Automated personalized imaging system

Number: 9807350
Published: 2017-10-31
Filed: 2010-10-28
Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors: Purvis; Christopher James et al.
CPC: H04N7/181
Verdict: Set aside automated personalized imaging - personalization-adjacent
Source: Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline

Abstract

Systems and associated methods for capturing media content for a plurality of guests and intelligently parsing the media content to produce a customized/personalized media product for a particular guest or group of guests are described. A system is configured for combining video data and position tracking data to record a group guest experience or show and automatically provide custom media products. Embodiments record a plurality of guests throughout an experience or show, and simultaneously position track each guest individually. Embodiments utilize the tracking data to extract a sub-sampled video of each guest. This sub-sampled video is combined with additional media automatically according to a script. The result is a personalized video take-away for each guest, which can be created entirely without human intervention.

Background

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS(1) FIG. 1 illustrates an example show space.(2) FIG. 2 illustrates example components of a system for tracking within a show space.(3) FIG. 3 illustrates example components of a system for recording within a show space.(4) FIG. 4(A-B) illustrates an example video frame and sub-region selections thereof.(5) FIG. 5 illustrates an example of custom media product generation.(6) FIG. 6 illustrates an example of custom media product generation.(7) FIG. 7 illustrates an example computer.DETAILED DESCRIPTION(8) Components of the embodiments, as generally described and illustrated in thefigures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations in addition to the described example embodiments. Thus, the following more detailed description of example embodiments, as represented in the figures, is not intended to limit the scope of the invention, as claimed, but is merely representative of example embodiments.Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments.(9) Reference throughout this specification to embodiment(s) means that a particular feature, structure, orcharacteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment. Thus, appearances of the phrases “certai

Claims

1. A method for generating a custom media product comprising: receiving tracking data derived from a position tracking system, the tracking data comprising three-dimensional object tracking data of a plurality of objects within a predefined area; receiving two-dimensional video data derived from one or more cameras placed atone or more predetermined positions about the predefined area; mapping the three-dimensional object tracking data to an image plane of the two-dimensional video data; sub-samplingone or more areas of the two-dimensional video data based on the mapping; and generating a custom media product including the one or more areas sub-sampled from the two-dimensional video data. 11. A computer program product comprising: a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith for generating acustom media product, the computer readable program code comprising: computer readable program code configured to receive tracking data derived from a position tracking system, the tracking data comprising three-dimensional object tracking data of a plurality of objects within a predefined area; computer readable program code configured to receive two-dimensional video data derived from one or more cameras placed at one or more predetermined positions about the predefined area; computer readable program code configured to map the three-dimensional object tracking data to an image plane of the two-dimensional video data; computer readable program code configured to sub-sample one or more areas of the two-dimensional video data based on mapping of the three-dimensional object tracking data to the image plane of the two-dimensional video data; and computer readable program code configured to generate a custom media product including the one or more areas sub-sampled from the two-dimensional video data. 20. A system for generating a custom media product comprising: one or more processors; and a memory operatively connected to the one or more processors; wherein, responsive to execution of computer readable program code accessible to the one ormore processors, the one or more processors are configured to: receive tracking data derived from a position tracking system, the tracking data comprising three-dimensional objecttracking data of a plurality of objects within a predefined area; receive two-dimensionalvideo data derived from one or more cameras placed at one or more predetermined positionsabout the predefined area; map the three-dimensional object tracking data to an image plane of the two-dimensional video data; sub-sample one or more areas of the two-dimensional video data based on mapping of the three-dimensional object tracking data to the image plane of the two-dimensional video data; and generate a custom media product including the one or more areas sub-sampled from the two-dimensional video data.