Automatic generation of video from structured content

• US 20100050083A1
• Filed: 07/05/2007
• Published: 02/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sundaysky Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Sundaysky Incorporated
• Inventors: Axen, Yaniv, Weller, Shmuel
• Granted Patent: US 8,913,878 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/726
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/322 used signal is digitally coded
• 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 21/25866 Management of end-user data customer care in data networks H04L41/5077
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25891 being end-user preferences retrieval of video data in a video database based on user preferences G06F16/739; arrangements for recognizing users' preferences H04H60/46; user profiles in network data switching protocols H04L67/306; processing of user preferences or user profiles in wireless networks H04W8/18
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4668 for recommending content, e.g. movies
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6582 Data stored in the client, e.g. viewing habits, hardware capabilities, credit card number arrangements where receivers interact with the broadcast H04H20/38
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8153 comprising still images, e.g. texture, background image
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8543 using a description language, e.g. Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group [MHEG], eXtensible Markup Language [XML] information retrieval of semistructured data, the underlying structure being taken into account, e.g. mark-up language structure data G06F16/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/85 on discs or drums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17327 with deferred transmission or handling of upstream communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8227 the additional signal being at least another television signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8233 the additional signal being a character code signal

Abstract

Device for providing a playable sequence in renderable manner comprises: a providing unit for providing defined functions, said functions for applying playable effects to objects, a time unit for adding time boundaries to said functions, to provide time bounded functions, an ordering unit for ordering said time bounded functions into a sequence, and a translation unit for applying translations to said objects in accordance with said effects.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. Device for providing a playable sequence which is modifiable, the modified sequence being provided in renderable manner, the device comprising:

a providing unit for providing defined functions, said functions for applying playable effects to modify play of objects, said defined functions being provided as markup,

a time unit for adding time boundaries to said defined functions, to provide time bounded functions,

an ordering unit for ordering said defined time bounded functions into a sequence, and

a translation unit for applying translations to said objects in accordance with said playable effects, thereby to modify play of said objects.

22. The device of claim 21, wherein at least one of said objects is an actor in a scene.

23. The device of claim 21, wherein said ordering unit comprises a layered model for layering said time bounded defined functions to define interrelationships between said functions.

24. The device of claim 21, wherein said providing unit is configured to provide a single effect to a plurality of objects, thereby to generate a compound effect.

25. The device of claim 24, wherein said sequence comprises multiple code blocks to be executed simultaneously within a timeline.

26. The device of claim 25, configured to associate each of said multiple code blocks with a respective execution frame, and to associate each execution frame with a respective time graph.

27. The device of claim 26, wherein said time graph comprises nodes and said nodes comprise invocation objects for invoking methods for said rendering.

28. The device of claim 27, wherein said ordering comprises resolving said time graph.

29. The device of claim 28, wherein said ordering unit is configured such that said resolving said time graph is carried out simultaneously with setting up a layered model for effects within said execution frame.

30. The device of claim 28, wherein there is further provided a high level execution frame, and resolving a time graph of said high level execution frame follows resolving of time graphs of lower level execution frames.

31. The device of claim 21, wherein said objects are for location in a virtual universe, said virtual universe having a universe system for defining transformations of objects therewithin, and defining a snapshot thereof.

32. The device of claim 31, wherein said playable media is video, and wherein one of said objects is a location object, said location object defining a filming location.

33. The device of claim 32, wherein said location object comprises a virtual stage and at least one virtual sensor, each of said stage and said sensor having a location within said location object.

34. The device of claim 33, wherein one of said sensors is a virtual camera, and said virtual camera is configured to translate a snapshot of a viewpoint from said location to a raster image by tracing rays of light emanating from the matter in the snapshot towards the camera.

35. The device of claim 24, wherein said ordering unit is configured to use a tree structure to define said ordering.

36. Method for providing a playable sequence whose play is modifiable, the sequence with the modification being provided in renderable manner, the method comprising:

providing defined functions, said functions for applying playable effects to modify play of playable objects, the defined functions being provided as markup;

adding time boundaries to said defined functions, to provide time bounded functions,

ordering said time bounded defined functions into a sequence, and

applying translations to said objects using said ordered time-bounded defined functions, thereby to modify play of said objects in accordance with said effects.

37. Method for rendering a playable sequence provided as stage instructions for an acting object, comprising:

defining a stage area,

defining a virtual camera to view said stage,

providing at least one actor object for acting on said stage in accordance with said stage instructions, said stage instructions being available and defining said acting, and

rendering a view calculated to said virtual camera of said stage including said actors.

38. Method according to claim 37, wherein said virtual camera comprises a viewing angle, and said rendering a view comprises rendering the view within the viewing angle.

39. Method according to claim 37, further comprising providing to said virtual camera at least one of pan and zoom features to change said view of said stage.