Systems and methods for creating and navigating broadcast-ready social content items in a live produced video

• US 10,349,140 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2014
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tagboard, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Tagboard, Inc.
• Inventors: Hogan, Jennifer, McLauchlan, David Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Shang, Annan Q
• Application Number:
  US14/465,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20150143405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,783 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 60/07 characterised by processes or methods for the generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2187 Live feed
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26258 for generating a list of items to be played back in a given order, e.g. playlist, or scheduling item distribution according to such list retrieval of multimedia data based on playlists G06F16/40
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/27 Server based end-user applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4126 The peripheral being portable, e.g. PDAs or mobile phones
• 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 21/8146 involving graphical data, e.g. 3D object, 2D graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring

Abstract

Systems and methods for incorporating social content items into a produced video are provided. The system presents a producer interface to a user that allows the user to query for social content items. The user may then select and arrange social content items in an on-air queue. In an on-air mode, the system generates a broadcast-ready on-air format of the social content items and provides a video stream including the broadcast-ready social content items in the on-air queue to a video production system. The broadcast-ready social content items are incorporated into a produced video by the video production system. The user may navigate through the social content items in the on-air queue while on camera as part of the produced video.

Claims

1. A method of providing graphics content for inclusion in a produced video, the method comprising:

retrieving, by a mobile computing device, a set of social content items from a social media platform;

receiving, by the mobile computing device, a selection of one or more social content items from the set of social content items for inclusion in an on-air queue;

reformatting, by the mobile computing device, at least one of a size, a position, and a font for each content item in the on-air queue to generate on-air format graphics; and

transmitting, by the mobile computing device, a display signal including the on-air format graphics to be included in the produced video.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the display signal including the on-air format graphics comprises:

transmitting, by the mobile computing device, a display signal including an on-air format graphic associated with a content item in the on-air queue;

receiving, by the mobile computing device from a user, a navigation command to move from the content item in the on-air queue to a different content item in the on-air queue; and

transmitting, by the mobile computing device, a display signal including an on-air format graphic associated with the different content item in the on-air queue.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the produced video is a live video of the user providing the navigation command.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the navigation command is selected from the group consisting of a forward command, a back command, a zoom-in command, a zoom-out command, a play command, and a stop command.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the produced video is a broadcast television video or a live streaming video.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein retrieving the set of social content items from the social media platform includes:

receiving, by the mobile computing device, a set of query parameters; and

transmitting, by the mobile computing device to the social media platform, a query based on the set of query parameters.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein retrieving the set of social content items from the social media platform further includes applying, by the mobile computing device, one or more compliance rules to a set of social content items received from the social media platform.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising ceasing transmission of the display signal that includes on-air format graphics upon detection of a complex gesture by a user.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the complex gesture is a triple-tap.

10. A nontransitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, in response to execution by one or more processors of a mobile computing device, cause the mobile computing device to perform actions for providing graphics content for inclusion in a produced video, the actions comprising:

retrieving, by the mobile computing device, a set of social content items from a social media platform;

receiving, by the mobile computing device, a selection of one or more social content items from the set of social content items for inclusion in an on-air queue;

reformatting, by the mobile computing device, at least one of a size, a position, and a font for each content item in the on-air queue to generate on-air format graphics; and

transmitting, by the mobile computing device, a display signal including the on-air format graphics to be included in the produced video.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein transmitting the display signal including the on-air format graphics comprises:

transmitting, by the mobile computing device, a display signal including an on-air format graphic associated with a content item in the on-air queue;

receiving, by the mobile computing device from a user, a navigation command to move from the content item in the on-air queue to a different content item in the on-air queue; and

transmitting, by the mobile computing device, a display signal including an on-air format graphic associated with the different content item in the on-air queue.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein retrieving the set of social content items from the social media platform includes:

receiving, by the mobile computing device, a set of query parameters; and

transmitting, by the mobile computing device to the social media platform, a query based on the set of query parameters.