Picture line audio augmentation

• US 20060204214A1
• Filed: 03/14/2005
• Published: 09/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Zhang, Dongmei, Shah, Mehul Y., Rovinsky, Vladimir
• Application Number:
  US11/079,151
• Publication Number:
  US 20060204214A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/282
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/034 on discs G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/036 Insert-editing
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/34 Indicating arrangements indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D

Abstract

The subject invention provides a system and/or a method that facilitates creating an authored video with audio applied to at least one image/video segment within the authored video. An audio enhancement component can apply audio to at least one image/video segment, wherein an audio segment begins with a display of the image/video segment (e.g., an instance of displaying the image or video segment within the authored video). A segment-line can be utilized to provide audio to the image/video segment(s) within the authored video, wherein the segment-line can be a sequence of image/video segments chronologically ordered based upon a start and an end of the image/video clip.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates adding audio to an authored video, comprising:

a component that receives an authored video; and

an audio enhancement component that facilitates adding one or more audio segments to the authored video as a function of display of one or more image or video segments.

2. The system of claim 1, the audio segment is at least one of a user generated audio segment, and an existing audio segment, wherein the user generated audio segment is created by defining at least one of:

a beat, a genre, a mood, an intensity, a selection of an instrument, a bass, a style, and a tempo.

3. The system of claim 2, the audio segment can vary a respective duration based at least in part upon an editing operation to provide audio for a beginning to an end of the video/image segment, wherein the editing operation can be at least one of an add of the video/image segment, a remove of a video/image segment, an add of an audio segment, and a remove of an audio segment.

4. The system of claim 2, further comprising an intelligent component that provides adjustment of the duration of at least one of the audio segment, and an associated video/image segment, wherein audio ends before the end of displaying the last video/image segment that the audio segment overlaps.

5. The system of claim 2, further comprising an intelligent component that provides at least one of the following:

an automatic selection of one of a plurality of audio selections to be executed upon display of the image/video segment; and

a probabilistic utility-based analysis relating to user preference in connection with an automatic selection.

6. The system of claim 2, the audio segment is regenerated to an updated duration as a function of an edit of the audio segment or the image/video segment such that the audio segment gives a perception of a complete musical composition with a beginning and an end related to the one or more image or video segments.

7. The system of claim 1, the audio segment is one of or a combination of a created audio and an existing audio clip.

8. The system of claim 1, the audio segment is formatted in at least one of the following:

a WAV;

an MP3;

an MP4;

an AVI;

an MPEG;

CDA;

a WMA, and any other suitable audio format for storing digital audio.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a normalizer component that provides normalization for a volume level associated to at least one audio segment in relation to other audio segments in the authored video.

10. The system of claim 9, the normalizer component can provide at least one of an automatic normalization, and a manual normalization.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

a fade component that can provide at least one of a fade-in at a start of the audio sample and a fade-out at an end of the audio sample;

or an audio transition component that provides a perception of a smooth audio transition between two subsequent audio segments.

12. The system of claim 1, the audio sample can play at a percentage of completion of a video/image transition, the transition is at least one of a wipe, a fade, a cross-fade, an explode, an implode, a matrix wipe, a push, a dissolve, a checker, and any suitable video transition of video effects and transitions.

13. A computer readable medium having stored thereon the components of the system of claim 1.

14. A computer-implemented method that facilitates playing audio associated to an authored video, comprising:

receiving the authored video;

obtaining audio to be associated with an image/video segment; and

adding the audio to the video so as to be executed at display of the image/video segment.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising at least one of:

extending the audio segment until at least one of an entire length of the audio segment, an end of the authored video, and an encounter with an image/video segment with an audio segment to start playing at the display of such image/video segment;

normalizing the volume of the audio segment to ensure continuity;

determining if the audio segment ends before a display of the last image/video segment that it overlaps is complete;

adjusting duration of the audio segment to ensure that the audio segment plays until the display of the last image/video segment that it overlaps is complete; and

adjusting an image/video segment duration to match a length of the audio segment.

16. The method of claim 14, further comprising at least one of:

applying a fade-in at a start of the audio segment;

applying a fade-out at an end of the audio segment;

applying the audio segment at a percentage of completion of a image/video transition; and

applying an audio transition between subsequent audio segments to provide perception of a smooth audio transition between audio segments.

17. The method of claim 14, further comprising at least one of:

adding an audio segment;

deleting the audio segment;

adding an image/video segment;

deleting an image/video segment;

moving an image/video segment; and

adjusting the duration of an image/video segment

18. The method of claim 14, further comprising at least one of creating and utilizing an audio segment and utilizing an existing audio segment.

19. A data packet that communicates between a receiver component and the audio enhancement component, the data packet facilitates the method of claim 14.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates playing audio associated to an authored video, comprising:

means for receiving the authored video that has at least one image/video segment; and

means for applying an audio segment to the authored video that can play based at least in part upon a start of a display of the associated image/video segment.