ELECTRONIC IMAGE CREATING, IMAGE EDITING AND SIMPLIFIED AUDIO/VIDEO EDITING DEVICE, MOVIE PRODUCTION METHOD STARTING FROM STILL IMAGES AND AUDIO TRACKS AND ASSOCIATED COMPUTER PROGRAM

• US 20170140797A1
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Published: 05/18/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mario Amura
• Original Assignee: Mario Amura
• Inventors: AMURA, Mario
• Granted Patent: US 9,837,128 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• 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

An audio/video editing electronic device comprising: at least visual and manual user interface means configured for allowing the interaction with said user; a data processing unit, configured for executing a computer program aimed to the creation of videos from audio tracks; means of access to a plurality of digital images; means of access to at least one digital audio track; said electronic device is configured for presenting on said visual user interface means at least part of said plurality of digital images in a predetermined images appearance sequence from said user through said manual user interface means; and for recording a video comprising the sequence of images arranged in an order and temporal interval of appearance determined in accordance to a plurality of commands assigned by said user through said manual user interface means at the same time with the listening of an audio track.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. An audio/video editing electronic device, said device comprising:

at least visual and manual user interface means configured for allowing the interaction with said user;

a data processing unit, configured for executing a computer program aimed to the creation of video contents by combining a gallery of still digital images and a digital audio track through “

on-the-fly”

synchronization inspired by music listening;

means of access to a plurality of digital images;

means of access to at least one digital audio track;

said electronic device is configured for presenting on said visual interface means at least part of said plurality of digital images in a predetermined images appearance sequence from said user through said manual interface means (Previous/Next keys);

and for recording a video creation by simultaneously playing the digital audio track and displaying each of the digital images according to the desired duration and order by simply pressing the Previous/Next keys;

the pressure of any of the Previous/Next keys triggers the changing of the currently displayed digital image and the recording of the previously displayed frame, for a duration corresponding to the time elapsed since it was shown;

said user is able to browse “

on-the-fly”

the images appearance sequence while simultaneously listening to the selected digital audio track and transparently recording the audio-video association;

said electronic device comprising means for increasing the number of available digital images by means of Multi-frame Generator Filters which, applied to a selected image or even to a set of images, deliver multiple variations of each image by generating n copies of the selected image and each copy is processed according to the selected filter with a different level of effect'"'"'s intensity;

any of the Multi-frame Generator Filters is able to create a set of variations of the selected image by applying an image-processing algorithm according to a set of specific parameters assigned either in “

Manual” and

“

Automatic”

modality;

the “

Automatic”

modality first selects on which images to apply the filters to generate the new images, and then generates a number n of new derived images according to the number of images inserted into the images appearance sequence and according to the length of the selected digital audio track.

30. A method of creation of video contents by combining a gallery of still digital images and a digital audio track through “

on-the-fly”

synchronization inspired by music listening, said method comprising;

a preliminary step of definition of an ordered sequence of digital images obtained from a plurality of digital images stored on a memory support,

and a subsequent step of selection of at least one audio track,

and a subsequent step of reproduction of said audio track on an electronic device,

and a step of Recording of a video creation by simultaneously playing the digital audio track and displaying each of the digital images according to the desired duration and order by simply pressing the Previous/Next keys;

the pressure of any of the Previous/Next keys triggers the changing of the currently displayed digital image and the recording of the previously displayed frame, for a duration corresponding to the time elapsed since it was shown;

said user is able to browse “

on-the-fly”

the images appearance sequence while simultaneously listening to the selected digital audio track and transparently recording the audio-video association;

said method further comprising a step of increasing the number of available digital images by means of Multi-frame Generator Filters which, applied to a selected image or even to a set of images, deliver multiple variations of each image by generating n copies of the selected image and each copy is processed according to the selected filter with a different level of effect'"'"'s intensity;

any of the Multi-frame Generator Filters is able to create a set of variations of the selected image by applying an image-processing algorithm according to a set of specific parameters assigned either in “

Manual” and

“

Automatic”

modality;

the “

Automatic”

modality first selects on which images to apply the filters to generate the new images, and then generates a number n of new derived images according to the number of images inserted into the images appearance sequence and according to the length of the selected digital audio track.