcast presentation or a recorded program file. In one embodiment the annotation file may contain information related to the desired portions of the multimedia presentation and/or the remainder of the multimedia presentation. | 05-10-2012 |
| 20120128334 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MASHUP OF MULTIMEDIA CONTENT - An apparatus and method for combining multimedia data are provided. The method includes obtaining first multimedia content from a first source, obtaining second multimedia content from a second source, selectively combining the first multimedia content with the second multimedia content, and outputting the selectively combined multimedia content. According to implementations of the invention, selected portions and/or fragments of multimedia content may be mashed up rather than the entirety of the multimedia content from either or both sources. Also, the mashup of the multimedia content may be varied and adapted based on the characteristics of the device performing the mashup as well as the characteristics of the available transport mechanism. Finally, implementations of the invention provide for flexible transformation and precise synchronization among multimedia elements. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120134651 | Methods for Identification of Highlight Game Events and Automated Generation of Videos for Same - Methods, systems and computer readable media for automated creation of videos for interactive entertainment involving at least one individual, based on events that occur within that interactive entertainment are provided. One method includes storing a video history of a session of the interactive entertainment for an individual and examining the interactive entertainment for the session to identify events designated as significant. The designation as significant for each event being predefined to meet a threshold. Then, selecting segments of video from the video history of the session of the interactive entertainment. The selected segments being for a set of the identified events. The method then generates a video defined from the selected segments of video. The video is playable to show the selected segments of video in a selected order for the individual and saving the video. | 05-31-2012 |
| 20120141094 | METHOD FOR GENERATING TRAINING VIDEO AND RECOGNIZING SITUATION USING COMPOSED VIDEO AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for generating training videos and recognizing situations, using composed videos. The method for generating training videos using composed videos according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes generating composed videos based on configuration information of an original video; selecting the composed videos satisfying structural constraints of situations among the generated composed videos; and configuring the training videos including the selected composed videos. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120148215 | Data Segment Service - Aspects of the disclosure relate to the delivery of media content over a network. Specifically, aspects are directed to identification and/or extraction of a selected data such as a video clip from content and providing identifying information to a user to retrieve, view, and/or share the selected video clip. Aspects described herein provide the ability to identify a starting point and stopping point of a video clip on a media gateway device and generate a URL that can be used and/or shared in order to access the selected video clip. The URL may identify a stored media clip, or may contain information from which a video clip can be recreated. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120148216 | SELF-EDITING VIDEO RECORDING - This disclosure describes techniques for automatically detecting transitions in captured video and using the detected transitions to mark portions of the captured video for editing, where editing may be deleting, retaining, or playing at a faster playback rate the marked portions. During video capture, a video capture device may obtain image information and determine based on image and sensor information the presence of a transition from a target scene to a non-target scene. The image information may be obtained from a video front end sensor (e.g., image sensor) and the sensor information may be obtained from other sensors that provide orientation information (e.g., accelerometer, compass, and the like). A processor may determine automatically or based on user input how to edit the marked portions. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120177344 | DATA CONTROL APPARATUS, DATA BACKUP APPARATUS, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A data control apparatus includes: a separating unit for separating material data included in original video and audio files into a used portion and an unused portion, based on editing information indicating the used portion of the material data in the video and audio files, and generating first data including only the used portion and second data including only the unused portion; a connection information generation unit for generating connection information associating information about positions of the first data and the second data in the original video and audio files with information about positions of the first data and the second data on an external recording medium; and a formatting unit for arranging the first data, the second data, the connection information, and the editing information in a predetermined order, and outputting, as backup data, the first data, the second data, the connection information, and the editing information. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120189282 | Generation and Management of Video Blogs - Disclosed are various automated methods and apparatus for scheduling and distributing user-generated content as part of or during a television program that is being distributed as part of a linear programming line-up of a television network. Users upload user-generated content through, for example, a mobile application on smart phone, a web site, or through an online service such as a social media network, and are given the opportunity to schedule transmission of uploaded content during transmission of television network linear programming by purchasing a time slot or bidding on a time slot through an auction process using real or virtual currency, including points, credits or other form of virtual currency, or being awarded or given a time slot. An automated process obtains available time slots and schedules user generated content for transmission by the network as part of previously scheduled, linear programming. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120189283 | MOVING IMAGE DATA RECORDING APPARATUS - A controller included in a moving image data recording apparatus controls an editor and a recorder so as to generate a moving image file composed of a plurality of moving image data each having a predetermined length of time, and in a case where an error occurs when newly acquired moving image data is being added to the moving image file, the controller controls the editor and the recorder so as not to add moving image data to be next acquired to a moving image file containing moving image data acquired during occurrence of the error. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120195573 | Video Defect Replacement - A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for defect replacement using smart transitions are disclosed. According to implementations, a video can be obtained by a video editing application, a defective portion of the video can be identified, and the defective portion can be replaced with a transition selected based on content characteristics of at least two non-defective portions of the video. The defective portion of the video can be identified and replaced automatically upon obtaining the video. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120195574 | REAL-TIME VISIBLE-TALENT TRACKING SYSTEM - In one embodiment, a movie set includes a motion-picture camera and a visible-talent tracking system having several elements. Based on the camera's characteristics, items in a portion of the movie set called the view frustum will appear in focus in the film. The camera and a camera-tracking system provide camera-location, orientation, and settings information to a culling processor. The culling processor delineates the location and dimensions of the view frustum based on the received camera information. Wireless tags are attached to talent on set. A tag-locating system tracks the real-time respective locations of the wireless tags and provides real-time spatial information regarding the tags to the culling processor, which determines which tags, if any, are considered to be within the view frustum, and provides information associated with the intra-frustum tags to a track recorder for recording along with the corresponding film frames. That information is variously used after editing. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120201517 | EDITING DEVICE, EDITING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An editing device includes a setting unit which sets a role for each device as an editor, in a group of devices as a plurality of editors in which a hierarchical structure is constituted by a director and one or more workers, and an executing unit which executes editing processing corresponding to an editing operation, when each device as the plurality of editors performs the editing operation which has been defined in advance on the basis of the role set by the setting unit. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20120207449 | Efficient Media Import - Some embodiments provide a media-editing application. The application receives a command to import a media file into the media-editing application. The media file includes a sequence of video images. The application copies the media file to a storage location associated with the media-editing application. The method performs several analysis and transcode operations on the media file in parallel. In some embodiments, the application identifies a video image on which to the operations. The application schedules a single set of image preparation operations for the video image to generate one or more sets of image data for the operations. The method sends the image data to the different operations. A same set of image data is sent to at least two of the operations. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120207450 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM, THAT REDUCE PLAYBACK TIME DIFFERENCES WHEN JOINING MOVING IMAGES OF DIFFERENT FORMATS - Moving image editing device, method, and storage medium storing a program provide a smart rendering scheme to minimize the variation of playback time, even when editing moving image data that does not match the save format. The format of the moving image-data is compared with the save format. The moving image data is converted into the save format. The moving image data is sequentially joined and saved. A portion or the entirety of the moving image data itself is output if the format of the moving image data matches the save format, or the data encoded into the save format after decoding a portion or the entirety of the moving image data is output if the format of the moving image data does not match the save format. The device repeats sequential joining so that the difference in the playback time with the moving image data is minimized. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120207451 | IMAGE REPRODUCTION APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING MULTIPLE IMAGE FILES - An image reproduction device reproduces image files, which may include sound information, for example, from recording media. The image reproduction device can reproduce a group of image files following various types of editing formats within the scope of the recording capacity limited by the recording media. The recording media is capable of recording multiple image files and scenario files recorded in a predefined format, which is either the reproduction order or the reproduction style of the image files. A scenario discrimination mechanism takes the scenario files from the recording media and discriminates either the reproduction order or the reproduction style based on the file formats. A reproduction mechanism reproduces the image files read in from the recording media according to either the reproduction order or the reproduction style discriminated by the scenario discrimination mechanism. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120219271 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SEGMENTING AND TRANSMITTING ON-DEMAND LIVE-ACTION VIDEO IN REAL-TIME - A method and system for producing video-segments of a live-action event involving monitoring a live-action event for detection of event-segments, detecting one or more event-triggers with detectors, determining if an event-segment occurred based on the detected event-triggers, and editing one or more video feeds into a video-segment to encompass the event-segment. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120230654 | LABELING A VIDEO, FOR MODIFYING A VIDEO, AND FOR VIDEO PROCESSING - A computer program product for processing a video having a plurality of objects is provided. The computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith. The computer readable program code is configured for labeling at least one object among the plurality of objects with a property selected from the group consisting of: whether the object can be modified; whether the object can be replaced; and at least one of: name, color, size, and content. The computer readable program code is configured for replacing the at least one object with another object having a property matching therewith if the object has been labeled as one that can be replaced. The computer readable program code is configured for modifying the at least one object to obtain a new object if the object has been labeled as one that can be modified. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120237185 | VIDEO SERVER APPARATUS, VIDEO EDITING SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD OF VIDEO SERVER APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, a video server apparatus includes a table generator, an acquisition module, and a controller. The table generator generates a management table associating a contents ID with the contents data, and stores the management table in the memory. The acquisition module acquires contents management information from a change request source upon generation of a change request for the contents data. The controller refers to the management table based on the contents ID included in the contents management information, executes change processing for the contents data recorded in the memory based on a reference result of the management table. