SYNTHESIZING A PRESENTATION OF A MULTIMEDIA EVENT

• US 20090087161A1
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Published: 04/02/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gracenote, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Original Assignee: Gracenote, Inc. (RR Donnelley & Sons Company)
• Inventors: Cook, Randall E., Cremer, Markus K., Roberts, Dale T.
• Granted Patent: US 9,106,804 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/282
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/14 Tree-structured documents parsing G06F40/205; validation G06F40/226
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/177 of tables; using ruled lines
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/21805 enabling multiple viewpoints, e.g. using a plurality of cameras
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/262 Studio circuits, e.g. for mixing, switching-over, change of character of image, other special effects ; Cameras specially adapted for the electronic generation of special effects
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17336 Handling of requests in head-ends

Abstract

Example embodiments of a media synchronization system and method for synthesizing a presentation of a multimedia event are generally described herein. In some example embodiments, the media synchronization system includes a media ingestion module to access a plurality of media clips received from a plurality of client devices, a media analysis module to determine a temporal relation between a first media clip from the plurality of media clips and a second media clip from the plurality of media clips, and a content creation module to align the first media clip and the second media clip based on the temporal relation, and to combine the first media clip and the second media clip to generate the presentation.

Claims

1. A media synchronization system to synthesize a presentation of a multimedia event, the system comprising:

a media ingestion module to access a plurality of media clips received from a plurality of client devices;

a media analysis module to determine a temporal relation between a first media clip from the plurality of media clips and a second media clip from the plurality of media clips; and

a content creation module to align the first media clip and the second media clip based on the temporal relation, and to combine the first media clip and the second media clip to generate the presentation.

2. The system of claim 1, the media ingestion module to assign an identifier to the first media clip.

3. The system of claim 1, the plurality of media clips comprising at least one of video data, audio data, image data, or text data.

4. The system of claim 1, the plurality of media clips comprising a media clip recorded by a user.

5. The system of claim 1, the media analysis module further comprising a processor to generate recognition data associated with the first media clip.

6. The system of claim 1, the media analysis module to group at least some of the plurality of media clips based on at least one of fingerprint matching, metadata matching, or lack of matching.

7. The system of claim 1, the first media clip comprising audio data associated with video data, the content creation module to separately align the audio data and the video data.

8. The system of claim 7, the content creation module to separately align the audio data and the video data based on at least one of fingerprint matching, metadata matching, or lack of matching.

9. The system of claim 1, the content creation module to combine the first media clip and the second media clip based on at least one of automatic combining or user-supervised combining.

10. The system of claim 1, the content creation module to generate a media effect to be combined with the first media clip.

11. The system of claim 1 further comprising a content publishing module to publish the presentation.

12. The system of claim 11, the content publishing module to publish the presentation to at least one of a mobile device, a stationary device, a public network, or a nonpublic network.

13. A computerized method for synthesizing a presentation of a multimedia event, the method comprising:

accessing a plurality of media clips received from a plurality of client devices;

determining a temporal relation between a first media clip from the plurality of media clips and a second media clip from the plurality of media clips;

aligning the first media clip and the second media clip based on the temporal relation; and

combining the first media clip and the second media clip to generate the presentation.

14. The method of claim 13 further comprising assigning an identifier to the first media clip.

15. The method of claim 13, the plurality of media clips comprising at least one of video data, audio data, image data, or text data.

16. The method of claim 13, the plurality of media clips comprising a media clip recorded by a user.

17. The method of claim 13 further comprising processing the first media clip to generate recognition data associated with the first media clip.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising grouping at least some of the plurality of media clips based on at least one of fingerprint matching, metadata matching, or lack of matching.

19. The method of claim 13, the first media clip comprising audio data associated with video data, the aligning further comprising separately aligning the audio data and the video data.

20. The method of claim 19, the separate aligning of the audio data and the video data comprising separately aligning the audio data and the video data based on at least one of fingerprint matching, metadata matching, or lack of matching.

21. The method of claim 13, the combining comprising generating a media effect to be combined with the first media clip.

22. The method of claim 13 further comprising publishing the presentation.

23. The method of claim 22, the publishing comprising publishing to at least one of a mobile device, a stationary device, a public network, or a nonpublic network.

24. The method of claim 22, the publishing comprising displaying an advertisement.

25. A machine-readable medium comprising instructions, which when implemented by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following operations:

accessing a plurality of media clips received from a plurality of client devices;

determining a temporal relation between a first media clip from the plurality of media clips and a second media clip from the plurality of media clips;

aligning the first media clip and the second media clip based on the temporal relation; and

combining the first media clip and the second media clip to generate the presentation.