Media Content Cross-Referencing

• US 20190132619A1
• Filed: 10/31/2017
• Published: 05/02/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Mazur, Jeffrey
• Granted Patent: US 10,448,067 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/907 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23439 for generating different versions
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/278 Content descriptor database or directory service for end-user access details of content or meta data based information retrieval of video data in video databases G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6581 Reference data, e.g. a movie identifier for ordering a movie or a product identifier in a home shopping application
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8352 involving content or source identification data, e.g. Unique Material Identifier [UMID]
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments

Abstract

A media content cross-referencing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media cross-referencing software code. The hardware processor executes the media cross-referencing software code to receive data identifying multiple media assets, identify a media content including the media assets based on the data, and obtain a preliminary version of the media content. The preliminary version of the media content includes metadata identifying an original source media of each of the media assets. The hardware processor further executes the media cross-referencing software code to map each of the media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata. The mapping cross-references each of the media assets with its respective original source media.

Claims

1. A media content cross-referencing system comprising:

a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory;

a media cross-referencing software code stored in the system memory;

the hardware processor configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to;

receive data identifying a plurality of media assets;

identify a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data;

obtain a preliminary version of the media content, the preliminary version of the media content including metadata identifying a location in an original source media of each of the plurality of media assets; and

map each of the plurality of media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata identifying the location in the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets with its respective original source media.

2. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to use the mapping to locate each of the plurality of media assets in its respective original source media.

3. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 2, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to render each of the plurality of media assets located in its respective original source media.

4. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 1, wherein the media content comprises audio-visual content.

5. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 4, wherein the plurality of media assets comprise camera shots included in the audio-visual content.

6. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 4, wherein the preliminary version of the media content is a rough cut low quality version of the audio-visual content.

7. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 4, wherein the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets comprises original camera footage of each of the plurality of media assets.

8. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 7, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to render a video clip including each of the plurality of media assets located in its respective original camera footage.

9. The media content cross-referencing system of claim 7, wherein the metadata identifying the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets identifies a camera reel and a timecode of the original camera footage of each of the plurality of media assets.

10. (canceled)

11. A method for use by a media content cross-referencing system including a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a media cross-referencing software code, the method comprising:

receiving, using the hardware processor, data identifying a plurality of media assets;

identifying, using the hardware processor, a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data;

obtaining, using the hardware processor, a preliminary version of the media content, the preliminary version of the media content including metadata identifying a location in an original source media of each of the plurality of media assets; and

mapping, using the hardware processor, each of the plurality of media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata identifying the location in the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets with its respective original source media.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising using the mapping, by the hardware processor executing the media cross-referencing software code, to locate each of the plurality of media assets in its respective original source media.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising rendering, using the hardware processor, each of the plurality of media assets located in its respective original source media.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein the media content comprises audio-visual content.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the plurality of media assets comprise camera shots included in the audio-visual content.

16. The method of claim 14, wherein the preliminary version of the media content is a rough cut low quality version of the audio-visual content.

17. The method of claim 14, wherein the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets comprises original camera footage of each of the plurality of media assets.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising rendering, using the hardware processor, a video clip including each of the plurality of media assets located in its respective original camera footage.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the metadata identifying the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets identifies a camera reel and a timecode of the original camera footage of each of the plurality of media assets.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein the preliminary version of the media content includes a plurality of markups indexed to a timecode of the preliminary version of the media content, and wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining, using the hardware processor, a copy of a different version of the media content;

mapping, using the hardware processor, at least some of the plurality of markups indexed to the timecode of the preliminary version of the media content to a timecode of the different version of the media content; and

modifying, using the hardware processor, the copy of the different version of the media content to include the at least some of the plurality of markups.

21. A media content cross-referencing system comprising:

a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory;

a media cross-referencing software code stored in the system memory;

the hardware processor configured to execute the media cross-referencing software code to;

receive data identifying a plurality of media assets;

identify a media content including the plurality of media assets based on the data;

obtain a preliminary version of the media content, the preliminary version of the media content including metadata identifying a location in an original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the preliminary version of the media content includes a plurality of markups indexed to a timecode of the preliminary version of the media content;

map each of the plurality of media assets to its respective original source media using the metadata identifying the location in the original source media of each of the plurality of media assets, wherein the mapping cross-references each of the plurality of media assets with its respective original source media;

map the plurality of markups indexed to the timecode of the preliminary version of the media content to a timecode of a copy of a different version of the media content; and

modify the copy of the different version of the media content to include the plurality of markups.