Creating, Editing, and Publishing a Video Using a Mobile Device

• US 20140341527A1
• Filed: 05/15/2013
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MixBit, Inc.
• Original Assignee: MixBit, Inc.
• Inventors: Hurley, Chad M., Hsueh, Walter C., Plom, Richard J.
• Application Number:
  US13/894,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20140341527A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/224
• 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: H04N 19/40 using video transcoding, i.e. partial or full decoding of a coded input stream followed by re-encoding of the decoded output stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2181 comprising remotely distributed storage units, e.g. when movies are replicated over a plurality of video servers distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS], H04L67/1097
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4122 additional display device, e.g. video projector digital output for controlling a plurality of local displays G06F3/1423
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/2628 Alteration of picture size, shape, position or orientation, e.g. zooming, rotation, rolling, perspective, translation
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/765 Interface circuits between an apparatus for recording and another apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A video is produced using a mobile device that includes an integrated camera. Multiple video clips are captured using the camera. Data is generated that describes a video project. The video project includes the multiple video clips. The video project data and the multiple video clips are sent to a server. A pointer to the video project stored in a playable format is received from the server.

Claims

1. A method for producing a video, wherein the method is performed by a mobile device that includes an integrated camera, the method comprising:

capturing multiple video clips using the camera;

generating data that describes a video project, wherein the video project includes the multiple video clips;

sending, to a server, the video project data and the multiple video clips; and

receiving, from the server, a pointer to the video project stored in a playable format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the video project data comprises a list of video clips that are included in the video project and instructions regarding how to assemble the listed video clips for presentation.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the video project data comprises metadata regarding the video project, and wherein the metadata includes one or more elements of a set containing a title, a hashtag, a location, and a number of unique clips.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating data that describes one of the multiple video clips, wherein the video clip data includes one or more elements of a set containing a time duration, a video resolution, an aspect ratio, a file format, a camera orientation, a bitrate, a location, a timestamp, and a unique identifier; and

sending, to the server, the video clip data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a preview of the video project by playing the multiple video clips in a specified order seamlessly.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein playing the multiple video clips in a specified order seamlessly comprises displaying one of the multiple video clips in a cropped manner, thereby changing an aspect ratio of the one video clip.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising editing the video project.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein editing the video project comprises changing a presentation order of the multiple video clips within the video project.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein editing the video project comprises adding another video clip to the video project or removing one of the multiple video clips from the video project.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein editing the video project comprises trimming one of the multiple video clips within the video project.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the pointer to the video project comprises a uniform resource locator (URL).

12. The method of claim 1, wherein capturing multiple video clips using the camera is performed responsive to user input that comprises alternately pressing down on a touch screen of the mobile device for a time period and then ceasing to press down on the touch screen of the mobile device.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the mobile device comprises a smart phone or a tablet computer.

14. A method for processing video, comprising:

receiving, from a mobile device that includes an integrated camera, multiple raw video clips that were captured using the camera and data that describes a video project that includes the multiple raw video clips;

processing the multiple raw video clips to generate multiple intermediate video clips, wherein the multiple intermediate video clips all have a same first video resolution and a same first aspect ratio; and

concatenating the multiple intermediate video clips, in an order specified by the video project data, to generate a concatenated video.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein processing the multiple raw video clips to generate multiple intermediate video clips comprises rotating one of the multiple raw video clips.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein processing the multiple raw video clips to generate multiple intermediate video clips comprises cropping one of the multiple raw video clips.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising sending, to the mobile device, a pointer to the concatenated video.

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising transcoding the concatenated video into a second video resolution and a second aspect ratio.

19. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program instructions for producing a video using a mobile device that includes an integrated camera, the instructions performing steps comprising:

capturing multiple video clips using the camera;

generating data that describes a video project, wherein the video project includes the multiple video clips;

sending, to a server, the video project data and the multiple video clips; and

receiving, from the server, a pointer to the video project stored in a playable format.

20. A system for producing a video using a mobile device that includes an integrated camera, the system comprising:

at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable computer program instructions comprising instructions for;

capturing multiple video clips using the camera;

generating data that describes a video project, wherein the video project includes the multiple video clips;

sending, to a server, the video project data and the multiple video clips; and

receiving, from the server, a pointer to the video project stored in a playable format; and

a processor for executing the computer program instructions.