System and method for audio visual content creation and publishing within a controlled environment

• US 10,015,546 B1
• Filed: 07/27/2017
• Issued: 07/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Global Tel-Link Corporation
• Original Assignee: Global Tel-Link Corporation
• Inventors: Petty, Alex
• Primary Examiner(s): He, Jialong
• Application Number:
  US15/662,092
• Time in Patent Office: 341 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/41 Higher-level, semantic clustering, classification or understanding of video scenes, e.g. detection, labelling or Markovian modelling of sport events or news items segmenting video sequences G06V20/49
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2143 located in a single building, e.g. hotel, hospital or museum arrangements specially adapted for plural spots in a confined site in broadcast systems H04H20/63; adaptations for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution in television systems H04N7/106
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/233 Processing of audio elementary streams monitoring, identification or recognition of audio in broadcast systems H04H60/58
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2541 Rights Management protecting software against unauthorised usage in a vending or licensing environment G06F21/10; security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4532 involving end-user characteristics, e.g. viewer profile, preferences monitoring of user activities for profile generation for accessing a video database G06F16/739; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4627 Rights management associated to the content security in data switching network management H04L41/28; security management or policies for network security H04L63/20; access security in wireless networks H04W12/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/802 involving processing of the sound signal H04N9/806, H04N9/835 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8715 involving the mixing of the reproduced video signal with a non-recorded signal, e.g. a text signal

Abstract

Methods and systems for providing content creation and content publishing in a controlled environment are disclosed herein. A media management device receives an audio track including lyrical content. Further, the media management device performs speech recognition analysis on the audio track to determine lyrical text corresponding to the lyrical content. Additionally, the media management device determines whether the audio track contains prohibited content based on comparing the lyrical text to a blacklist of prohibited information. When the audio track does not include prohibited content, the media management device publishes the audio track to a media library accessible to devices within the controlled environment.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

sending, to an inmate device within a controlled environment, a composition identifier of a pre-approved audio composition;

receiving, from the inmate device, a selection of the composition identifier;

receiving, from the inmate device, an audio track including lyrical content;

converting the lyrical content of the audio track into lyrical text using speech recognition analysis;

identifying an inmate associated with the audio track;

determining restricted information based on an inmate profile corresponding to the inmate;

comparing the lyrical text to the restricted information, the restricted information including a blacklist of at least one of words, phrases, or names;

determining that the lyrical text does not contain the restricted information based on the comparing;

combining the audio track and the pre-approved audio composition to create an approved song; and

publishing the approved song to a catalog of inmate content.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the converting the lyrical content of the audio track into lyrical text using speech recognition analysis comprises:

determining a voice profile model associated with the inmate; and

converting the lyrical content of the audio track into lyrical text based on the voice profile.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

sending, to a facility personnel device, an identifier of the inmate and at least one of the audio track or the lyrical text.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending the approved song to at least one of another inmate device or a consumer device.

5. A media production system, comprising:

a user device associated with a user, the user being a resident of a controlled environment;

a communications network;

a media management server that communicates with the user device via the communications network, the media management server including;

one or more processors and/or circuits configured to;

receive, via the communications network, a rhythmic composition from the user device;

receive, via the communications network, a lyrical composition from the user device;

perform first analyzing of the rhythmic composition for prohibited rhythmic content;

perform second analyzing of the lyrical composition for prohibited verbal content;

determine a prohibited rhythm value based on the first analyzing;

determine a prohibited lyric value based on the second analyzing; and

combine the rhythmic composition and the lyrical composition to create an approved song based on at least one of the prohibited lyric value or prohibited rhythm value.

6. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors and/or circuits are further configured to publish the approved song to a catalog of inmate content based on the prohibited lyric value or prohibited rhythm value.

7. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors and/or circuits are further configured to:

identify an inmate associated with the rhythmic composition; and

determine the prohibited rhythmic content based on an inmate profile associated with the inmate.

8. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors and/or circuits are further configured to:

identify an inmate associated with the lyrical composition; and

determine the prohibited verbal content based on an inmate profile associated with the inmate.

9. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the determining of the prohibited rhythm value comprises:

receiving, from a musical production application on the user device, musical notation information corresponding to the rhythmic composition; and

determining the prohibited rhythm value based at least in part on comparing the musical notation information to the prohibited rhythmic content.

10. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors and/or circuits are further configured to:

determine musical notation information corresponding to the rhythmic composition based on performing musical notation analysis,

wherein the determining of the prohibited rhythm value comprises comparing the musical notation information to the prohibited rhythmic content.

11. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors and/or circuits are further configured to:

identify an inmate associated with the lyrical composition,

wherein the determining of the prohibited lyric value further includes;

determining a voice profile model associated with the inmate;

determining lyrical text corresponding to the lyrical composition based on the voice profile; and

comparing the lyrical text to the prohibited verbal content.

12. The media production system of claim 5, wherein the prohibited rhythmic content includes at least one of prohibited chords, chord progressions, phrases, motifs, melodies, or harmonies.

13. The media production system of claim 5,

wherein the prohibited verbal content includes at least one of prohibited words, phrases, or names.