AUTOMATIC SELECTION OF VIDEO FROM ACTIVE CAMERAS

• US 20150098688A1
• Filed: 12/05/2014
• Published: 04/09/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AlpineReplay, Inc.
• Original Assignee: AlpineReplay, Inc.
• Inventors: Lokshin, David J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,497,407 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 386/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/78 Retrieval characterised by using metadata, e.g. metadata not derived from the content or metadata generated manually
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/7867 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, title and artist information, manually generated time, location and usage information, user ratings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/787 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/42 of sport video content
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 20/70 Labelling scene content, e.g. deriving syntactic or semantic representations
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/00 Signal processing not specific to the method of recording or reproducing; Circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 20/10527 Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 2020/10537 Audio or video recording
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/10 Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Measuring tape travel
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/28 by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording G11B27/22 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/32 on separate auxiliary tracks of the same or an auxiliary record carrier
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42202 environmental sensors, e.g. for detecting temperature, luminosity, pressure, earthquakes
• 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 21/8133 specifically related to the content, e.g. biography of the actors in a movie, detailed information about an article seen in a video program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 23/90 Arrangement of cameras or camera modules, e.g. multiple cameras in TV studios or sports stadiums
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/77 between a recording apparatus and a television camera
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/772 the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/79 Processing of colour television signals in connection with recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/8205 involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal

Abstract

A method according to one embodiment includes: receiving, by a processing system, sensor data from a sensor device carried by a user or attached to the user'"'"'s sports equipment during a sporting activity; identifying, by the processing system and based on the sensor data, an event engaged in by the user during a time period; determining, based on the sensor data, a position of the user during the event; identifying a camera that is operational and has the user in view during at least a portion of the time period; and selecting video footage of the event from the identified camera.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving, by a processing system, sensor data from a sensor device carried by a user or attached to the user'"'"'s sports equipment during a sporting activity;

identifying, by the processing system and based on the sensor data, an event engaged in by the user during a time period;

determining, based on the sensor data, a position of the user during the event;

identifying a camera that is operational and has the user in view during at least a portion of the time period; and

selecting video footage of the event from the identified camera.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising synchronizing video from the identified camera with the received sensor data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the sensor data includes data from a GPS sensor, and synchronizing the video from the identified camera with the received sensor data is conducted using GPS time stamps.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein synchronizing the video from the identified camera with the received sensor data is conducted using wireless network time stamps.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the camera includes:

identifying a plurality of cameras that are operational during the time period; and

identifying a subset of the operational cameras that have the user in view during the time period; and

selecting a camera from the subset of operational cameras based on at least one criteria.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the at least one criteria includes a focus level of each camera in the subset.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising embedding performance data related to the event in the selected video footage.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising tagging the selected video footage with one or more of:

performance data related to the event, time information, location information, and information regarding the user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor data includes inertial data.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor data includes at least one of:

position data and time data.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified event is selected from the group consisting of:

a jump, a flip, a rotation, a high speed portion, a turn, and a fast turn.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor device is a portable device comprising at least one GPS sensor and at least one inertial sensor.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing system is embedded in the sensor device.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing system is a separate device from the sensor device.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the processing system comprises a server.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the sensor device is co-located with a camera that generates said video data.

17. The method according to claim 1, wherein the sensor device is separate and independent from the camera that generates the video footage.

18. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to;

receive sensor data from a sensor device carried by a user or attached to the user'"'"'s sports equipment during a sporting activity;

identify, based on the sensor data, an event engaged in by the user during a time period;

determine, based on the sensor data, a position of the user during the event;

identify a camera that is operational and has the user in view during at least a portion of the time period; and

select video footage of the event from the identified camera.

19. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

receive sensor data from a sensor device carried by a user or attached to the user'"'"'s sports equipment during a sporting activity;

identify, based on the sensor data, an event engaged in by the user during a time period;

determine, based on the sensor data, a position of the user during the event;

identify a camera that is operational and has the user in view during at least a portion of the time period; and

select video footage of the event from the identified camera.