SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GEOGRAPHIC VIDEO INTERFACE AND COLLABORATION

• US 20090015672A1
• Filed: 06/05/2008
• Published: 01/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Logitech Europe S A (Logitech International SA)
• Original Assignee: Logitech Europe S A (Logitech International SA)
• Inventors: Clapp, Glenn Daniel
• Granted Patent: US 8,922,650 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/143
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7844 using original textual content or text extracted from visual content or transcript of audio data

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for facilitating a geographic video data interface and interactive collaboration system. The method includes displaying representations of stored video data sets on an interactive geographic interface to facilitate collaboration among users. The interactive geographic interface includes a visual representation which may be manipulated including pan, zoom level, content, filtering, map type, elevation, etc. Video data sets are received from the video owner including at least video data/sequences and associated characteristic data. The received video data sets are correlated with a geographic location at which the video data was captured. The correlated geographic location is aggregated with the video data set. The video data set is displayed on the interactive geographic interface by a visual representation at the correlated location. Collaboration data about the video data set is received from users or clients other than the video owner.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating a geographic based video data interface and interactive collaboration system comprising the acts of:

providing a data storage device configured to store video data sets;

providing an interactive geographical interface including a geographic display representing a particular geographic region, wherein the interactive geographical interface and accessible over a global data transmission system;

receiving a video data set including a video file and video characteristic data from a corresponding video owner, wherein the video file is a sequence of captured images, and wherein the characteristic data includes at least one of camera type, video capture time, camera orientation, crime type, video subject matter, human video content, object video content, video format, camera manufacturer, and video owner description;

correlating the received video data set with a geographic location corresponding with the location at which the video file portion of the video data set was captured;

adding the geographic location to the video data set;

storing the video data set and corresponding geographic location on the data storage device;

displaying a representation of the video data set on the interactive geographical interface visually corresponding to the correlated geographic location including a display of the corresponding video characteristic data;

receiving a set of collaboration data about the video data set from a user other than the video owner; and

displaying the set of collaboration data within the representation of the video data set.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of providing a geographical interface includes providing the interactive geographic interface at a URL address on the Internet.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of receiving a video data set from a corresponding video owner includes authenticating the video owner as a creator of the video file portion of the video data set.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further includes correlating and aggregating the received video data set with a second video data set received from the video owner, wherein the second video data set includes same geographic location as the video data set.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of displaying a representation of the video data set includes providing a dynamic embedded single step system for individual video execution of the video data file included in the video data set.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes providing a collaboration interface to enable a user to upload collaboration data about the video data set.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the method includes providing a management interface to enable a video owner to delete received video data sets originating from the same video owner.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the act of receiving a video data set from a corresponding video owner includes identifying the format of the video data file and converting the received data file to a FLASH format.

9. An interactive video collaboration interface system comprising:

a data storage device configured to store a plurality of video data sets, wherein each video data set includes at least video data, video geographic location, and video characteristic data;

a data correlation module configured to correlate and aggregate video data sets including correlations between at least one video data, geographic location, characteristic data, and collaboration data, wherein the correlation modules includes an algorithm to correlate video data sets with geographic location;

an interactive geographical interface including a geographic display of a particular geographic region, wherein the interactive geographic interface includes a plurality of video data representations corresponding to the video data sets stored on the data storage device, and wherein each video data representation is disposed at a position on the geographic display corresponding to the geographic location of the particular video data set, and wherein each video data representation includes a visual representation of the characteristic data and collaboration data of the corresponding video data set, and wherein each video data representation includes an embedded single step system for video execution of the video data corresponding to the video data set;

a collaboration module including an interface through which collaboration data is generated and stored on the data storage device, wherein the collaboration module further includes an algorithm configured to correlate and aggregate the collaboration data with a particular video data set including displaying the collaboration data within the video data representation of the particular video data set; and

a global data transmission system including a data coupling between the interactive geographical interface, at least one video capture system, and at least one viewer, wherein the at least one video capture system is configured to record and transmit video data sets to the data storage device via an upload module, and wherein the at least one viewer is configured to display the geographic display and upload collaboration data via the collaboration module.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the geographic display is a scalable map and wherein the visual location of the plurality of video data representations are dynamically scaled in correspondence with the interactive geographic interface.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the visual representation of the video characteristic data includes at least one of a unique color and shape based image corresponding to the captured video content within the associated video data set.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the visual representation of the video characteristic data includes at least one of camera name, date and time of video recordation, video title, and description of video.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein collaboration data includes text based and graphical linking between video data sets.

14. The system of claim 9 further including a video upload module configured to receive video data sets including correlating received video data sets with geographic location, and storing received video data sets on the data storage device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the video upload module includes an authentication module configured to correlate the origination of the upload with the generation of the received video data sets.

16. An interactive video collaboration interface comprising:

an interactive geographical interface including a geographic display of a particular geographic region, wherein the geographic display includes a plurality of video data representations individually corresponding to a plurality of video data sets including video data, characteristics data, an collaboration data, and wherein each video data representation is disposed at a position on the geographic display corresponding to a geographic location at which video data of the particular video data set was captured, and wherein each video data representation includes a visual representation of the characteristic data and collaboration data of the video data set, and wherein each video data representation includes an embedded system for video execution of the video data of the video data set;

a collaboration module configured to enable collaboration data to be remotely uploaded and dynamically displayed in association with a corresponding video data representation, wherein the collaboration module includes a visual interface to enable a user to visually select the video data representation corresponding to the collaboration data; and

a video upload module configured to enable additional video data sets to be remotely uploaded and dynamically displayed in association with at least one of an existing video data representation and a new video data representation, wherein the video upload module includes an authentication module.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the authentication module includes an algorithm configured to correlate the origination of the uploaded video data set with the geographic location of the video data set.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the visual representation of the video characteristic data includes at least one of a unique color and shape based image corresponding to the content of the video data within the corresponding video data set.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the visual representation of the characteristic data includes at least one of camera name, date and time of video recordation, video title, and description of video.

20. The system of claim 16, wherein collaboration data includes text based and graphical linking between video data sets.