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120251078 | Aggregated Facial Tracking in Video - A facial detecting system may analyze a video by traversing the video forwards and backwards to create tracks of a person within the video. After separating the video into shots, the frames of each shot may be analyzed using a face detector algorithm to produce some analyzed information for each frame. A facial track may be generated by grouping the faces detected and by traversing the sequence of frames forwards and backwards. Facial tracks may be joined together within a shot to generate a single track for a person's face within the shot, even when the tracks are discontinuous. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120251079 | Systems and Methods for Time-Based Athletic Activity Measurement and Display - Activity metrics may be recorded with granularity to allow a user to view performance information specific to particular times of an activity session. Accordingly, in one example, activity metrics may be detected and recorded for a minimum time unit that may be automatically defined or defined by a user. The metrics may then be conveyed to a user through a display or through audible content. Users may be able to select portions of the activity session to store based on the granular performance information. Content files such as audio or video or athletic performance data files may be cropped based on the selected portions. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120251080 | MULTI-LAYER TIMELINE CONTENT COMPILATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The application discloses systems of creating multi-layer timeline content compilations. The systems can include a layer-scalable editor launch engine receiving a request to launch an editor window for display on a client. A client-remote content placement engine receives an instruction to place content from the content datastore on a multi-layer timeline content compilation represented in the editor window, wherein the content datastore is remote relative to the client. A layer addition engine receives an instruction to superimpose a superimposable layer from the layer datastore onto existing layers of the multi-layer timeline content compilation. A layer superimposing engine superimposes the superimposable layer onto the existing layers of the multi-layer timeline content compilation. A variable-layer content to play engine plays the multi-layer timeline content compilation, including the content, in a superimposed layer. The present application also discloses related methods. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120251081 | IMAGE EDITING DEVICE, IMAGE EDITING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The image editing device creates the sequence of images by combining a plurality of images each of which has ancillary information. The image editing device includes: an input interface for receiving a plurality of candidate images that are specified as editing targets; and an image editing unit for creating the sequence of images by giving a characteristic displaying effect to each group consisting of at least two images that are extracted from the plurality of candidate images based on the ancillary information, and then by aligning the groups. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120257875 | TEMPORAL ALIGNMENT OF VIDEO RECORDINGS - Methods and apparatus are provided to establish temporal alignment of media clips. In an example embodiment, first and second media clips each contain an audio portion and the method comprises: determining an estimated global offset between the first and second clips; choosing a first test region of the first clip and identifying a corresponding second test region in the second clip based at least in part on the estimated global offset. The first and second test regions are compared to determine a local offset. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120275768 | VIDEO EDITING DEVICE, VIDEO EDITING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND MEDIUM IN WHICH THE PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A video editing device includes a storage unit, a detection unit and an composite unit. The storage unit stores a detection target, a similarity determination condition for determining a similarity of an original video content to the detection target, and a message in association with one another. The detection unit determines in accordance with the similarity determination condition whether or not the detection target is included in the original video content. The composite unit adds the message to the original video content in a case where a determination result by the detection unit indicates that the detection target is included in the original video content. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120275769 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND MEDIUM EDITING MOVING PICTURES USING BIOMETRIC SIGNALS - A system, method and medium editing a moving picture using biometric signals is provided. The system includes a biometric signal generation module to measure signals that reflect an emotional state of a user while capturing a moving picture, and to generate a first and a second biometric signal based on the measured signals, an event section extraction module to extract a first event section that reflects preferences of the user from a playback section of the moving picture based on the first biometric signal, extract a second event section that reflects preferences of the user from the playback section of the moving picture based on a second biometric signal, and extract a final event section based on the first and second event sections, and an indexing module to edit the moving picture by indexing the final event section in synchronization with the playback section of the moving picture. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120281969 | VIDEO SUMMARIZATION USING AUDIO AND VISUAL CUES - A method for producing an audio-visual slideshow for a video sequence having an audio soundtrack and a corresponding video track including a time sequence of image frames, comprising: segmenting the audio soundtrack into a plurality of audio segments; subdividing the audio segments into a sequence of audio frames; determining a corresponding audio classification for each audio frame; automatically selecting a subset of the audio segments responsive to the audio classification for the corresponding audio frames; for each of the selected audio segments automatically analyzing the corresponding image frames to select one or more key image frames; merging the selected audio segments to form an audio summary; forming an audio-visual slideshow by combining the selected key frames with the audio summary, wherein the selected key frames are displayed synchronously with their corresponding audio segment; and storing the audio-visual slideshow in a processor-accessible storage memory. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120281970 | MEDICAL VIDEO PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A consolidated system for performing, recording, and distributing the performance and/or recordation of medical procedures, including a plurality of computer-controlled medical systems each having one or more input devices; and an aggregation system for aggregating information pertaining to a medical procedure and/or pertaining to the use of one or more of the medical systems to perform a medical procedure, the information having a plurality of sources, forms, and formats. The aggregation system is configured to provide a preview of the information to allow a user to combine and/or edit the information and provide transmission of the combined and/or edited information to one or more recipients via a network. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120301112 | SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRACKS IN A MEDIA EDITING SYSTEM - A media editing system provides an editor with full visibility and editing capability for synchronous data that is adjunct to audio and video. The data tracks include one or more streams of data packets, each stream being of a particular data type. Synchronous data tracks are displayed on the timeline, facilitating data track editing independent of the associated media tracks. The UI also enables selective playback and export of the data tracks along with the corresponding video and audio. The system also enables data streams to be filtered and combined. Data from the data tracks can be extracted and imported into a media asset management system, enabling the data to be searched. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120308209 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMICALLY RECORDING, EDITING AND COMBINING MULTIPLE LIVE VIDEO CLIPS AND STILL PHOTOGRAPHS INTO A FINISHED COMPOSITION - The present invention relates to a method of dynamically creating a video composition including the steps: a) recording a first real-world event as a first video clip using a video composition creation program residing on a portable device in response to a first user record input, the portable device comprising a camera lens, a processor, a memory device, and a display device that displays an image of the first real-world event perceived by the camera lens during the recording of the first real-world event; and b) selecting a transition using the video composition creation program in response to a user transition selection input, the video composition creation program automatically combining the first video clip and the selected transition to create the video composition; and c) the video composition creation program saving the video composition on the memory device as a single file in response to a user save input. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120315020 | DISTRIBUTED DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING SYSTEM - A project network application can provide functionality for a plurality of worker systems to perform digital video editing so as to at least partially perform two- to three-dimensional conversion of a video. The project network application may, for instance, include tools for performing rotoscoping, depth mapping, object offsetting, occlusion filling, and the like. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120328265 | EDITING DEVICE, EDITING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Provided is an editing device including an input material timeline area display control unit that executes control such that an input material timeline in which an event is arranged is displayed, using a material which is an element of selected content as the event, and an output material timeline area display control unit that executes control such that an output material timeline in which an event which is being edited or has been edited is arranged is displayed. The input material timeline and the output material timeline have a same time axis, and the input material timeline area display control unit controls a display of the input material timeline such that the event arranged in the input material timeline is expressed by the same time axis as the event arranged in the output material timeline. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130004143 | Analysis of Video Footage - Segments of interest within video footage are identified automatically. Such segments of interest include portions of the footage which were taken using a hand held camera and which show a static subject, portions which track the motion of a moving subject, and portions which show an abrupt event. Methods are presented for identifying such segments, based on motion and/or colour analysis of the video footage or based on observations of discontinuities in the video footage following a period of stability. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130011123 | Method and terminal for video processing - The disclosure discloses a method and a terminal for video processing. The method includes: when a real-time video image receiving terminal plays a real-time image picture, a shortcut for image pre-capture is set; if a user is interested in the picture, the user can click the shortcut for image pre-capture; when receiving an image pre-capture instruction, the terminal suspends the playing of the real-time picture but plays the pictures of a period before the moment of playing the real-time picture, then the user can perform image capture on the pictures played back. With the disclosure, when a user captures an image, the video pictures being played in the terminal are pre-stored, and the video pictures of a period before current time point are presented to the user by slow playback, thus the user can capture the image in easiness, so as not to miss the image that the user wants to capture due to a slow response. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130028574 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENRICHING AUDIO/VIDEO RECORDINGS - Systems and methods are presented for enriching audio/video recordings using annotation data provided by attendees of a presentation, in which annotations from attendees are received by a server which merges and synchronizes the annotation data, performs text data mining to identify key messages and temporal segments of the audio/video data, and constructs an enriched audio/video recording including audio and/or video data as well as segment data and key message data for ease of user navigation. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130028575 | IMAGE DISPLAYING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS, IMAGE EDITING SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AND EDITING IMAGE USING THE SAME - An image displaying apparatus, an image editing apparatus, an image editing system, an image displaying method and an image editing method are disclosed. The image displaying apparatus includes an image processing unit which captures a still image, a communication module which communicates with an external device, and a control unit which controls an edited image to be displayed. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130051770 | APPLICATION TRIGGERING - An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium are disclosed for, in one aspect, determining when a trigger, such as an application trigger, should be generated. In some embodiments, the application trigger may be generated when a frame included in a feed (e.g., a content feed) matches a specified or indicated frame. In some embodiments, a comparison between the feed and the specified or indicated frame may be based on one or more tolerances or thresholds. In some embodiments, the feed may be split and content (e.g., video) obtained via the split may be combined (e.g., multiplexed) with a trigger. The combined content and trigger may be transmitted to one or more devices, such as one or more user devices. