US 10,650,861 B2 · Video summarization and collaboration systems and methods

Abstract

Apparatus and associated methods relate to dividing a multimedia stream into sections segmented as a function of a characteristic of the multimedia stream, choosing from the segmented multimedia stream sections a highlight multimedia segment selected as a function of the segmented multimedia stream section content, and automatically providing collaboration access to a summarized multimedia stream constructed as a function of the highlight multimedia segment. In an illustrative example, the multimedia stream may be video. The video may be divided into segmented sections as a function of a characteristic of the video. The video characteristic may be, for example, a video temporal characteristic. In some examples, the highlight multimedia segment may be selected from the sections based on video segment content. A video highlight summary may be automatically created based on one or more highlight segments. Various examples may advantageously provide multi-user video montage creation based on the automatic highlight summaries.

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Dependent claims

An apparatus, comprising:

a computer-implemented multimedia processing system configured to identify highlight sections of a multimedia stream, comprising:
a processor;
and,
a memory that is not a transitory propagating signal, the memory connected to the processor and encoding data and computer readable instructions, including processor executable program instructions, the data and computer readable instructions accessible to the processor, wherein the processor executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receive a multimedia stream;
divide the multimedia stream into sections segmented as a function of a characteristic of the multimedia stream, wherein the segmented sections are divided as a function of matching a chi-square histogram distance peak of the characteristic to a chi-square histogram distance trough of the characteristic;
and,
choose from the segmented multimedia stream sections a highlight multimedia segment selected as a function of the segmented multimedia stream section content.

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An apparatus, comprising:

a computer-implemented video processing system configured to identify highlight sections of a video stream, comprising:
a processor;
a touch-enabled user interface operably and communicatively coupled with the processor;
and,
a memory that is not a transitory propagating signal, the memory connected to the processor and encoding data and computer readable instructions, including processor executable program instructions, the data and computer readable instructions accessible to the processor, wherein the processor executable instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
receive a video stream;
divide the video stream into sections segmented based on extracting a segment of the video stream disposed between first and second video stream boundaries determined as a function of:
a first evaluation of the video stream characteristic;
and, a second evaluation of the video stream characteristic, and wherein the segmented sections are divided as a function of matching a chi-square histogram distance peak of the characteristic to a chi-square histogram distance trough of the characteristic;
choose from the segmented video stream sections highlight video segments selected as a function of the segmented video stream section content;
and,
present user-selectable extracted video stream highlight segments in a random-access preview display.

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