Multipurpose media players

• US 10,514,815 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2017
• Issued: 12/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thomas Majchrowski & Associates, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Thomas Majchrowski & Associates, Inc.
• Inventors: DeWitt, Keri
• Primary Examiner(s): Abebe, Daniel
• Application Number:
  US15/849,349
• Publication Number:
  US 20180113540A1
• Time in Patent Office: 734 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally

Abstract

A computer readable medium containing a set of instructions that causes a computer to perform a process comprised of receiving one or more media files. The one or more media files having one or more scenes and each scene including a starting time point and ending time point. The set of instructions may include changing the starting time point and/or the ending time point of a scene from the one or more scenes in response to an input command. The set of instructions may create a new scene and save the new scene based on the new starting time point and/or ending time point of the scene.

Claims

1. A system for editing digital content comprising:

at least one processor; and

memory including instructions that upon execution by the at least one processor cause the system to

display a scene list corresponding to a selected scene, the scene list illustrating a plurality of first media clips from a first base media file in a particular order and illustrating, for each of the first media clips, a starting time corresponding to a first playing time of the first base media file and an ending time corresponding to a second playing time of the first base media file;

display a media player window configured to play the selected scene according to the scene list;

responsive to receiving a text file defining a plurality of second media clips each having a starting time corresponding to a first playing time of a second base media file and an ending time corresponding to a second playing time of the second base media file, the text file including a time code corresponding to the second base media file for each second media clip, add one of the second media clips to the scene list as part of the particular order;

play, via the media player window, the first and second media clips of the scene list according to the particular order and the starting time and the ending time of each first and second media clip of the scene list; and

responsive to determining that the time code for the one second media clip within the text file is less than the time code for another of the second media clips within the text file, and to the one second media clip being added to the scene list, illustrate in the scene list the time code for the one second media clip within the text file as the starting time for the one second media clip, and illustrate in the scene list the time code for the another second media clip within the text file as the ending time for the one second media clip.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to:

responsive to receiving the text file, display the contents of the text file; and

responsive to a user interaction with the contents of the text file, add the one second media clip to the scene list.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein each second media clip is associated with a different hyperlink within the text file, and the user interaction is a selection of the different hyperlink associated with the one second media clip within the text file.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to identify, as the time code for the another second media clip within the text file, the next greater time code in the text file after the time code for the one second media clip.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to, responsive to determining that the time code for the one second media clip in the text file is the greatest time code in the text file, and to the one second media clip being added to the scene list, illustrate in the scene list the time code for the one second media clip within the text file as the starting time for the one second media clip, and illustrate in the scene list a time code defined by a user after the text file is received as the ending time for the one second media clip.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to enable the user to define the time code after the text file is received as the ending time for the one second media clip by causing the system to:

play the second base media file in the media player window; and

display a selectable option that sets a current playing time of the second base media file in the media player window as the ending time of the one second media clip.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to:

responsive to receiving the text file, simultaneously display the contents of the text file and a selectable option that imports all of the second media clips; and

responsive to a selection of the selectable option, add all of the second media clips to the scene list.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to, responsive to one of the first or second media clips in the scene list being highlighted, play the highlighted media clip in the media player window.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the scene list to illustrate an identifier for the first base media file for each first media clip, and to illustrate, responsive to the one second media clip being added to the scene list, an identifier for the second base media file for the one second media clip.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to, responsive to a selection of the first base media file, play the first base media file via the media player window, and responsive to a selection of the second base media file, play the second base media file via the media player window.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to, responsive to one of the first media clips being highlighted in the scene list before the one second media clip is added to the scene list, add the one second media clip to the particular order of the scene list above the highlighted first media clip.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to:

add the one second media clip to the scene list at the end of the particular order;

display an up button adjacent to the scene list; and

responsive to the up button being selected after the one second media clip is highlighted within the scene list, move the one second media clip up in the particular order.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to display the scene list and the media player window simultaneously.

14. A method for editing digital content comprising:

displaying, by at least one processor, a scene list corresponding to a selected scene, the scene list illustrating a plurality of first media clips from a first base media file in a particular order and illustrating, for each of the first media clips, a starting time corresponding to a first playing time of the first base media file and an ending time corresponding to a second playing time of the first base media file;

displaying a media player window configured to play the selected scene according to the scene list;

responsive to receiving a text file defining a plurality of second media clips each having a starting time corresponding to a first playing time of a second base media file and an ending time corresponding to a second playing time of the second base media file, the text file including a time code corresponding to the second base media file for each second media clip, adding, by the at least one processor, one of the second media clips to the scene list as part of the particular order;

playing, via the media player window, the first and second media clips of the scene list according to the particular order and the starting time and the ending time of each first and second media clip of the scene list; and

responsive to determining that the time code for the one second media clip within the text file is less than the time code for another of the second media clips within the text file, and to the one second media clip being added to the scene list, illustrating in the scene list the time code for the one second media clip within the text file as the starting time for the one second media clip, and illustrating in the scene list the time code for the another second media clip within the text file as the ending time for the one second media clip.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein each second media clip is associated with a different hyperlink within the text file, and further comprising:

responsive to receiving the text file, displaying the different hyperlinks of the text file; and

responsive to a user selection of the displayed hyperlink associated with the one second media clip, adding the one second media clip to the scene list.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

responsive to receiving the text file, simultaneously displaying the contents of the text file and a selectable option that imports all of the second media clips;

responsive to a selection of the selectable option, adding all of the second media clips to the scene list as part of the particular order;

responsive to receiving user input to delete the one second media clip from the scene list after the second media clips are added to the scene list, deleting the one second media clip from the scene list; and

after the one second media clip is deleted from the scene list, playing, via the media player window, the selected scene based on the first and second media clips remaining in the scene list and the particular order.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising, responsive to one of the first and second media clips in the scene list being highlighted, playing the highlighted media clip via the media player window.

18. A computer program product for editing digital content comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, upon execution by a computer, cause the computer to

simultaneously display a scene list corresponding to a selected scene and a media player window, the media player window being configured to play the selected scene according to the scene list;

responsive to receiving a text file defining a plurality of media clips, each of the media clips having a starting time corresponding to a first playing time of a base media file and an ending time corresponding to a second playing time of the base media file, the text file including a time code corresponding to the second base media file for each second media clip, add the media clips to the scene list, the scene list displaying the media clips in a particular order;

play, via the media player window, the media clips of the scene list according to the particular order and the starting time and ending time of each media clip in the scene list; and

responsive to determining that the time code for the one second media clip within the text file is less than the time code for another of the second media clips within the text file, and to the one second media clip being added to the scene list, illustrate in the scene list the time code for the one second media clip within the text file as the starting time for the one second media clip, and illustrate in the scene list the time code for the another second media clip within the text file as the ending time for the one second media clip.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the computer to, responsive to a user input to delete one of the media clips from the scene list after the media clips are added to the scene list, delete the one media clip from the scene list.