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130051771 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to an image processing device and method, and program, whereby a high-quality loop moving image can be obtained more easily. Upon continuous shot images of multiple frames serving as material of a loop moving image being input, the continuous shot images are divided into multiple segments including motion segments including a moving subject and a still segment including a subject with no motion. An image of the motion segment region of the continuous shot images is formed into a loop moving image, and a segment loop moving image is generated. Also, an image of a still segment region of the continuous shot images is clipped out, and a segment image which is a still image is generated. Further, these segment loop moving image and segment image are integrated, to form one loop moving image. The present invention can be applied to an image processing device. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130058630 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING DATA REPRESENTING DIGESTS OF PICTURES - Video data pieces are classified into groups according to prescribed rules. A cut number assigned to each of the groups is decided on the basis of the length or lengths of a video data piece or pieces in each of the groups and the number of the video data piece or pieces in each of the groups. A cut or cuts are extracted from the video data piece or pieces in each of the groups. Regarding each of the groups, the number of the extracted cut or cuts is equal to the decided cut number. Digest data is generated from the extracted cuts for all the groups. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130071091 | Hardware-Based, Client-Side, Video Compositing System - A system for video compositing is comprised of a storage device for storing a composite timeline file. A timeline manager reads rendering instructions and compositing instructions from the stored file. A plurality of filter graphs, each receiving one of a plurality of video streams, renders frames therefrom in response to the rendering instructions. 3D hardware is responsive to the rendered frames and the compositing instructions for creating a composite image. A frame scheduler is responsive to the plurality of filter graphs for controlling the frequency at which the 3D hardware creates a new composite image. An output is provided for displaying the composite image. Methods of generating a composite work and methods of generating the timeline file are also disclosed. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this Abstract should not be used to construe the claims. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130089302 | USING CLUSTER COMPUTING FOR GENERATING PERSONALIZED DYNAMIC VIDEOS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of obtaining through a computing cloud, parameters of a digital video. The method further includes modifying by software generators of the computing cloud, one or more of the obtained parameters, such that the modification is based on information relating to segments of the users of the network. The method includes creating by rendering engines of the computing cloud a plurality of versions of the digital video. Each one of the plurality of versions comprises a digital video adapted to appeal to at least one of the segments of the users of the network. Further, the method includes determining a quality of at least one of the plurality of versions of the digital video, as well, as determining whether the at least one of the plurality of versions is viewable to the users of the network based on the determined quality. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130114942 | Automatic Surveillance Video Matting Using a Shape Prior - A novel technique for performing video matting, which is built upon a proposed image matting algorithm that is fully automatic is disclosed. The disclosed methods utilize a PCA-based shape model as a prior for guiding the matting process, so that manual interactions required by most existing image matting methods are unnecessary. By applying the image matting algorithm to these foreground windows, on a per frame basis, a fully automated video matting process is attainable. The process of aligning the shape model with the object is simultaneously optimized based on a quadratic cost function. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130114943 | APPARATUS FOR RECORDING AND REPRODUCING PLURAL TYPES OF INFORMATION, METHOD AND RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING SAME - Various processes effectively execute updating of related information that is correlated to user selected information. For example, when a selected screen is touched by a pen or the like while an image corresponding to the selected image data is displayed on the screen, existing line drawing data (for example, a first character string) that is correlated to the image data and stored is displayed on the screen. In this instance, if new line drawing data (for example, a second character string) is input using the pen or the like, the new line drawing data is added to the existing line drawing data, and is correlated to the image data being displayed and stored. Different sound data can be correlated to selected image data. Different memo data also can be correlated user selected sound data. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130148944 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - The present technology is related to an image processing device and image processing method that enables the generating of 3D images that can be viewed safely and comfortably. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130156404 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL VIDEO EDITING, TAGGING AND INDEXING - A system and method for having a media engine, client, workflow engine and server. The media engine takes digital or analog real-time video or video-on-demand as an input. Clients connect to the media engine, workflow engine and server. Depending on the client's capabilities, including software features, training and location, the workflow engine will drive required units of work to the client asking them to be fulfilled. This system enables efficient offline, real-time or faster than real-time editing, tagging and indexing of media by one or more clients at the same time. Unlimited numbers of users, tags and indexing functions to take place in parallel on a single video feed at the same time and managed through a rule based workflow engine. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130156405 | Distributed Cloud-Based Synchronized Data and Bandwidth Intensive Image Processing - A rotoscoping method comprises the steps of providing a video, providing a plurality of editors, and editing the video on computers of the plurality of editors. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130156406 | MOVING PICTURE PROCESSING DEVICE, MOVING PICTURE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - Transitions between cuts are detected from a moving picture containing a plurality of cuts, the plurality of cuts are categorized into a plurality of cut groups having mutually different feature amounts, and a plurality of cut pairs including two or more sequential cuts belonging to the mutually different cut groups and being repeated in the moving picture are identified, a predetermined number of the cut pairs, which are less than the plurality of cut pairs in number, are generated from the plurality of cut pairs by combining at least a portion of the plurality of cuts in a manner that two or more cuts constituting each cut pair belong to mutually different cut groups and a context of cut transitions in the moving picture is maintained, and a cut composition image including the generated cut pairs is generated. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130195428 | Method and System of Presenting Foreign Films in a Native Language - A process for presenting live action foreign language feature films in a native language by replacing the physical mouth positions of the original actors to match a newly recorded audio track in a different language with die original and/or replacement actors keeping the essence of the original dialect, while achieving the illusion that the content was originally filmed in the new voice over language. This process applies an artistic, multifaceted approach rather than a purely procedural approach, and utilizes a combination of visual effects techniques to achieve realistic lip sync animation to be convincing to the viewing audience. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130195429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MEDIA PESONALIZATION USING TEMPLATES - Systems and methods for generating edited media. In an embodiment, one or more media assets are received. A theme template comprising one or more entries is retrieved, and the entries are populated with the received media assets to generate one or more composite media products. The media assets may comprise both static and dynamic media assets from multiple data sources. For instance, the dynamic media assets may be user-supplied, whereas the static media assets are retrieved from a structured database and remain the same for a given theme template. | 08-01-2013 |
| 20130202271 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING SYSTEM - A moving image recording apparatus generates first moving image data and second moving image data having less number of pixels than that of the first moving image data, records a moving image file including generated moving image data into a recording medium, and in the case that the first moving image data is outputted to the external apparatus for recording the first moving image data, controls so as to generate the second moving image data concurrently with the outputting of the first moving image data and controls to record a moving image file including the generated second moving image data into the recording medium, wherein outputting an instruction for closing a moving image file including the first moving image data to the external apparatus is controlled in accordance with the moving image file including the second moving image data being recorded into the recording medium having been closed. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130202272 | RECORDING APPARATUS, RECORDING METHOD, AND RECORDING SYSTEM - A recording apparatus of moving image data generates first moving image data and second moving image data having less number of pixels than the first moving image data, outputs the generated moving image data by using a plurality of output channels which conform with predetermined format, determines the number of the second moving image data to be generated on the basis of an output state of the moving image data which is output by using the output channels in the case where the first moving image data is output in accordance with the predetermined format, and generates the second moving image data of the determined number in parallel with the outputting of the first moving image data. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130209068 | PATIENT SAFETY PROCESSOR - A processor-based system for analyzing physiologic data and medical care is provided wherein the patient data is analyzed to construct images that are representative of a patient's condition. The processor provides a self-modulating analysis, which is responsive to the occurrence of additional data items to increase the information contained in the images. Identifications of modes of physiologic failure by the analysis of the generated images provides for earlier recognition and intervention and improved protocolization of testing and treatment. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130216204 | SUBLIMINAL FRAME INSERTION - Insertion of subliminal frames in content is performed at a content receiver. The content receiver may receive content, analyze a setting, and modify the received content based on the analyzed setting. The content receiver may modify the received content by periodically inserting subliminal frames in the received content as specified by the setting. In some implementations, the content may include video content and the subliminal frames may be one or more images. The inserted subliminal frames may be subliminally perceptible but consciously imperceptible by a human viewer of the content when the content is played. As such, viewing of the content that includes the inserted subliminal frames may result in subliminal learning by a human viewer. In various implementations, one or more conditions included in the analyzed setting may specify that certain subliminal frames are to be inserted when the content has certain characteristics, such as a rating or description. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130230299 | GENERATING MULTIPLE SHOTS IN STORYBOARDING - Storyboard processing in a movie during production, including: creating a proxy shot for an imported shot; displaying the proxy shot; receiving a completion signal for the imported shot; reloading related metadata for the imported shot; and displaying the newly imported shot. Keywords include proxy shot and imported shot. | 09-05-2013 |
