Circular Visual Representation of Media Content

Number: 20180218520
Published: 2018-08-02
Filed: 2017-01-30
Assignee: Disney Enterprises Inc.
Inventors: Watson; Katherine et al.
CPC: G06T11/26
Verdict: Set aside content-library UI visualization
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

According to one implementation, a system for visualizing media content includes a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory, storing a content visualization software code. The hardware processor is configured to execute the content visualization software code to receive a media file, parse the media file to identify a primary content and metadata describing the primary content, and analyze the metadata to determine representative features of the primary content. The hardware processor further executes the content visualization software code to generate a circular visual representation of the primary content based on the metadata and the representative features, the circular visual representation having a non-linear correspondence to at least one of the representative features. The circular visual representation includes a central circle having a central radius, and multiple, at least semicircular segments, each having a respective radius greater than the central radius.

Background

BACKGROUND

The increased efficiency with which digital forms of media content can be stored, copied, and distributed has resulted in ever more media content being produced and made available to users. As a result, the efficiency with which media content can be reviewed, evaluated, and managed has become increasingly important to producers of media content, media students and academics, and consumers of media content. For example, new alternatives to conventional time consuming approaches to performing media content analysis, such as storyline analysis performed through the study of written text, may advantageously reduce the time spent in media content evaluation.

Although techniques for evaluating a particular item of media content using storyline visualization have been developed, those techniques are largely limited to analysis of a single feature of a storyline, such as a single character or setting of the media content storyline. As a result, although conventional storyline visualization techniques can be used to analyze a single feature of a storyline, or may be applied iteratively to analyze multiple features within a single storyline, they are typically unsuitable for comparing multiple items of media content, each presenting its own complex storyline.SUMMARY

There are provided systems and methods for visualizing media content, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, and as set forth more completely

Claims

1. A system for visualizing a media content, the system comprising: a computing platform including a hardware processor and a system memory; a content visualization software code stored in the system memory; the hardware processor configured to execute the content visualization software code to: receive a media content having a story and metadata describing the media content; analyze the metadata to determine representative features of the media content; and generate a circular visual representation of the media content based on the metadata and the representative features, the circular visual representation including a central circle having a central radius, and a plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments each having a respective radius greater than the central radius; wherein each of a plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments is directed to a different one of a plurality of characters in the story, wherein each of the plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments includes a plurality of visual cues of character emotions, and wherein a clockwise advancement along each of the plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments is linear with respect to a narrative time of the story. 11. A method for use by a system including a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a content visualization software code, the method comprising: receiving, using the hardware processor, a media content having a story and metadata describing the media content; analyzing, using the hardware processor, the metadata to determine representative features of the media content; and generating, using the hardware processor, a circular visual representation of the media content based on the metadata and the representative features, the circular visual representation including a central circle having a central radius, and a plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments each having a respective radius greater than the central radius; wherein each of a plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments is directed to a different one of a plurality of characters in the story, wherein each of the plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments includes a plurality of visual cues of character emotions, and wherein a clockwise advancement along each of the plurality of concentric at least semicircular segments is linear with respect to a narrative time of the story.