Electronic device, control method thereof and system

• US 9,456,231 B2
• Filed: 06/02/2015
• Issued: 09/27/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kulkarni, Girish Rameshrao, Kotiganahally, Roopa Sheshadri, Mathsyendranath, Raghavendra Kalose
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Thai
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hunter, Mishawn
• Application Number:
  US14/728,407
• Publication Number:
  US 20150358650A1
• Time in Patent Office: 483 Days
• Field of Search: 386/200, 386/201, 386/248, 709/204
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/231 Content storage operation, e.g. caching movies for short term storage, replicating data over plural servers, prioritizing data for deletion
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2353 specifically adapted to content descriptors, e.g. coding, compressing or processing of metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/274 Storing end-user multimedia data in response to end-user request , e.g. network recorder
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4334 Recording operations recording of a television signal H04N5/76; arrangements for recording or accumulating broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/27
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/632 using a connection between clients on a wide area network, e.g. setting up a peer-to-peer communication via Internet for retrieving video segments from the hard-disk of other client devices broadcast-related systems characterised by transmission among terminal devices H04H60/80; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73

Abstract

A method of a first electronic device for performing multimedia recording is provided. The method includes recording, by the first electronic device, a first multimedia stream, generating a first metadata associated with the first multimedia stream, receiving at least one second metadata associated with a second multimedia stream recorded by at least one second electronic device, and generating a final multimedia file based on an analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a first electronic device for performing multimedia recording, the method comprising:

recording, by the first electronic device, a first multimedia stream;

generating a first metadata associated with the first multimedia stream;

receiving, at the first electronic device, at least one second metadata associated with a second multimedia stream recorded by at least one second electronic device; and

generating, by the first electronic device, a final multimedia file based on an analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata,

wherein the generating of the final multimedia file comprises;

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on at least one parameter, and

generating the final multimedia stream using an audio with a lowest noise among audio of the first multimedia stream and the second multimedia stream, based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the generating of the final multimedia file includes:

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter;

receiving at least a part of the second multimedia stream from the at least one second electronic device based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata; and

combining at least a part of the first multimedia stream and at least a part of the second multimedia stream, and

wherein the at least a part of the first multimedia stream is selected based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the generating of the final multimedia file comprises:

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter; and

generating the final multimedia stream in a form of a collage based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the generating of the final multimedia file includes:

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter;

determining whether the first metadata and the at least one second metadata coincide based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata; and

in response to determining that the first metadata and the at least one second metadata coincide, transmitting a warning message to the at least one second electronic device, and

wherein the warning message indicates that the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device are recording visually similar multimedia streams.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the generating of the final multimedia file includes:

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter;

identifying a popularity of the at least one second metadata based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata; and

generating a visual layout indicating locations of the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device based on the identified popularity.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the generating of the final multimedia file includes:

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter;

determining whether the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device are proximate based on the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata; and

in response to determining that the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device are proximate, transmitting a warning message to the at least one second electronic device.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing the first metadata and the at least one second metadata by performing metadata mapping to determine whether visually similar multimedia streams have been recorded in the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device; and

alerting a user of the at least one second electronic device when the analyzing of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata determines that visually similar multimedia streams are recorded in the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device.

8. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of camera settings, time stamps, emotion detection, face detection and recognition, audio detection and classification, motion detection, blur detection, hand shake detection, feature extraction, location information, important event detection, redundancy detection, object information, zoom detection, camera focus, human detection, behavior detection, image quality detection, feature detection, object detection, and recognition information.

9. A first electronic device configured to perform multimedia recording, the first electronic device comprising:

a transceiver configured to communicate with at least one second electronic device; and

a processor configured to;

record a first multimedia stream,

generate a first metadata associated with the first multimedia stream,

receive, using the transceiver, at least one second metadata associated with a second multimedia stream recorded by the at least one second electronic device, and

based on an analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata, generate a final multimedia file,

wherein the processor is further configured to;

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on at least one parameter, and

generate the final multimedia stream using an audio with a lowest noise among audio of the first multimedia stream and the second multimedia stream based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

10. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9,

wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter,

receive at least a part of the second multimedia stream from the at least one second electronic device based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata, and

generate the final multimedia stream by combining at least a part of the first multimedia stream and at least a part of the second multimedia stream, and

wherein the at least a part of the first multimedia stream is selected based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

11. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on at least one parameter, and

generate the final multimedia stream in a form of a collage based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

12. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on at least one parameter,

determine whether the first metadata and the at least one second metadata coincide based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata, and

in response to determining that the first metadata and the at least one second metadata coincide, transmit a warning message to the at least one second electronic device, and

wherein the warning message indicates that the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device are recording visually similar multimedia streams.

13. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on at least one parameter,

identify a popularity of the at least one second metadata based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata, and

generate a visual layout indicating locations of the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device based on the identified popularity.

14. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter,

determine whether the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device are proximate based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata, and

in response to determining that the first electronic device and the at least one second electronic device are proximate, transmit a warning message to the at least one second electronic device.

15. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on the at least one parameter, and

share at least one representative thumbnail with the at least one second electronic device based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

16. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the first metadata includes at least one of

camera settings,

time stamps,

emotion detection,

face detection and recognition,

audio detection and classification,

motion detection,

blur detection,

handshake detection,

feature detection,

location information,

human detection,

behavior detection,

image quality detection, and

object detection and recognition information.

17. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the at least one second metadata includes at least one of camera settings, time stamps, emotion detection, face detection and recognition, audio detection and classification, motion detection, blur detection, hand shake detection, feature detection, location information, human detection, behavior detection, image quality detection, object detection and recognition information.

18. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to:

form a shared operation session with the at least one second electronic device using a communication network.

19. The first electronic device as claimed in claim 9, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of camera settings, time stamps, emotion detection, face detection and recognition, audio detection and classification, motion detection, blur detection, hand shake detection, feature extraction, location information, important event detection, redundancy detection, object information, zoom detection, camera focus, human detection, behavior detection, image quality detection, feature detection, object detection, and recognition information.

20. A system for performing multimedia recording, the system comprising:

a first electronic device having a processor configured to;

record a first multimedia stream, and

generate a first metadata associated with the first multimedia stream; and

at least one second electronic device having processors, the processors configured to record a second multimedia stream,

wherein the processor of the first electronic device is further configured to;

receive at least one second metadata associated with the second multimedia stream recorded by at least one second electronic device, and

based on an analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata, generate a final multimedia file,

wherein the processor of the first electronic device is further configured to;

analyze the first metadata and the at least one second metadata based on at least one parameter, and

generate the final multimedia stream using an audio with a lowest noise among audio of the first multimedia stream and the second multimedia stream based on the analysis of the first metadata and the at least one second metadata.

21. The system as claimed in claim 20, wherein the at least one parameter comprises at least one of camera settings, time stamps, emotion detection, face detection and recognition, audio detection and classification, motion detection, blur detection, hand shake detection, feature extraction, location information, important event detection, redundancy detection, object information, zoom detection, camera focus, human detection, behavior detection, image quality detection, feature detection, object detection, and recognition information.