Video production system with content extraction feature

• US 10,382,824 B2
• Filed: 07/18/2016
• Issued: 08/13/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 07/17/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tribune Broadcasting Company Incorporated (Nexstar Media Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tribune Broadcasting Company Incorporated (Nexstar Media Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Hundemer, Hank J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shang, Annan Q
• Application Number:
  US15/213,301
• Publication Number:
  US 20170019713A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,121 Days
• Field of Search: 725 32- 36
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23424 involving splicing one content stream with another content stream, e.g. for inserting or substituting an advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44008 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics in the video stream arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• 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 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/222 Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00

Abstract

In one aspect, an example method is disclosed. The method includes (i) receiving, by a first computing system, video content, wherein the received video content comprises at least a first element and a second element, wherein the first element is social media (SM) video content published by a SM user, and wherein the second element is content other than SM video content published by the SM user; (ii) extracting, by the first computing system, the first element from the received video content; (iii) generating, by the first computing system, video content that includes the extracted first element; and (iv) transmitting, by the first computing system, to a second computing system, the generated video content for presentation of the generated video content on the second computing system.

Claims

1. A method for use in connection with a first computing system comprising a video-production system (VPS) configured to facilitate production of a video program, the method comprising:

receiving, by the first computing system, from a second computing system associated with a social media (SM) platform, a data stream, wherein the received data stream comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion represents SM video content published by a SM user on the SM platform, wherein the second portion represents data other than SM content published by the SM user on the SM platform, and wherein the second portion comprises an instruction to overlay supplemental content on the SM video content;

extracting, by the first computing system, the first portion from the received data stream;

from among the extracted first portion of the received data stream and the instruction to overlay the supplemental content, integrating, by the first computing system, only the extracted first portion of the received data stream into the video program to generate a video program that includes the SM video content; and

transmitting, by the first computing system, to an end-user device, the generated video program for presentation of the generated video program on the end-user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first portion comprises a first sub-portion and a second sub-portion, wherein receiving the data stream comprises (i) receiving the first sub-portion before receiving the second portion, and (ii) receiving the second portion before receiving the second sub-portion.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein extracting the first portion from the received data stream comprises:

identifying the first sub-portion;

identifying the second sub-portion;

extracting the identified first sub-portion from the received data stream; and

extracting the identified second sub-portion from the received data stream.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream before receiving the first sub-portion, wherein identifying the first sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify a starting point of the first sub-portion.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream after receiving the first sub-portion, wherein identifying the first sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify an ending point of the first sub-portion.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream before receiving the second sub-portion, wherein identifying the second sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify a starting point of the second sub-portion.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream after receiving the second sub-portion, wherein identifying the second sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify an ending point of the second sub-portion.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the generated video program comprises transmitting the generated video program at our about the same time that the SM video content is captured by a video capturing device of a third computing system associated with the SM user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the supplemental content includes comments by other SM users on the SM video content.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon program instructions that upon execution by a processor, cause performance of a set of acts comprising:

receiving, by a first computing system comprising a video-production system (VPS) configured to facilitate production of a video program, from a second computing system associated with a social media (SM) platform, a data stream, wherein the received data stream comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion represents SM video content published by a SM user on the SM platform, wherein the second portion represents data other than SM content published by the SM user on the SM platform, and wherein the second portion comprises an instruction to overlay supplemental content on the SM video content;

extracting, by the first computing system, the first portion from the received data stream;

from among the extracted first portion of the received data stream and the instruction to overlay the supplemental content, integrating, by the first computing system, only the extracted first portion of the received data stream into the video program to generate a video program that includes the SM video content; and

transmitting, by the first computing system, to an end-user device, the generated video program for presentation of the generated video program on the end-user device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the first portion comprises a first sub-portion and a second sub-portion, wherein receiving the data stream comprises (i) receiving the first sub-portion before receiving the second portion, and (ii) receiving the second portion before receiving the second sub-portion.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein extracting the first portion from the received data stream comprises:

identifying the first sub-portion;

identifying the second sub-portion;

extracting the identified first sub-portion from the received data stream; and

extracting the identified second sub-portion from the received data stream.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, the set of acts further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream before receiving the first sub-portion, wherein identifying the first sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify a starting point of the first sub-portion.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, the set of acts further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream after receiving the first sub-portion, wherein identifying the first sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify an ending point of the first sub-portion.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, the set of acts further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream before receiving the second sub-portion, wherein identifying the second sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify a starting point of the second sub-portion.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, the set of acts further comprising:

receiving a third portion of the received data stream after receiving the second sub-portion, wherein identifying the second sub-portion comprises using the received third portion to identify an ending point of the second sub-portion.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein transmitting the generated video program comprises transmitting the generated video program at our about the same time that the SM video content is captured by a video capturing device of a third computing system associated with the SM user.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the supplemental content includes comments by other SM users on the SM video content.

19. A first computing system configured for performing a set of acts, wherein first computing system comprises a video-production system (VPS) configured to facilitate production of a video program, the set of acts comprising:

receiving, by the first computing system, from a second computing system associated with a social media (SM) platform, a data stream, wherein the received data stream comprises a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion represents SM video content published by a SM user on the SM platform, wherein the second portion represents data other than SM content published by the SM user on the SM platform, and wherein the second portion comprises an instruction to overlay supplemental content on the SM video content;

extracting, by the first computing system, the first portion from the received data stream;

from among the extracted first portion of the received data stream and the instruction to overlay the supplemental content, integrating, by the first computing system, only the extracted first portion of the received data stream into the video program to generate a video program that includes the SM video content; and

transmitting, by the first computing system, to an end-user device, the generated video program for presentation of the generated video program on the end-user device.

20. The first computing system of claim 19, wherein the supplemental content includes comments by other SM users on the SM video content.