DISTRIBUTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIDEO CONVERSION SYSTEM

• US 20120314025A1
• Filed: 06/10/2011
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deluxe 3D LLC (Deluxe Corp.), Deluxe Digital Distribution Inc. (Deluxe Corp.), Deluxe Digital Studios, Inc. (Deluxe Corp.), Deluxe Entertainment Services Inc., Deluxe Laboratories LLC, Deluxe Media Inc., Deluxe One, LLC, Softitler Net, Inc., Deluxe Creative Services Inc. (The Framestore Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Mediastudio, Inc.
• Inventors: Fiumi, Morgan
• Granted Patent: US 8,749,618 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/43
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/106 Processing image signals for multi-view video sequence encoding H04N19/597
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/261 with monoscopic-to-stereoscopic image conversion

Abstract

A project network application can provide functionality for a plurality of worker systems to perform digital video editing so as to at least partially perform two- to three-dimensional conversion of a video. The project network application may, for instance, include tools for performing rotoscoping, depth mapping, object offsetting, occlusion filling, and the like.

Claims

1. A method of performing computer-aided video image processing, the method comprising:

receiving a video comprising a plurality of frames;

providing a network application having functionality for allocating the frames of the video to worker systems operated by a plurality of workers over a network, the network application configured to;

output a digital video editor user interface comprising functionality for the workers to perform at least a part of a two-dimensional to three-dimensional conversion process on the video, the two-to-three dimensional conversion process comprising performing two or more of the following;

rotoscoping, depth mapping, occlusion filling, pixel shifting, three dimensional modeling, and camera matching, and

collect processed frame information from the worker systems; and

providing the processed frame information to a provider of the video as part of at least partially two-dimensional to three-dimensional converted video;

wherein at least said providing the network application is implemented by a computer system comprising computer hardware.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the digital video editor user interface further comprises functionality for the workers to perform the rotoscoping, the depth mapping, and the occlusion filling.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a user interface that allows an administrator to monitor progress of the workers in editing the video frames.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising rating performance of the workers based on the collected processed frame information.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein said rating comprises evaluating the workers based on one or more of the following factors:

timeliness, editing quality, thoroughness, availability, and rate.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the factors further comprise professionalism and infrastructure of the worker systems.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising encrypting the frames so that transmission of the encrypted frames to the worker systems from the network application reduces a risk of obtaining actual frames from the encrypted frames.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the worker systems comprise functionality to decrypt a portion of each frame while editing each frame so that not all of a frame is decrypted at any given time.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the computer system comprises a plurality of computing devices.

10. Non-transitory physical computer storage comprising instructions stored thereon for implementing, in one or more processors, operations for performing computer-aided video image processing, the operations comprising:

receiving a video comprising a plurality of frames;

providing a network application having functionality for allocating the frames of the video to worker systems operated by a plurality of workers over a network, the network application configured to;

output a digital video editor user interface comprising functionality for the workers to perform at least a part of a two-dimensional to three-dimensional conversion process on the video, the two-to-three dimensional conversion process comprising performing two or more of the following;

rotoscoping, depth mapping, occlusion filling, pixel shifting, three dimensional modeling, and camera matching, and

collect processed frame information from the worker systems; and

providing the processed frame information to a provider of the video as part of an at least partially two-dimensional to three-dimensional converted video;

wherein at least said providing the network application is implemented by a computer system comprising computer hardware.

11. The non-transitory physical computer storage of claim 10, wherein the digital video editor user interface further comprises functionality for the workers to perform the rotoscoping, the depth mapping, and the occlusion filling.

12. The non-transitory physical computer storage of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise providing a user interface that allows an administrator to monitor progress of the workers in editing the video frames.

13. The non-transitory physical computer storage of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise rating performance of the workers based on the collected processed frame information.

14. The non-transitory physical computer storage of claim 13, wherein said rating comprises evaluating the workers based on one or more of the following factors:

timeliness, editing quality, thoroughness, and availability.

15. The non-transitory physical computer storage of claim 10, in combination with a computer system comprising computer hardware.

16. A system for computer-aided video image processing, the system comprising:

a network application comprising computer hardware, the network application comprising functionality for allocating frames of a video to worker systems operated by a plurality of workers over a network, the network application configured to;

output a digital video editor user interface comprising functionality for the workers to perform at least a part of a two-dimensional to three-dimensional conversion process on the video, the two-to-three dimensional conversion process comprising performing two or more of the following;

rotoscoping, depth mapping, occlusion filling, pixel shifting, three dimensional modeling, and camera matching, and

collect processed frame information from the worker systems; and

a project management module configured to provide the processed frame information to a provider of the video as part of at least partially two-dimensional to three-dimensional converted video.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the digital video editor user interface further comprises functionality for the workers to perform the rotoscoping, the depth mapping, and the occlusion filling.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the project management module is further configured to provide a user interface that allows an administrator to monitor progress of the workers in editing the video frames.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising a worker ratings module configured to rate performance of the workers based on the collected processed frame information.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the worker ratings module is further configured to rate the performance by at least evaluating the workers based on one or more of the following factors:

timeliness, editing quality, thoroughness, and availability.

21. The system of claim 16, wherein digital video editor interface is configured to be output on a 3-D enabled display, thereby enabling a worker to evaluate the quality of the processed frame information.