| 20130236161 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing device includes a processor that: (i) acquires video data including a plurality of frames, and characteristic information indicating a characteristic value of an image in each of the frames; (ii) receives designation of a correction-target frame which is one of the frames; (iii) identifies, as a correction section, a section to which a frame group belongs, based on the characteristic information, the frame group being made up of consecutive frames including the correction-target frame; and (iv) applies correction designated by a user to the frame group which belongs to the identified correction section. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130236162 | VIDEO EDITING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR GUIDING VIDEO FEATURE INFORMATION - A video editing apparatus and method for guiding video feature information are provided. To this end, in video editing, video contents are analyzed to detect at least one video feature information, and video contents sections in which the at least one video feature information is detected are displayed together on an editing screen, thereby providing a video editing guide to a user. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130243394 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ALTERING IMAGES IN A VIDEO FILE USING PREDETERMINED PARAMETERS - A system and method for altering images using predetermined parameters is provided, through the use of a record associated with a digital video file. The record contains a number of parameters about insertion opportunities, including the location, time span, and shape of such opportunities. When a digital video file is requested, the record is accessed, and a determination is made as to whether the file should be altered. Should the determination be made for an alteration, a distinctive image is selected based on the information, including the parameters in the record, and an insertion or substitution is made. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130259446 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER DIRECTED VIDEO EDITING - An approach is provided for user directed video editing. A media platform determines one or more viewpoints of a live event selected by a user. The media platform then determines respective media segments that depict the respective one or more viewpoints. The media segments include metadata of orientation information, geo-location information, timing information, or a combination thereof associated with the creation of respective media segments. The media platform then determines to generate a compilation of at least a portion of the media segments based, at least in part, on the metadata. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259447 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR USER DIRECTED VIDEO EDITING - An approach is provided for user directed video editing. A media platform determines one or more viewpoints of a live event selected by a user. The media platform then determines respective media segments that depict the respective one or more viewpoints. The media segments include metadata of orientation information, geo-location information, timing information, or a combination thereof associated with the creation of respective media segments. The media platform then determines to generate a compilation of at least a portion of the media segments based, at least in part, on the metadata. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130259448 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING A SCENE - Systems and methods for optimizing properties of objects within a scene or achieve a visual goal. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130266290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING MEDIA EDITS USING DIRECTOR RULES - An approach is provided for determining heuristic information for creating at least one media compilation, wherein the heuristic information is associated with at least one directing user. A processer may determine a selection of the heuristic information by at least one end user and process and/or facilitate a processing of the heuristic information to cause, at least in part, a creating of the at least one media compilation based, at least in part, on one or more media items associated with the at least one end user. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130272678 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONCEALING PORTIONS OF A VIDEO SCREEN - A simple, cost-effective, and robust method and system to obstruct crawls, logos, and other annoying and distracting images overlaid on a video signal and displayed on a TV set or monitor is provided. The method and system may detect the presence of the unwanted images and block them automatically, or they may accept manual input from the user via a handheld control device to block or obstruct these images. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130279884 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING A VERTICAL CUT IN A VIDEO SIGNAL FOR THE PURPOSE OF TIME ALTERATION - A circuit and method for detecting a vertical cut in a sequence of digital video images. Each pixel of a video frame is filtered then compared to a filter threshold. If the threshold is met, a current pixel bit is set as active. A delayed pixel bit is generated from the current pixel bit, and a changed pixel bit is generated if either but not both of the current pixel bit and the delayed pixel bit is active. Active pixels are counted. The count of active pixels in the current image and the count of active pixels in the delayed image are used to weight the active pixel count of the changed image. The counts are used to determine a change value for the current image. The change value may be a large positive value, a large negative value, or neither. A predefined pattern of the change values over a sequence of frames indicates a vertical cut in the sequence. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130279885 | PSEUDO-VIDEO CREATION DEVICE, PSEUDO-VIDEO CREATION METHOD, AND PSEUDO-VIDEO CREATION PROGRAM - [Problem] To make it easy to grasp how an object has changed over time. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20130287370 | MULTIMEDIA IMPORTING APPLICATION - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for importing multimedia files on a computing device. A graphical user interface (GUI) can present multimedia files as the multimedia files are imported. The multimedia files can be image files, video files, and audio files. The imported multimedia files can be presented in a parade. The user can scroll between the multimedia files presented in the parade. Multimedia files can be displayed coincident to import of other multimedia files. One or more options for adjusting the imported multimedia files can be selected while the multimedia files are presented in the parade. Actions associated with the one or more options for adjusting the imported multimedia files can be effected on a multimedia file in real-time during presentation of the multimedia file in the parade. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130294749 | Systems and Methods for Generation of Composite Video From Multiple Asynchronously Recorded Input Streams - Systems and methods are provided for generating a composite video based on a plurality of asynchronously recorded input video streams. A plurality of segments of the input video streams are identified. A number of the input video streams that were recording during the particular segment are determined. A video display configuration for the particular segment is determined based on the number of video streams that were recording, where the video display configuration includes a display sub-region for each of the number of video streams that was recording. A composite video is generated, where the composite video includes a portion of video associated with each of the segments, where the composite video portion associated with the particular segment is formatted according to the video display configuration and displays the video streams that were recording during the particular segment in the display sub-regions of the video display configuration. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130302017 | INTER-VIDEO CORRESPONDING RELATIONSHIP DISPLAY SYSTEM AND INTER-VIDEO CORRESPONDING RELATIONSHIP DISPLAY METHOD - To enable a utilization frequency of each segment in a source video to be readily assessed between videos in a corresponding relationship during a creation process. Relationship information that is information indicating a segment in a corresponding relationship between a source video and a plurality of derived videos created using at least a part of segments of the source video is stored in a relationship information storing unit, and a corresponding relationship of the segment between the source video and the plurality of derived videos and a utilization frequency of each segment of the source video by the plurality of derived videos are displayed based on the relationship information stored in the relationship information storing unit. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130308924 | AUDIOVISUAL DATA TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND AUDIOVISUAL DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - An audiovisual data transmission system includes the following components. A filesystem module creates a file that contains at least one of video data and audio data stored in a storage unit. A conversion processing unit manages a file created by the filesystem module. A filesystem-in-userspace module provides an interface between the conversion processing unit and the filesystem module. An update detecting unit detects an update of at least one of video data and audio data contained in a file. In response to an instruction to acquire a file managed by the conversion processing unit received in a state where an update of the file is detected by the update detecting unit, a server makes an inquiry to the conversion processing unit and repeatedly performs a read process in which the file is read, via the filesystem-in-userspace module. | 11-21-2013 |
| 20130336638 | SWITCHING BETWEEN TIME ORDER AND POPULARITY ORDER SENDING OF VIDEO SEGMENTS - In an embodiment, if a number of segments of a video in a buffer after a buffer position is less than a play threshold, then a first plurality of segments is sent into the buffer in time order; and if the number of the segments in the buffer at the buffer position is not less than the play threshold, a second plurality of segments is sent to the buffer in popularity order, wherein the second plurality of segments are stored into the buffer in time order. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130336639 | METHOD AND SYSTEM TO PLAY LINEAR VIDEO IN VARIABLE TIME FRAMES - According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to receive a video media file, receive a chop file | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140016913 | MOVING IMAGE GENERATION DEVICE - Provided is a moving image generation device, which is configured to: render a frame image including a plurality of image elements; output rendering position information specifying a rendering position within the frame image of a confidential element whose viewing is to be restricted among the plurality of image elements; and generate a moving image by using the frame image while performing display restriction processing on a target region within the frame image which is specified by the rendering position information. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140016914 | EDITING APPARATUS, EDITING METHOD, PROGRAM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an editing apparatus including a story determination unit determining a story indicated by a time function as a reference to select an image from multiple candidate images, an evaluation value calculation unit calculating an evaluation value of each of the candidate images per selection time in the story, based on the story determined in the story determination unit and one or more feature values which are set for each of the multiple candidate images and indicate features of the candidate images, an image selection unit selecting an image per selection time from the candidate images, based on the evaluation value calculated in the evaluation value calculation unit, a candidate image correction unit correcting the selected candidate image based on the evaluation value, and an edit processing unit linking the image selected per selection time and the candidate image corrected based on the evaluation value, in chronological order. | 01-16-2014 |
| 20140023348 | Method And System For Content Relevance Score Determination - A method for editing content, including receiving content from content storage, calculating a score for each frame of the content based on weighted parameter scores, grouping frames into frame groups, calculating a group score for each frame group based on the scores of the frames within the frame group; selecting frame groups having a group score beyond a score threshold, comparing a total length of the selected frame groups to a target length with the system, adjusting the score threshold until the total length of the selected frame groups substantially matches the target length with the system, combining the selected frame groups into a video with the system, and sending the video to a device with the system. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140029919 | EDITING OF AN EVENT-BASED RECORDING - In some embodiments, a method includes retrieving a recording of a collaborative session that has been recorded as an event sequence. The recording includes at least one event. The method also includes locating at least one event in the recording of the collaborative session. The method includes performing an edit operation of the recording. The edit operation is at least one of a modification of the at least one event, a removal of the at least one event, or an addition of a new event relative to the at least one event. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140029920 | IMAGE TRACKING AND SUBSTITUTION SYSTEM AND METHODOLOGY FOR AUDIO-VISUAL PRESENTATIONS - The present invention relates to a system and method for processing a video input signal providing for tracking a selected portion in a predefined audiovisual presentation and integrating selected user images into the selected portion of the predefined audiovisual presentation. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140044412 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR GENERATING LIVE IMAGE - A terminal for generating a live image includes a memory for storing video content, and a live image generator for selecting a number of original frames from original frames constituting the video content in a standby mode, generating a new live image by interpolating the number of selected original frames, and outputting the generated live image as live wallpaper for the standby mode. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140044413 | SYNCHRONOUS DATA TRACKS IN A MEDIA EDITING SYSTEM - A media editing system provides an editor with full visibility and editing capability for synchronous data that is adjunct to audio and video. The data tracks include one or more streams of data packets, each stream being of a particular data type. Synchronous data tracks are displayed on the timeline, facilitating data track editing independent of the associated media tracks. The UI also enables selective playback and export of the data tracks along with the corresponding video and audio. The system also enables data streams to be filtered and combined. Data from the data tracks can be extracted and imported into a media asset management system, enabling the data to be searched. