Asset management during production of media

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10445398-B2
Application number	US-201213718553-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 18, 2012
Priority date	Mar 1, 2012
Publication date	Oct 15, 2019
Grant date	Oct 15, 2019

Abstract

Managing assets during production of multimedia, comprising: creating at least one scouting image; creating a metadata including information needed to import the at least one scouting image as a shot; and generating a script including commands needed to recreate the shot in its current state, and storing camera and character attributes. Keywords include asset management and scouting images.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of managing assets including at least one scouting image during a storyboarding process in production of a motion picture, the method comprising:
generating metadata corresponding to the at least one scouting image, the metadata including a path to a script including commands needed to reconstruct a 3-D environment and camera positions of the at least one scouting image;
importing the at least one scouting image from the 3-D environment for the storyboarding process;
incorporating the least one scouting image into the storyboarding process to generate a plurality of storyboard images by organizing the at least one scouting image and the plurality of storyboard images into a single application, wherein the single application is used to generate complex 3-D setups and reconstruction of the camera positions within the 3-D environment; and
manipulating the at least one scouting image as a reference using the script and the camera positions within the 3-D environment to generate the plurality of storyboard images.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multimedia comprises a computer game.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one scouting image comprises at least one animated image.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the at least one scouting image comprises at least one 3-D still image.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the at least one 3-D still image is used to create an animated shot having a plurality of animated images by interpolating the positions stored with each of the at least one 3-D still image.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata is a markup language.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the markup language is an extensible markup language (XML).

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising
importing the at least one scouting image as a shot, wherein the shot is a computer graphics (CG) shot.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein the metadata includes a path to the CG shot.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising
importing the at least one scouting image as a shot and recreating the shot in its current state using the script.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
recreating the shot as a new version of the shot; and
reusing the metadata corresponding to the shot as the metadata for the new version of the shot.

12. A non-transitory storage medium storing a computer program to manage assets including at least one scouting image during a storyboarding process in production of a motion picture, the computer program comprising executable instructions that cause a computer to:
generate metadata corresponding to the at least one scouting image, the metadata including a path to a script including commands needed to reconstruct a 3-D environment and camera positions of the at least one scouting image;
import the at least one scouting image from the 3-D environment for the storyboarding process;
incorporate the least one scouting image into the storyboarding process to generate a plurality of storyboards by organizing the at least one scouting image and the plurality of storyboards into a single application, wherein the single application is used to generate complex 3-D setups and reconstruction of the camera positions within the 3-D environment; and
manipulating the at least one scouting image as a reference using the script and the camera positions within the 3-D environment to generate the plurality of storyboard images.

13. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 12 , wherein the metadata is a markup language.

14. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 12 , further comprising executable instructions that cause the computer to
import the at least one scouting image as a shot and recreate the shot in its current state using the script.

15. The non-transitory storage medium of claim 14 , further comprising executable instructions that cause the computer to:
recreate the shot as a new version of the shot; and
use the metadata corresponding to the shot as the metadata for the new version of the shot.

Assignees

• Sony Corp
• Sony Pictures Tech Inc

Inventors

• Morehead Dave
• Katsambas Yiotis
• Williams James
• Skiena Rob
• Lazzari Umberto

Classifications

• H04N5/222

  Studio circuitry; Studio devices; Studio equipment (cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00) · CPC title

• G11B27/34

  Indicating arrangements  {(indicating means incorporated in magazine or cassette G11B23/046 and G11B23/0875; indicating measured values in general G01D)} · CPC title

• G11B27/034

  on discs (G11B27/036, G11B27/038 take precedence) · CPC title

• G06F17/00 Primary

  Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions (information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00) · CPC title

• G06Q10/10 Primary

  Office automation; Time management · CPC title