Multimedia presentation creation

• US 8,230,344 B2
• Filed: 04/16/2010
• Issued: 07/24/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Abujbara, Nabil Mohammed, Yardumian, Richard Kirkor
• Primary Examiner(s): Abdul-Ali, Omar
• Application Number:
  US12/762,130
• Publication Number:
  US 20110258548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• Field of Search: 715/706, 715/730, 715/758, 715/866, 715/744
• US Class Current: 715/730
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence

Abstract

A method for creating a multimedia presentation, the method including determining the physical presence of at least one individual, selecting at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual whose physical presence has been determined, creating a multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual, determining the physical presence of additional individuals other than the at least one individual, selecting at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals whose physical presence has been determined, updating the multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals, and displaying the multimedia presentation.

Claims

1. A method for creating a multimedia presentation, the method comprising:

determining the physical presence of at least one individual;

selecting at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual whose physical presence has been determined;

creating a multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual;

determining the physical presence of additional individuals other than the at least one individual;

selecting at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals whose physical presence has been determined;

updating the multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals; and

displaying the multimedia presentation,

wherein a specific location of the at least one individual is determined and the multimedia presentation is displayed on a display near the location of the at least one individual such that the multimedia presentation displayed on the display repeats display of the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual at a higher rate than any other multimedia objects.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia object is a still image.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia object is a video.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia object is a sound file.

5. A method according to claim 4, wherein displaying the multimedia presentation includes playing the sound file.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia object is stored in a location remote from the location where the multimedia presentation is displayed.

7. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia object is stored in a location local to the location where the multimedia presentation is displayed.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the at least one multimedia object is provided directly by the at least one individual.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein detecting the physical presence of the at least one individual includes identifying the at least one individual using facial recognition.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein detecting the physical presence of the at least one individual includes identifying the at least one individual using voice recognition.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein when the physical presence of at least one individual is no longer detected, the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual is removed from the multimedia presentation.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein when the physical presence of the at least one individual is no longer detected and the physical presence of additional individuals is detected, multimedia objects associated with just the at least one individual is removed from the multimedia presentation.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the multimedia presentation is displayed on at least one display.

14. A method according to claim 1, wherein user defined attributes are used to filter the at least one multimedia object to be selected.

15. A method according to claim 1, wherein the virtual presence of at least one individual is determined.

16. A method according to claim 15, wherein at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual whose virtual presence has been determined is selected and a multimedia presentation is created using the at least one multimedia object.

17. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable process steps for creating a multimedia presentation, the computer-executable process steps comprising:

determining the physical presence of at least one individual;

selecting at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual whose physical presence has been determined;

creating a multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual;

determining the physical presence of additional individuals other than the at least one individual;

selecting at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals whose physical presence has been determined;

updating the multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals; and

displaying the multimedia presentation,

wherein a specific location of the at least one individual is determined and the multimedia presentation is displayed on a display near the location of the at least one individual such that the multimedia presentation displayed on the display repeats display of the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual at a higher rate than any other multimedia objects.

18. A system for creating a multimedia presentation, the system comprising:

an information processing apparatus;

and at least one display configured to display content from the information processing apparatus,

wherein the information processing apparatus comprises;

at least one processor coupled via a bus to a memory, the processor executing computer-executable process steps for;

determining the physical presence of at least one individual;

selecting at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual whose physical presence has been determined;

creating a multimedia presentation using the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual;

determining the physical presence of additional individuals other than the at least one individual;

selecting at least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals whose physical presence has been determined;

updating the multimedia presentation using the least one multimedia object associated with each of the additional individuals; and

displaying the multimedia presentation,

wherein a specific location of the at least one individual is determined and the multimedia presentation is displayed on a display near the location of the at least one individual such that the multimedia presentation displayed on the display repeats display of the at least one multimedia object associated with the at least one individual at a higher rate than any other multimedia objects.