Methods and systems of providing visual content editing functions

• US 10,334,307 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2016
• Issued: 06/25/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Inventors: Hogeg, Moshe, Shemesh, Yosef
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Velez-Lopez, Mario M
• Application Number:
  US15/250,960
• Publication Number:
  US 20160373805A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera
• 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 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

A method of adjusting visual content. The method comprises selecting, on a client terminal, visual content, extracting visual content data pertaining to the visual content, forwarding a request which includes the visual content data to a network node via a network, receiving, in response to the request, a list of a plurality of visual content editing functions from the network node, presenting, on the client terminal, the plurality of visual content editing functions to a user, receiving a selection of at least one member of the list from the user, adjusting the visual content using the at least one member, and outputting the adjusted visual content.

Claims

1. A server, comprising:

a memory adapted to store code; and

at least one hardware processor adapted to execute instructions of the code to;

identify when a client device captures at least one of an image and a video file,

analyze textual content in a plurality of content providing network sources, available via a network, to identify at least one current event,

select one or more visual content editing functions based upon positional data pertaining to a location of the client device and according to the at least one current event, and

supply the one or more selected visual content editing functions to the client device;

wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are configured to be selectable by a user using a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a display of the client device;

wherein each of the one or more selected visual content editing functions comprises instructions to generate an overlay adapted to be applied on top of the image or the video file in response to a selection made by the user using the GUI, wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are configured for the location of the client device.

2. The server of claim 1, wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions relate to a place proximate to the location of the client device.

3. The server of claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor executes instructions to capture the at least one of the image and the video file using an image sensor installed in the client device.

4. The server of claim 3, wherein the positional data comprises a velocity of the client device when the at least one of the image and the video file is captured by the image sensor.

5. The server of claim 1, wherein the GUI comprises a plurality of indications each for one of the one or more selected visual content editing functions.

6. The server of claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor executes instructions to perform at least one of a semantic analysis and a statistic analysis of the textual content.

7. The server of claim 1,

wherein the at least one hardware processor executes instructions to acquire at least one demographic characteristic of a user of the client device;

and

wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are selected according to the at least one demographic characteristic.

8. The server of claim 1,

wherein the at least one hardware processor executes instructions to acquire personal data pertaining to a user of the client device;

and

wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are selected according to the personal data.

9. The server of claim 8, wherein the personal data is extracted from a social network profile.

10. The server of claim 8, wherein the personal data comprises a log of previously selected visual content editing functions.

11. A method of selecting visual content editing functions, the method being carried out by at least one network unit programmed to carry out the method, wherein the method comprises:

executing, using at least one hardware processor, instructions of a code comprising;

identifying when a client device captures at least one of an image and a video file,

analyzing textual content in a plurality of content providing network sources, available via a network, to identify at least one current event,

selecting one or more visual content editing functions based upon positional data pertaining to a location of the client device and according to the at least one current event, and

supplying the one or more selected visual content editing functions to the client device;

wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are configured to be independently selectable by a user using a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a display of the client device;

wherein each of the one or more selected visual content editing functions comprises an overlay adapted to be applied on top of the image or the video file in response to a selection made by the user using the GUI, wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are configured for the location of the client device.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein selecting one or more visual content editing functions comprises locally capturing the visual content using an image sensor installed in the client device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein selecting one or more visual content editing functions comprises accessing a database via a network to select the at least one of the image and the video file using a user interface on the client device.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein selecting one or more visual content editing functions comprises image processing the at least one of the image and the video file to perform at least one of identifying an object having a predefined feature, classifying a scene, recognizing a facial feature, and detecting a moving object to select the at least one of the image and the video file using a user interface on the client device.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein selecting one or more visual content editing functions is performed in response to a request comprising user identification data;

and

further comprising extracting personal data according to the user identification data;

wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are selected according to the personal data.

16. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium for dynamically selecting visual content editing functions, the non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprises executable instructions to:

identify when a client device captures at least one of an image and a video file;

analyze textual content in a plurality of content providing network sources, available via a network, to identify at least one current event;

select one or more visual content editing functions based upon positional data pertaining to a location of the client device and according to the at least one current event; and

supply the one or more selected visual content editing functions to the client device;

wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are configured to be independently selectable by a user using a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a display of the client device;

wherein each of the one or more selected visual content editing functions comprises an overlay adapted to be applied on top of the image or the video file in response to a selection made by the user using the GUI, wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions are configured for the location of the client device.

17. A client device comprising:

a display;

a global positioning system (GPS) sensor configured to generate positional data pertaining to a location of the client device;

at least one hardware processor adapted to execute a code of an application to;

present a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display,

receive a selection made by a user using the GUI, the selection is indicative of visual content generated by the client device,

send the positional data to a server, and

receive from the server one or more visual content editing functions selected based on based on the positional data and according to at least one current event identified by analyzing textual content in a plurality of content providing network sources available via a network,

store the one or more visual content editing functions, and

adjust the visual content using the one or more selected visual content editing functions.

18. The client device of claim 17, wherein the one or more selected visual content editing functions relate to a place proximate to the location of the client device.

19. The client device of claim 17, wherein the at least one hardware processor executes instructions to capture the visual content using an image sensor installed in the client device.