Synthesis of Composite News Stories

• US 20080193101A1
• Filed: 03/29/2006
• Published: 08/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Dimitrova, Nevenka, Barbieri, Mauro, Agnihotri, Lalitha, Hanjalic, Alan
• Application Number:
  US11/909,653
• Publication Number:
  US 20080193101A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/290
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/735 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence

Abstract

A method and system characterizes (220) individual news stories and identifies (230) a common news story among a variety of stories based on this characterization. A composite story is created (240-280) for the common news story, preferably using a structure that is based on a common structure of the different versions of the story. The selection of video segments (110) from the different versions of the story for inclusion in the composite story is based on determined rankings (260, 270) of the video and audio content of the video segments (110).

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a reader (120) that is configured to provide access to a plurality of video segments (110),

a characterizer (130), operably coupled to the reader (120), that is configured to characterize each segment of the plurality of video segments (110),

a comparator (140), operably coupled to the characterizer (130), that is configured to compare the characteristics of each segment to identify a plurality of versions of a common story.

2. The system of claim 1, further including

a presenter (160), operably coupled to the comparator (140) and the reader (120), that is configured to provide a presentation based on the plurality of versions of the common story.

3. The system of claim 2, further including

a composer (150), operably coupled to the comparator (140) and the reader (120), that is configured to create the presentation, based on content of the video segments (110) of the plurality of versions.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein

the composer (150) is configured to rank (260, 270) the content of the video segments (110) based on video and audio content of the video segments (110).

5. The system of claim 3, wherein

the composer (150) is configured to:

determine (250) a common structure, based on one or more structures of the content of the video segments (110) of the plurality of versions, and

create (280) the presentation based on the common structure.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein

the composer (150) is further configured to select (280) one or more of the video segments (110) for inclusion in the presentation, based on one or more rankings of at least one of video content and audio content of the video segments (110).

7. The system of claim 1, wherein

the comparator (140) includes a filter (225) that is configured to facilitate identification of the plurality of versions of the common story based on one or more preferences of a user.

8. A method comprising:

characterizing (220) each segment of a plurality of video segments (110) to create a plurality of segment characterizations,

comparing (230) the segment characterizations to each other to identify a plurality of versions of a common story.

9. The method of claim 8, further including

creating (240-280) a presentation based on the plurality of versions of the common story.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein

the presentation is based on content of the video segments (110) of the plurality of versions.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein

creating (240-280) the presentation includes ranking (260, 270) the content of the video segments (110) based on video and audio content of the video segments (110).

12. The method of claim 9, wherein

creating (240-280) the presentation includes:

determining (250) a common structure, based on one or more structures of the content of the video segments (110) of the plurality of versions, and

creating (280) the presentation based on the common structure.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein

creating (240-280) the presentation further includes selecting one or more of the video segments (110) for inclusion in the presentation, based on one or more rankings of at least one of video content and audio content of the video segments (110).

14. The method of claim 8, further including

filtering (225) the video segments (110) based on the segment characterizations and one or more preferences of a user, to facilitate identifying the plurality of versions of the common story.