Video editing with timeline representations

• US 7,769,819 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2007
• Issued: 08/03/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/20/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Maven Coalition, Inc. (theMaven, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: VideoEgg, Inc. (theMaven, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sanchez, Matthew Allen, Lerman, David Ross, Sladek, Kevin Walker
• Primary Examiner(s): Vaughn, Jr., William C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ibrahim, Mohamed
• Application Number:
  US11/620,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20070174774A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,303 Days
• Field of Search: 709203-204, 709/217, 715/723
• US Class Current: 709/217
• 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 16/70 of video data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4402 involving reformatting operations of video signals for household redistribution, storage or real-time display details of conversion of video standards at pixel level H04N7/01; video transcoding H04N19/40; adapting incoming signals to the display format of the display terminal G09G5/005; media handling at the source in data packet switching networks H04L65/764
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4431 characterized by the use of Application Program Interface [API] libraries
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4622 Retrieving content or additional data from different sources, e.g. from a broadcast channel and the Internet web site content organization and management for information retrieval from the Internet G06F16/958; transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82; stock exchange data over packet-switching network H04L12/1804; push services including data channel over packet-switching network H04L12/1859
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6156 specially adapted to the upstream path of the transmission network
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8173 End-user applications, e.g. Web browser, game
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8193 : dedicated tools, e.g. video decoder software or IPMP tool
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 : Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/858 : Linking data to content, e.g. by linking an URL to a video object, by creating a hotspot
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/1675 : Providing digital key or authorisation information for generation or regeneration of the scrambling sequence pseudo-random number generators in general G06F7/58

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide browser-based clip manipulation methods and systems for rendering and editing a clip. Without limitation, the clip may be a video clip. The clip manipulation facility is associated with at least one editing function, where the editing function is presented as a visual element as a part of a video timeline.

Claims

1. A method for enabling a user to edit one or more clips displayed within a user interface of a browser application, comprising the steps of:

retrieving a clip among the one or more clips from a memory facility of a browser enabled processor platform including a display;

presenting the clip to the user through the user interface of the browser application displayed on the display, the browser application including a clip manipulation and posting publisher having an editing tool and a timeline and operating on the browser enabled processor platform;

presenting the editing tool to the user through the user interface;

presenting the timeline to the user through the user interface, the timeline including one or more elements representing one or more portions of the clip;

editing the clip with the editing tool and with manipulation of the timeline based on an input from the user and resulting in an edited clip;

storing the edited clip in the memory facility;

receiving a set of network location control parameters that are unique to a network location among a plurality of network locations;

transcoding the edited clip with the clip manipulation and posting publisher according to the set of network location control parameters to create a transcoded clip; and

uploading the transcoded clip to the network location according to the set of network location control parameters with the clip manipulation and posting publisher.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the clip is selected from a group consisting of a video clip, an audio clip, a multimedia clip, a podcast clip, an advertisement clip, and an interactive clip.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the editing tool is an integrated component of the clip manipulation and posting publisher that includes a plurality of components.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the clip is associated with a format.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of receiving the clip from one of a plurality of sources and storing the clip in the memory facility.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of retrieving the clip includes the step of allowing the user to drag the clip into the user interface for presentation to the user and editing with the editing tool.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of making a presentation of the edited clip to the user through the user interface, wherein the presentation includes a rendering of the edited clip and at least one visual element.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the editing tool edits the clip using a plurality of operations.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the timeline allows the user to perform a plurality of functions on the clip and the one or more elements.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of editing the clip includes the step of selecting in the timeline a portion of the clip for editing from among the one or more portions of the clip.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the editing tool includes one or more editing functions, and wherein the step of editing the clip includes the step of editing a portion of the clip from among the one or more portions of the clip with the one or more editing functions.

12. A system for editing one or more clips within a user interface of a browser application, comprising:

a browser enabled processor platform including a display and a memory facility, the memory facility storing software code executed by the browser enabled processor platform to operate a clip manipulation and posting publisher operating in conjunction with the browser application, the clip manipulation and posting publisher including an editing tool, a timeline, a transcoder, and a publisher;

the clip manipulation and posting publisher retrieving a clip among the one or more clips from the memory facility and displaying on the display the clip to the user through the user interface, the timeline depicting one or more elements representing one or more portions of the clip, the editing tool and the timeline responding to a user command input through the user interface and editing the clip within the memory facility to create an edited clip, the transcoder transcoding the edited clip according to a set of network location control parameters received by the clip manipulation and posting publisher that are unique to a network location among a plurality of network locations, the publisher uploading the edited clip to the network location in accordance with the set of network location control parameters.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the clip is selected from a group consisting of a video clip, an audio clip, a multimedia clip, a podcast clip, an advertisement clip, and an interactive clip.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more elements are video elements.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the editing tool is an integrated component of the clip manipulation and posting publisher that includes and controls a plurality of components.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the clip is associated with a format.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the clip is received by the browser enabled processor platform from a plurality of sources and stored in the memory facility.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the clip manipulation and posting publisher enables the user to drag the clip into the user interface for editing with the editing tool.

19. The system of claim 12, wherein the clip manipulation and posting publisher enables the user to make a presentation of the edited clip through the user interface, wherein the presentation includes a rendering of the edited clip and at least one visual element.

20. The system of claim 12, wherein the editing tool edits the clip using a plurality of operations.

21. The system of claim 12, wherein the editing tool enables the user to select a portion of the clip for editing by selecting the one or more elements.

22. The system of claim 12, wherein the editing tool includes one or more editing functions editing a portion of the clip.

23. The system of claim 12, wherein the clip manipulation and posting publisher includes a plurality of viewing frames, wherein a viewing frame from the plurality of viewing frames displays in coordination with the timeline an image associated with the clip.