System and method for generating videos

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10477188-B2
Application number	US-201715434126-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 16, 2017
Priority date	Feb 18, 2016
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

A system comprising a processor configured to: provide a master Three-Dimensional (3D) scene; insert at least one source video feed into at least one position within the master 3D scene, allowing a configuration in which at least a first part of the master 3D scene is in front of the source video feed and at least a second part of the master 3D scene is behind the source video feed; and generate a combined video of the master 3D scene with the at least one source video feed inserted therein.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A virtual demo center (VDC) to be used with a printing system, the VDC comprises a processor configured to:
provide a master Three-Dimensional (3D) scene, comprising a real or virtual representation of at least part of the printing system;
insert at least one source video feed of a presenter into at least one position within the master 3D scene, allowing a configuration in which at least a first part of the master 3D scene is in front of the presenter and at least a second part of the master 3D scene is behind the presenter; and

generate a combined video comprising the master 3D scene including the real or virtual representation of at least part of the printing system and the inserted video feed of the presenter, wherein the processor is further configured to:
obtain information indicative of one or more scene Point of View (POV) changes being changes of a master image acquisition device's POV of the master 3D scene;
automatically determine, based on the obtained information, for each of the scene POV changes, corresponding real-world movements groups of a source image acquisition device configured for capturing the source video feed; and
provide instructions to perform the real-world movements groups, wherein performing each of the real-world movements groups results in a video feed POV change;
wherein:
(a) each of the scene POV changes results in a corresponding scene POV being the master image acquisition device's POV of the master 3D scene;
(b) each video feed POV change being a change of the source image acquisition device's POV, that is substantially identical to the scene POV change, and each video feed POV change defines a corresponding video feed POV, being the source image acquisition device's POV of at least one real-world object; and
(c) the instructions are provided for maintaining synchronicity between the scene POV and the video feed POV while generating the combined video.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the information indicative of one or more scene POV changes is obtained before the scene POV changes are made.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein a scale of the inserted source video feed is substantially constant and wherein a distance of the source image acquisition device from the at least one real-world object is substantially constant, independent of the distance of the master image acquisition device from the inserted source video feed.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the processor is further configured to rotate the inserted source video feed upon movement of the master image acquisition device so that the inserted source video feed continuously faces the master image acquisition device.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the at least one source video feed is inserted into at least two different positions within the master 3D scene.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the source image acquisition device is mounted on a movable device configured to perform the real-world movements group.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the movable device is a flying drone.

8. The system of claim 2 , wherein the processor is further configured to obtain points-in-time corresponding to each of the scene POV changes, and wherein the instructions to perform each of the real-world movements groups are provided at each of said points-in-time during acquisition of the source video feed, enabling thereby the source image acquisition device to timely perform the corresponding real-world movements group while maintaining synchronicity between the scene POVs and the video feed POVs.

Assignees

• Landa Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Stiglic Dragan
• Harel Noam

Classifications

• H04N21/85

  Assembly of content; Generation of multimedia applications · CPC title

• G09B9/00

  Simulators for teaching or training purposes (for the use of weapons F41; computing aspects G06; {protocols for games, networked simulations or virtual reality H04L67/131}) · CPC title

• H04N13/275 Primary

  from three-dimensional [3D] object models, e.g. computer-generated stereoscopic image signals · CPC title

• G11B27/036

  Insert-editing · CPC title

• H04N7/181

  for receiving images from a plurality of remote sources · CPC title