Method and system for segmenting and transmitting on-demand live-action video in real-time

• US 10,565,453 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2018
• Issued: 02/18/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LiveClips, LLC
• Original Assignee: LiveClips, LLC
• Inventors: Vunic, Douglas W., Hoffert, Eric, Gessel, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Beck, Leron
• Application Number:
  US16/106,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20180357483A1
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 348700
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/44 Event detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/49 Segmenting video sequences, i.e. computational techniques such as parsing or cutting the sequence, low-level clustering or determining units such as shots or scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence

Abstract

A method and system for producing video-segments of a live-action event involving monitoring a live-action event for detection of event-segments, detecting one or more event-triggers with detectors, determining if an event-segment occurred based on the detected event-triggers, and editing one or more video feeds into a video-segment to encompass the event-segment.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

detecting, by a processing system comprising a processor, a first event-trigger and a second event-trigger of a plurality of event-triggers based on an analysis of a video feed, wherein the first event-trigger is presented chronologically prior to the second event-trigger in the video feed;

determining, by the processing system, whether a first event of interest has occurred by evaluating the first event-trigger according to a predetermined criteria and whether a second event of interest has occurred by evaluating the second event-trigger according to the predetermined criteria;

segmenting, by the processing system, the video feed into a plurality of video-segments including a first video-segment that encompasses the first event of interest and a second video-segment that encompasses the second event of interest responsive to determining that the first event of interest has occurred and determining that the second event of interest has occurred, respectively;

determining, by the processing system, for the first video-segment, a first interval of the first video-segment prior to the first event of interest and a second interval of the first video-segment after the first event of interest, wherein a first length of the first interval and a second length of the second interval are determined automatically;

determining, by the processing system, for the second video-segment, a third interval of the second video-segment prior to the second event of interest and a fourth interval of the second video-segment after the second event of interest, wherein a third length of the third interval and a fourth length of the fourth interval are determined automatically;

receiving, by the processing system, a selection of the first video-segment and the second video-segment from among the plurality of video-segments; and

transmitting, by the processing system, the first video-segment and the second video-segment to an end-user device, wherein the second video-segment is transmitted prior to the first video-segment according to the predetermined criteria, wherein the second video-segment is presented on the end-user device prior to the first video-segment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the evaluating is performed when an event state is in an “

on”

state.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting, by the processing system, a menu including a representation of available video-segments of the plurality of video-segments to the end-user device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the menu displayed on the end-user device contains a plurality of selectable tiles representing the available video-segments.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of selectable tiles are organized chronologically.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of selectable tiles displayed in the menu are included automatically according to a user'"'"'s past behavior.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the plurality of selectable tiles displayed are included according to a user-selected preference.

8. The method of claim 3, wherein the video feed comprises a plurality of camera perspectives of a single occasion, and wherein the representation allows selection from among a plurality of single occasion video-segments that are distinct camera perspectives of a same event of interest.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first length and the second length are determined automatically according to a user'"'"'s past behavior.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising attaching metadata to the first video-segment describing the first event of interest.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the video feed is transcoded prior to the transmitting the first video-segment to the end-user device.

12. A system, comprising:

a processing system including a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

analyzing a video feed for event-triggers, wherein the event-triggers are determined according to a detected first event-trigger when a first event of interest has occurred and according to a detected second event-trigger when a second event of interest has occurred;

performing video-segmentation to create a first video-segment encompassing the first event of interest and a second video-segment encompassing the second event of interest, wherein the first video-segment occurs chronologically prior to the second video-segment in the video feed;

determining a first length of time for the first video-segment, the first length of time including a first interval of the first video-segment prior to the first event of interest and a second interval of the first video-segment after the first event of interest, wherein the first length of the first interval and a second length of the second interval are determined automatically;

determining a third length of time for the second video-segment, the third length of time including a third interval of the second video-segment prior to the second event of interest and a fourth interval of the second video-segment after the second event of interest, wherein the third length of the third interval and a fourth length of the fourth interval are determined automatically;

receiving a selection of the first video-segment and the second video-segment from an end-user device; and

transmitting the first video-segment and the second video-segment to the end-user device, wherein the second video-segment is transmitted prior to the first video-segment according to a predetermined criteria, wherein the second video-segment is presented on the end-user device prior to the first video-segment.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

analyzing the video feed only when an event state is “

on”

;

appraising the end-user device;

adding metadata to the first video-segment and the second video-segment; and

transcoding the first video-segment and the second video-segment prior to the transmitting to the end-user device.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a menu including a representation of available video-segments including a plurality of video-segments to the end-user device, wherein the plurality of video-segments includes the first video-segment.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the first length and the second length are determined automatically according to a user-selected preference.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the first length and the second length are determined automatically according to a user'"'"'s past behavior.

17. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

detecting a plurality of event-triggers, each event-trigger of the plurality of event-triggers occurring at a specific time in a video feed containing media content resulting in a plurality of detected event triggers;

assigning a weighting value to each detected event-trigger of the plurality of detected event-triggers;

comparing the plurality of detected event-triggers, and an accompanying weighted value for each detected event-trigger, that were registered within a predetermined length of time to determine whether an event of interest has occurred; and

segmenting the video feed into a video-segment that encompasses the event of interest when the event of interest has occurred to include the event of interest and to include a first interval of the video feed and a second interval of the video feed.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the video feed comprises a single video feed that is a compilation of a plurality of video sources, and wherein a first length of the first interval is preceding the video-segment and a second length of the second interval is following the video-segment and are automatically adjusted according to one of a user'"'"'s previous behavior and a predetermined criteria.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise transmitting a menu including a representation of available video-segments of the plurality of video sources including the video-segment to an end-user device.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise determining a segment length for the video-segment including determining the first interval and the second interval based on a heuristic assessment of the event of interest to include a portion of the video-segment before and after the event of interest.