Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110202603 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING OBJECT BASED MEDIA MIXING - An apparatus for providing object based media mixing may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members, receiving a selection of a region of interest within the shared content, receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members, and mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content. The mixed content may be dynamically modified to avoid overlaying the social interaction media over the region of interest. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 08-18-2011 |
20110211087 | METHOD AND APPARATUS PROVIDING FOR CONTROL OF A CONTENT CAPTURING DEVICE WITH A REQUESTING DEVICE TO THEREBY CAPTURE A DESIRED CONTENT SEGMENT - An apparatus providing for transmission of a desired content segment to a receiving device may include a content preview unit for displaying a content preview corresponding to a content segment captured by a content capturing device. A content capturing device selector may receive a selection of the content capturing device which satisfies one or more predefined conditions as determined by a condition testing unit of the apparatus. Once selected, a control unit may allow for control of the content capturing device with the receiving device to thereby capture a desired content segment. Control may occur directly or indirectly, such as through providing written control instructions, which may be translated using a translator of the apparatus. Thus, the apparatus may provide for transmission of the desired content segment to the receiving device. | 09-01-2011 |
20110219307 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA MIXING BASED ON USER INTERACTIONS - An apparatus for providing media mixing based on user interaction may include at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code may be configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least receiving an indication of shared content to be provided to a plurality of group members, receiving social interaction media associated with at least one of the group members, and mixing the shared content with the social interaction media to provide mixed content having audio mixing performed based at least in part on a configuration of the social interaction media relative to the shared content on a display. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided. | 09-08-2011 |
20120059826 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SYNTHESIS - An approach is provided for generating a compilation of media items. A plurality of media items is received. Respective context vectors for the media items are determined. The context vectors include, at least in part, orientation information, tilt information, altitude information, geo-location information, timing information, or a combination thereof associated with the creation of the respective media items. A compilation of at least a portion of the media items is generated based, at least in part, on the context vectors. | 03-08-2012 |
20120060077 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR VIDEO SYNTHESIS - An approach is provided for generating a compilation of media items. A plurality of media items is received. Respective context vectors for the media items are determined. The context vectors include, at least in part, orientation information, geo-location information, timing information, or a combination thereof associated with the creation of the respective media items. A compilation of at least a portion of the media items is generated based, at least in part, on the context vectors. | 03-08-2012 |
20120072100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING A RELATIVE POSITION OF A SENSING LOCATION WITH RESPECT TO A LANDMARK - An apparatus may include a landmark selector configured to receive selection of a landmark. A sensory device may determine at least one position indicator relating to alignment with the landmark from a sensing location, such as orientation, attitude, and/or altitude. The apparatus may further include a position determiner configured to determine a relative position of the sensing location with respect to the landmark based at least in part on the position indicator. Accordingly, the apparatus may determine the relative position of the sensing location with respect to the landmark. In some embodiments the apparatus may be further configured to determine the absolute position of the sensing location. Thereby position information may be used, for example, to create collaborative content captured at an event occurring near the landmark. | 03-22-2012 |
20120077522 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING ROLES FOR MEDIA GENERATION AND COMPILATION - An approach is provided for determining roles for multi-device recording. A media platform determines one or more devices for generating one or more media items of at least one subject and then determines the respective locations of the one or more devices relative to one or more focal areas of the at least one subject. Based, at least in part, on the respective locations, the media platform determines respective roles for the one or more devices for generating the one or more items. | 03-29-2012 |
20120203925 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MEDIA MIXING WITH REDUCED UPLOADING - A method for providing media mixing with reduced uploading may include receiving device situation description data and content analysis data from each of a plurality of devices. The device situation description data and content analysis data received from each of the plurality of devices may be descriptive of media data associated with a common event and recorded separately at respective ones of the plurality of devices. The method may further include determining media segments defining one or more portions of the media data to be requested from selected ones of the plurality of devices based on the device situation description data and content analysis data, causing communication of a request for corresponding ones of the media segments to respective devices among the selected ones of the plurality of devices, and causing generation of mixed content based on receipt of the media segments. A corresponding apparatus and user terminal-side method and apparatus are also provided. | 08-09-2012 |
20120212632 | APPARATUS - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: generating a content request comprising a first content parameter; receiving a first content message comprising at least one image frame associated with the first content parameter; determining at least one further content parameter dependent on the content message; generating a content selection message comprising the least one further content parameter; and receiving a further content message, wherein the further content message comprises content generated dependent on the at least one further content parameter. | 08-23-2012 |
20120251070 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SELECTING CONTENT SEGMENTS - A method, apparatus and computer program product select content segments based at least in part on a contextual similarity level between the content segments and at least one of brightness levels, blur levels, and shake levels of the content segments. As such, a resultant video may be produced that comprises selected content segments. Accordingly, brightness levels of the content may be improved and shake and blur levels reduced while maintaining a desired field of view. | 10-04-2012 |
