Method and system for segmenting and transmitting on-demand live-action video in real-time

• US 10,102,430 B2
• Filed: 04/08/2015
• Issued: 10/16/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LiveClips, LLC
• Original Assignee: LiveClips, LLC
• Inventors: Vunic, Douglas W., Hoffert, Eric, Gessel, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Beck, Leron
• Application Number:
  US14/682,032
• Publication Number:
  US 20150213316A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,287 Days
• Field of Search: 348 70
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/40 in video content extracting overlay text G06V20/62; video retrieval G06F16/70; processing of video elementary streams in video servers H04N21/234; processing of video elementary streams in video clients H04N21/44
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/44 Event detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/49 Segmenting video sequences, i.e. computational techniques such as parsing or cutting the sequence, low-level clustering or determining units such as shots or scenes
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence

Abstract

A method and system for producing video-segments of a live-action event involving monitoring a live-action event for detection of event-segments, detecting one or more event-triggers with detectors, determining if an event-segment occurred based on the detected event-triggers, and editing one or more video feeds into a video-segment to encompass the event-segment.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

storing, by a processing system comprising a processor, a video feed in a storage medium;

analyzing, by the processing system, the video feed for a plurality of event-triggers;

detecting, by the processing system, an event-trigger of the plurality of event-triggers based on the analyzing;

determining, by the processing system, whether an event of interest has occurred by evaluating the event-trigger according to a predetermined criteria;

segmenting, by the processing system, the video feed into a plurality of video-segments including a first video-segment that encompasses the event of interest responsive to determining that the event of interest has occurred;

determining, for the first video-segment, a first interval of the first video-segment prior to the event of interest and a second interval of the first video-segment after the event of interest;

transmitting, by the processing system, a menu including a representation of available video-segments of the plurality of video-segments to an end-user device;

receiving, by the processing system, a selection of a video-segment of the available video-segments as a selected video-segment; and

transmitting, by the processing system, the selected video-segment to the end-user device,

wherein a first length of the first interval and a second length of the second interval are determined automatically according to a user'"'"'s past behavior.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing the video feed is performed when an event state is in an “

on”

state.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising appraising the end-user device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising attaching metadata to the selected video-segment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the video feeds are pre-encoded prior to the storing.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the video feed is transcoded prior to the transmitting the selected video-segment to the end-user device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the menu displayed on the end-user device contains a plurality of selectable tiles representing the available video-segments.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the selectable tiles are organized chronologically.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the selectable tiles displayed in the menu are included automatically according to a user'"'"'s past behavior.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the selectable tiles displayed are included according to a user-selected preference.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the video feeds comprise a plurality of camera perspectives of a single occasion, and wherein the representation allows selection from among a plurality of single occasion video-segments that are distinct camera perspectives of a same event of interest.

12. The method of claim 1 wherein a portion of the plurality of video-segments comprise a plurality of video-segments that together form a mini-game.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the mini-game has a predetermined length, and wherein the portion of the plurality of video-segments included therein are selectively chosen based on a prioritizing criteria.

14. A system, comprising:

a processing system including a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving a video feed of an occasion;

storing the video feed;

analyzing the video feeds for event-triggers, wherein the event-triggers are determined according to a detected event-trigger when an event of interest has occurred;

performing video-segmentation to create a video-segment encompassing the event of interest;

determining a length of time for the video-segment, the length of time including a first interval of the video-segment prior to the event of interest and a second interval of the video-segment after the event of interest, wherein a first length of the first interval and a second length of the second interval are determined automatically according to a user'"'"'s past behavior;

transmitting a menu representation of available video-segments to an end-user device;

receiving a selection of a video-segment as a selected video-segment; and

transmitting the selected video-segment to the end-user device.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

analyzing the video feed only when an event state is “

on”

;

appraising the end-user device;

adding metadata to the video-segments; and

transcoding the video-segments prior to the transmitting to the end-user device.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the video feeds are pre-encoded prior to the storing of the video feed.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the menu displayed on the end-user device contains a plurality of selectable tiles representing the video-segments.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the selectable tiles are organized chronologically.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the selectable tiles are included automatically according to the user'"'"'s past behavior.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the selectable tiles are included according to a user-selected preference.

21. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a processing system comprising a processor, a video feed;

analyzing, by the processing system, the video feed for a detection of event-triggers;

detecting, by the processing system, event-triggers with detectors, each at a specific time in the video feed as a detected event-trigger;

assigning, by the processing system, a weighting value to each detected event-trigger;

comparing, by the processing system, the detected event-triggers, and an accompanying weighted value for each detected event-trigger, that were registered within a predetermined length of time to determine whether an event of interest has occurred;

segmenting, by the processing system, the video feed into a video-segment that encompasses the event of interest when the event of interest has occurred to include the event of interest and to include a first interval of video and a second interval of video, wherein a length of the first interval of video and a length of the second interval of video are automatically adjusted according to one of a user'"'"'s previous behavior and a predetermined criteria;

determining a segment length for the video-segment; and

attaching, by the processing system, metadata to the video-segment.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the video feeds comprise a single video feed that is a compilation of a plurality of live video sources, and wherein the video feed is pre-encoded and stored on a digital storage medium prior to the analyzing.

23. The method of claim 21, wherein the first interval of video is prior to the event of interest and the second interval of video is after the event of interest.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the determining the segment length includes further determining the first interval and the second interval based on a heuristic assessment of the event of interest to include a portion of the video-segment before and after the event of interest.