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US 9,002,177 B2Granted
Media generating system and method
AssigneeSceneplay, Inc.
InventorsAnn Greenberg, Philippe Piernot
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Abstract
A media generation system and method are provided that automatically directs one or more users to perform in one or more shots specified in the marked-up script and automatically combines the one or more shots into a piece of media.
Claims18
A media generation system, comprising:
- a processor;
- a store that contains:
- a marked-up script in a markup language that contains a script having a scene having a plurality of shots, wherein each shot has a plurality of splitscenes, and wherein each splitscene is a portion of a shot derived from the marked-up script and involves at least one character who appears in the shot, one or more actions of the character, and one or more blocking directions from the script;
- and
- one or more recorded shots and the one or more recorded splitscenes;
- and
- a memory having instructions stored thereon wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to operate as:
- a director that, based on the marked-up script stored in the store,
- automatically directs a plurality of actors to perform in one of the plurality of splitscenes specified in the marked-up script including performing the one or more actions of the character, and
- generates a recorded splitscene content for each actor, wherein the director presents, based on the marked-up script, scrolling dialog, stage and blocking directions to each of the plurality actors to generate the recorded splitscene content, each recorded splitscene of the content having a timing for the respective shot in the recorded splitscene;
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- an editor that, without user interaction, automatically edits and combines, based on the marked-up script and the timing for each shot in two or more recorded splitscenes, the recorded splitscene content of two or more of the plurality of actors into a combined media presentation.
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A media generation method, comprising:
- providing, in a computer system, a marked-up script in a markup language that contains a script having a scene with a plurality of shots wherein each shot has a plurality of splitscenes wherein each splitscene is a portion of a scene derived from the marked-up script and involves at least one character who appears in the shot, one or more actions of the character and one or more blocking directions from the script;
- automatically directing a plurality of actors to perform in the one or more shots specified in the marked-up script, including performing the one or more actions of the character in the plurality of shots, so as to generate recorded splitscene content, each splitscene of the recorded splitscene content having a timing for the respective shot in the recorded splitscene;
- wherein the generation of the splitscene content includes presenting, based on the marked-up script, scrolling dialog, stage and blocking directions to the plurality of actors to generate a recorded splitscene content for each actor;
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- without user interaction, based on the marked-up script and the timing for each shot in each recorded splitscene, automatically editing and combining a plurality of recorded splitscene contents stored in the store into a combined media presentation, wherein the combined presentation switches between recorded splitscenes of the actors.
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A media generation system, comprising:
- a store that contains:
- a marked-up script in a markup language that contains a script having a scene having a plurality of shots wherein each shot has a plurality of splitscenes, wherein each splitscene is a portion of a shot derived from the marked-up script and involves at least one character who appears in the shot, one or more actions of the character and one or more blocking directions from the script;
- and
- one or more recorded splitscenes of one or more recorded shots;
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- a processor, executing instructions stored on a memory, to operate as:
- a director that, based on the marked-up script, automatically directs a plurality of actors to perform in a plurality of shots specified in the marked-up script, the director presents, based on the marked-up script, scrolling dialog, stage and blocking directions to each of the plurality of actors to generate respective splitscenes, each splitscene of the having a timing for the respective shot in the splitscene;
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- a recorder that records the one or more splitscenes for each actor acting in the one or more shots of the marked-up script to generate respective recorded splitscene content.
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A media generation method, comprising:
- providing, in a computer system, a marked-up script in a markup language that contains a script having a scene with a plurality of shots wherein each shot has a plurality of splitscenes wherein each splitscene is a portion of a scene derived from the marked-up script and involves at least one character who appears in the shots, one or more action of the character and one or more blocking directions for the plurality of shots marked up in the script;
- providing a director unit, coupled to the computer system, that directs a plurality of actors to perform in the one or more shots specified in the marked-up script to generate recorded splitscene content comprised of one or more recorded splitscenes, each recorded splitscene having a timing for the respective shot in the splitscene, wherein the generation of the recorded splitscene content includes:
- presenting by the director unit, based on the marked-up script, scrolling dialog, stage and blocking directions to the plurality of actors;
- and
- recording by a recorder unit, one or more splitscenes of one or more of the plurality of actors acting in accordance with the presented information of the marked-up script.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.