Automatic editing of a visual recording to eliminate content of unacceptably low quality and/or very little or no interest
AssigneeYesVideo, Inc.
InventorsJeffrey L. Edwards, Subutai Ahmad
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Abstract
A visual recording can be automatically edited in a manner that creates a summary of the visual recording in which only content that is of unacceptably low quality and/or very little or no interest is eliminated, thereby enabling the original unsummarized visual recording to be discarded if desired. Additionally, a summary of a visual recording can be automatically produced in accordance with a format template that imposes a certain overall style to the visual recording summary. Further, a viewer of a visual recording can be enabled to provide input which can affect the visual recording content included in an automatically generated summary of the visual recording.
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A method for editing a visual recording stored on a data storage medium, comprising the steps of:
- evaluating data regarding the content of the visual recording and/or data regarding the manner in which the visual recording was obtained;
- selecting one or more clips of the visual recording to be included in a summary of the visual recording, based on the evaluation, wherein the selected clips of the visual recording comprise less than all of the visual recording, and wherein the step of selecting and/or the step of evaluating are performed, at least in part, automatically;
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- discarding parts of the visual recording not included in the visual recording summary so that the discarded parts of the visual recording are no longer stored on a data storage medium;
- modifying the result of the evaluation in accordance with an input provided by a viewer of the visual recording regarding the desirability of a part of the visual recording, wherein the step of selecting is based on the modified result of the evaluation;
- the step of modifying is implemented to modify the result of the evaluation in accordance with input provided by each of a plurality of viewers of the visual recording regarding the desirability of a part of the visual recording.
Apparatus for editing a visual recording stored on a data storage medium, comprising:
- means for evaluating data regarding the content of the visual recording and/or data regarding the manner in which the visual recording was obtained;
- means for selecting one or more clips of the visual recording to be included in a summary of the visual recording, based on the evaluation, wherein:
- the selected clips of the visual recording comprise less than all of the visual recording;
- the step of selecting and/or the step of evaluating are performed, at least in part, automatically;
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- the parts of the visual recording not included in the visual recording summary are discarded so that the discarded parts of the visual recording are no longer stored on a data storage medium;
- modifying the result of the evaluation in accordance with an input provided by a viewer of the visual recording regarding the desirability of a part of the visual recording, wherein the step of selecting is based on the modified result of the evaluation;
- the step of modifying is implemented to modify the result of the evaluation in accordance with input provided by each of a plurality of viewers of the visual recording regarding the desirability of a part of the visual recording.
A computer readable-storage medium or media encoded with one or more computer programs for editing a visual recording stored on a data storage medium, the one or more computer programs comprising:
- instructions for evaluating data regarding the content of the visual recording and/or data regarding the manner in which the visual recording was obtained;
- instructions for selecting one or more clips of the visual recording to be included in a summary of the visual recording, based on the evaluation, wherein:
- the selected clips of the visual recording comprise less than all of the visual recording;
- the step of selecting and/or the step of evaluating are performed, at least in part, automatically;
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- the parts, of the visual recording not included in the visual recording summary are discarded so that the discarded parts of the visual recording are no longer stored on a data storage medium;
- modifying the result of the evaluation in accordance with an input provided by a viewer of the visual recording regarding the desirability of a part of the visual recording, wherein the step of selecting is based on the modified result of the evaluation;
- the step of modifying is implemented to modify the result of the evaluation in accordance with input provided by each of a plurality of viewers of the visual recording regarding the desirability of a part of the visual recording.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.