94 results about "Storyboard" patented technology

Creative multi-act games for the younger generation of casino players accustomed to creative simulation games such as “The Sims®” and familiar TV characters such as the cast of “Friends”. Stories unfold through acts that have been staged by the player by selecting and placing acting objects. A palette of betting opportunities may be provided in each act in accordance with the staged act to allow the player(s) to place bets. A typical storyboard may include three acts: (a) a construction act, (b) a testing act and (c) a destruction or resolution act. The unfolding of acts may be non-linear and several players may participate simultaneously, sharing the opportunity to affect a storyboard's direction through decision-making.

A storyboard of video clips is divided into zones, or segments. The user selects a zone, and the invention presents a list of effects that are applicable to the selected zone. The user can select among the presented effects in order to apply the effect to the selected zone. Effects that are inapplicable to the selected zone are hidden from view and not displayed. Thus, the overall number of effects that are presented at any given time is reduced, and the process of selecting an appropriate effect is simplified and made easier for novice users.

A computer-implemented or computer-enabled method and system is provided for working with streaming media, such as digital video clips and entire videos. Clips can be grouped together and snippets of video can be re-ordered into a rough cut assemblage of a video storyboard. Later, the video storyboard and the final video scene may be fine-tuned. The invention is not limited to digital video, and may also be used with other digital assets, including for example audio, animation, logos, text, etc. Accordingly, computer-enabled storyboarding of digital assets includes providing a storage having digital assets, the digital assets including at least one digital clip, and each digital clip having frames including a key frame corresponding to the digital clip. Digital clips are selected to be included in a storyboard. The storyboard is displayed, including an image for the key frame corresponding to each of the digital clips of the storyboard. Preferably, the image is a low-resolution image representing the key frame for the digital clips. The storyboard may be modified and saved, including adding parts of digital assets to the storyboard, deleting digital clips from the storyboard, and re-ordering the order of the clips in the storyboard. The digital clips can be edited/adjusted, including adjusted the in and/or out time of each clip. The storyboard may be played, that is each digital clip in the storyboard is played in sequence.

Disclosed are Multipurpose Media Players that enable users to create transcriptions, closed captions, and/or logs of digitized recordings, that enable the presentation of transcripts, closed captions, logs, and digitized recordings in a correlated manner to users, that enable users to compose one or more scenes of a production, and that enable users to compose storyboards for a production. The multipurpose media players can be embodied within Internet browser environments, thereby providing high availability of the multipurpose players across software platforms, networks, and physical locations.

A system and a method of providing a visual interface for creating, maintaining, and reviewing the results of, automated functional tests of software applications that includes screen views for each window automated within the application under test. The system and method provide a visual interface for creating and modifying functional tests of software applications geared for novice users. The visual interface includes a screen preview, test steps, properties and a storyboard. A test logic builder interface enables novice users to add logic, including verification and synchronization, to their visual test transactions without having to understand programming concepts.

Techniques for generating a storyboard are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention the storyboard is comprised of videos from one or more cameras based on the identification of activity in the video. Various embodiments of the invention include an assessment of the importance of the activity, the creation of a storyboard presentation based on importance and interaction techniques for seeing more details or alternate views of the video. In one embodiment, motion detection is used to determine activity in one or more synchronized video streams. Periods of activity are recognized and assigned importance assessments based on the activity, important locations in the video streams, and events from other sensors. In different embodiments, the interface consists of a storyboard and a map.

Views of a virtual environment can be displayed on mobile devices in a real-world environment simultaneously for multiple users. The users can operate selections devices in the real-world environment that interact with objects in the virtual environment. Virtual characters and objects can be moved and manipulated using selection shapes. A graphical interface can be instantiated and rendered as part of the virtual environment. Virtual cameras and screens can also be instantiated to created storyboards, backdrops, and animated sequences of the virtual environment. These immersive experiences with the virtual environment can be used to generate content for users and for feature films.

A digital video builder system with methodology for designer-controlled user interaction is described. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises receiving, from interactive controls on a graphical user interface, configuration of a storyboard block of a storyboard of a target digital video to be created. The storyboard block represents a scene of the target digital video, comprises a media element slot and a scene parameter for configuring the media element slot, and corresponds to a scene specification having a plurality of scene variants for rendering the scene of the target digital video. The received configuration comprises a setting for the scene parameter. Based on the scene parameter setting, the method further includes automatically selecting one of the plurality of scene variants for use in rendering as part of the scene of the target digital video.

A system that is capable of generating a multiplicity of representations from a set of multimedia objects, each with a potentially different form, is disclosed. In addition, a system that is capable of generating representations that include thematic groupings in addition to the traditional purely sequential groupings is disclosed. Analysis of metadata to generate derived metadata creates a more comprehensive repository of information about media assets. Using the abundance of metadata, embodiments of the methods disclosed teach uniquely grouping and prioritizing media assets into a storyboard, which is in turn mapped onto view-based representations based on a selected output modality.

A method for automatic media population of a style presentation comprises collecting presentation media; positioning the collected presentation media on a storyboard; and selecting a style presentation; wherein the selection of the style presentation results in the automatic population of the style presentation with the presentation media positioned on the storyboard is described herein.

