SYSTEM FOR CAPTURING AND MANAGING PERSONALIZED VIDEO IMAGES OVER AN IP-BASED CONTROL AND DATA LOCAL AREA NETWORK
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1. A method of creating a personalized video product, said method comprising the steps of:
- for each of a plurality of cameras distributed about a geographic area, substantially continuously recording a video output of the camera into digital storage, during a designated range of hours of operation;
for each of the recorded video outputs, associating at least one clip portion of the recorded video output with one or more customer identifiers, said customer identifiers being determined from RFID devices carried by customers in the geographic area; and
for each of the customer identifiers, compiling the video clips associated with the customer identifier into a video product, said video clips being interspersed in the video product with a plurality of stock video clips relating to the geographic area.
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Abstract
A system is deployed at a theme park for capturing and managing personalized video images, e.g., for creating personalized video products for patrons at the theme park. The system includes an RFID system to track patron movements around the park, a camera system to capture video images at designated locations around the park, a computer-based video content collection system to collect and store personalized video clips of patrons, and a video product (e.g., DVD) creation and point of sale system to create the end product for sale to the patron.
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1. A method of creating a personalized video product, said method comprising the steps of:
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for each of a plurality of cameras distributed about a geographic area, substantially continuously recording a video output of the camera into digital storage, during a designated range of hours of operation; for each of the recorded video outputs, associating at least one clip portion of the recorded video output with one or more customer identifiers, said customer identifiers being determined from RFID devices carried by customers in the geographic area; and for each of the customer identifiers, compiling the video clips associated with the customer identifier into a video product, said video clips being interspersed in the video product with a plurality of stock video clips relating to the geographic area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A system for capturing and managing personalized video images, said system comprising:
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a plurality of cameras respectively positioned at different locales in a geographic area, each of said cameras outputting video content during a designated range of hours of operation; at least one digital video recorder interfaced with the plurality of cameras for substantially continuously recording the video outputs of the cameras; an RFID system, said system having a plurality of RFID readers positioned at the locales for detecting customer identifiers stored on RFID devices carried by customers in the geographic area; a video content collection system interfaced with the RFID system and the at least one digital video recorder, said system associating designated clip portions of the recorded video outputs with the customer identifiers; and a video product creation system interfaced with the video content collection system for producing video products, wherein for each of the video products, the video product comprises a plurality of designated clips associated with the identifier of one of said customers, interspersed with a plurality of stock video clips associated with the geographic area. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A method of creating a personalized video product, said method comprising the steps of:
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at a periodically occurring theme park ride, recording a video output of a camera located at the ride; for each periodic occurrence of the ride;
assigning a ride cycle number to the occurrence, said ride cycle number uniquely identifying the ride occurrence from among all other ride occurrences in the theme park;
associating one or more customer identifiers with the ride cycle number, said customer identifiers being detected from RFID devices carried by customers on the ride occurrence; and
associating at least one clip portion of the recorded video output with the ride cycle number, said at least one clip portion containing video content of the customers; andfor each of the customer identifiers, identifying the at least one clip portion for inclusion in a video product based at least in part on a correlation between the identifier and the ride cycle number. - View Dependent Claims (23)
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