Blog-Based Video Summarization

• US 20090164904A1
• Filed: 12/21/2007
• Published: 06/25/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Slaney, Malcolm, Davis, Marc, Horowitz, Steven
• Granted Patent: US 9,535,988 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/739 in form of a video summary, e.g. the video summary being a video sequence, a composite still image or having synthesized frames
• 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: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence

Abstract

Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to summarizing video or other multimedia content based on the blogging activities of one or more users. In one implementation, a user may select a video and one or more blogs that annotate various segments of the video. A user may specify one or more desired attributes of the blog or comment entries, which a system processes to create an edit decision list. The edit decision list can be used to generate a summarized version of the multimedia content that includes the content segments associated with blog entries that meet the desired attributes.

Claims

1. A method comprising

accessing multimedia content and metadata associated with the multimedia content, wherein the metadata comprises a plurality of comment entries, each comment entry corresponding to a time segment in the multimedia content and including text entry data;

receiving a filter configuration comprising a set of attributes;

identifying the time segments in the multimedia content where the metadata meets the filter configuration; and

generating an edited version of the multimedia content that includes the identified time segments.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising streaming the edited version of the multimedia content to one or more remote hosts.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the multimedia content comprises video data.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of attributes comprises tags corresponding to a writer.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of attributes comprises a user name corresponding to a writer.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of attributes comprises tags corresponding to a comment entry.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of attributes comprises a rating corresponding to a comment entry.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of attributes comprises a user rating corresponding to a writer.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprising

receiving, concurrently with a broadcast of the multimedia content, comment entries related to the multimedia content from one or more writers;

and

storing the comment entries as metadata to the multimedia content.

10. An apparatus comprising

a memory;

one or more processors;

logic encoded in one or more tangible media for execution and when executed operable to cause the one or more processors to;

access a multimedia file and metadata associated with the multimedia file, wherein the metadata comprises a plurality of comment entries, each comment entry corresponding to a time segment in the multimedia file and including text entry data;

receive a filter configuration comprising a set of attributes;

identify the time segments in the multimedia file where the metadata meets the filter configuration; and

generate an edited version of the multimedia file that includes the identified time segments.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the logic is further operable to cause the one or more processors to stream the edited version of the multimedia content to one or more remote hosts.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the multimedia content comprises video data.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the set of attributes comprises tags corresponding to a writer.

14. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the set of attributes comprises a user name corresponding to a writer.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the set of attributes comprises tags corresponding to a comment entry.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the logic is further operable to cause the one or more processors to

receive, concurrently with a broadcast of the multimedia content, comment entries related to the multimedia content from one or more writers;

and

store the comment entries as metadata to the multimedia content.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the set of attributes comprises a rating corresponding to a comment entry.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the set of attributes comprises a user rating corresponding to a writer.

19. A graphical user interface comprising

a multimedia content selection control facilitating selection of multimedia content, wherein the multimedia content is augmented with metadata, wherein the metadata comprises a plurality of comment entries, each comment entry corresponding to a time segment in the multimedia content and including text entry data;

a filter configuration section facilitating configuration of one or more comment filter attributes; and

a comment display section for displaying comment entries associated with the multimedia content.

20. The graphical user interface of claim 19 further comprising a multimedia media player section for rendering the multimedia content.