Method and system for producing customized content

Number: 11860936
Published: 2024-01-02
Filed: 2014-09-18
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Bardwil; Steve
CPC: G06F16/739; G06T11/00; G06F16/273; G06F16/9535
Verdict: Set aside customized content generation, business
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

There is provided a method for producing a customized content, comprising identifying a customizable content from which to produce the customized content, identifying a base content in the customizable content, and receiving at least one customizing criterion as input. The method further comprises determining a plurality of content modifiers for harmonizing the base content and the customizing criterion, extracting the plurality of content modifiers from a modification library, and integrating the plurality of content modifiers with the base content to produce the customized content. In one embodiment, the method is embodied as instructions stored on a computer-readable medium. A system for producing customized content comprises a content host hosting a customizable content including a base content, a modification library, and a content customizing application.

Background

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention (1) The present invention relates generally to the production of creative content. More particularly, the present invention relates to computer mediated customization of creative content. 2. Background Art (2) Much of the appeal of creative content, such as novels, film, television programming, and games, for example, flows from its ability to resonate with the individual life experience of the consumer. To have success in the marketplace in addition to being attractive to individual consumers, moreover, that appeal must be felt in common by the general population of potential consumers. Traditionally, the producers of content have had the luxury of a shared cultural perspective to rely upon when crafting content to be generally appealing. Common social mores, generally recognizable geographic locales, a collective memory of watershed historical events, and perhaps even more importantly, a largely shared consensus regarding interpretation of those events, have assisted content producers to connect with their audience in the past. (3) The general public to which a content producer must appeal today is a much larger and more polyglot group than that of the past, however. The breadth and diversity of today's public audience is attributable to many factors, two sets of which may be readily identified as having significant implications for potential producers of popular content. One of these is the combination of globalization

Claims

1. A method for use by a content device with access to a memory storing (i) a base video content defining at least one visual base layer, (ii) customization rules, and (iii) a modification library including a plurality of visual modification layers each having at least one content modifier for altering at least one feature of the at least one visual base layer of the base video content, the method comprising: identifying at least one customization rule of the plurality of customization rules, according to customization criteria associated with a target audience, for altering the at least one feature of the at least one visual base layer; extracting, based on the at least one customization rule, at least one visual modification layer of the plurality of visual modification layers from the modification library; altering the at least one feature of the at least one visual base layer, using a first content modifier of the at least one content modifier, by overlaying the at least one visual modification layer on the at least one visual base layer to produce a customized video content having a customized frame; and playing the customized video content having the customized frame on a display. || 11. A content device comprising: a controller; a memory storing (i) a base video content defining at least one visual base layer, (ii) customization rules, and (iii) a modification library including a plurality of visual modification layers each having at least one content modifier for altering at least one feature of the at least one visual base layer of the base video content; a content customizing application for execution by the controller for: identifying at least one customization rule of the plurality of customization rules, according to customization criteria associated with a target audience, for altering the at least one feature of the at least one visual base layer; extracting, based on the at least one customization rule, at least one visual modification layer of the plurality of visual modification layers from the modification library; altering the at least one feature of the at least one visual base layer, using a first content modifier of the at least one content modifier, by overlaying the at least one visual modification layer on the at least one visual base layer to produce a customized video content having a customized frame; and playing the customized video content having the customized frame on a display.