METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING SHORT VIDEO CLIPS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

• US 20100107080A1
• Filed: 10/23/2008
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/23/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Bodas, Rohit S., Groble, Michael E., Bentley, Frank R.
• Granted Patent: US 9,646,648 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• 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 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

A method and apparatus for creating video clips is provided herein. During operation, a processing device will receive multiple video feeds from multiple video sources. In order to reduce the difficulty in producing multiple clips from the multiple video sources, thumbnails of the captured content is displayed and one-click selection of start and stop points of each clip is allowed. An operator can then pick an annotation (metadata) from events in the game or enter a new one and apply it to any or all of the video clips. Suggested content is then displayed based on the metadata of this annotation and can be bundled with the video clips by choosing from the list of related content. All of this content is then bundled together in the database.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

providing multiple videos to a user;

receiving a command to create video clips of a particular length of time from the multiple videos;

capturing segments of the multiple videos for the particular length of time;

displaying multiple images of the captured segments as an array, wherein the array has an x-axis representing time, and a y-axis representing video source, or vice versa; and

creating video clips from the captured segments.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the array comprises thumbnail images from the captured segments.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

receiving a command from a user comprising a mouse click on various images of the array, and associating the mouse click with a starting or stopping frame for use in creating the video clips.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

receiving a command from a user comprising a mouse click on various images of the array, and associating the mouse click with a slow-motion frame.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

receiving a command from a user comprising a mouse click on various images of the array, and associating the mouse click with a region of a frame for creating the video clips.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

receiving metadata regarding the captured segments.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:

storing the video clips.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing multiple videos to the user comprises the step of providing the multiple videos as thumbnails.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the multiple videos comprises multiple video cameras.

10. A method comprising:

receiving video from multiple video cameras;

providing the video to a user as a thumbnail for each of the multiple cameras;

receiving a command to create video clips of a particular length of time from the multiple video cameras;

capturing segments from the multiple video cameras for the particular length of time;

displaying multiple thumbnails of the captured segments as an array, wherein the array has an x-axis representing time, and a y-axis representing video source, or vice versa; and

creating video clips from the captured segments.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

receiving a command from a user comprising a mouse click on various thumbnails of the array, and associating the mouse click with a starting or stopping frame for use in creating the video clips.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

receiving a command from a user comprising a mouse click on various thumbnails of the array, and associating the mouse click with a slow-motion frame.

13. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

receiving a command from a user comprising a mouse click on various thumbnails of the array, and associating the mouse click with a region of a frame for creating the video clips.

14. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

receiving metadata regarding the captured segments.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of:

storing the video clips.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a display providing multiple videos to a user;

an input device receiving a command to create video clips of a particular length of time from the multiple videos;

a processor capturing segments of the multiple videos for the particular length of time and instructing the display to display multiple images of the captured segments as an array, wherein the array has an x-axis representing time, and a y-axis representing video source, or vice versa.

17. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the processor additionally creates video clips from the captured segments.

18. The apparatus of claim 16 wherein the array comprises thumbnail images from the captured segments.

19. The apparatus of claim 16 further comprising:

storage for storing the captured segments.