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140056574 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC MEDIA STREAMING - The invention can be a computerized method for creating a composite media program. The method can include receiving from a first user over a network at least a first media segment, wherein the first media segment includes a first plurality of media frames. The method can also include receiving from a second user over the network at least a second media segment, wherein the second media segment includes a second plurality of media frames. Finally, the method includes automatically combining at least the first media segment and the second media segment into the composite media program including a series of media segments, wherein the composite media program is available for viewing by at least a set of members of a social network. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140064706 | TAGGING VIDEO CONTENT - A method includes identifying video content that includes an audiovisual component, receiving an identification of the audiovisual component, and receiving at least one component location of the audiovisual component in the video content. Each component location indicates a time and a screen position with which the audiovisual component is associated with in the video content. Component information associated with the audiovisual component is received. A video tag is generated based on the audiovisual component and the component information. The method includes populating one or more fields associated with the video tag based on the component information, the identification of the audiovisual component, and the at least one component location. The method also includes presenting the video tag to a user. The video tag is selectable to present the video content at the at least one component location. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140086560 | Interpretation of Free-Form Timelines Into Compositing Instructions - A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium are disclosed for interpretation of free-form timelines into compositing instructions. An array comprising a plurality of items is generated. Each of the plurality of items comprises one or more instructions representing one or more operations occurring at a point in time in a video sequence. For each one of a plurality of patterns, the array is scanned to determine if one or more groups of items in the array match the pattern. For each group of items matching one of the plurality of patterns, the matching group of items is replaced in the array with a merged item. Each merged item comprises an ordered sequence of the one or more instructions in the corresponding matching group of items. A frame of the video sequence is composited dependent on the array comprising the one or more merged items. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140099080 | Creating An Abridged Presentation Of A Media Work - Creating an abridged presentation of a media work, including: identifying, by a media abridging module, a plurality of segments of the media work; determining, by the media abridging module, a viewing frequency value for each of the segments of the media work; and creating, by the media abridging module, an abridged version of the media work in dependence upon the viewing frequency value for each of the segments of the media work, wherein the abridged version of the media work includes only a subset of the segments of the media work. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140099081 | Creating An Abridged Presentation Of A Media Work - Creating an abridged presentation of a media work, including: identifying, by a media abridging module, a plurality of segments of the media work; determining, by the media abridging module, a viewing frequency value for each of the segments of the media work; and creating, by the media abridging module, an abridged version of the media work in dependence upon the viewing frequency value for each of the segments of the media work, wherein the abridged version of the media work includes only a subset of the segments of the media work. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140105580 | Continuous Capture with Augmented Reality - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more audio/visual recordings from a user, the audio/visual recordings continuously capturing audio/visual information around the user, the audio/visual recordings being made by a client computing device of the user automatically and without manual user input and with one or more sensors of the client computing device; processing the audio/visual recordings to extract one or more audio/visual segments, each audio/visual segment covering a specific time period or relating to a specific event in the user's life; and posting the audio/visual segments to one or more points, respectively, along a timeline corresponding to the user's life. | 04-17-2014 |
| 20140126888 | MAPPING PIXELS TO UNDERLYING ASSETS IN COMPUTER GRAPHICS - A system for presenting video and methods for manipulating and delivering the video are presented. An interface may be implemented to access data related to the creation and animation of the video, a reference to the creation data stored with the video itself. Upon selection a portion of the video, using the references stored with the video, the tools needed to edit the selected portion of the video may be presented. The objects and illustration assets utilized to animate a scene may be stored in a memory device such that the objects and assets may be retrieved using a hierarchy of references initially accessed via the reference stored with the selected portion of the video. According to an embodiment, the selected portion may be a frame or a pixel and the reference stored with the frame metadata, pixel value, or image channel or image layer. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140133832 | CREATING CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT FROM VIDEO AND/OR AN IMAGE ARRAY - Disclosed are a method and apparatus of processing a digital video. One example method of operation may include uploading the digital video to an application processing device, and processing the digital video to extract an array of digital images. The method may also include displaying the array of digital images on a user interface of a display of the application processing device and modifying the digital images of the array of digital images and rendering a new digital video based on the modified digital images and the added additional data. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133833 | CREATING CUSTOMIZED DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT FROM VIDEO AND/OR AN IMAGE ARRAY - Disclosed are a method and apparatus of creating a customized advertisement for a particular product. One example method of operation may include receiving product use information related to prior use of the product at an application server and receiving a digital video including footage of the particular product at the application server. The method may also include receiving generic product information related to manufacturer specifications of the product at the application server, processing the product use information, the digital video and the generic product information to create the customized advertisement and transmitting the customized advertisement to a remote computing device. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133834 | STORYBOARD-DIRECTED VIDEO PRODUCTION FROM SHARED AND INDIVIDUALIZED ASSETS - Systems and methods are described for automatically driving portions of a video production workflow according specifications governed by a data-rich storyboard. Embodiments operate in context of a novel video production workflow in which much or all of the production expertise of a traditional production workflow collaborates at a storyboard phase of the workflow to architect a single, data-rich storyboard according to concepts and rules. The rich storyboard is generated and stored in a data framework that drives specifications over the workflow in such a way that portions of the workflow can be automated and consistently repeated. For example, the rich storyboard drives generation of automated coaches for acquisition and pre-auditing of individualized story assets from storymakers. The rich storyboard can then drive automated rendering of the assets into multiple, individualized storyvine video products that each conforms to the rich storyboard concepts, rules, and specifications. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133835 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus for processing a plurality of moving image files each including moving image data relating to continuity of time between the moving image data other moving image file, performs an editing process for deleting a portion of the moving image data of one scene including a plurality of the moving image files, and changes the identification information of the moving image file in accordance with the editing process, wherein in accordance with the editing process for deleting a portion of the moving image data of the one scene being performed, the identification information of at least one of the plurality of moving image files included in the one scene is changed. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133836 | Systems and Methods for Generation of Composite Video - Systems and methods for generating a composite video based on a plurality of input streams are provided. A first video stream is received from a first device. A second video stream and coordination information are received from a second device. The coordination information includes instructions for combining the first video stream and the second video stream in a composite video. The first video stream and the second video stream are time aligned, and the instructions of the coordination information and the time-aligned first video stream and second video stream are used to generate the composite video. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140133837 | VIDEO REMIXING SYSTEM - A method and related apparatus for creating a video remix, the method comprising obtaining a plurality of source content in a processing device; determining a plurality of segments from the source content to be included in the video remix; determining editing processes required to transform the plurality of segments into form suitable for the video remix; allocating said editing processes to be executed in parallel in at least one processing device; and merging the plurality of segments received from said editing processes into the video remix. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140147098 | DYNAMIC REAL-TIME PLAYBACK - Systems and methods for previewing edited video. In general, in one implementation, a method includes generating a video sequence from a plurality of video segments, identifying an inability to output at least one video segment in the video sequence in substantially real time; and adjusting an output level associated with the at least one video segment to enable the at least one video segment to be output in substantially real time. The output level may include a video quality or a frame rate. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140153906 | VIDEO ENABLED DIGITAL DEVICES FOR EMBEDDING USER DATA IN INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS - An apparatus connects viewers in the broadcasting and gaming experience for the purpose of enhancing the entertainment experience of a user. The apparatus engages the viewer in a media that is visually rich which consequently provides a new and unique form of enhancing the user experience. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140161421 | Physiological Cue Processing - Physiological cues, such as elevated heart or respiratory rates can be masked from video of a person before the video is sent to another party. The masking of human-perceptible and non-human-perceptible physiological cues removes information from the video that another party could use to determine the person's emotional state. For example, variations in a person's skin color that are typically imperceptible to the human eye and from which a person's heart rate can be detected, can be removed or altered so that another party viewing the video cannot determine the person's actual heart rate in an attempt to determine the person's emotional state, even if they are performing computer analysis on the video. The presence of some physiological cues can be determined by detecting that a physiological measure is above a specified physiological measure threshold. Modified video can have the characteristic that physiological cues are substantially absent in the modified video or that physiological measures extracted from the modified video have a value below an associated physiological measure threshold. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140161422 | VIDEO EDITING METHOD AND VIDEO EDITING DEVICE - A video editing method for a video editing device is provided. The method includes: obtaining an editing segment of a video, wherein the editing segment follows a first segment of the video and precedes a second segment of the video, the first segment includes a first picture, the second segment includes a second picture, and a short-term reference index of the second picture points to the first picture; setting a header of a third picture in the first segment, such that the first picture is moved from a short-term reference picture list to a long-term reference picture list when the header of the third picture is decoded; changing the short-term reference index of the second picture into a long-term reference index, wherein the long-term reference index points to the first picture in the long-term reference picture list; and encoding the video. Accordingly, the speed of editing the video is increased. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140169764 | VIDEO FEED PLAYBACK AND ANALYSIS - Systems and methods may provide for detecting motion of an object, capturing a video feed of the motion, analyzing the video feed according to a predefined characteristic of the motion, and playing back a modified video feed. Analyzing the video feed may include measuring an object motion measurement and generating an object motion metric. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140199048 | VIDEO GENERATING APPARATUS AND VIDEO GENERATING METHOD - A video generating apparatus includes: a segmentation unit dividing each of pictures included in an input video sequence into multiple regions as divided regions, and generating partial video sequences each having a set of the divided regions associated with one another between the pictures; a removal region determining unit determining, as a removal region, a region of at least one of the objects included in the input video sequence; an occluded region completing unit generating a completed video sequence by completing an image in an occluded region for each of the partial video sequences, thereby completing the partial video sequences and by superimposing the completed partial video sequences over one another, the occluded region being a region of an other object occluded in the removal region by the at least one object; and a video outputting unit outputting the completed video sequence. