Method, system and computer program product for editing movies in distributed scalable media environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9947365-B2
Application number	US-201414242277-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 1, 2014
Priority date	May 23, 2005
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A movie editor converts a received movie into a proxy format, and creates a texture strip representing the frames of the movie. An editor can use the texture strip to edit the movie, rather than editing the movie directly. Deep tags and/or special effects can be defined for the texture strip using a graphical interface. The graphical interface enables movies to be combined into a playback product according to a control structure graphically presented in the graphical interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of non-linearly selecting view points in a video, comprising:
a transcoder at a computer providing a texture strip to a client device, wherein the texture strip comprises a single still image for visually representing an entire video including a plurality of frames comprising moving image data over a time period, the single still image of the texture strip comprised of a sequence of textured frame representations corresponding to the plurality of frames of the video, the sequence of the textured frame representations generated by the transcoder:
obtaining each of the plurality of frames as self-referential frames from the video,
generating, for each frame, a textured frame representation for only that individual frame by applying a predetermined function to only that frame of the video, and
sequencing the textured frame representations for each of the frames in the order of appearance in time of the frames in the video to form the single still image comprised of the sequence of textured frame representations;

at the computer, receiving a selection of a location in the video corresponding to a frame represented in the texture strip from the client device via a user interface displaying the texture strip and a positioner for selecting the frame represented in the texture strip, wherein the client device is coupled to the computer over a network connection;
the computer utilizing the selected location of the positioner relative to the texture strip to locate a temporal position of the frame relative to the entire video represented by the texture strip; and
the computer providing the frame to the client device for displaying the frame on the client device.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
repositioning the positioner to a current location relative to the texture strip to enable display of the video at the current location.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the current location corresponds to a frame in the video subject to an editing operation.

4. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
causing an image to display in the frame when the frame is viewed on the client device.

5. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
causing an ad video, an ad audio, or both to play in the frame when the frame is viewed on the client device.

6. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising:
executing one or more commands associated with the video when the frame is viewed on the client device.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein the one or more commands associated with the video comprise displaying a hyperlink to a web site on the client device, sending an email address of a viewer of the video to an entity associated with the web site, requesting a file download from the entity to the client device, or a combination thereof.

8. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by at least one processor of a computer to perform:
providing a texture strip to a client device, wherein the texture strip is a single still image visually representing an entire video including a plurality of frames comprising moving image data over a time period, the single still image of the texture strip comprised of a sequence of textured frame representations corresponding to the plurality of frames of the video, the sequence of the textured frame representations generated by a transcoder:
obtaining each of the plurality of frames as self-referential frames from the video,
generating, for each frame, a textured frame representation for only that individual frame by applying a predetermined function to only that frame of the video, and
sequencing the textured frame representations for each of the frames in the order of appearance in time of the frames in the video to form the image comprised of the sequence of textured frame representations;

receiving a selection of a location in the video corresponding to a frame represented in the texture strip, from the client device via a user interface displaying the texture strip and a positioner for selecting the frame represented in the texture strip, wherein the client device is coupled to the computer over a network connection;
utilizing the selected location of the positioner relative to the texture strip to locate a temporal position of the frame relative to the entire video represented by the texture strip; and
providing the frame to the client device for displaying the frame on the client device.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:
repositioning the positioner to a current location relative to the texture strip to enable display of the video at the current location.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 , wherein the current location corresponds to a frame in the video subject to an editing operation.

11. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:
causing an image to display in the frame when the frame is viewed on the client device.

12. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the at least one non-transitory computer, readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:
causing an ad video, an ad audio, or both to play in the frame when the frame is viewed on the client device.

13. The computer program product of claim 8 , wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable medium stores further instructions translatable by the at least one processor to perform:
executing one or more commands associated with the video when the frame is viewed on the client device.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the one or more commands associated with the video comprise displaying a hyperlink to a web site on the client device, sending an email address of a viewer of the video to an entity associated with the web site, requesting a file download from the entity to the client device, or a combination thereof.

15. A system, comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions translatable by the at least one processor to provide a transcoder and to perform:
providing a texture strip to a client device, wherein the texture strip is a single still image for visually representing an entire video including a plurality of frames comprising moving image data over a time period, the single still image of the texture strip comprised of a sequence of textured frame representations corresponding to the plurality of frames of the video, the sequence of the textured frame representations generated by the transcoder:
obtaining each of the plurality of frames as self-referential frames from the video,
generating, for each frame, a textured frame representation for only that individual frame by applying a predetermined function to only that frame of the video, and
sequencing the textured frame representations for each of the frames in the order of appearance in time of the frames in the video to form the single still image comprised of the sequence of textured frame representations;

receiving a selection of a location in the video corresponding to a frame represented in the texture strip from the client device via a user interface displaying the texture strip and a positioner for

Assignees

• Open Text Sa Ulc

Inventors

• Gilley Thomas S

Classifications

• H04N21/2547

  Third Party Billing, e.g. billing of advertiser · CPC title

• H04N5/93

  Regeneration of the television signal or of selected parts thereof · CPC title

• G11B27/036

  Insert-editing · CPC title

• G11B20/10527

  Audio or video recording; Data buffering arrangements (G11B20/12 - G11B20/18 take precedence) · CPC title

• H04N5/772

  the recording apparatus and the television camera being placed in the same enclosure · CPC title