US 12,223,984 B2Granted

Synthesizing a presentation from multiple media clips

AssigneeGracenote, Inc.

InventorsDale T. Roberts, Randall E. Cook, Markus K. Cremer

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Abstract

In an example implementation, a method is described. The implementation accesses first and second media clips. The implementation also matches a first fingerprint of the first media clip with a second fingerprint of the second media clip and determines an overlap of the first media clip with the second media clip. The implementation also, based on the overlap, merges the first and second media clips into a group of overlapping media clips, transmits, to a client device, data identifying the group of overlapping media clips and specifying a synchronization of the first media clip with the second media clip, and generates for display on a display device of the client computing device, a graphical user interface that identifies the group of overlapping media clips, specifies the synchronization of the first media clip with the second media clip, and allows access to, and manipulation of, the first and second media clips.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computing system for generating a synchronized presentation of a multimedia clip, the computing system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform a set of operations comprising:
receiving, from a first computing device, a first media clip with a first audio waveform;
receiving, from a second computing device, a second media clip with a second audio waveform;
determining a temporal overlap of the first media clip and the second media clip, wherein the temporal overlap is determined by matching a first audio identifier of the first media clip with a second audio identifier of the second media clip;
merging the first media clip and the second media clip into a group of overlapping media clips based on the temporal overlap determined by the matching of the first audio identifier with the second audio identifier;
and
generating the synchronized presentation of the multimedia clip, wherein the multimedia clip comprises the group formed by merging the first and second media clips based on the temporal overlap, and wherein the synchronized presentation of the multimedia clip comprises a first portion of the first media clip and a second portion of the second media clip.

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A non-transitory machine readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to perform a set of operations comprising:

receiving, from a first computing device, a first media clip with a first audio waveform;
receiving, from a second computing device, a second media clip with a second audio waveform;
determining a temporal overlap of the first media clip and the second media clip, wherein the temporal overlap is determined by matching a first audio identifier of the first media clip with a second audio identifier of the second media clip;
merging the first media clip and the second media clip into a group of overlapping media clips based on the temporal overlap determined by the matching of the first audio identifier with the second audio identifier;
and
generating a synchronized presentation of a multimedia clip, wherein the multimedia clip comprises the group formed by merging the first and second media clips based on the temporal overlap, and wherein the synchronized presentation of the multimedia clip comprises a first portion of the first media clip and a second portion of the second media clip.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a first media clip with a first audio waveform;
receiving a second media clip with a second audio waveform;
determining a temporal overlap of the first media clip and the second media clip, wherein the temporal overlap is determined by matching a first audio identifier of the first media clip with a second audio identifier of the second media clip;
merging the first media clip and the second media clip into a group of overlapping media clips based on the temporal overlap determined by the matching of the first audio identifier with the second audio identifier;
and
generating a synchronized presentation of a multimedia clip, wherein the multimedia clip comprises the group formed by merging the first and second media clips based on the temporal overlap, and wherein the synchronized presentation of the multimedia clip comprises a first portion of the first media clip and a second portion of the second media clip.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/506,986Filed 10 Nov 2023 · continuation
Priority: 28 Sep 2007
Published: US 2024/0079032 A17 Mar 2024
Granted: 11 Feb 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

G11B 27/031
Editing, e.g. varying the order of information signals recorded on, or reproduced from, record carriers: electronic editing of digitised analogue…
G11B 27/036
Electronic editing of digitised analogue information signals, e.g. audio or video signals: insert-editing
G11B 27/10
Editing; Indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising; Monitoring; Measuring tape travel: indexing; Addressing; Timing or synchronising;…
G11B 27/28
By using information detectable on the record carrier: by using information signals recorded by the same method as the main recording

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