Automatic generation of videos via a segment list
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSimon Baker, Eran Borenstein, Eitan Sharon, Mehmet Nejat Tek
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed for automatically generating a highlight reel of video content. Segments from a segment list may be associated with, or indexed to, corresponding sequences from a video of an event for which the segment list is prepared. Thereafter, also using the segment list, segments may be scored using a variety of predefined criteria to come up with segments which are likely to be of greatest interest to a particular user. The video sequences associated with the highest scored segments are used as the video highlight reel.
Claims20
A method of generating a video highlight reel, comprising:
- (a) indexing a video to a segment list setting forth the video sequences in the video to identify positions of different video sequences within the video;
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- (b) adding one or more segments from the segment list to the highlight reel based at least in part on data contained in the one or more segments.
A computer-readable medium for programming a processor to perform a method of generating an interactive video highlight reel, comprising:
- (a) correlating segments in a segment list to video sequences in a video;
- (b) identifying a video sequence for inclusion in the video highlight reel based at least in part on a significance of a segment, corresponding to the video sequence, to an outcome of an event covered by the segment list;
- (c) displaying an interactive script including a plurality of script segments, a script segment of the plurality of script segments matched to the video sequence identified for inclusion in the video highlight reel in said step (b);
- (d) receiving selection of the script segment displayed in said step (c);
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- (e) displaying the video sequence matched to the script segment upon selection of the script segment in said step (d).
A system for generating a video highlight reel, comprising:
- a video including a plurality of videos sequences from one or more events, a group of one or more video sequences selected for inclusion in a highlight reel;
- one or more segment lists including a listing of segments corresponding to the video sequences from the one or more events;
- an interactive script including script segments, displayed on a display of a computing device, the interactive script generated based on the segments of the segment list corresponding to the video sequences selected into the highlight reel, selection of a script segment from the interactive script displaying a corresponding highlight reel video sequence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.