System and method for identifying and tagging assets within an AV file

• US 10,452,874 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2016
• Issued: 10/22/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Smith, Tony R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Harvey, David E
• Application Number:
  US15/061,739
• Publication Number:
  US 20170256289A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,327 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10297 arrangements for handling protocols designed for non-contact record carriers such as RFIDs NFCs, e.g. ISO/IEC 14443 and 18092 cryptographic protocols H04L9/00; network security protocols H04L63/00; real-time communication protocols in data switching networks H04L65/00; network protocols for data switching network services H04L67/00
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/11 by using information not detectable on the record carrier
• 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 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8547 involving timestamps for synchronizing content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot

Abstract

A system for identifying, tagging, and displaying one or more assets within an audio visual (AV) file includes an asset tagging server, an asset tag acquisition device, and a database, wherein the asset tag acquisition device includes an asset identification engine configured to receive an asset identification data set and generate an asset tag data file that includes an asset tag corresponding to each asset. The asset tagging server is configured to receive, from an AV capture device, an AV file that includes an AV representation of each asset and corresponding timestamp data, and store, in the database, an AV asset tag data file comprising the beginning timestamp, the ending time stamp, and the set of asset tags. The system further includes a scene generation server configured to receive, from an editing display system, a set of asset parameters, search the database to identify one or more AV asset tag data files that correspond to the set of asset parameter, and display, on a user interface, the identified AV asset tag data files together with corresponding thumbnail images.

Claims

1. A system for identifying and tagging one or more assets within an audio visual (AV) file comprising:

an asset tagging server, an asset tag acquisition device, and a database;

wherein the asset tag acquisition device comprises an asset identification engine, the asset identification engine is configured to receive an asset identification data set and generate an asset tag data file comprising an asset tag corresponding to each asset in a production scene, wherein the asset tag acquisition device further comprises an asset sensor, and the asset identification engine is configured to receive the asset identification data set from the asset sensor, wherein the asset identification engine is further configured to identify at least one asset by facial recognition or voice recognition; and

the asset tagging server comprises a processor and a computer readable media with a software program embedded thereon, the software program configured to;

receive, from an AV capture device, an AV file comprising an AV representation of each asset, a beginning timestamp, and an ending timestamp;

receive, from the asset identification engine, the asset tag data file corresponding to the AV file; and

store, in the database, an AV asset tag data file comprising the beginning timestamp, the ending time stamp, and the set of asset tags.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the asset tag acquisition device further comprises a user interface, and the asset identification engine is configured to receive the asset identification data set from the user interface.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the asset sensor is a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) receiver and an RFID is disposed on each asset.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the asset sensor is the AV capture device.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the asset sensor is a video device configured to identify each asset using a pattern recognition algorithm.