Video sequence assembly

• US 9,471,954 B2
• Filed: 03/16/2015
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, John M. Jr., Rakshit, Sarbajit K., Trim, Craig M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chu, David H
• Application Number:
  US14/658,497
• Publication Number:
  US 20160275641A1
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/816 involving special video data, e.g 3D video
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/265 Mixing
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/272 Means for inserting a foreground image in a background image, i.e. inlay, outlay
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A method includes receiving, by one or more processors, metadata corresponding to a scene, the metadata comprising a current location and orientation of a scene capture device used to capture the metadata, receiving, by the one or more processors, a required recording quality indication from a user, determining, by the one or more processors, according to the metadata, a stored video sequence corresponding to the scene that meets the required recording quality indication and corresponds to the current location and orientation, and determining, by the one or more processors, according to the metadata, a stored video sequence corresponding to the scene, and assembling, by the one or more processors, an output video sequence for the scene that incorporates at least a portion of the stored video sequence. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by one or more processors, a current location and orientation of a scene capture device metadata corresponding to a scene, the metadata comprising a current location and orientation of a scene capture device used to capture the metadata;

receiving, by the one or more processors, an indication from a user to capture only metadata for the scene;

determining, by the one or more processors, according to the metadata, from a publicly accessible repository of video sequences a stored video sequence that corresponds to the current location and orientation; and

assembling, by the one or more processors, an output video sequence of the scene that incorporates at least a portion of the stored video sequence without recording an input video sequence for the scene.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining the stored video sequence comprises comparing the metadata to metadata of the stored video sequence.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises weather information for the scene when the scene was captured.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of date information for the scene, time information for the scene, weather information for the scene when the scene was captured, velocity information for the scene capture device when the scene was captured, image resolution information for an input video sequence, frame rate information for the input video sequence, lighting conditions information for the scene when the scene was captured, and model information for the scene capture device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the metadata comprises identification information for at least one object.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising reassembling the output video sequence and referencing at least a portion of another stored video sequence.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein assembling the output video sequence is deferred until playback.

8. A computer program product for assembling a video, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising instructions to;

receive metadata corresponding to a scene, the metadata comprising a current location and orientation of a scene capture device used to capture the metadata;

receive an indication from a user to capture only metadata for the scene;

determine, by the one or more processors, according to the metadata, a stored video sequence that corresponds to the current location and orientation; and

assemble an output video sequence of the scene that incorporates at least a portion of the stored video sequence without recording an input video sequence for the scene.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the instructions to determine the stored video sequence comprises instructions to compare the metadata to metadata for the stored video sequence.

10. A method comprising:

determining, by one or more processors, a current location and orientation of a scene capture device;

receiving, by the one or more processors, a required recording quality indication from a user;

determining, by the one or more processors, according to the current location and orientation of the scene capture device, whether a stored video sequence that meets the required recording quality indication and corresponds to the current location and orientation is available from an accessible source; and

instructing, by the one or more processors, the scene capture device to record only metadata in response to determining that a stored video sequence that meets the required recording quality indication and corresponds to the current location and orientation is available.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising instructing, by the one or more processors, the scene capture device to record an input video sequence in response to determining that a stored video sequence that meets the required recording quality indication and corresponds to the current location and orientation is not available from a publicly accessible source.