20130093899 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEDIA CONTENT EXTRACTION - Various methods are provided for analyzing media content. One example method may include extracting media content data and sensor data from a plurality of media content, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of data modalities. The method may also include classifying the extracted media content data and the sensor data. The method may further include determining an event-type classification based on the classified extracted media content data and the sensor data. | 04-18-2013 |
20130100307 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ANALYZING CONTEXT-BASED MEDIA DATA FOR TAGGING AND RETRIEVAL - An apparatus for enabling retrieval of media content and identifying an interestingness of the media content may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including capturing items of media content including objects and assigning context data indicating a determined location of one of the captured objects and a time that the object was captured to the media content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to assign a detected item of orientation information indicating an orientation of a media capturing device, capturing the objects, to the context data associated with the media content. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to enable retrieval of the media content from a memory based on analyzing the location of the captured object, the time and the orientation information. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 04-25-2013 |
20130136416 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENRICHING MEDIA WITH META-INFORMATION - An approach is provided for enriching media with meta-information blocks. Specifically, one or more segments of one or more media files are processed to determine meta-information (e.g., topics, annotations, meta-data, etc.) related to the one or more segments. Based on the determined meta-information, other media or related meta-information is determined, analyzed, and appended to the original media as one or more meta-blocks. One or more relationships among the original and other media is then determined. Based on the determination of the one or more relationships, topic blocks (i.e., multi-topic links) are generated and associated with the original and other media. The addition of the meta-blocks and topic blocks to the original media enables either a renderer or a service to generate one or more composite media (e.g., a video mashup) based on the navigation and analysis of media determined as a result of traversing the one or more topic blocks. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138654 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR GENERATING SEMANTIC SIGNATURES FOR MEDIA CONTENT - Methods and apparatuses are provided for generating, storing, and/or distributing semantic media signatures for media content. A method may comprise receiving media content to be analyzed for generating a semantic signature. The method may further comprise processing the media content to determine one or more media segments of the media content. Additionally, the method may comprise identifying one or more topics represented by the media content. The method may further comprise associating one or more media segments with each of the one or more topics. The one or more media segments associated with a topic may contain a representation of the topic. The method may additionally comprise generating a semantic signature for the media content. The semantic signature may comprise an indication of the one or more identified topics and the one or more media segments associated with each topic. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided. | 05-30-2013 |
20130138693 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTEXT-BASED OBFUSCATION OF MEDIA - An approach for sharing and/or viewing one or more remixes of content based on the preferences of a user is described. A segmentation platform causes, at least in part, a segmentation of content into one or more segments, wherein the one or more segments are associated with one or more content labels. The segmentation platform also causes, at least in part, a rendering and/or sharing of one or more remixes of the content based, at least in part, on at least one subset of the one or more segments based, at least in part, on profile information, context information, or a combination thereof associated with one or more viewers of the content, one or more owners of the content, one or more sharers of the content. | 05-30-2013 |
20130176438 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR ANALYZING CROWD SOURCE SENSED DATA TO DETERMINE INFORMATION RELATED TO MEDIA CONTENT OF MEDIA CAPTURING DEVICES - An apparatus for classifying focus points detected in media content associated with an event(s) and generating a media content recording with media segments associated with a portion of the focus points may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including receiving items of recorded media content and sensor data, from one or more devices, corresponding to at least one event. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to determine one or more focus points of interest in the media content indicating areas or locations of interest that are associated with the event. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to classify the focus points of interest based in part on analyzing respective items of the sensor data. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130176453 | METHODS, APPARATUSES AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR FACILITATING IMAGE REGISTRATION BASED IN PART ON USING SENSOR DATA - An apparatus for performing image registration based on sensor data may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including capturing successive images corresponding to a scene. The successive images are captured during successive exposure time intervals. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to detect sensor data during the exposure time intervals. The sensor data may be utilized to determine horizontal and vertical orientation differences between at least two consecutive images of successive images. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to perform registration to align pixels of the two images by shifting pixels of a first image of the two images to align with pixels of a second image of the two images based on the horizontal orientation difference and the vertical orientation difference. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130177293 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE ASSIGNMENT OF ROLES FOR IMAGE CAPTURING DEVICES - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided in order to assign roles to respective image capturing devices regarding at least one object that is a target during the subsequent recording. In the context of a method, at least one object is detected within a recorded image. The method may also cause information regarding the recorded image and information regarding the at least one object that was detected to be transmitted. The method may also include receiving an assignment of a role regarding at least one object being a target during subsequent recording. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided. | 07-11-2013 |
