Media content cross-referencing

• US 10,448,067 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2017
• Issued: 10/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Mazur, Jeffrey
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ocak, Adil
• Application Number:
  US15/799,778
• Publication Number:
  US 20190132619A1
• Time in Patent Office: 714 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

A media content cross-referencing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media cross-referencing software code. The hardware processor executes the media cross-referencing software code to receive data identifying multiple media assets, identify a media content including the media assets based on the data, and obtain a preliminary version of the media content. The preliminary version of the media content includes metadata identifying an original source media of each of the media assets. The hardware processor further executes the media cross-referencing software code to map each of the media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata. The mapping cross-references each of the media assets with its respective original source media.

Claims

1. A media content cross-referencing system comprising:

a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory;

a media cross-referencing software code stored in the system memory;

the hardware processor configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to;

receive data identifying a plurality of media assets;

identify a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data;

obtain a first version of the identified media content, the first version of the identified media content including metadata identifying the plurality of media assets in a second version of the identified media content, the metadata having camera reel metadata and timecode range metadata, wherein the plurality of media assets in the first version have a lower quality than the plurality of media assets in the second version;

map each of the plurality of media assets in the first version to its corresponding one of the plurality of media assets in the second version using the camera reel metadata and the timecode range metadata, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets in the first version to its corresponding one of the plurality of media assets in the second version; and

locate, based on the mapping, each of the plurality of media assets in the second version of the identified media content.

2. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to render each of the plurality of media assets located in the second version of the identified media content.

3. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 1, wherein the identified media content comprises audio-visual content.

4. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 3, wherein the plurality of media assets comprise camera shots included in the audio-visual content.

5. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 3, wherein the first version of the identified media content is a rough cut low quality version of the audio-visual content.

6. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 3, wherein the second version of the identified media content comprises original camera footage of each of the plurality of media assets.

7. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 6, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to render a video clip including each of the plurality of media assets located in the second version of the identified media content.

8. A method for use by a media content cross-referencing system including a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media cross-referencing software code, the method comprising:

receiving, using the hardware processor, data identifying a plurality of media assets;

identifying, using the hardware processor, a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data;

obtaining, using the hardware processor, a first version of the identified media content, the first version of the identified media content including metadata identifying the plurality of media assets in a second version of the identified media content, the metadata having camera reel metadata and timecode range metadata, wherein the plurality of media assets in the first version have a lower quality than the plurality of media assets in the second version;

mapping, using the hardware processor, each of the plurality of media assets in the first version to its corresponding one of the plurality of media assets in the second version using the camera reel metadata and the timecode range metadata, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets in the first version to its corresponding one of the plurality of media assets in the second version; and

locating, based on the mapping, each of the plurality of media assets in the second version of the identified media content.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising rendering, using the hardware processor, each of the plurality of media assets located in the second version of the identified media content.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the identified media content comprises audio-visual content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the plurality of media assets comprise camera shots included in the audio-visual content.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the first version of the identified media content is a rough cut low quality version of the audio-visual content.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the second version of the identified media content comprises original camera footage of each of the plurality of media assets.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising rendering, using the hardware processor, a video clip including each of the plurality of media assets located in the second version of the identified media content.

15. The method of claim 8, wherein the first version of the identified media content includes a plurality of markups indexed to a timecode of the first version of the identified media content, and wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining, using the hardware processor, a copy of the second version of the identified media content;

mapping, using the hardware processor, at least some of the plurality of markups indexed to the timecode of the first version of the identified media content to a timecode of the second version of the identified media content; and

modifying, using the hardware processor, the copy of the second version of the identified media content to include the at least some of the plurality of markups.