METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REARRANGEMENT OF MEDIA DATA USING VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE SAME

• US 20160254023A1
• Filed: 12/11/2015
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Thomson Licensing (Vantiva SA)
• Inventors: BROCKE, Jens, GLAESER, Frank, KUBSCH, Stefan, PIEPER, Michael, WEBER, Michael, LI, Hui
• Granted Patent: US 10,056,110 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/002 Programmed access in sequence to a plurality of record carriers or indexed parts, e.g. tracks, thereof, e.g. for editing; transfer of record carriers from magazine G11B15/68, G11B17/10; G11B17/22
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/022 Electronic editing of analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3036 Time code signal
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/3081 used signal is a video-frame or a video-field (P.I.P)
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/309 Table of contents
• 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

A method and an apparatus for rearrangement of media data using visual representations of the media data are described. A displaying unit displays visual representations of media data items in a temporal order according to temporal metadata of the media data items. An operation unit changes the position of the visual representation of a first media data item upon receipt of a user input. Automatically, the position of the visual representations of some other media data items are changed corresponding to the position change of the visual representation of the first media data item.

Claims

1. A method of rearrangement of media data using visual representations of the media data, each item of the media data being associated with temporal metadata, the method comprising:

displaying visual representations of media data items in a temporal order according to the temporal metadata of the media data items; and

changing the position of the visual representation of a first media data item from a first temporal position to a second temporal position upon receipt of a user input, wherein the position of the visual representations of the media data items between the first and the second temporal positions are automatically changed corresponding to the position change of the visual representation of the first media data item.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the second temporal position is temporally precedent to the first temporal position, the position of the visual representations of the media data items between the first and the second temporal positions are changed backward with respect to the temporal order.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, when the second temporal position is temporally subsequent to the first temporal position, the position of the visual representations of the media data items between the first and the second temporal positions are changed forward with respect to the temporal order.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the relative position between the visual representation of the first media data item and the visual representations of the media data items automatically changed remains the same after the position change.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising clustering the visual representations of the media data items into groups according to the temporal metadata of the media data items, and displaying the groups in a temporal order according to the temporal metadata of the media data items.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the first temporal position of the visual representation of the first media data item is in a first group, and wherein the second temporal position of the visual representation of the first media data item is in a second group or in an empty area not belonging to any group.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the groups are displayed in a temporal order in a vertical direction, and in each of the groups, the visual representations of the media data items are displayed in a temporal order in a horizontal direction, or vice versa.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the visual representation of a media data item includes a draggable graphical icon.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein changing the position of the visual representation of the first media data item includes dragging and dropping the graphical icon of the first media data item upon receipt of a user input.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein each item of the media data is a shot of a video data and the temporal metadata of the media data item is the timecode of the shot, and wherein each group of the media data items is a scene of the video data.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising modifying the temporal metadata of the media data items corresponding to the position change of the visual representations of the media data items.

12. An apparatus configured to rearrange media data using visual representations of the media data, each item of the media data being associated with temporal metadata, the apparatus comprising:

a displaying unit configured to display visual representations of media data items in a temporal order according to the temporal metadata of the media data items;

an input unit configured to receive a user input; and

an operation unit configured to change the position of the visual representation of a first media data item from a first temporal position to a second temporal position upon receipt of a user input, wherein the position of the visual representation of the media data items between the first and the second temporal positions are automatically changed corresponding to the position change of the visual representation of the first media data item.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the operation unit is configured to cluster the visual representations of the media data items into groups according to the temporal metadata of the media data items, and the displaying unit is configured to display the groups in a temporal order according to the temporal metadata of the media data items.

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the apparatus further comprises a receiving unit configured to receive media data and temporal metadata of the media data, and a storage unit configured to store the media data and the temporal metadata.

15. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein instruction for rearrangement of media data using visual representations of the media data, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

display visual representations of media data items in a temporal order according to the temporal metadata of the media data items; and

change the position of the visual representation of a first media data item from a first temporal position to a second temporal position upon receipt of a user input, wherein the position of the visual representations of the media data items between the first and the second temporal positions are automatically changed corresponding to the position change of the visual representation of the first media data item.