Automated clip creation

• US 9,699,523 B1
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John E., Reasner, Nick
• Primary Examiner(s): Alata, Yassin
• Application Number:
  US14/838,767
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• Field of Search: 725 9- 21, 725 32- 36
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/743 a collection of video files or sequences
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• 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: H04N 21/234336 by media transcoding, e.g. video is transformed into a slideshow of still pictures or audio is converted into text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2543 Billing , e.g. for subscription services payment schemes, architectures or protocols G06Q20/00; e-commerce G06Q30/00; arrangements for billing for the use of broadcast information or broadcast-related information H04H60/21
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• 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

Abstract

The present invention includes systems and methods for providing video clips. One or more users may set one or more parameters for automatically creating one or more video clips of an event. One or more sources may provide event information used to trigger video clip creation. An advertisement may be inserted into one or more created video clips. Each video clip may be associated with metadata and downloaded by a user device user, wherein metadata may identify one or more parameters associated with the video clip.

Claims

1. A method for providing event clips, the method comprising:

receiving event input captured by a plurality of sensors located at predetermined locations at an event, the event input including at least audio data captured by each sensor of the plurality of sensors and social media information related to the event;

calculating a sound intensity level from the audio data;

identifying a total number of social media postings from the social media information;

receiving a plurality of event parameters for creating a plurality of video clips of the event, wherein the plurality of event parameters include at least a sound intensity level threshold and a social media postings threshold;

analyzing a portion of the event input for each of the plurality of event parameters;

creating a video clip of the event having a start point that begins a predetermined period of time from when the sound intensity level satisfies the sound intensity level threshold and when the total number of social media postings satisfies the social media postings threshold;

receiving a request from a user device to acquire the video clip; and

providing the user device with access to the video clip in response to the request.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the user device is to be provided access to the video clip based on the user device being associated with a ticket for the event.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining an end point for the video clip that ends a second predetermined period of time from when the sound intensity level fails to satisfy the sound intensity level threshold.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one advertisement is inserted into the video clip.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the video clip may be displayed through an internet-enabled television.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the video clip is associated with metadata indicating at least one of the plurality of event parameters being satisfied.

7. A system for providing event clips, the system comprising:

a plurality of sensors located at predetermined locations at an event; and

a processor that executes instructions stored in memory, the instructions executed to;

receive event input, captured by the plurality of sensors, the event input including at least audio data captured by each sensor of the plurality of sensors and social media information related to the event;

calculate a sound intensity level from the audio data;

identify a total number of social media postings from the social media information;

receive a plurality of event parameters for creating a plurality of video clips of the event, wherein the plurality of event parameters include at least a sound intensity level threshold and a social media postings threshold;

analyze a portion of the event input for each of the plurality of event parameters;

create a video clip of the event having a start point that begins a predetermined period of time from when the sound intensity level satisfies the sound intensity level threshold and when the total number of social media postings satisfies the social media postings threshold;

receive a request from a user device to acquire the video clip; and

provide the user device with access to the video clip in response to the request.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor executes further instructions to determine that the user device is to be provided access to the video clip based on the user device being associated with a ticket for the event.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the processor further executes instructions to determine an end point for the video clip that ends a second predetermined period of time from when the sound intensity level fails to satisfy the sound intensity level threshold.

10. The system of claim 7, wherein at least one advertisement is inserted into the video clip.

11. The system of claim 7, wherein the video clip may be displayed through an internet-enabled television.

12. The system of claim 7, wherein the video clip is associated with metadata indicating at least one of the plurality of event parameters being satisfied.

13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor to perform a method for providing event clips, the method comprising:

receiving event input, captured by a plurality of sensors located at predetermined locations at an event, the event input including at least audio data captured by each sensor of the plurality of sensors and social media information related to the event;

calculating a sound intensity level from the audio data;

identifying a total number of social media postings from the social media information;

receiving a plurality of event parameters for creating a plurality of video clips of the event, wherein of the plurality of event parameters include at least a sound intensity level threshold and a social media postings threshold;

analyzing a portion of the event input for each of the plurality of event parameters;

creating a video clip of the event having a start point that begins a predetermined period of time from when the sound intensity level satisfies the sound intensity level threshold and when the total number of social media postings satisfies the social media postings threshold;

receiving a request from a user device to acquire the video clip; and

providing the user device with access to the video clip in response to the request.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions executable to determine that the user device is to be provided access to the video clip based on the user device being associated with a ticket for the event.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, further comprising instructions executable to determine an end point that ends a second predetermined period of time from when the sound intensity level fails to satisfy the sound intensity level threshold.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein at least one advertisement is inserted into the video clip.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the video clip is associated with metadata indicating at least one of the plurality of event parameters being satisfied.