SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEMI-AUTOMATIC VIDEO EDITING

• US 20130343729A1
• Filed: 12/06/2012
• Published: 12/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vimeo, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Alex Rav-Acha, Oren Boiman
• Inventors: BOIMAN, OREN, RAV-ACHA, ALEX
• Granted Patent: US 9,554,111 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/285
• 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 16/483 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/50 of still image data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/532 Query formulation, e.g. graphical querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/60 of audio data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/75 Clustering; Classification
• 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 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• 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 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence

Abstract

A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that cause a computerized system to: acquire at least one picture; analyze the at least one picture to provide analysis result; suggest to a user to acquire at least one other picture, if the analysis result indicates that there is a need to acquire at least one other picture; acquire the at least one other picture if instructed by the user; receive from the user metadata related to an acquired picture, the acquired picture is selected out of the at least one picture and the at least one other picture; and process the acquired picture in response to the metadata.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that cause a computerized system to:

acquire at least one picture;

analyze the at least one picture to provide analysis result;

suggest to a user to acquire at least one other picture, if the analysis result indicates that there is a need to acquire at least one other picture;

acquire the at least one other picture if instructed by the user;

receive from the user metadata related to an acquired picture, the acquired picture is selected out of the at least one picture and the at least one other picture; and

process the acquired picture in response to the metadata.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to display the acquired picture to the user;

and to receive from the user the metadata in response to the display of the acquired image.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to display information about the acquired picture to the user;

and to receive from the user the metadata in response to the display of the information.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to receive the metadata during an acquisition of the acquired picture.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to process speech of the user that is sensed in proximity to the acquisition of the acquired picture to extract the metadata.

6. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 5, wherein the speech does not include instructions aimed to the mobile device.

7. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to process computerized system movements made in proximity to the acquisition of the acquired picture to extract the metadata.

8. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to detect gestures made by the user to extract the metadata.

9. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to suggest acquiring at least one other picture of a person if an amount of pictures of the person is below a predetermined threshold.

10. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to suggest acquiring at least one other picture if an amount of pictures is below a predetermined threshold.

11. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to suggest acquiring at least one other picture if the at least one picture is of a quality that is below a predetermined threshold.

12. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to suggest acquiring at least one other picture if the at least one picture is out of focus.

13. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to suggest acquiring at least one other picture if the at least one picture comprise a partial image of a person and lacks a full image of the person.

14. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to suggest acquiring at least one additional image to be processed and provide a panoramic view of a scenery.

15. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 14, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to display instructions about an optimal manner to obtain the panoramic view.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to obtain metadata from the user by allowing the user to mark objects in the acquired image.

17. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that cause a computerized system to:

acquire at least one picture;

receive from the user metadata related to a picture of the at least one picture; and

process the at least one picture in response to the metadata.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the metadata is indicative of an importance level of an object of the picture.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the metadata is indicative of an existence of a face included in the picture.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the metadata is indicative of an importance level of a face included in the picture.

21. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to process the at least one picture and determine that an object of a picture is of importance.

22. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17, wherein the at least one picture belongs to a media stream;

wherein the non-transitory computer stores instructions that cause the computerized system to;

acquire the media stream;

receive from the user metadata related to at least one video frame of the media stream; and

process the media stream to provide a shortened media stream that is shorter than the media stream, in response to the metadata.

23. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 22, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to process computerized system movements made during an acquisition of the media stream to extract the metadata.

24. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 22, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to detect gestures made by the user to extract the metadata.

25. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 22, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to detect gestures made by a person that appears in the media stream to extract the metadata.

26. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 22, that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to extract an image of a person from the media stream;

and add the image of the person to video frames of the media stream that lacked the image of the person.

27. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 22 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to detect faces of multiple persons in the media stream and to generate, for at least two of the multiple persons, a modified media stream that is generated by assigning to the person higher importance than an importance of the other persons of the multiple persons.

28. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 22 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to detect faces of persons in the media stream;

to display the faces and information about the modified media stream to the user;

receive an instruction to share the modified media stream with a certain person that is identified by a certain face out of the faces;

to share the modified media with the certain person if contact information required for the sharing with the certain person is available.

29. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 28 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to request from the user the contact information required for the sharing with the certain person if the contact information required for the sharing with the certain person is unavailable.