Face Selection Masking in Social Media Video Editing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience and potential costs when trying to blur faces in videos captured on social media platforms, as existing video editing applications require saving, editing, and re-uploading videos, and many require multiple face inputs for recognition.
Innovation Solution
A computing system with a social media program that integrates face recognition and a graphical user interface (GUI) with a face selection tool, allowing users to select and mask faces directly within the program, applying effects like blurring, avatars, or replacement heads during playback, recording, or prior to upload.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If users use separate video editing applications to blur faces, then face masking can be achieved, but the process becomes laborious and time-consuming requiring saving, exiting, editing, and re-importing videos
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the face masking function with the social media client program, allowing users to blur faces directly within the same application where videos are captured and shared. This eliminates the need to switch between separate video editing applications, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining face masking quality.
2Measurement precision
If conventional video editing applications require multiple face images as input, then accurate face recognition can be achieved, but the operation becomes complex and requires multiple inputs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic face recognition and identification within the social media client program without requiring users to manually input multiple face images. The program autonomously detects faces in the video and enables users to select which faces to mask through a simplified interface, thereby maintaining recognition accuracy while greatly easing operation.
3Manufacturing precision
If users use separate video editing applications, then face blurring can be applied, but additional costs may be incurred for premium features
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating face masking functionality directly into the social media client program, the patent eliminates the need for users to subscribe to or purchase separate video editing applications. This maintains face masking quality while ensuring cost-effectiveness, as the feature is included with the social media platform rather than requiring additional paid software.
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AI summary
A computing system is provided, including one or more processors and associated memory storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to execute a social media program. The processor is configured to recognize, via a face recognition module of the social media program, one or more faces in the video. The processor is configured to cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to be displayed. The GUI includes a face selection tool that is configured to enable a user to select at least one recognized face to be masked. The processor is configured to mask the selected at least one recognized face in the video, to thereby generate an edited video. After masking, the processor is configured to share the edited video to a social media platform for viewing by other users.