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140212109 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DISTRIBUTED VIDEO EDITING - A network editor comprises a central location with stored videos such as movies that can be edited by editors at remote locations. An editor receives a representation of a video, and specifies edits relative to the representation, enabling the editor to use a device lacking sufficient processing capability to edit the video directly, and also reducing the volume of information transmitted between the central location and the remote editor. The central location is able to provide the edited movie in a format suitable to the display capabilities of the viewing device of the viewer requesting the edited video. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140219633 | Systems and Methods for Performing Selective Video Rendering - Various embodiments are disclosed for facilitating selective rendering during video editing. In accordance with one embodiment, a method of editing video comprises obtaining a video editing project, the video editing project including at least one video clip and timing information corresponding to the at least one video clip. The method further comprises obtaining a reference file generated according to the video editing project and obtaining, from a user, a modification for at least one segment in the video editing project. Based on the modification, each of the at least one segment is identified as a modified segment or an unmodified segment. Based on the identification of at least one modified segment, at least one corresponding segment is extracted from the reference file. The method further comprises applying the modification to the extracted at least one corresponding segment from the reference file, rendering only the extracted at least one corresponding segment, and combining the at least one rendered segment with a remaining portion of the reference file to generate an output file. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140219634 | VIDEO PREVIEW CREATION BASED ON ENVIRONMENT - Providing a method for creating and displaying portions of videos called video previews. The video previews may be created using an encoding technique or palette-based optimization technique for the particular user device, application, or network that will display the video preview generated from a portion of the full video. The video previews are configured to play a series of images associated with images from the portion of the full video when the video preview is activated. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140219635 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL VIDEO EDITING, TAGGING AND INDEXING - A system and method for having a media engine, client, workflow engine and server. The media engine takes digital or analog real-time video or video-on-demand as an input. Clients connect to the media engine, workflow engine and server. Depending on the client's capabilities, including software features, training and location, the workflow engine will drive required units of work to the client asking them to be fulfilled. This system enables efficient offline, real-time or faster than real-time editing, tagging and indexing of media by one or more clients at the same time. Unlimited numbers of users, tags and indexing functions to take place in parallel on a single video feed at the same time and managed through a rule based workflow engine. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140233913 | CROSS-PLATFORM PORTABLE PERSONAL VIDEO COMPOSITING AND MEDIA CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A method and a device are disclosed including a portable, collapsible neutral background screen and a portable computing device used to take a media clip against the neutral background screen to create and edit a finished media clip and upload the finished media clip via a computer network to an online performance venue for viewing, competition, and other actions by other participants and commercial entities. In some embodiments, the neutral background screen includes built-in speakers, lights and/or a drop-down microphone, which blend in with the neutral background screen. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140270706 | GENERATING VIDEOS WITH MULTIPLE VIEWPOINTS - Videos of an event may be captured by camera (e.g., camera devices). The videos may be processed to generated virtual videos that provide different viewpoints of the event. The videos and virtual videos may be analyzed to identify panning points in the videos. A user may pause the video at the identified panning points and may be allowed to pan around the event and/or event location during the identified panning points in the videos and/or virtual videos. The pan around view may be provided by a pan around video generated based on the videos and/or the virtual videos. A user may resume viewing one of the videos and/or virtual videos after pausing playback of the pan around video. A user may also pan around an event and/or event location while the videos and/or virtual videos are playing during the panning points. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140270707 | Method and System for Detecting and Recognizing Social Interactions In a Video - A system and method for providing a plurality of frames from a video, the video having been taken from a first person's perspective, identifying patterns of attention depicted by living beings appearing in the plurality of frames, identifying social interactions associated with the plurality of frames using the identified patterns of attention over a period of time and using the identified social interactions to affect the subsequent use, storage, presentation, or processing of the plurality of frames. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140286624 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERSONALIZED MEDIA EDITING - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to generate a media compilation based on content generated from a community of users. In the context of a method, input that visually simulates a desired type of content is received. The method includes identifying content that matches the input and generating a media compilation based on the identified content. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140286625 | VIDEO PLAYBACK APPARATUS AND VIDEO PLAYBACK METHOD - A video playback apparatus that processes an obtained video and plays back the processed video, includes: a face recognition unit which detects the size and position of an image of a person in the video, which change over time; a generation unit which generates a playback video for playback, such that the image of the person shown in the playback video is of a predetermined size, by (i) determining a clipping range for a part of the video in response to a change in the detected position, and (ii) enlarging or reducing, in response to a change in the detected size, a partial video which is the part of the video shown in the clipping range; and a video playback unit which plays back the generated playback video. Here, the response time for the clipping range determination is longer than a response time for the partial video enlargement or reduction. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140286626 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR CREATING AND REPRODUCING LIVE PICTURE FILE - An apparatus for reproducing an image file and outputting audio data related to the image file at the same time is provided. The apparatus includes an audio editor configured to edit audio data having a predetermined time length in order to create edited audio data, and an encoder in configured to encode image data and the audio data edited by the audio editor in order to create a live picture file, wherein the live picture file includes at least one of an image data area including the image data, additional data header area including information related to additional data including the audio data, and an audio data area including the edited audio data. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140286627 | IMAGING DEVICE, VIDEO CONTENT GENERATING METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A CPU of an imaging device of the present invention causes an interval moving image to be captured for each interval photographing, selects frames to be stored as still images from among a plurality of frames constituting the interval moving image based on a face image, blurring, and the presence or absence of a change, and causes these selected still images to be stored in association with the interval moving image. When an amount of data exceeding that for a preset storage time length is recorded, the CPU first deletes low-grade interval moving images. Then, if this is not enough, the CPU deletes low-grade still images, and thereby retains an image file (a mixture of moving images and still images) within the desired time length. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140301717 | Methods and Systems for Providing and Playing Videos Having Multiple Tracks of Timed Text Over a Network - The present invention relates to video provided over one or more networks. Methods and systems for providing, playing, and/or editing video having multiple tracks of timed text are provided in different embodiments of the present invention. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140314392 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING OBJECTS OF INTEREST - A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to manage objects of interest. In the context of a method, source content is received, wherein the source content includes at least one of audio, video, or image content. The method includes detecting a representation of an object of interest in the source content and determining, by a processor, whether the detected representation of the object of interest is below a predetermined quality threshold. In an instance in which the representation of the object of interest is below the predetermined quality threshold, the method includes replacing the detected representation of the object of interest in the source content with a higher quality representation of the object of interest acquired from a set of stored representations of objects of interest. A similar apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 10-23-2014 |
| 20140355959 | MULTI-FRAME PATCH CORRESPONDENCE IDENTIFICATION IN VIDEO - A method and systems of identifying one or more patches in three or more frames in a video are provided. A region in a reference frame of the video may be detected. A set of regions in a prior frame and subsequent frame that are similar to the region in the reference frame may then be identified. Temporal consistency between the region in the reference frame and two or more regions in the set of regions in the prior and subsequent frames may then be calculated. Patches of regions in the first, reference, and third frames may be identified based at least in part on the calculated temporal consistencies, with each patch identifying a region in the reference frame that can be mapped to a similar region in the prior and subsequent frames. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140363141 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING, COMBINING, AND SHARING TIME-CONSTRAINED VIDEOS - A method includes displaying, by a video display device, to a user of a client device, a broadcast of an audiovisual data feed. The method includes receiving, by the client device, an identification of a portion of the audiovisual data feed. The method includes generating, by the client device, a time-constrained video from the identified portion of the audiovisual data feed. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140363142 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a control unit controlling playback of an image of an edit target, and a generation unit generating edit information including information indicating multiple edit effects applied in combination with the image of an edit interval and information indicating the edit interval, where, in a playback interval of the image, the edit interval is an interval from a playback position at a time an instruction is given during the playback of the image to a position a predetermined time after the playback position. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140369670 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SELECTIVELY COMBINING HETEROGENEOUS DIGITAL MEDIA OBJECTS - The present disclosure relates to digital media representations. In particular the present disclosure related to computer implemented methods and devices for selectively merging several rich digital media objects into a combined media asset or object, without sacrificing the rich information represented by each individual digital media object. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140369671 | MOBILE IMAGING APPLICATION, DEVICE ARCHITECTURE, SERVICE PLATFORM ARCHITECTURE AND SERVICES - Systems and methods are provided for compressing and decompressing still image and video image data in mobile devices and monitoring applications. Corresponding mobile device and camera architectures, and service platform architectures for transmitting, storing, editing and transcoding still images and video images over wireless and wired networks and viewing them on display-enabled devices are also provided. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20150030312 | METHOD OF SPARSE REPRESENTATION OF CONTENTS OF HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO IMAGES SUPPORTING CONTENT EDITING AND PROPAGATION - This invention provides a method of sparse representation of contents of high-resolution video images which supports content editing and propagation. It mainly comprises five steps which are: (1) to input the original images or videos of high resolution to summarize the characteristic information of their pixels; (2) to acquire the highly sparse samples of the original images or videos through the sparse representation technique; (3) to reconstruct each pixel of the input images or videos with a small number of the original sparse samples to calculate a coefficient of reconstruction; (4) to edit and propagate the original sparse samples to yield a result of new sparse samples; (5) to generate a result of final images or videos of high resolution according to the result of sparse samples and the coefficient of reconstruction. This invention only edits and propagates the highly sparse samples rather than all the information of pixels. Thus, the memory consumption can be greatly reduced so as to possibly process the images or videos of high resolution in a very small memory space. It is very potential to be widely applied in the fields of image processing, computer vision and augmented reality technique. