MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION CREATION

• US 20090055746A1
• Filed: 01/17/2006
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2005
• 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, Agnihotri, Lalitha, Barbieri, Mauro
• Application Number:
  US11/814,092
• Publication Number:
  US 20090055746A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/731
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/434 using image data, e.g. images, photos, pictures taken by a user
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/51 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/58 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually

Abstract

The present invention enables combining personal media content and additional content with the purpose of generating a more appealing and engaging experience to the user when being presented the personal media content. The invention therefore relates to a method and a device for generating a multimedia presentation, comprising obtaining a user selection of a first media file (step 202), obtaining a user selection of a media file source (step 208), matching content associated data of the first media file, with content associated data of at least one second media file from the media file source (step 214), generating at least one user inquiry related to the content associated data of at least the first media file (step 216), and creating the multimedia presentation, based on the first media file and the at least one second media file, said multimedia presentation comprising the at least one generated user inquiry (step 218).

Claims

1. A method for generating a multimedia presentation, comprising the steps:

obtaining a user selection of a first media file (step 202),

obtaining a user selection of a media file source (step 208),

matching content associated data of the first media file, with content-associated data of at least one second media file from the media file source (step 214),

generating at least one user inquiry related to the content associated data of at least the first media file (step 216), and

creating the multimedia presentation, based on the first media file and the at least one second media file, said multimedia presentation comprising the at least one generated user inquiry (step 218),

such that a user may receive a more appealing and engaging experience when being presented the multimedia presentation.

2. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 1, further comprising the step:

presenting the multimedia presentation including the at least one generated user inquiry to a user (step 220), wherein presenting the multimedia presentation comprises the steps of receiving user input related to the at least one user inquiry (step 222), and updating the multimedia presentation being presented in dependence of the received user input related to the at least one user inquiry (step 224).

3. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 1, further comprising the step:

obtaining content associated data of the first media file (step 204).

4. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 3, wherein the step of obtaining content associated data of the first media file comprises obtaining media file property related data.

5. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 1, further comprising the step:

obtaining at least one filtering criterion (step 210), and

in which the step of matching content associated data (step 214) further comprises the step of filtering out the at least one second media file using the obtained at least one filtering criterion (step 212).

6. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 1, further comprising the step:

receiving content associated data from the user (step 206).

7. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 6, in which the step of matching content associated data (step 214) comprises matching content associated data of the first media file and the content associated data as received from the user, with content associated data of the at least one second media file from the media file source.

8. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 6, in which the in which the step of generating at least one user inquiry (step 216) further comprises generating at least one user inquiry related to content associated data as received from the user.

9. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 6, wherein receiving content associated data from the user comprises receiving meta data.

10. The method for generating a multimedia presentation according to claim 6, wherein receiving content associated data from the user comprises receiving annotation data.

11. A multimedia presentation generating device (100), for generating a multimedia presentation, said device comprising:

a user input interface (102), arranged to obtain input from a user,

a matching unit (110), arranged to match content associated data of a first media file with content associated data of at least one second media file,

a user inquiry generating unit (106), arranged to generate at least one user inquiry related to content associated data of a media file,

a multimedia presentation creating unit (108), connected to the matching unit (110) and the user inquiry generating unit (106), wherein the multimedia presentation creating unit (108) is arranged to create a multimedia presentation based on the first media file, the at least one second media file, and the content associated data of at least the first media file,

a control unit (104), connected to the user input interface (102), the matching unit (110), the multimedia presentation creating unit (108), and the user inquiry generating unit (106),

which control unit (104) is arranged to control the steps of obtaining a user selection of a first media file (step 202), obtaining a user selection of a media file source (step 208), matching content associated data of the first media file with content associated data of at least one second media file from the media file source (step 214), generating at least one user inquiry related to the content associated data of at least the first media file (step 216), and creating the multimedia presentation, based on the first media file and the at least one second media file, said multimedia presentation comprising the at least one generated user inquiry (step 218),

such that a user may receive a more appealing and engaging experience when being presented the multimedia presentation.

12. A multimedia presentation generating device (100) according to claim 11, connectable to a multimedia presentation unit (122).

13. A multimedia presentation generating device (100) according to claim 11, connectable to at least one media file location unit (112,114,118).

14. A computer program product (32) comprising a computer readable medium, having thereon computer program code means, to make a multimedia presentation generating device (100) or a computer execute, when said computer program code means is loaded in the multimedia presentation generating device (100) or the computer:

obtaining a user selection of a first media file (step 202),

obtaining a user selection of a media file source (step 208),

matching content associated data of the first media file with content associated data of at least one second media file from the media file source (step 214),

generating of at least one user inquiry related to the content associated data of at least the first media file (step 216), and

creating of the multimedia presentation, based on the first media file and the at least one second media file, said multimedia presentation comprising the at least one generated user inquiry (step 218),

such that a user may receive a more appealing and engaging experience when being presented the multimedia presentation.

15. A computer program element comprising computer program code means, to make a multimedia presentation generating device (100) or a computer execute, when said computer program code means is loaded in the multimedia presentation generating device (100) or the computer:

obtaining a user selection of a first media file (step 202),

obtaining a user selection of a media file source (step 208),

matching content associated data of the first media file with content associated data of at least one second media file from the media file source (step 214),

generating of at least one user inquiry related to the content associated data of at least the first media file (step 216), and

creating of the multimedia presentation, based on the first media file and the at least one second media file, said multimedia presentation comprising the at least one generated user inquiry (step 218),

such that a user may receive a more appealing and engaging experience when being presented the multimedia presentation.