System and method for semi-automatic video editing

• US 9,502,073 B2
• Filed: 12/06/2012
• Issued: 11/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vimeo, Inc. (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Magisto Ltd. (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Rav-Acha, Alex, Boiman, Oren
• Primary Examiner(s): ADAMS, EILEEN M
• Application Number:
  US13/706,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20130343727A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,447 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/031 Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals
• 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 27/329 on a disc [VTOC]
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47205 for manipulating displayed content, e.g. interacting with MPEG-4 objects, editing locally
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/87 Regeneration of colour television signals H04N9/80 takes precedence

Abstract

A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that cause a computerized system to: process a media stream to extract metadata about characteristics of the media stream; display to a user the metadata; receive from the user an instruction to generate a modified media stream that is responsive to at least one characteristic that is represented by the metadata; and process the media stream to generate a modified media stream, in response to the instruction.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer readable medium that stores instructions that cause a computerized system to:

receive a media stream that comprises a plurality of frames;

automatically select selected frames out of the plurality of frames;

automatically generate a video production that comprises the automatically selected frames of the plurality of frames and at least one of;

a transition and a video effect;

display to a user, information about the selected frames;

receive from a user an instruction to modify the video production; and

modify, in response to the instruction, the video production, to provide a modified video production, by performing at least one of;

(a) adding at least one frame to the selected frames; and

(b) removing at least one selected frame from the video production,

wherein the information displayed to the user further includes one or more frames that were not automatically selected, as automatically suggested candidates to be added to the video production.

2. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to (a) display to the user information on a touch screen of a mobile device;

and (b) receive the instruction from the user from the touch screen.

3. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to generate a modified media stream in response to a type of soundtrack associated with the media stream.

4. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 1 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to obtain media streams from multiple users and to generate a modified media stream from frames of the media streams.

5. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 4 that stores instructions that cause the computerized system to receive from multiple users instructions to alter the modified media streams and to generate the modified media stream in response to the instructions.