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150030313 | DISPLAYING SESSION AUDIT LOGS - Methods and apparatus for generation of session audit log displays are disclosed. Audit log data is captured in association with at least one session in a computerized system. A video presentation is generated based on the captured audio log data. A video presentation of at least a part of the at least one session can then be displayed based on the generated data. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150030314 | METHOD OF PROCESSING VIDEO DATA, DEVICE, COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT, AND DATA CONSTRUCT - The invention relates to a method of processing video data, a device ( | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150043892 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SOURCING AND EDITING LIVE VIDEO - A method for communication is described. The method includes providing a channel configured for collecting and editing video associated with a topic. The method includes identifying a plurality of potential parties connected with the topic. The method includes pushing a plurality of invitations to the plurality of potential parties, wherein each invitation comprises a request to join the channel. The method includes receiving a plurality of video feeds on the channel from a plurality of contributors each accepting a corresponding invitation. The method includes editing the plurality of video feeds to generate an edited video. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150043893 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR TIME-LAPSE MOVING IMAGE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image capture apparatus includes a photographic scene selection section and a parameter setting section. The photographic scene selection section selects a photographic scene. The parameter setting section independently sets, according to the photographic scene selected by the photographic scene selection section, each of a photographing parameter relating to time-lapse photography that captures images at a predetermined interval and generates a moving image with a shorter playback time than photographing time, and a playback parameter relating to playback of a time-lapse moving image photographed at the photographing parameter. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150043894 | METHOD AND USER INTERFACE FOR DOWNLOADING AUDIO AND VIDEO CONTENT FILTERS TO A MEDIA PLAYER - A client server arrangement for downloading media content filters from a server device to a client device. The media content filters define portions of a separate audio visual presentation containing potentially objectionable subject matter. Depending on user selections, identified portions of the audio/visual presentation may be skipped and/or muted during play. In one particular implementation, the client device, e.g., a DVD player, is configured to initiate a connection with a server device. Upon successful connection, the server device transmits one or more media content filters to the client device. The client device may be configured to determine whether a particular media content filter is available, to facilitate deletion of some existing media content filters in order to secure adequate memory space, and to ensure that the media player has an active account, before initiating a connection with the server device. The server device may be configured to determine whether the media player is associated with an active user account, whether a requested filter is available, and whether adequate memory space is available at the media player, before transmitting media content filters to the client device. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150055936 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC PRESENTATION OF COMPOSITE MEDIA - The system provides a method and apparatus for constructing, and for dynamically rearranging the order of content in a composite video. The re-ordering of clips in the composite video can be based on one or more weighting factors associated with each clip. These factors can include freshness or newness of the clip, popularity based on the number of “likes” of a clip by others, the content of the clip (e.g. celebrity creator or presence), paid boosting (e.g. for commercial concerns); and other factors. Each clip has associated metadata that can be used to assign a weight value to the clip for purposes of reordering the composite video. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150071612 | SPATIO-TEMPORAL VIDEO COMPOSITING - Embodiments provide techniques for creating a composite video stream. Additionally, a first selection of pixels from the first video stream and a second selection of pixels from the second video stream are received. Here, both the first selection of pixels and the second selection of pixels indicate pixels that are to be included in the composite video stream. Embodiments identify a plurality of spatiotemporal seams across the first video stream and the second video stream, based at least in part on the first selection of pixels and the second selection of pixels. The first video stream and the second video stream are then composited into the composite video stream, by joining frames from the first video stream and the second video stream at the identified plurality of spatiotemporal seams. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150071613 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INSERTING AND/OR MANIPULATING DYNAMIC CONTENT FOR DIGITAL MEDIA POST PRODUCTION - A method of inserting a new image into a dynamic digital video file comprises identifying a target digital video segment into which the new image is to be inserted, projectively transforming the digital video segment from a first state to a second state, the second state being one which defines a substantially undistorted background, primed for new image insertion, and wherein any feature differences as between the first state and the second state are adjustment features; recording segment into data related to the adjustment features; selecting a point of insertion of new image; and blending the new image with the second state of the target digital video segment, weighing the adjustment features against each such that any visual cues which would mark placement of the new images as incongruous are adjusted. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150071614 | Creating, Editing, and Publishing a Video Using a Mobile Device - Video is processed. Multiple raw video clips and data that describes a video project that includes the multiple raw video clips are received from a mobile device. The multiple raw video clips were captured using an integrated camera of the mobile device. The multiple raw video clips are processed to generate multiple intermediate video clips. The multiple intermediate video clips all have a same first video resolution and a same first aspect ratio. The multiple intermediate video clips are concatenated, in an order specified by the video project data, to generate a concatenated video. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150071615 | Video Display Control Using Embedded Metadata - Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for generating, delivering, processing and displaying video data to preserve the video creator=s creative intent. Metadata which may be used to guide the processing and display of the video data is dynamically generated and embedded in the video data throughout a video delivery pipeline. The metadata may be embedded in the guard bits or least significant bits of chrominance channels of video data. Methods are provided for managing the encoding, delivery and decoding of the metadata to avoid unintentional communication of reserved words, minimize image artifacts which may result from overwriting least significant bits with metadata, prioritize delivery of metadata in the event of limited metadata bandwidth, and facilitate timely delivery of metadata to a downstream device. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150078732 | Highlight Reels - Techniques and apparatuses for generating highlight reels are described. These techniques and apparatuses enable a user to quickly and easily generate a highlight reel to highlight audiovisual media, such as photos and video clips. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150078733 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING INSERTION ZONES IN VIDEO MATERIAL AND FOR INSERTING ADDITIONAL MATERIAL INTO THE INSERTION ZONES - An apparatus and method for automatic detection of insertion zones within pre-recorded video material are provided. The apparatus includes a video analysis unit configured to automatically determine at least one candidate insertion zone within the pre-recorded video material suitable for receiving additional material to be inserted and configured to generate zone meta data defining attributes of the insertion zone, and an insertion module configured to receive additional material for insertion and arranged to generate an output representative of the pre-recorded video material with the additional material placed on an insertion zone such that the additional material adopts the image attributes of the insertion zone as the pre-recorded video material is played. The automatic determination of at least one insertion zone is based on one or more of feature shape, size, duration, movement, color. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150147046 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIXING A FIRST VIDEO SIGNAL AND A SECOND VIDEO SIGNAL - A method for mixing a first video signal and a second video signal, the method comprising at a mixing device receiving the first video signal; receiving the second video signal; receiving a transformation information signal dividing the first video signal into a transparent region and a non-transparent region and representing a spatial relationship between the first video signal and the second video signal; transforming the second video signal in accordance with the transformation information signal; and combining the non-transparent region of the first video signal with a portion of the transformed second video signal, the portion of the transformed second video signal being rendered in the transparent region of the first video signal. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150294685 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING LINEAR VIDEO FROM BRANCHED VIDEO - Computer-implemented methods and systems for creating non-interactive, linear video from video segments in a video tree. Selectably presentable video segments are stored in a memory, with each segment representing a predefined portion of one or more paths in a traversable video tree. A linear, non-interactive video is automatically created from the selectably presentable video segments by traversing at least a portion of a first path in the video tree and, upon completion, is provided to a viewer for playback. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150317571 | DEVICE FOR FILM PRE-PRODUCTION - A system for collaborative pre-production of a film comprises user interfaces advantageously implemented as web browsers, a project server, a project database for storing project data and an asset database for storing tagged assets. The project server comprises a project management module providing the framework for the system, a data access module enabling users to view data, and a pre-visualization module for providing a best effort preview of the film based on the script and associated direction choices and assets. The project server can also comprise an asset recommendation module for suggesting, based on key words, assets in the asset database for scenes of the film, a direction assistant module for suggesting direction possibilities, including cost and delay estimates, for the scenes. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150356994 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DIRECT VIDEO RETOUCHING FOR TEXT, STROKES AND IMAGES - A computer-implemented method performed in connection with a video comprising a plurality of video frames, the computer-implemented method being performed in a computerized system comprising a processing unit and a memory, the computer-implemented method involving: using the processing unit to detect a plurality of content components within at least one of the plurality of video frames; based on a video modification instruction received from a user, modifying at least one of the plurality of the detected content components; storing an information on the modified at least one of the plurality of the detected content components in the memory; using the central processing unit to overlay the modified at least one of the plurality of the detected content components over the video; and causing the video with the overlaid modified content component to be displayed to the user. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150356996 | Smart Video Digest System and Method - A method of summarizing events in a video recording includes evaluating at least one video recording to identify event that violate at least one rule. The method further includes excerpting a fragment of the at least one video recording. The fragment contains a depiction of the event. The method also includes causing the fragment to be included in a summary video recording. The rules may relate to a threshold amount of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording, or a threshold duration of motion in a physical space being recorded in the at least one received video recording. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358596 | SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR RECORDING A COMPRESSED VIDEO AND AUDIO STREAM - A system for recording a compressed video-audio stream includes a decoder for decoding the video and audio packets of the stream, a multimedia recorder for recording the video and audio portions of the stream, and a video frame editor. In one embodiment the multimedia recorder receives and ignores initial delta frames of the video portion of the stream while buffering the audio portion of the stream received until a first key frame arrives and is buffered and decoded and wherein upon receiving a command to record, the system writes a copy of the key frame at a predefined interval the first interval corresponding with the start of the recording of the audio portions of the stream, the write interval repeated successively until a next key frame arrives whereby the video and audio is then recorded as received. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20160042764 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR EDITING A PROGRAM - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for editing an audio/video program. The method comprises the steps of acquiring the description information of two program segments of the program, the program segments being in sequence in playing-back order, the description information comprising the ending description information of the previous program segment and the start point information of the subsequent program segment, generating a guiding information to guide the ending point information to the start point information according to the description information and playing-back order of the program segments and updating the description information of the program according to the guiding information. With this invention, excessively detailed application editing work and an expense of high buffering cost may be avoided in editing compact disc program. | 02-11-2016 |
