Methods and systems of providing visual content editing functions

• US 9,459,778 B2
• Filed: 07/10/2012
• Issued: 10/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Mobli Technologies 2010 Ltd. (Mobli Technologies Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hogeg, Moshe, Shemesh, Yosef
• Primary Examiner(s): Baderman, Scott
• Assistant Examiner(s): Velez-Lopez, Mario M
• Application Number:
  US14/232,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20140173424A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,547 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/46 Extracting features or characteristics from the video content, e.g. video fingerprints, representative shots or key frames
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/52 including functional features of a camera constructional features concerning the integration of cameras in portable phones H04M1/0264
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23418 involving operations for analysing video streams, e.g. detecting features or characteristics television picture signal circuitry for scene change detection H04N5/147; filtering for image enhancement G06T5/00; methods or arrangements for recognising scenes G06V20/00; arrangements characterised by components specially adapted for monitoring, identification or recognition of video in broadcast systems H04H60/59
• 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 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4524 involving the geographical location of the client retrieval from the Internet by querying based on geographical locations G06F16/9537; systems specially adapted for using geographical information in broadcast systems H04H60/70; protocols in which the network application is adapted for the location of the user terminal in communication control or processing H04L67/52; services making use of the location of users or terminals in wireless networks H04W4/02; locating users or terminals in wireless networks H04W64/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• 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 23/63 by using electronic viewfinders
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/44 Receiver circuitry for the reception of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence

Abstract

A method of adjusting visual content. The method comprises selecting, on a client terminal, visual content, extracting visual content data pertaining to the visual content, forwarding a request which includes the visual content data to a network node via a network, receiving, in response to the request, a list of a plurality of visual content editing functions from the network node, presenting, on the client terminal, the plurality of visual content editing functions to a user, receiving a selection of at least one member of the list from the user, adjusting the visual content using the at least one member, and outputting the adjusted visual content.

Claims

1. A method of selecting visual content editing functions, the method being carried out by at least one network unit programmed to carry out the steps of the method, which comprise:

storing a plurality of records each with suitability data of one of a plurality of visual content editing functions;

receiving, at a server side, via a communication network and from an application installed in a client terminal, a request for visual content editing functions, said request comprises positional data pertaining to said client terminal;

analyzing textual content a plurality of content providing network sources available via a network to identify at least one current event;

selecting, at said server side, a group from said plurality of visual content editing functions according to said positional data and said at least one current event;

responding to said request of said client terminal by sending a response with said group;

wherein said application is adapted to present a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of said client terminal, said GUI comprises a plurality of indications each for one of a plurality of members of said group so as to allow a user of said client terminal to edit locally said visual content on said client terminal with one or more of said plurality of visual content editing functions in response to a selection of any of said plurality of indications;

wherein said visual content comprises at least one of an image and a video file.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing said visual content using an image sensor installed in said client terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said selecting comprises using said positional data to classify the location of said client terminal, said selecting being performed according to said classification.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said request comprises a velocity of said client terminal when said visual content is captured by said image sensor, said selecting being performed according to said velocity.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said analyzing comprises at least one of a semantic analysis and a statistic analysis of said textual content.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising acquiring at least one demographic characteristic of a user of said client terminal;

wherein said selecting is performed according to said at least one demographic characteristic.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said storing comprises automatically generating at least some of said plurality of visual content editing functions according to at least one of said visual content data, personal data pertaining to a user of said client terminal, and information acquired from textual content a plurality of content providing network sources.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said request comprises user identification, said selecting comprises acquiring personal data pertaining to a user of said client terminal according to said user identification, said selecting being performed according to said personal data.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein said personal data being extracted from a social network profile.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein said personal data comprises a log of previously selected visual content editing functions from said plurality of visual content editing functions.

11. A method of selecting visual content editing functions, the method being carried out by at least one network unit programmed to carry out the steps of the method, which comprise:

storing a plurality of records each with suitability data of one of a plurality of visual content editing, functions;

receiving, at a server side, via a communication network and from an application installed in a client terminal, a request for visual content editing functions, said request comprises positional data pertaining to said client terminal;

selecting, at said server side, a group from said plurality of visual content editing functions according to said positional data; and

responding to said request of said client terminal by sending a response with said group;

wherein said application is adapted to present a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of said client terminal, said GUI comprises a plurality of indications each for one of a plurality of members of said group so as to allow a user of said client terminal to edit locally said visual content on said client terminal with one or more of said plurality of visual content editing functions in response to a selection of any of said plurality of indications;

wherein said visual content comprises at least one of an image and a video file

wherein said request comprises user identification, said selecting comprises acquiring personal data pertaining to a user of said client terminal according to said user identification, said selecting being performed according to said personal data;

wherein said request comprises user identification, said selecting comprises acquiring social network data pertaining to a friend of a user of said client terminal in a social network according to said user identification, said selecting being performed according to said social network data.

12. A method of adjusting visual content, comprising:

selecting visual content on a client terminal;

extracting visual content data pertaining to said visual content;

analyzing textual content a plurality of content providing network sources available via a network to identify at least one current event;

forwarding to a network node via a communication network a request for visual content editing functions, said request comprises positional data pertaining to said client terminal;

receiving, from said network node and in response to said request, a plurality of visual content editing functions from said network node, said plurality of visual content editing functions being selected according to an analysis of said at least one current event and said positional data by said network node;

presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user, said GUI is displayed on a display of said client terminal, said GUI comprises a plurality of indications, each of one of said plurality of visual content editing functions;

receiving a selection of one or more of said plurality of indications from said user;

in response to said selection editing visual content using one of said plurality of visual content editing functions; and

outputting said adjusted visual content;

wherein said visual content comprises at least one of an image and a video file.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein said selecting comprises locally capturing said visual content using an image sensor installed in said client terminal.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein said selecting comprises accessing a database via said network and selecting said visual content using a user interface on said client terminal.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein said extracting comprises image processing said visual content to perform at least one of identifying an object having a predefined feature in said visual content, classifying a scene depicted in said visual content, recognizing a facial feature in said visual content, and detecting a moving object in said visual content and said request comprises an outcome of said image processing.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising identifying positional data of said client terminal;

said visual content data comprises said positional data.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein said request comprises user identification data;

further comprising extracting personal data according to said user ID;

wherein said plurality of visual content editing functions being selected according to said personal data.

18. A system of providing a plurality of visual content editing functions to a plurality of client terminals, comprising:

a processor adapted to analyze textual content a plurality of content providing network sources available via a network to identify at least one current event;

a network interface which receives via a communication network a request having positional data of a client terminal from a client terminal;

a repository which stores a plurality of records each with suitability data of one of a plurality of visual content editing functions; and

a selection module which uses said processor to select a group of said plurality of visual content editing functions according said at least one current event and to said positional data;

wherein said network interface sends to said client terminal said group via said communication network as a response to said request so as to allow said client terminal to present a graphical user interface (GUI) that comprises a plurality of indications each of a member of said group on a display of said client terminal,

wherein by a selection made using said GUI a user triggers a local edit of visual content on said client terminal with one of said plurality of visual content editing functions;

wherein said visual content comprises at least one of an image and a video file.

19. The system of claim 18, further comprising a plurality of client modules each allows a user to create a visual content editing function and update said repository with said created visual content editing function.