Systems and methods are described for automatically driving portions of a video production workflow according specifications governed by a data-rich storyboard. Embodiments operate in context of a novel video production workflow in which much or all of the production expertise of a traditional production workflow collaborates at a storyboard phase of the workflow to architect a single, data-rich storyboard according to concepts and rules. The rich storyboard is generated and stored in a data framework that drives specifications over the workflow in such a way that portions of the workflow can be automated and consistently repeated. For example, the rich storyboard drives generation of automated coaches for acquisition and pre-auditing of individualized story assets from storymakers. The rich storyboard can then drive automated rendering of the assets into multiple, individualized storyvine video products that each conforms to the rich storyboard concepts, rules, and specifications.

Disclosed are embodiments of an invention for assisting a user with creating a customized web application from an existing web application. The embodiments use a first computer system to access an existing website. As a user performs a task on the existing website, a software application for a new website is authored by processor(s) on the first computer system and/or a second computer system in communication with the first computer system based on traced interactions between the user and the existing website. Additionally, a storyboard for the new website is developed. The storyboard will contain screens with both automatically-clipped and user-clipped content from the existing website. Navigation details for the transitions between the storyboard screens are provided based on the recorded interaction events. Once developed, the software application for the new website can be uploaded to a proxy server through which it can be accessed by another computer system (e.g., a mobile device) and used to perform the same or similar tasks on the other device.

Embodiments are directed to organizing reporting data from various sources such as frames into a storyboard view with additional metadata that is specific to the storyboard and to sharing and/or exporting a storyboard sequence of reporting frames. In an embodiment, a computer system accesses various portions of reporting data. The reporting data includes source data, relevant data states and metadata describing properties of the associated report. The computer system organizes the reporting data into multiple reporting frames according to various organizing criteria. Each reporting frame is incorporated into a storyboard interface. The computer system also displays the storyboard interface which includes each of the reporting frames organized according the organizing criteria.

Various embodiments provide input to and facilitate various operations of media production. An automated script content generator uses recurrent artificial neural networks trained using machine learning on a corpus of stories or scripts to generate and suggest script content and indicates effects changes to the script would have of the scenes, characters, interactions and other entities of the script. An automated producer breaks down the script to automatically generate storyboards, calendars, schedules and budgets and provides this as input to the pre-production operation within a media production environment. The system also provides information to affect and facilitate the greenlighting operation and other operations in the media production environment in an iterative script review and revision process.

A Video Preview Module, a fast and adaptable software module designed to generate an on-the-fly video storyboard that enhances the online video browsing experience of the user. The VP module is a client-side implementation. This allows the module to be scalable and adaptable in bringing a uniform online video browsing experience over multiple consumer devices.

The invention provides a video creation system and belongs to the field of the image technology. The video creation system solves the problem of low creation efficiency and intuition performance of the exiting video creation scheme. The video creation system comprises a storyboard editing and displaying module, a footage acquiring module and a storing module, wherein the storyboard editing and displaying module creates a plurality of scenes in some order in a storyboard and adding descriptors to the scenes; the footage acquiring module controls a video shooting device to shoot footages corresponding to the scenes selected by a user in the current storyboard; the storing module stores scene information of the storyboard provided by the storyboard editing and displaying module and footages transmitted by the footage acquiring module and the corresponding relation between the footages and the scenes. The video creation system integrates creation and edition of the storyboard and shoot, storage and edition of the footages, and can increase efficiency of intuition performance of video creation remarkably.

The invention discloses a cartoon image page identification method and system based on dialogue and storyboard united identification. A carton image is divided into a storyboard layer and a dialogue layer. The method comprises following steps: extracting to obtain storyboards in a carton image page; extracting to obtain dialogues in the carton image page; carrying out storyboards, dialogues, and storyboard and dialogue united identification; building an energy minimized function, obtaining marking results of a storyboard polygon and a dialogue surrounding fence through optimally solving the energy minimized function; identifying a reading sequence according to the geometric position relation of the polygon, thus finishing the carton image identification. According to the method and the system of the invention, the limitations of an identification method which only pays attention to independent extraction of composite objects and ignores the relation among the objects are broken through; the storyboard identification accuracy is improved; and the method and the system have relatively strong universality.

Disclosed are Multipurpose Media Players that enable users to create transcriptions, closed captions, and/or logs of digitized recordings, that enable the presentation of transcripts, closed captions, logs, and digitized recordings in a correlated manner to users, that enable users to compose one or more scenes of a production, and that enable users to compose storyboards for a production. The multipurpose media players can be embodied within Internet browser environments; thereby providing high availability of the multipurpose players across software platforms, networks, and physical locations.

Automated rich presentation of a semantic topic is described. In one aspect, respective portions of multimodal information corresponding to a semantic topic are evaluated to locate events associated with the semantic topic. The probability that a document belongs to an event is determined based on document inclusion of one or more of persons, times, locations, and keywords, and document distribution along a timeline associated with the event. For each event, one or more documents objectively determined to be substantially representative of the event are identified. One or more other types of media (e.g., video, images, etc.) related to the event are then extracted from the multimodal information. The representative documents and the other media are for presentation to a user in a storyboard.