| 20160071542 | INFORMATION OUTPUT DEVICE AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information output device includes an output unit, a recognition unit and a control unit. The output unit outputs a content. The recognition unit recognizes a user. The control unit (i) determines whether the content currently being output by the output unit is suitable for the recognized user, thereby producing a determination result and (ii) changes, on the basis of the determination result, the current output content to a content having the same substance as the current output content but a different playback time from the current output content. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160071544 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INCORPORATING DIGITAL FOOTAGE INTO A DIGITAL CINEMATOGRAPHIC TEMPLATE - The invention provides a system, method and device—for inserting digital footage into a digital cinematographic template. The system includes a mobile device, storage means on the mobile device for storing a digital cinematographic template, video recording means on the mobile device for recording and capturing personal cinematographic footage, digital isolation means on the mobile device for isolating specific sections of captured personal cinematographic footage, digital extraction means on the mobile device for extracting the isolated sections of the captured personal cinematographic footage, and digital insertion means on the mobile device for inserting the extracted footage into the stored cinematographic template. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160093334 | GENERATING STORY GRAPHS WITH LARGE COLLECTIONS OF ONLINE IMAGES - Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for generating a story graph using a collection of digital media, such as images and video. The story graph presents a structure for activities, events, and locales commonly occurring in sets of photographs taken by different individuals across a given location (e.g., a theme park, tourist attraction, convention, etc.). To build a story graph, streams from sets of digital media are generated. Each stream corresponds to media (e.g., images or video) taken in sequence at the location by an individual (or related group of individuals) over a period of time. For each stream, features from each media are extracted relative to the stream. Clusters of media are generated and are connected by directed edges. The connections indicate a path observed to have occurred in the streams from one cluster to another cluster. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160104137 | Music Integration for Use with Video Editing Systems and Method for Automatically Licensing the Same - A real-time music request system is provided for use with editing tools for the editing of video productions. The system automates the request for licensable music, provide a mechanism for submitting fulfillment, and filters and screens for relevancy prior to proving submissions to the request. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160111130 | Video Skimming Methods and Systems - In an embodiment, a method of creating a skimming preview of a video includes electronically receiving a plurality of video shots, analyzing each frame in a video shot from the plurality of video shots, where analyzing includes determining a saliency of each frame of the video shot. The method also includes determining a key frame of the video shot based on the saliency of each frame the video shot, extracting visual features from the key frame, performing shot clustering of the plurality of video shots to determine concept patterns based on the visual features, and generating a reconstruction reference tree based on the shot clustering. The reconstruction reference tree includes video shots categorized according to each concept pattern. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160118081 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIO AUTOMATED SIMULCAST PRODUCTION - A system, method, and computer program product for producing a show. In an embodiment, the invention is directed to a production system having a first production path, a second production path, and a control system that causes the first production path to generate a show in a first aspect ratio (4:3), and that causes the second production path to generate the same show in a second aspect ratio (16:9). In another embodiment, the invention is directed to producing a show from live material and from archived material. This aspect of the invention operates by producing a first show comprising a plurality of stories, segmenting the first show, and storing the show segments in an archive. Then, the invention produces a second show using live portions as well as show segments retrieved from the archive. The invention is also directed to a media manager that interacts with a server. In some cases, the server is integrated with the production system. The media manager automatically assigns channels/ports of the server when accessing material stored in the server. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160118082 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR MULTIPLE ASPECT RATIO AUTOMATED SIMULCAST PRODUCTION - A system, method, and computer program product for producing a show. In an embodiment, the invention is directed to a production system having a first production path, a second production path, and a control system that causes the first production path to generate a show in a first aspect ratio (4:3), and that causes the second production path to generate the same show in a second aspect ratio (16:9). In another embodiment, the invention is directed to producing a show from live material and from archived material. This aspect of the invention operates by producing a first show comprising a plurality of stories, segmenting the first show, and storing the show segments in an archive. Then, the invention produces a second show using live portions as well as show segments retrieved from the archive. The invention is also directed to a media manager that interacts with a server. In some cases, the server is integrated with the production system. The media manager automatically assigns channels/ports of the server when accessing material stored in the server. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160140999 | METHODS, SYSTEMS AND APPARATUSES FOR MULTI-DIRECTIONAL STILL PICTURES AND/OR MULTI-DIRECTIONAL MOTION PICTURES - The disclosure is generally directed to methods, systems and apparatuses for multi-directional still pictures and/or multi-directional motion pictures and their applications on mobile, embedded, and other computing devices and applications. | 05-19-2016 |
| 20160148649 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VISUALIZING INFORMATION OF A DIGITAL VIDEO STREAM - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for visualizing information of a digital video stream is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: a memory arranged to store a series of merged image frames which is formed by merging groups of image frames of the digital video stream; a blending module arranged to blend multiple merged frames into a series of blended image frames, wherein each of a plurality of the merged image frames contributes to a plurality of the blended image frames; and a display arranged to display the series of blended image frames. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160155473 | METHOD FOR CREATING A CONTENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160155474 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160163353 | VIDEO EDITING WITH CONNECTED HIGH-RESOLUTION VIDEO CAMERA AND VIDEO CLOUD SERVER - An apparatus having a server is disclosed. The server may be configured to (i) receive via a network a first clip of video generated by a camera, (ii) receive via the network first information to edit the first clip, (iii) receive via the network one or more segments of a second clip of video generated by the camera as identified by the first information and (iv) create a third clip of video by editing the segments according to the first information. The second clip is generally a higher resolution version of the first clip. The third clip may have the higher resolution. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160172001 | GENERATING STATIC VIEWS AS A MOTION FILE | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173732 | COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160189747 | IMAGING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - An imaging apparatus comprises an imaging unit, a recording unit configured to record a piece of moving image data, a setting unit configured to set a frame rate of a piece of moving image data, a selection unit configured to select a piece of moving image data to be edited from among a plurality of pieces of moving image data, and a generation unit configured to generate a piece of moving image data having a first frame rate by combining pieces of moving image data, wherein the selection unit sets, as the first frame rate, a frame rate that has been set by the setting unit, and selects, as the piece of moving image data to be edited, a piece of moving image data having a second frame rate that is related to the first frame rate. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189748 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR PRIORITY PROCESSING - A method of scheduling processing of a plurality of recorded media content items, each recorded media content item having one or more media segments which each represent a coverage option for a story fragment. The method receives a quality measure for each media segment in the plurality of recorded media content items, and determines a fitness score for each of a plurality of candidate sequences formed from the media segments, said fitness score being determined using the corresponding quality measure associated with media segments in the corresponding candidate sequence. The method determines a media segment score for each media segment from the corresponding fitness scores of candidate sequences that include that media segment, and then schedules processing of the plurality of recorded media content items in an order determined from media segment scores of the media segments in the recorded media content item. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160189749 | AUTOMATIC SELECTIVE UPLOAD OF USER FOOTAGE FOR VIDEO EDITING IN THE CLOUD - A method for automatic selective upload of user footage to a cloud for video production purposes is provided herein The method may include obtaining user generated media entities at a mobile device; analyzing said media entities to derive metadata related to the content of the media entities automatically selecting a subset of the analyzed media entities based on the derived metadata; uploading said selected subset to a remote server; and using the uploaded subset at the remote server to generate a video production. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160198142 | IMAGE SEQUENCE ENHANCEMENT AND MOTION PICTURE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160203842 | GROUP PORTRAITS COMPOSED USING VIDEO CHAT SYSTEMS | 07-14-2016 |
| 20160254024 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPATIOTEMPORAL IMAGE FUSION AND INTEGRATION | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160254025 | RECORDED CONTENT REPAIR | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160379682 | APPARATUS, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM - An apparatus for analysing a video recording of a sporting event, comprising: avideo clip generating circuitry operable to, in response to a selection of one of a first timeline element, generate a video clip from a video recording of the sporting event and to output the video clip for display, the video clip being a portion of the video recording of a sporting event temporally extending between a first time and a second time, each of the start time and the end time of a first event record corresponding to the selected first timeline element being within a period defined between the first time and the second time, and the video clip comprising one or more cut out portions of the video recording of the sporting event, each cut-out portion being generated on the basis of participant tracking data of the participant of the sporting event identified by a identifier of the first event record corresponding to the selected first timeline element. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381340 | PATIENT SAFETY PROCESSOR - A processor-based system for analyzing physiologic data and medical care is provided wherein the patient data is analyzed to construct images that are representative of a patient's condition. The processor provides a self-modulating analysis, which is responsive to the occurrence of additional data items to increase the information contained in the images. Identifications of modes of physiologic failure by the analysis of the generated images provides for earlier recognition and intervention and improved protocolization of testing and treatment. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20180025749 | AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF SEMANTIC-BASED CINEMAGRAPHS | 01-25-2018 |
| 20180027308 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR COMBINING VIDEOS | 01-25-2018 |