20130282804 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR MULTI-DEVICE TIME ALIGNMENT AND INSERTION OF MEDIA - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory, computer program code, and processor configured to cause the apparatus to receive at least a first media content from a first device configured to capture media content and a second media content from a second device configured to capture media content. The apparatus may be configured to align the continuous media content from the first media content to the continuous media content from the second media content. The apparatus may be configured to measure the time intervals between the non-continuous media content and the continuous media content. The apparatus may be configured to align the non-continuous media content with respect to the continuous media content, based at least in part by the measured time intervals. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282869 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR SCHEDULING FILE UPLOADS - A method, apparatus and computer program product for scheduling file uploads are provided. A request may be received to upload a file and, utilizing any of personal preferences, position data, network access point data and power consumption data, a time to begin the file upload and/or a network access point(s) by which to upload the file may be scheduled. The scheduling may comprise calculating a suitability score for a network access point(s). | 10-24-2013 |
20140063057 | SYSTEM FOR GUIDING USERS IN CROWDSOURCED VIDEO SERVICES - An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code may be configured to receive data corresponding to a first media content from a user captured by a first media capturing device. The apparatus may be configured to determine at least one media capturing parameter of the first media content to be changed. The apparatus may be configured to cause information regarding the media capturing parameter of the first media content to be changed to be transmitted to at least the first media capturing device. The apparatus may be configured to receive a second media content from a user captured by the first media capturing device, wherein the second media content differs from the first media content by at least the media capturing parameter to be changed. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided. | 03-06-2014 |
20140067315 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MULTIMODAL BIDIRECTIONAL CROWD SHAPING - A method, apparatus, computer program product and system are provided for facilitating multimodal bidirectional crowd shaping. In this regard, a method is provided that includes receiving at least two types of positional information. The method further includes determining respective weights for the at least two types of positional information and then determining an estimated number of users located at one or more positions based on the positional information and respective weights. According to a further embodiment, one or more statuses may also be determined and the weights may be determined based at least in part on the status, such that the respective weights may be adjusted in accordance with changes in the one or more statuses. | 03-06-2014 |
20140161354 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SEMANTIC EXTRACTION AND VIDEO REMIX CREATION - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for extracting semantic information from user-generated media content to create a video remix which is semantically enriched. An exemplary method comprises extracting media content data and sensor data from a plurality of media content, wherein the sensor data comprises a plurality of data modalities. The method may also include classifying the extracted media content data and the sensor data. The method may further include detecting predefined objects or events utilizing the sensor data to create remix video. | 06-12-2014 |
20140212002 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSOR AIDED EXTRACTION OF SPATIO-TEMPORTAL FEATURES - A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for extracting spatio-temporal features with the aid of sensor information. An exemplary method comprises receiving video data and auxiliary sensor data and associating the two with timestamp information. The method may also include segmenting an input data stream into stable segments and extracting temporal features from the associated video data. The method may further include extracting temporal features either form the whole video or only from the video data where little or no stable segments are detected and performing camera view motion compensation by using information provided by the auxiliary sensors for modifying the feature-descriptors. | 07-31-2014 |
20140259179 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING CROWD SOURCED CONTENT CREATION - A method, apparatus, computer program product and system are provided for managing crowd sourced content creation. In this regard, a method is provided that includes receiving information regarding at least one content recording device and information regarding a recording subject. The method further includes determining whether the at least one content recording device is eligible to receive at least one permission indicator, based at least in part on the information regarding the at least one content recording device and the information regarding the recording subject. The method also includes causing the at least one permission indicator to be provided to the at least one content recording device in an instance in which it is determined that the at least one content recording device is eligible to receive the at least one permission indicator. | 09-11-2014 |
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 |
20150074123 | VIDEO REMIXING SYSTEM - A method and an apparatus for selecting content for a media remix, comprising: obtaining information about a base media content to be used as a basis for the media remix in a media remix service; retrieving one or more supplementary media content from one or more network domains or multimedia content databases on the basis of said information, said supplementary media content being at least partly similar and/or relevant to the base media content; and generating a media remix on the basis of said base media content and said one or more supplementary media content. | 03-12-2015 |
20150078723 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SMART VIDEO RENDERING - A method generating control data for displaying a video sequence on a low resolution display may comprise providing at least a first video sequence, the first video sequence comprising a plurality of image frames, determining whether a first image frame of the first video sequence comprises a sub-image of a primary object, selecting a first position of a primary image portion of an image frame such that the first position substantially matches with the position of the sub-image of the primary object, if the first image frame has been determined to comprise said sub-image of said primary object and providing control data, which indicates said first position. | 03-19-2015 |