UAV Video Editing via Operation Data Association

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current video editing technologies are inefficient for users, requiring significant time to produce desirable clips from raw footage due to the need for manual selection of scenes, especially when dealing with shaky camera footage or unexpected objects, and the inability to easily combine video from multiple clips or timestamps.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that combines video data with operation data from movable objects, such as UAVs, by associating operation data with video data and storing it in a single file, allowing for efficient editing by identifying and selecting specific video segments based on operation states, thereby reducing the manual editing process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual video editing is used to select scenes from raw footage, then video editing precision can be achieved, but time consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo editing precisionVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically generating operation data (such as shaking detection, object tracking, flight path information) during the video recording process. This pre-processing of metadata allows users to quickly locate and select desired scenes without manually reviewing entire raw footage, thereby maintaining editing precision while dramatically reducing time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If operation data is associated with video data, then video editing efficiency is improved, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo editing efficiencyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges operation data and video data into a single integrated video file structure. By combining these data types and establishing their correspondence within one file, the system simplifies data management and processing while enabling efficient video editing through operation-based search and selection, thus improving productivity without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11107506B2Method and system for combining and editing UAV operation data and video data
Publication Date: 2021.08.31 SZ DJI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A system for combining data includes one or more processors that are, individually or collectively, configured to receive video data recorded by at least one sensor and operation data of a movable object that carries the at least one sensor, associate the operation data with the video data, and store the associated operation data and the video data in a video file. The operation data indicates one or more operation states of the movable object during a time period when the video data is recorded.