EVENT BASED VIDEO GENERATION

• US 20180091858A1
• Filed: 05/22/2015
• Published: 03/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PlaySight Interactive, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: PlaySight Interactive, Ltd.
• Inventors: KHAZANOV, Evgeni, SHACHAR, Chen, BEN ZUR, Yoram
• Granted Patent: US 10,616,651 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2343 involving reformatting operations of video signals for distribution or compliance with end-user requests or end-user device requirements video transcoding H04N19/40; media packet handling at the source H04L65/762
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2743 Video hosting of uploaded data from client
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4223 Cameras H04N23/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4312 involving specific graphical features, e.g. screen layout, special fonts or colors, blinking icons, highlights or animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44004 involving video buffer management, e.g. video decoder buffer or video display buffer
• 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 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/84 Generation or processing of descriptive data, e.g. content descriptors systems specially adapted for using meta-information in broadcast systems H04H60/73
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/845 Structuring of content, e.g. decomposing content into time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8456 by decomposing the content in the time domain, e.g. in time segments
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8549 Creating video summaries, e.g. movie trailer retrieval in video databases by using presentations in form of a video summary G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8586 by using a URL processing chained hypermedia data for information retrieval G06F16/94; information retrieval from the Internet by using URLs G06F16/955; URL in broadcast information H04H20/93; Web-based protocols H04L67/02

Abstract

A computer implemented method of event based video generation, comprising: on the device, receiving a feed of video captured by a camera, on a memory of the device, maintaining at least one buffer storing a most recent portion of the video feed being received, on a display of the device, presenting at least one GUI element, each one of the GUI elements being associated with a respective predefined video length, and upon actuation of one of the GUI elements by a user of the device, forwarding at least a sub-portion of the video feed portion stored in the buffer for further processing, the forwarded sub-portion having the predefined video length associated with the GUI element actuated by the user.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of event based video generation, comprising:

on the device, receiving a feed of video captured by a camera;

on a memory of the device, maintaining at least one buffer storing a most recent portion of the video feed being received;

on a display of the device, presenting at least one GUI (Graphical User Interface) element, each one of the GUI elements being associated with a respective predefined video length; and

upon actuation of one of the GUI elements by a user of the device, forwarding at least a sub-portion of the video feed portion stored in the buffer for further processing, the forwarded sub-portion having the predefined video length associated with the GUI element actuated by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said forwarding comprises communicating the sub-portion to a server computer remote from the device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said further processing comprises presenting the forwarded sub-portion on a screen of the device.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing the video feed using a camera installed on the device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing the video feed using a camera in communication with the device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said presenting comprises presenting each one of the GUI elements with a marking indicating an association of the GUI element with a respective event type.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said maintaining comprises, during at least a part of said receiving of the video feed, maintaining at least two buffers spanning partially overlapping time frames.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising a preliminary step of selecting at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements, based on a location of the device, on data input by the user of the device, or on both the location and the user input data.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising a preliminary step of allowing a user to define an association between at least one of the GUI elements and a respective video length.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising a preliminary step of allowing a user to define an association between at least one of the GUI elements and a respective event type.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising a preliminary step of receiving data defining at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements, from a server computer remote from the device.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising forwarding data generated on the device based on a signal received by the device to a server computer remote from the device, and receiving data generated based on the forwarded data, from the server computer, the received data defining at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising forwarding GPS (Global Positioning System) data generated on the device to a server computer remote from the device, and receiving data generated based on the forwarded GPS data from the server computer, the received data defining at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising forwarding DGPS (Differential Global Positioning System) data generated on the device to a server computer remote from the device, and receiving data generated based on the forwarded DGPS data from the server computer, the received data defining at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing a user of the device to input a sport type, and based on the input sport type, automatically selecting at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising allowing a user of the device to input a code, forwarding the code input by a user to a server computer remote from the device, and receiving data generated based on the forwarded code from the server computer, the received data defining at least one of a group consisting of at least one of the video lengths, at least one of the GUI elements, and at least one event type associated with a respective one of the GUI elements.

17. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving from the server computer, on the device, a link usable for accessing content based on the sub-portion communicated to the server computer, and allowing the user to forward the received link to at least one recipient.

18. The method of claim 2, further comprising receiving from the server computer, on the device, a link usable for accessing content based on the sub-portion communicated to the server computer and on video data received on the server computer from at least one second device in predefined proximity to the first device, and allowing the user to forward the received link to at least one recipient.

19. An apparatus for event based video generation, the apparatus being implemented on a device and comprising:

a video feed receiver, configured to receive a feed of video captured by a camera;

a buffer maintainer, in communication with said video feed receiver, configured to maintain at least one buffer storing a most recent portion of the video feed being received, on a memory of the device;

a GUI element presenter, configured to present at least one GUI (Graphical User Interface) element on a display of the device, each one of the GUI elements being associated with a respective predefined video length; and

a forwarder, in communication with said GUI element presenter and said buffer maintainer, configured to forward at least a sub-portion of the video feed portion stored in the buffer for further processing, upon actuation of one of the GUI elements by a user of the device, the forwarded sub-portion having the predefined video length associated with the GUI element actuated by the user.

20. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions for performing steps of event based video generation, on a device, the steps comprising:

on the device, receiving a video feed captured by a camera;

on a memory of the device, maintaining at least one buffer storing a most recent portion of the video feed being received;

on a display of the device, presenting at least one GUI (Graphical User Interface) element, each one of the GUI elements being associated with a respective predefined video length;

upon actuation of one of the GUI elements by a user of the device, forwarding at least a sub-portion of the video feed portion stored in the buffer for further processing, the forwarded sub-portion having the predefined video length associated with the GUI element actuated by the user.